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Spring Cleaning
8 years ago
I was recently asked to select an artist to commission for an updated ref sheet. Of course I couldn't whittle down the entire list of people I followed to a single fave, so I have a list of a few.
Before I list who I found for their quality, price and customer service aspects, perhaps something to note out of this experience. There were a great deal of inactive, deleted. moved accounts I was following for an original list of 485, down to 350-ish. It was kinda sobering to see all the accounts where people were still posting shouts on "scam" artists and "dead/inactive" folks.
I'm rather particular about the folks I follow, mostly artists, a few art watchers, suiters and friends. Haven't of course been particularly active on FA unless it's to watch and follow up on submissions. Most time is spent on Tumblr and Twitter finding more art and such.
One of the spring cleaning items I don't particularly enjoy clearing up is my list of faves or deleted journal entries. If the owner deletes said item, I'd prefer the notice to be deleted as well, rather than a void left of something that was followed, but has now been deleted. According to a friend I spoke to, this has changed with the new site owner, but it's still something that has me saving art outside of FA. Granted, I may not save the artist info in the image metadata, but I also don't go out of my way to crop or edit out any watermarks or signatures. So if something happens to catch a viewer's eye, the style is usually identifiable and I can point out the appropriate artist.
Anyhoo, typical I'm not dead journal so many months or a few years, with promises or goals to do more, but falling short of actually doing it. Mostly life of YouTube and content consumption. There has been some progress in creation, mostly on the culinary side. Then the whole having an engineering job with the 9 to 5 plus hours. Honestly, I have more time than I know what to do with, so taken on the carving out some time to progress and advance on personal development. AKA doing something fun and what I've been procrastinating on. Such as long arse journal entries.
Yep, still got that snarky sarcastic humor that is self deprecating =p
Artists you should follow in no particular order (since I'm reviewing stuff anyway)
mcnubbies
requiembeatz
ango76
shibarin
casparr
ceowolf
ventkazemaru
chibi-marrow
Before I list who I found for their quality, price and customer service aspects, perhaps something to note out of this experience. There were a great deal of inactive, deleted. moved accounts I was following for an original list of 485, down to 350-ish. It was kinda sobering to see all the accounts where people were still posting shouts on "scam" artists and "dead/inactive" folks.
I'm rather particular about the folks I follow, mostly artists, a few art watchers, suiters and friends. Haven't of course been particularly active on FA unless it's to watch and follow up on submissions. Most time is spent on Tumblr and Twitter finding more art and such.
One of the spring cleaning items I don't particularly enjoy clearing up is my list of faves or deleted journal entries. If the owner deletes said item, I'd prefer the notice to be deleted as well, rather than a void left of something that was followed, but has now been deleted. According to a friend I spoke to, this has changed with the new site owner, but it's still something that has me saving art outside of FA. Granted, I may not save the artist info in the image metadata, but I also don't go out of my way to crop or edit out any watermarks or signatures. So if something happens to catch a viewer's eye, the style is usually identifiable and I can point out the appropriate artist.
Anyhoo, typical I'm not dead journal so many months or a few years, with promises or goals to do more, but falling short of actually doing it. Mostly life of YouTube and content consumption. There has been some progress in creation, mostly on the culinary side. Then the whole having an engineering job with the 9 to 5 plus hours. Honestly, I have more time than I know what to do with, so taken on the carving out some time to progress and advance on personal development. AKA doing something fun and what I've been procrastinating on. Such as long arse journal entries.
Yep, still got that snarky sarcastic humor that is self deprecating =p
Artists you should follow in no particular order (since I'm reviewing stuff anyway)
mcnubbies
requiembeatz
ango76
shibarin
casparr
ceowolf
ventkazemaru
chibi-marrow