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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I know, it's an old pic, and you've improved since. But I still think this is a nice design....personally, I've seen a lot of people do GREAT art, but their designs were less than 'meh' overall(even in today's batch of Pokedex updates, I've seen several GOOD artists do half-hearted designs).
Oh, and I kinda rushed with her. I have drawn her better in some skecthes, but glad that you liked how she looks in this one.
I knew you way back in the day, and so I guess you could call us "friends" (even if neither of us was around for years and we don't really talk or anything)
But now I've been watching you here for awhile, and I am so perplexed to say your artistic talent has barely even budged since all those years ago. The only real difference now is the fact that you color things digitally, which is better of course, but even the way you do that is kind of... simplistic and has hardly changed or improved from when you started doing it. I mean, if you go to your gallery and go back pages and pages and pages, you can hardly tell the time difference at all. And sometimes sticking to the same style over time is a good thing, but that is because people can really tinker with it and make it the best it can be... with yours you have had the same issues with really really flat almost nonexistent physics and anatomy since you began. When I first found you again I was like "oh man I wonder how much he has improved!" and over time I've just been like "... it looks the same D:". I'm not trying to say you are bad at anything but it's just so surreal and I was sad to not see some sort of improvement over time.
To be honest (and again, please take no offense) it seems like you are milking the whole pokemon gijinka thing for all it is worth, and I used to LOVE pokemorph things, you know that. But I know if I didn't know you and I watched that thing I would probably be like "what is up with that dude spamming this...". I am not saying you are doing it just because making things in an extremely popular project makes a ton of people notice and fav/look at your stuff, but don't you see how someone could take it that way? I guess that isn't really the big thing I wanted to express to you though.
I do respect you as a person I have known for so long, until now I've kind of "grin and bear"-d it but I know that the best way to improve is to take constructive criticism and grow from it, and so I only comment like this because I hope you will try to take something from it. If anything I hope you will read this and think "maybe she's right, maybe I've been stuck in this loop I've cemented myself into and I haven't really looked at my own style to try and change it for the better" and you know, even if you think "she is completely wrong! I am going to keep doing things the way I want" that is fine too. The only thing I hope you don't do is hold it against me, because I only come to you as a friend and fellow artist, and really I WANT to see the stuff you do change for the better if it can. I love to see people blossom and flourish in their art form.
And it wasn't triggered by just this picture, though I will point out one thing, that the angle her legs are pointing at, and the angle her hips are at don't match up (if she were a real human her legs would be twisting out of their sockets right now)...and just flat flat robotic features that I've kind of gotten used to...
So I apologize for this criticizing wall of text, and I hope you won't be the type to take it personally and hate me. As artists we should always look to what our peers say and TRY to get critics because it is the best way to see what we need to improve on..
My best wishes,
JL
And hey, you are 100% right in everything you mentioned back there. Unfortunatly I'm a crap artist that will never change no mather how much a try...
sorry, i can't give you reasonable answers, i'm simply a horrible person that will never improve in his life. Maybe I should stop drawing things, as I will never change a bit, as you mentioned. 6 years of drawing and nothing... that shows how bad artist i am. And I'm not buying the "keep praticing" thing. Is useless for me as my life is so sucky I can't do anything well.
I'm not angry at you, by the way, I'm angry and sad about myself right now so you can know... I really was diserving a comment like this, but my art will never be good, thanks for you being the first person who says it. I like when people tell the truth...
There is no reason to go into this spiraling dive of self-depreciation and stuff o_o
Because listen, I can't say that lack of change and stuff isn't the truth, that was obviously the opinion I wanted to express from the beginning, but that shouldn't make you look at yourself as a crappy artist. And you know, it should DEFINITELY not make you feel like a horrible person. That is a very ridiculous thing to think, especially based on something art related.
You should never stop drawing if you like to do it, you don't have to "practice" you just have to keep doing what you like to do. You know what I do when I feel like I am in a rut and I can't improve at all? I start with a clean piece of paper and I try something completely different, I keep throwing around new ideas and experimenting until I am satisfied. Even if I end up not being able to draw anything I like, I still like the process of drawing just for the heck of it. If every time I made things that weren't good I wanted to give up or thought I was a horrible artist I wouldn't be where I was and I would probably go a bit crazy.
You don't need "answers" about it, you aren't a horrible person or some terrible artist. I only hoped you would take it in stride and say "where am I at, and where can I try to go from here?". I looked up to your art back in the Pokemon forum days and I still admire some of the things you do today. I don't want for you to feel devastated and like you have to throw in the towel, I want for you to use it as a stepping stone to find those leaps and bounds and become an even more skilled artist.
And who knows, maybe you have just been going about practicing the wrong way. Maybe try to learn some realism and take concepts from that into your pictures? Of course that is just one thing, there are so many things you can do and try and develop and grow as an artist. You certainly aren't starting from square one because you DO HAVE SKILL IN ART. But acknowledging the room for and steps to improvement is one of the most important things you can do.
But most importantly please don't take it so hard on yourself. *_*