I feel that as an Artist in general I have made leaps and bounds compared to where I once was a few years ago, I'm learning so much so quickly it's hard to keep up the pace sometimes, and I'm always looking for inspirational things to help me through it all so I never toss in the towel when feeling overwhelmed in the face of it, which leads me to the next part to this journal.

I find it kind of impersonal and fake sometimes when folks post one word or an emoticon whenever I post something new in my gallery.

"Awesome", "cool", "Uber" and other such words that don't really say much in terms of what the art means to them when they look at it, I kinda wanna know how it makes them feel, does it inspire them somehow, or maybe excite them somehow I don't know lol.

The thing I have to admit that bugs me the most though is when folks say my art looks like this or that, or... It reminds me of this and that.(refer to my signature pretty please )

[I do art because it's therapy. It keeps me sane in an insane world. I don't do requests because I'd end up doing hundreds. For me DA is a free gallery to show off my art. It's not Facebook or Myspace to me. My gallery's an extension of myself.]


Let's be honest for a moment. Alot of folks here on DA don't really know how to give an honest critique or say anything really inspiring when writing a comment about a freshly uploaded piece of art.

Primarily they are either too busy ot too tired (which I understand it happend to all of us) But some just don't know anything else and they treat the site like some kind of social networking site like Skype, Twitter, or myspace.

it really isn't hard to write something or maybe even give the occasional pointer if you see something that needs improving upon. (just make sure it's inspiring to the individual and not attacking or humiliating to them).

But please for the love of all that I hold dear don't patronize me and what I do by simply saying Awesome! or posting goofy emoticons I don't understand.

I really hope I'm not sounding like a jerk here and if I am I'm truly sorry(It's not my intention to hurt feelings I swear) but still, most of you are pretty well educated I'd like to think all of you have a great way with words especially those of you who just write poetry or stories and post those in your gallery(which to me is still considered an art in itself).

I can't learn or be inspired if nobody really says anything that can maybe help me evolve further as an artist. so please my friends try to work on that a bit.