That weird moment when someone thought I throw llamas to get more llamas....
Nope.
I do it to meet people. And to get them to give me a chance. Because merit isn't enough here, unless you're "famous". Unless some youtuber/someone on facebook/reddit discovers you, it is damn hard to get any kind of attention at all. It gets disheartening....
Sad as it is, throwing cyber llamas is the only way I have found to get people to come to my page. When they get here they tend to like what they see... But until I spammed llamas, not many found me. I went from 3.5k views and less than 100 watchers over the first two years to over 107k views and 1950 watchers in the most recent year... because of llamas. Which is frustrating in some ways, because it should be about the characters you create, the stories you write, and the art you draw. But for that to matter it has to be seen. People have to make it to your page. And so you have to interact with them to get them to interact with you.
As far as this goes,
I am in it for people.
To help new folks.
To share my work.
To make friends.
Not for badges =l
For all those people who take this journal entirely the wrong way, here, I will clarify.
The llama is the initial step. I'm too nervous to just say hi like a normal person. What happens afterwards is up to the receiver. If they take the time to come to my page, to look at my art and to familiarize themselves with my writing, I reciprocate in kind. I go through their work and their thoughts in return. If they ignore my efforts, my works and thoughts and merely leave empty thanks, it ends there. I want it to be the beginning of something but I will not make the effort if no effort is presented. I want to get to know the people around me who put thought into their responses.
TL;DR, if you want to get to know me, make me want to get to know you. Make jokes, give me fun facts, show me who you are.
What do we have in common? What kind of art do you like? What is your favorite subject in your own works. I want to make new friends. I want to support new artists, nurture their learning and talents. But for me to go see them, they have to try to see me first.
I do my intellectual journals for a reason, to share the lessons I have learned so others need not learn the hard way. I do my gathering and organizing of tutorials and references to help out because I know being and growing as an artist is hard alone.
Llamas thrown - 211,000
Llamas received -22,000
Watching - 934 deviants (More active with particular people)
Being watched by - 2045 deviants -
2014 - No Llamas
2015 - just started llamas but traveling a lot
2016 - Llama Overdrive
2017 - Balancing things out
Other Helpful Journals -
PSA To Younger Artists"Artistic Talent" Isn't talent at all.
Before you get into a huff, let me explain.
Artistic Masters like Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Leonardo da Vinci, none of them were born able to draw as they could when their lives ended. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott FitzGerald, Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde et al didn't start out being masters of Writing. All of these people and anyone who enters a creative/artistic field, be it music, literature, visual arts, they all started out as beginners. The difference between them and everyone else is that they spent their lives honing their craft. Training in their field. I constantly see people comparing their art to that of people generally older and more experienced than them and coming away self-loathing because they aren't as good as their idol. The Idols have largely put in more time and study.
Excelling at visual art involves putting time into your art. More than just time dreaming, drawing, and colorin
Illegitimi non CarborundumIn English, "Don't let the bastards get you down.
Criticism is something all artists, regardless of medium have to deal with eventually. While it can be a helpful tool for growth, it can also be demoralizing, especially when the criticism isn't constructive. It's hard to take and sometimes, hard to not want to give up art all together. What you need to remember is that if you give up, they win. You have to learn to take the constructive criticism from good critics and to not let the nasty people stop you from taking help.
How do I know this?
Honestly, I have been fighting criticism since I began, but the worst came from someone who I thought of as family....
My Godmother is a locally "famous" painter, and has been for most of her 70 year life. http://holde-stubenrauch.de/werke/
I wanted to learn how to paint traditionally so my mom had me do a few lessons with her. The first lesson was spent telling me everything I was doing wrong with no effort to help correct it, yelling f
For your considerationRequests. They are the bane of a professional artist's existence. Someone you don't know comes to your gallery, or stream and decides to ask if you'll draw something for them for free. You try to be polite and explain that you need to make money from your art. They, in turn, get angry, calling you 8 different kinds of selfish when you point out that you need money to live. It's frustrating because they don't understand what they're asking.
What's the problem with asking for requests, some of you will query. It doesn't cost anything to make the art. It doesn't seem unreasonable. What is often forgotten is art takes time. And as the saying goes, Time is Money. Many of us who get requests have been working for years on our art.
We study all of the things that the people who make the requests are too busy, too lazy, or too overwhelmed to do themselves. If our art wasn't some how superior in technique, be it color, composition, anatomy, or any other aspect, you wouldn't be asking
Tutorials master listCian’s giant Tutorial and reference journal – sticking stuff I use here and hoping it helps
Thank you to everyone who has made this amazing resources, I am awed and grateful for your work
Human anatomy-
https://www.posespace.com/posetool/default.aspx
http://www.artmodeltips.com/poses/
https://mamoonart.deviantart.com/gallery/59815096/simplified-anatomy
https://fralea.deviantart.com/gallery/55117941/G-studies
Extra – Genders and Body types
Extra – Facial Features
Eye Tutorial by GlassLotuses Tutorial - Semi realistic eye by Velsinte :thum
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Journal Skin by: Zaellrin.
At the moment that's enough for me.