Back when I used to draw, I kept getting these mind-bogglingly confusing PMs here requesting absurd images in almost exactly the same fashion. I totally feel your pain...

NOW THAT I HAVE MADE A PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO SYMPATHIZE CAN I BOTHER YOU TO FULFILL MY ARBITRARILY STRANGE REQUEST THAT I'M ABOUT TO WORD IN A BARELY LEGIBLE WAY, FREQUENTLY SPLITTING FIRST AND THIRD PERSON STATEMENTS IN A FASHION THAT SUGGESTS I AM INCAPABLE OF SEPARATING DIALOGUE FROM ATTEMPTED ROLEPLAY?

Yeah, I think it's worse for artists than writers. I wanna know how many times does someone actually say yes to these things?

OMG LIEK HIT ME WITH IT SO HE CAN LIKE LAUGH AT ALL THE FUNNIEZ!

XD Peoples is peoples I suppose. :P

That's certainly true, though I'm no artist by any stretch.
It's very strange. I used to think it had something to do with the observer's preferred fetish, but the trouble is that half the time, the observer asks for something so totally off-the-wall as compared to the artist's normal work, that either it's a non-connection or the observer is so disjointed that in his mind it makes perfect sense. This would actually be a pretty good possibility given the frequently incomprehensible manner in which the observer will write, utterly incapable in most cases of separating different types of communication mechanically or inferentially.

I think that individuals who like dragons or reptiles have it the worst of all of us, given how, out of all of the therianthropes out there, the overwhelming majority believe themselves to be dragons, with the closest second trailing behind at a factor of what I'd guess to be about 5:1, believing themselves to be wolves.
Most therianthropes are pretty cool. But they are disproportionately fraught with... Individuals with psychological or developmental disorders.

Though to be fair, correlation does not imply causation, maybe I just get lucky and all of the dragonkin elemental spirits enjoy prodding me by reminding me constantly of my discomfort with visual art, while they're awaiting the cosmic event that will unleash their true form to either protect or destroy the world.


On a side note. You'd almost wonder, with the way their stories inevitably end up so close to identical...

XD I've never given it so much thought. The most thought I ever gave was this sketch. But I do have to agree with you, the lack of comprehensibility does point to some rather disjointed individuals.

As far as the therianthropes go, I consider myself one but try not to mingle with others mainly because I tend to draw the more... special ones, for lack of a better term.

Aaand Imma just be honest; that last paragraph kinda flew over my head. Maybe I'm just tired, or maybe I'm not as intelligent as I though. Iunno.

O.o It is interesting to say the least.

It's entirely possible I'm just being unintentionally pretentious. ^v^;;

I was more thinking that among the special sort, the overwhelming trend is that you see lots of facial photomanipulations, photographs of swords and airsoft guns, usually involving the owner attempting to look cool while posing therewith. They will occasionally engage in conversation if you comment on, say, a particularly nice knife, or a model of air-rifle that you're fond of... And this usually leads again into some disjointed and often confusing out-of-the-blue explanation of some uncomfortably complex spiritual purpose they have, almost always involving transforming through some never-very-well-explained magical or celestial event into an enormous and terrifyingly powerful dragon with control over some arbitrary element. As far as I know, this is not component of any form of organized religion or spirituality, but instead purely coincidental.

Chief Tecumseh said to respect the spirituality of others, and demand that they respect yours as well.
So the most fair thing I can say, is that my understanding of the universe is... Definitely not the same as theirs.

In addendum, I should explain the first part. I haven't drawn for, like... Two years. And before that, it was maybe another 8 months or more. It's always been something I felt I had to force... Loved the results! Well... Until I started picking at them, realizing I'd spent four hours drawing an ankle... And I still didn't like how it turned out.

It was more the utterly *despicable* process that made me rage so. :D
They say a blind pig finds a truffle every now and then. Or perhaps the old theory about infinite monkeys given infinite typewriters and a sufficient amount of time yielding the completed works of shakespeare, accidentally, is a more apt comparison.

TL:DR-
I've never been much of a visual artist, I tried a few times, and it really took way too long. Something I kept doing and redoing until I eventually got each piece right completely by accident, with a pencil sketch of a single character taking weeks to complete.
These guys always seem to find me when I'm at my absolute *least* confident with my drawing capabilities, suggesting that my "next drawing" be their multibreasted demon herm dragonesstaur with heterochromia and an absurdly specific pattern of markings.

:\ That's no good. If it's not an enjoyable process one definitely shouldn't pursue it. I always say practice makes you get better, but there has to be some enjoyment in there somewhere for such to be true.

That's my exact theory for photography, accuracy by volume. XD

If it makes you feel any better my first drawings and sketches (Well not my first, but when I first started taking courses) easily had 60-80 hours in them and looked like crap. XD But I enjoyed drawing so I kept doing it.

Oh jeez! I don't think I'll have any issues with that in the future since I don't draw adult stuff. But people! Have some respect for other's boundaries and such. I think when stuff is that ridiculous, I don't think they're serious... o.o They're not serious right? Eesh. >.<

I'm almost done with writing because I feel how you do about drawing. Everything is forced and takes far too long. :P

XD Who knows. I think it was the fact I was running on empty last night.

I have seen such, but never had one go off on a tangent with me like that before. It is interesting that most of there stories line up so well. Perhaps there's a secret underground religion no one knows of! XD Or perhaps the mental stigma produces like results across the board.

Chied Tecumseh knew how to roll it seems.
Heh, I won't bash 'em over what they believe as long as they respect what I believe. So in short I agree with that.

Someone once asked that Keltora give birth to a dragon-human hybrid monster thing.

AND PEOPLE ASK ME WHY I DON'T LIKE THE FANDOM.

And then they want to go into excruciating detail of how it should be done. I'm just all like: D: Just... D:

I just dislike large-ish portions of the fandom. Thus, why i'm still here. XD