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Another Art flood coming + more updates
7 years ago
Hey again all, it's time for another long rambling update from the kitty cat. >w<
Where have I been? Um... Malignantly antisocial. And that's the positive spin. >~< I'm like this a lot but it's struck and stuck really bad lately. Among other things I'm seriously considering leaving discord and telegram, cause I don't contribute to anything anymore, I'm just a lurker who's never online. Also REALLY thinking of flat out never touching twitter again, cause while seeing all the good stuff there is amazing, it only takes seeing one bad tweet from someone so stuck up his own ass and contridicting themselves in their very same sentence to put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day...
I'm really not happy with what I've seen the fandom turn into these past few months... >:(
But vague statement of vague vagary, since I don't really see any positive to calling out specific fuckwits. Yet, anyway... That's my mental trail out of the way, let's move onto something a little more positive!
Uploads!
I stuck to my guns, I got all the sketch stuff finished by the date I set. Still got a lot to upload, but I moved onto more important things and commissions again. And it got away from me again, my folders just kept getting bigger and bigger. >w< Well now my computer might need maintenance, my hdd might flat out need replacing, so I'm going to get absolutely everything up before it sits on the desktop for ANOTHER 12 months!
Also I think I've worked out my whole upload size dilemma now, but I'm afraid it comes at the cost of just not having all my work on one definitive gallery. Probably a safe move anyway. People were starting to tell me FA was breaking in their browser, so I have to find something to even out for these people. >~< What I'm going to do now is anything that's safe for DA, I'll upload to FA as 1280x1280, and fullsize to DA. Anything that's NSFW and guaranteed never to see the light of day there, full size on FA.
Maybe in the future I'll reconsider weasyl and do a mass reupload there. Still got my hopes on it being the inevitable FA killer someday. ^^
Commissions
Commissions are closed again I'm afraid. I apologise but also thank everyone who expressed interest again, its really keeping me mentally and physically stimulated. >:3 I've updated my front page, I think... that's everyone up who took a slot? As you can see, I've taken on a fair bit, ^^' also been prone to doing one-offs in stream but that's only complicated things. So not gonna continue that until I get some of these other slots done, they're big undertakings. Hope you understand, thank you if you do. :3
An Upside Down Archive?
Now here's a weird one I'd like to get some feedback on, I've had it on my brain the last few weeks. I occasionally get people who say stuff to me about how they like my UD art, they found it through me, they wish more people did it etc... Fact of the matter is, more people do do it! I've got a whole favorites folder on DA dedicated purely to it. :3
However as we know not everyone or everything is on DA, so what I've been thinking is: what if I made a compilation link on my page containing all the UD and UDTF related stuph I've found out there? If people continue to find it through me, the least I can do is direct them to all the other likemindeds? I know a few instances of videos/photography so I'd say anything counts too, it doesn't have to be purely art. And of course people could chime in and add their own if I've missed anything? :P
The only problem I could see arising: I've saved things from people who're no longer around. They've deactivated their accounts or disappeared for real life reasons, and the works gone with them. In some cases I have no way to contact these people, and in some cases... I know these people don't want to be asociated with the work anymore. >~< I still think its a shame to see some of this talented stuff go, and I'd like to archive it for posterity's sake if I could.
I could definitely see myself putting this together if I got a day to spare, so the two main questions are 1: Should I make it, is there enough interest? 2: Should I include the stuff that's no longer around? (Credited to the original artists, of course.)
I think that covers everything this time. I'm sorry if I didn't reply to anything or missed specific favorites, I'll do my best to catch up to them once I get everything out of my system. :3 thank you for listening, prepare for a flood. XD
Where have I been? Um... Malignantly antisocial. And that's the positive spin. >~< I'm like this a lot but it's struck and stuck really bad lately. Among other things I'm seriously considering leaving discord and telegram, cause I don't contribute to anything anymore, I'm just a lurker who's never online. Also REALLY thinking of flat out never touching twitter again, cause while seeing all the good stuff there is amazing, it only takes seeing one bad tweet from someone so stuck up his own ass and contridicting themselves in their very same sentence to put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day...
I'm really not happy with what I've seen the fandom turn into these past few months... >:(
But vague statement of vague vagary, since I don't really see any positive to calling out specific fuckwits. Yet, anyway... That's my mental trail out of the way, let's move onto something a little more positive!
Uploads!
I stuck to my guns, I got all the sketch stuff finished by the date I set. Still got a lot to upload, but I moved onto more important things and commissions again. And it got away from me again, my folders just kept getting bigger and bigger. >w< Well now my computer might need maintenance, my hdd might flat out need replacing, so I'm going to get absolutely everything up before it sits on the desktop for ANOTHER 12 months!
Also I think I've worked out my whole upload size dilemma now, but I'm afraid it comes at the cost of just not having all my work on one definitive gallery. Probably a safe move anyway. People were starting to tell me FA was breaking in their browser, so I have to find something to even out for these people. >~< What I'm going to do now is anything that's safe for DA, I'll upload to FA as 1280x1280, and fullsize to DA. Anything that's NSFW and guaranteed never to see the light of day there, full size on FA.
Maybe in the future I'll reconsider weasyl and do a mass reupload there. Still got my hopes on it being the inevitable FA killer someday. ^^
Commissions
Commissions are closed again I'm afraid. I apologise but also thank everyone who expressed interest again, its really keeping me mentally and physically stimulated. >:3 I've updated my front page, I think... that's everyone up who took a slot? As you can see, I've taken on a fair bit, ^^' also been prone to doing one-offs in stream but that's only complicated things. So not gonna continue that until I get some of these other slots done, they're big undertakings. Hope you understand, thank you if you do. :3
An Upside Down Archive?
Now here's a weird one I'd like to get some feedback on, I've had it on my brain the last few weeks. I occasionally get people who say stuff to me about how they like my UD art, they found it through me, they wish more people did it etc... Fact of the matter is, more people do do it! I've got a whole favorites folder on DA dedicated purely to it. :3
However as we know not everyone or everything is on DA, so what I've been thinking is: what if I made a compilation link on my page containing all the UD and UDTF related stuph I've found out there? If people continue to find it through me, the least I can do is direct them to all the other likemindeds? I know a few instances of videos/photography so I'd say anything counts too, it doesn't have to be purely art. And of course people could chime in and add their own if I've missed anything? :P
The only problem I could see arising: I've saved things from people who're no longer around. They've deactivated their accounts or disappeared for real life reasons, and the works gone with them. In some cases I have no way to contact these people, and in some cases... I know these people don't want to be asociated with the work anymore. >~< I still think its a shame to see some of this talented stuff go, and I'd like to archive it for posterity's sake if I could.
I could definitely see myself putting this together if I got a day to spare, so the two main questions are 1: Should I make it, is there enough interest? 2: Should I include the stuff that's no longer around? (Credited to the original artists, of course.)
I think that covers everything this time. I'm sorry if I didn't reply to anything or missed specific favorites, I'll do my best to catch up to them once I get everything out of my system. :3 thank you for listening, prepare for a flood. XD
If you don't use any of the social apps, delete ya accounts and don't use 'em. Plain 'n simple. I never understood the allure of Facebook or Twitter, to be honest. Chat clients have their uses but not if you don't use 'em. I'm sure there's plenty of people who don't like near-real time conversations and avoid chat clients for that reason.
UD archive would be awesome. I don't know other artists that do UD stuff as well as you do. Your art concepts and material are really very unique and I love watching you draw it.
As for telegram and discord, well you know what I'm like. When was I last "online?" Seems kinda pointless to stick around if I just can't buck that habit no matter what I do.
Twitter is cancer, I'm debating deleting my account (only reason I haven't is that some artists only open through there)
As for the UD archivfe.... I cannot say yes fast enough
At the same time, it's really not your job to keep on top of it all the time. Sometimes just popping by and chatting randomly is enough. Sometimes posting WIP stuff somewhere for feedback is enough (tho, again... you get in enough rooms, it's just a maddening endeavor to be active in most of them)
I mostly keep both for the 1-1. Seems to work out in a more manageable way anyways. I hope you'll stick around those from time to time.