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This Month is Crazypants
Jun. 4th, 2012 12:11 pmAfter a relatively quiet and uneventful spring, summer has already started off being insane. I have a few freelance projects, a con, and classes starting up again and that's just this month! I've pushed Comic Con from my mind at the moment, it's not here yet and I don't need to worry about it until it gets closer.
Anyway, the old art LJ is no more. It has ceased to be. It is an ex-art LJ. I'm still on the internets though, my most professional presence is probably my actual site that I made on blogger, but it's fun to post more silly stuff on Deviant Art and Tumblr. It took me awhile to get the hang of both but now I understand how to use 'em and while my pieces don't get millions of views, it still is enough to get my work spread around a bit more. Actually, this is probably good for me because I'd have no clue what to do with the drama that popular artists on Tumblr and Deviant Art get. I was out with a few people last weekend, I knew and have hung out with three of them but only talked to the rest vaguely on Twitter, but there was a lively discussion about drama on these sites that popular artists deal with and how some artists don't deserve their popularity and can't deal with it or whatever. I don't really remember the details, I just remember being bewildered that this sort of drama exists and that a lot of people fuel their energy into giving it attention, but like I said, I'm a small fish in the vast pond of hoopla that are those sites and I just do my own thing without care.
Probably because I see art, specifically my own art and skills, as more of an academic discipline/something that gives me pleasure that I was thrown for a such a loop. I take it seriously, I train everyday to the point I get wrist cramps (going though one now, ow), I try new things, I working on my own crap because IT BRINGS ME FULFILLMENT, and I forget that there may or may not be an audience on the other side. The stuff I draw tends not to be popular because I don't draw things that are popular (yeah I draw fanart and slash but my most famous piece happens to be BATMAN POOPING which I now find strangely appropriate), and I don't always spread it far and wide even though I've started being more active in social networking. Mostly I'm happy plodding along drawing what I want with my own quiet circle of good artists who also happen to be good people.
Anyway, the old art LJ is no more. It has ceased to be. It is an ex-art LJ. I'm still on the internets though, my most professional presence is probably my actual site that I made on blogger, but it's fun to post more silly stuff on Deviant Art and Tumblr. It took me awhile to get the hang of both but now I understand how to use 'em and while my pieces don't get millions of views, it still is enough to get my work spread around a bit more. Actually, this is probably good for me because I'd have no clue what to do with the drama that popular artists on Tumblr and Deviant Art get. I was out with a few people last weekend, I knew and have hung out with three of them but only talked to the rest vaguely on Twitter, but there was a lively discussion about drama on these sites that popular artists deal with and how some artists don't deserve their popularity and can't deal with it or whatever. I don't really remember the details, I just remember being bewildered that this sort of drama exists and that a lot of people fuel their energy into giving it attention, but like I said, I'm a small fish in the vast pond of hoopla that are those sites and I just do my own thing without care.
Probably because I see art, specifically my own art and skills, as more of an academic discipline/something that gives me pleasure that I was thrown for a such a loop. I take it seriously, I train everyday to the point I get wrist cramps (going though one now, ow), I try new things, I working on my own crap because IT BRINGS ME FULFILLMENT, and I forget that there may or may not be an audience on the other side. The stuff I draw tends not to be popular because I don't draw things that are popular (yeah I draw fanart and slash but my most famous piece happens to be BATMAN POOPING which I now find strangely appropriate), and I don't always spread it far and wide even though I've started being more active in social networking. Mostly I'm happy plodding along drawing what I want with my own quiet circle of good artists who also happen to be good people.
