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4 years ago
Erm, hello there, everyone!
You have no idea what an emotioonal roll ride it is for me today. It's hard to believe something like this has even happened.
I have never had any kind of community nor following so I have no clue how to do it properly, but I just wanted to put it out for people to see if they stumbled across this and if they get interested.
Hi! I'm Phantas or Phanta or Phantasis (pick whatever suits your liking).
I'm 27 y.o., artist from Ukraine. I'm a programmer, but I like doing art more, so I want to work as a 2d and 3d artist.
I speak English, Russian, Ukrainian and a little bit of Deutsch. You can adress me with whatever language you find more suitable.
I like drawing furry characters both male and female in sci-fi/futuristic themes. I also like medieval and fantasy genre, but haven't done anything in it yet.)
I have moved to the foreign country because I lost my home due to war a few years ago and during this time I have developed my own world that is "Code:Genom", that I decided to make real via a comic format which I insanely love.
During 5 last years I've been writing down ideas, characters, their development and their adventures so that one day I could tell their stories to the world. 3 years ago I moved to Germany and I started executing my dream.
I've done it all - concept arts, design researches, logos, world building, storyboarding and so on. I've also created my own web-site for this comic at https://www.codegenom.com/ so that people could leave their feedback (negative and positive) and could inform themselves about this project via FAQ and various fodlers with lore and races, also so that they could familiarize themselves with characters that they could meet in the future. And then of course the comic itself. It took me 8 months to finalise 1 issue, due to the fact that this was my first ever drawn comic in my life.
And unfortunately it was far from the blast...
I've gotten tons of critique and very little psoitives. Just FYI I pay for the web-site and I've gained nothing from the comic. I've sacrificed a lot for it, including my time, money and, as it turned out, a part of my sanity in the end. For a year there was nothing happening, it was like I was drawing into the void, without being seen by anyone anywhere. It was rough for me mentally and it burned me out pretty harshly. You can add my everyday real life's stress in the foreign country where I don't have anyone but my family to it and... it broke me pretty badly.
Until today. I don't know what happened nor what has clicked, but I was seen by Mindmachine who has decided to help purely out of his kindness.
I have never met, nor seen, nor spoken to this person before and this kind of kindness is something I have not experienced for a very long time. He kickstarted the wave of people who came to voice their support both on FA and on Twitter and I can't stress enough, how insane it was for me to wake up to see so many notifications out of nowhere! Today I've spent my entire day communicating with people, talking to them, reading their kind words and positive feedback, something that I lacked for my entire life. This is amazing. I can't express myself well enough to share this experience, when yo ufeel like what you do matters to people.
Not only that, but in a single day following on FA has become bigger than my 1,5 year sole struggle on Twitter, which blows my mind, because I haven't spent time on FA, due to no communication here from anyone at all before. I'm just in awe, really. I don't understand how it works)).
Anyway.
If you are reading this, please know, that I value your feedback, whoever you are. I love communicating and talking to people, so please feel free to start a discussion with me.
I'm mostly free, so feel free to collab with me or commission me if you like what I do.
I will also forever and ever be extremely glad, if you decide to support my personal project "Code:Genom" by whatever means you see fit for you. Even leaving a simple like on project's web-site's page will go a long way.
Whoever you are, wherver you are, thank you for your time and attention.
I hope you will like what I'm trying to do with my skills here.
Love ya <3
-Phantasis
You have no idea what an emotioonal roll ride it is for me today. It's hard to believe something like this has even happened.
I have never had any kind of community nor following so I have no clue how to do it properly, but I just wanted to put it out for people to see if they stumbled across this and if they get interested.
Hi! I'm Phantas or Phanta or Phantasis (pick whatever suits your liking).
I'm 27 y.o., artist from Ukraine. I'm a programmer, but I like doing art more, so I want to work as a 2d and 3d artist.
I speak English, Russian, Ukrainian and a little bit of Deutsch. You can adress me with whatever language you find more suitable.
I like drawing furry characters both male and female in sci-fi/futuristic themes. I also like medieval and fantasy genre, but haven't done anything in it yet.)
I have moved to the foreign country because I lost my home due to war a few years ago and during this time I have developed my own world that is "Code:Genom", that I decided to make real via a comic format which I insanely love.
During 5 last years I've been writing down ideas, characters, their development and their adventures so that one day I could tell their stories to the world. 3 years ago I moved to Germany and I started executing my dream.
I've done it all - concept arts, design researches, logos, world building, storyboarding and so on. I've also created my own web-site for this comic at https://www.codegenom.com/ so that people could leave their feedback (negative and positive) and could inform themselves about this project via FAQ and various fodlers with lore and races, also so that they could familiarize themselves with characters that they could meet in the future. And then of course the comic itself. It took me 8 months to finalise 1 issue, due to the fact that this was my first ever drawn comic in my life.
And unfortunately it was far from the blast...
I've gotten tons of critique and very little psoitives. Just FYI I pay for the web-site and I've gained nothing from the comic. I've sacrificed a lot for it, including my time, money and, as it turned out, a part of my sanity in the end. For a year there was nothing happening, it was like I was drawing into the void, without being seen by anyone anywhere. It was rough for me mentally and it burned me out pretty harshly. You can add my everyday real life's stress in the foreign country where I don't have anyone but my family to it and... it broke me pretty badly.
Until today. I don't know what happened nor what has clicked, but I was seen by Mindmachine who has decided to help purely out of his kindness.
I have never met, nor seen, nor spoken to this person before and this kind of kindness is something I have not experienced for a very long time. He kickstarted the wave of people who came to voice their support both on FA and on Twitter and I can't stress enough, how insane it was for me to wake up to see so many notifications out of nowhere! Today I've spent my entire day communicating with people, talking to them, reading their kind words and positive feedback, something that I lacked for my entire life. This is amazing. I can't express myself well enough to share this experience, when yo ufeel like what you do matters to people.
Not only that, but in a single day following on FA has become bigger than my 1,5 year sole struggle on Twitter, which blows my mind, because I haven't spent time on FA, due to no communication here from anyone at all before. I'm just in awe, really. I don't understand how it works)).
Anyway.
If you are reading this, please know, that I value your feedback, whoever you are. I love communicating and talking to people, so please feel free to start a discussion with me.
I'm mostly free, so feel free to collab with me or commission me if you like what I do.
I will also forever and ever be extremely glad, if you decide to support my personal project "Code:Genom" by whatever means you see fit for you. Even leaving a simple like on project's web-site's page will go a long way.
Whoever you are, wherver you are, thank you for your time and attention.
I hope you will like what I'm trying to do with my skills here.
Love ya <3
-Phantasis
Besides, your work is great and it maybe just needed this shoutout to get all the attention you really deserve!
This day was a blast for me. I hope that I can keep this joyfull feeling for a while to keep working.
Also thank you!
It will take me some time to come back to story making. Comic requires some concepts of more characters to be completed, before I can start even storybording next issue.
But the story itself should be interesting. Don't go anywhere)
Here, edited it to be a standard.
I'll remember for the future to keep it simple.
Nice to see you here!
Having learned all your posts about your work and worries, I can say that it is really sad that such good creative people like you do not receive the attention they deserve.
I was especially touched by a small comic strip where you force your OC to step out of her comfort zone in order to please the whims of some people with NSFW content.
I want to reassure you that in order to achieve success, feedback and other things, you do not need to draw only adult content and generally go beyond the boundaries of your comfort zone. There are many artists who making only their project and commissions of a SFW (clean) content and they have a lot of income (attention, popularity, etc.). They have achieved this by doing what they enjoy doing.
Of course, you started to lure people and promote your name with a comic book about your characters and the universe, but for people to really be interested in the characters and understand what is happening, it would be very cool and useful to start with simple full works (scene, Illustrations). Such Illustration, such as an excerpt from the character's personal life, will help to gain interest first in the technique of your work, skill, and then in the characters, to learn more about them. And there is no need NSFW content at all!
You will succeed, the main thing is not to give up.
I personally also like your work and the way how you love your project.
Good luck and prosperity in your work. You deserve more and all the best.
Надеюсь твой проект пойдёт в гору
I published a project on Joyreactor when I first released the comic and received a lot of criticism there, but they also gave me good some advices, such as starting with illustrations and only later moving to the comic.
I understand and see the logic, indeed, in these actions, but my subconscious mind tells me that it is too late to do this (although I know that it is not true).
I'm 27, I'm unemployed, I don't have my own family, in fact, I haven't achieved anything in my life yet. It was a long and difficult comic to draw - it took me 8 months to complete it. Due to the fact that I live in a foreign country, I need to immediately look for a job, and from previous experience I already know that if I find a regular job (8-9 hours a day), then there will be no time or energy left for myself, and if I work as an artist, then I will no longer want to draw anything for myself. With all this, a picture emerges that if I do not draw a comic, but simply do illustrations, then years will pass and there will be 0 progress in the comic. Logic like "If I don't work on a comic, it won't develop" in general, such worms in my head on an ongoing basis and because of them I did not want to draw other illustrations, because I would really like my project to become my main source of income oneday. I have been developing it for 5 years, I've put my thoughts, ideas, philosophy, etc. into it e.t.c. - basically al lof my heart, and I would very much like to get to the moments that are very emotional to me, but I still have to get to them, because I planned a narrative spiral where the story starts out more mundane and only after a while more crazy things start to happen, and so on.
tl;dr - I have a lot of worms in my head because of the situation in real life and they limit me. I will try to fight them, because I understand that something needs to be done to gain attention and that is not my original content that I have not yet fully showed.
Спасибо еще раз за добрые слова и за комментарии - они мне серьезно поднимают настроение! Мне очень приятно.
On FA you just need to keep switching to the next illustration, because I uploaded every page as separate drawings.
If this problem occurs on the Code:Genom's web-site, I'll have to look into that. But I have never had problem with projection there. You might have to simply wait for a little bit on the mobile though, because all of the pages on the web-site are of high resolution and of .png format that weight more in order to not loose detail quality of the drawings. If you don't see any pages inside the issue and your mobile Internet has a limited speed, you just need to wait a little bit more so that your internet could download all of the pages at the same time, since all 32 pages of the comic there are on the same page of the web-site, so your Internet needs to download them all at once.
tl;dr - give it more time, they will load eventually.
I'm glad you've enjoyed them)
But in all seriusness, you are one heck of a talented artist who deserves the attention they needed after so long. I'm glad you're happy now. :D
I know that this is just a text on the screen, but I want you to know that I insanely value such attitude as yours!
It's an absolutely new thing for me to see people act so positive towards my stuff, that I lack vocabulary to express how I actually feel. It just warms my heart to know that people can care that much that they would spend their time to help someone they don't even know.
Thanks to people such as you, these 2 days were an absolute blast for me!
Thank you!
Btw, if you ever got on Discord, hit me up :) you could join Mindmachines server and WMDiscoveries93 server and share your art there (I know WMD has a few channel's for artists of all kinds to self promote their art and galleries as well since he has a large following).
I know, it sounds pretentious, but I've always wanted to have something of my own that I could be proud of, disregarding how much it would give me money.
And Code:Genom is that something - it's a very personal project with a lot of my inner self being put into it. Throughout 5 years of writing and planning, I've put my heart and soul into the story and even though the first comic is far from being the best thing ever created and isn't trying to catch stars from the sky, I still have invested and sacrificed a lot to execute it in the way it is.
Sadly, holding your own realised work in your hands is not enough and cruel reality dictates the rules by which I have to live. Can't have PC, Software and a roof above the head without the money. Same goes for health, food, e.t.c.
But gaining money is not even the point t.b.h. Being seeing, knowing that there are people who can be interested in your work and that can enjoy and appreciate what you are doing is way more valuable to me.
If I will ever know, that I could influence someone with my art, that I could change someone's life with it - I think this is the highest, the most valuable moment for any artist out there.