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it came and went like. a month ago??
but holy shit. dA was the first ever online community I actively participated and shared my artwork in. Before that my online presence was limited to a roleplay chatroom and oekaki sites (frogbog, man. I forget how I found that, but I liked the buttons to access the site haha). but through deviantart I started forming meaningful relationships, friendships largely, and gosh, a few folks have stuck to me even when they abandon dA or similar to me, have a very limited presence. Being able to talk with so many great people, many fond memories for people who came and went. People change, drifting apart happens.
Goodness knows I had growing pains, I think most of the reason why I keep my old art in storage is because of the memories associated with them, not so much the art themselves. Thus, I can't look at the stuff neutrally and don't feel right about sharing that stuff, except in snippets, and on my current fav site, tumblr, for instance: becdecorbin.tumblr.com/tagged/…
But yeah. There are few things I feel legit ashamed of, but there still are some hangups about having my entire online history in full display. Deviantart contains about the most of my online history as an artist, spanning a decade. I've also been active on Livejournal, Tegaki E, what have you. Tumblr really consumed me completely, for its flawed blogging system, and activity on deviantArt has largely died down. I remember getting a lot more comments on here and wow it's been great having conversations regarding the art that I post. I do tend to be sparse with my own commenting, mostly because ummm wow my past comments are pretty embarrassing! I also remember being pretty snippy and mean at times, snarking on people with little to no reason (I blame discovering Encyclopedia Dramatica at one point. the hell was I thinking??). In retrospect I apologize for hurting people, the stuff I did was unprompted and, well, uncalled for :I some actions of mine just feel so alien to me now but I could attribute some of that stuff to depression and low self-esteem, I've been in pretty dark and murky places, mood-wise, and no doubt it would reflect to my behaviour, and being a teenager, it would be quite short-sighted and "edgy".
Hoo boy a large portion of my time on deviantart I was all goth and stuff. Everyone had ridiculous Siouxie Sioux hairstyles. EVERYONE. I'm glad I broke that habit, but I still do give that type of hair to miscellaneous characters. The me from 10 years ago would probably scoff at the things I like now, so the feeling would be mutual anyhow, haha.
My self-identification as "other" pervades to this day, no doubt because I may or may not have asperger's which would certainly set the tone for my life as is, besides the depression and living in a very depressing environment. My life was rough, and internet provided escape.
DeviantArt and the people in it, goshdangit past me, why'd I post so much art and sketches in 2006. going through the storage is hell. I guess I really liked sharing everything I did with people xD I used scraps a loooooot. Now, though, I put most of my crap on twitter, some crap on tumblr, some crap on blogspot, best stuff goes on deviantart and weasyl.
Anyway wow. 10 years of using this site. It stopped being my main hub around 2008 but still. Lots of fond memories, some painful memories. Lots of weird changes on the site during my presence here. Muro is pretty neat and I hope people enjoy using it! It seems like a nifty and fun tool. Badges and the points system I'm less enamoured by, badges can look fun on a page I suppose but the points really wreck the economy with young artists selling themselves short. But then, I'm an old codger, probably. I do wish artists got better compensated for their hard work, it takes years upon years to hone one's craft, non-artist types should never take that for granted.
Dangit I got rambly. But yeah. Newcomers and old friends who still enjoy deviantart, I hope you have a good time!
OH HEY also check out my page on Wayback Machine if you're so inclined, hahaha: web.archive.org/web/2006061409…
but holy shit. dA was the first ever online community I actively participated and shared my artwork in. Before that my online presence was limited to a roleplay chatroom and oekaki sites (frogbog, man. I forget how I found that, but I liked the buttons to access the site haha). but through deviantart I started forming meaningful relationships, friendships largely, and gosh, a few folks have stuck to me even when they abandon dA or similar to me, have a very limited presence. Being able to talk with so many great people, many fond memories for people who came and went. People change, drifting apart happens.
Goodness knows I had growing pains, I think most of the reason why I keep my old art in storage is because of the memories associated with them, not so much the art themselves. Thus, I can't look at the stuff neutrally and don't feel right about sharing that stuff, except in snippets, and on my current fav site, tumblr, for instance: becdecorbin.tumblr.com/tagged/…
But yeah. There are few things I feel legit ashamed of, but there still are some hangups about having my entire online history in full display. Deviantart contains about the most of my online history as an artist, spanning a decade. I've also been active on Livejournal, Tegaki E, what have you. Tumblr really consumed me completely, for its flawed blogging system, and activity on deviantArt has largely died down. I remember getting a lot more comments on here and wow it's been great having conversations regarding the art that I post. I do tend to be sparse with my own commenting, mostly because ummm wow my past comments are pretty embarrassing! I also remember being pretty snippy and mean at times, snarking on people with little to no reason (I blame discovering Encyclopedia Dramatica at one point. the hell was I thinking??). In retrospect I apologize for hurting people, the stuff I did was unprompted and, well, uncalled for :I some actions of mine just feel so alien to me now but I could attribute some of that stuff to depression and low self-esteem, I've been in pretty dark and murky places, mood-wise, and no doubt it would reflect to my behaviour, and being a teenager, it would be quite short-sighted and "edgy".
Hoo boy a large portion of my time on deviantart I was all goth and stuff. Everyone had ridiculous Siouxie Sioux hairstyles. EVERYONE. I'm glad I broke that habit, but I still do give that type of hair to miscellaneous characters. The me from 10 years ago would probably scoff at the things I like now, so the feeling would be mutual anyhow, haha.
My self-identification as "other" pervades to this day, no doubt because I may or may not have asperger's which would certainly set the tone for my life as is, besides the depression and living in a very depressing environment. My life was rough, and internet provided escape.
DeviantArt and the people in it, goshdangit past me, why'd I post so much art and sketches in 2006. going through the storage is hell. I guess I really liked sharing everything I did with people xD I used scraps a loooooot. Now, though, I put most of my crap on twitter, some crap on tumblr, some crap on blogspot, best stuff goes on deviantart and weasyl.
Anyway wow. 10 years of using this site. It stopped being my main hub around 2008 but still. Lots of fond memories, some painful memories. Lots of weird changes on the site during my presence here. Muro is pretty neat and I hope people enjoy using it! It seems like a nifty and fun tool. Badges and the points system I'm less enamoured by, badges can look fun on a page I suppose but the points really wreck the economy with young artists selling themselves short. But then, I'm an old codger, probably. I do wish artists got better compensated for their hard work, it takes years upon years to hone one's craft, non-artist types should never take that for granted.
Dangit I got rambly. But yeah. Newcomers and old friends who still enjoy deviantart, I hope you have a good time!
OH HEY also check out my page on Wayback Machine if you're so inclined, hahaha: web.archive.org/web/2006061409…
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it's rough that these days whenever you see a digital painting you can't be sure if it was made by a human or if it's "AI" slop. you'd have to search uploads before 2022 to be completely sure, bleh. and suppressing that shit only does so much if people don't even mark their uploads as having been made that way. I don't care about images made with generative tools, even setting aside all the problems with the ethics of using that garbage to make a profit and also adding digital noise to when you're trying to find something online, for instance, photos of a thing, and get offered AI generated imagery that doesn't help at all. hhhrhhghghgh and this is just the general online experience as of late. not just deviantart.
anyone else hate commenting on mobile?
I swear whenever I've replied or commented on the mobile version of the site the comment ends up utter incomprehensible word salad. the first word ending up at the end of the sentence. whatever goes off the comment field may not exist anymore until you post the comment. does the app still exist. edit: apparently the app sucks so that's just wonderful.
what does my art/characters remind you of?
that's right, you get to make comparison comments here! do characters of mine remind you of characters from other media? does my art remind you of specific artists? or certain genres, media, etc? I'm curious mostly because I like discovering new media and, naturally, by default it seems to be considered impolite in the artist community at large to comment on one's art comparing it to another thing. I personally don't mind such comments if it comes from a place of good faith. so, yeah!
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cool! i didnt know you've been around that long!