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Oh my, what a beautifully captured photo.
Was the man fishing? Since there seems to be what I think is a fishing pole or some sort of long, thin material.
I love, love, love how you captured this, in so many ways really. The dark silhouette is so perfect, just the way the man is standing... The background is incredibly beautiful as well. The dark clouds and the rich orange sky, the sun sticking out ever so slightly from the corner of the cloud. The water is so dark, almost reminding me of both dark, bloody water and a residue of volcanic lava on the ground.

Without the man this would be an ordinary shot and with the sky it would be just another picture of a person, but when you have these two elements combined for one imagine....it's just something so spectacular to see.

[retrosmash]

what the fuck is thtis shit@#!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CVG]

Edit: removed for personal reasons...oh the memories!

[BloodyCheery]

Oh wow CVG. What a total bitch! >:C

[DrRumack]

so he thought you were a sicko whos work belonged in a kindergarden classroom

...what

[spite]

sounds like you had one hell of a day CVG haha

[Hnilmik]

CVG, that guy makes me curious as to what kind of works he has done. He sounds too douchey to have contributed much to the world beyond his gases burning holes in the atmosphere, unless there're others like him in "the art world".


I get happy when people tell me that I improved and extra happy when some feedback is given too. I also get happy when folks tell me that my characters are strong or that they like my style, though at the same time I get super-conscious 'cause I "don't always know how I drew/to draw my characters", especially when I admire their drawings a billion times more. It's less about me being flattered/having trouble accepting praise and more about "Dude, you draw sooooooooo much better than me and actually know what you're doing to draw your characters doing anything you want them to. How can you like these mleh scrawlings."

...I think the most annoying comments I get are when I post someone else's artwork and people think it's mine, then get disappointed when I show them what my art really looks like. The "oh!...that's... nice!" kind of comments people say to be polite than to be honest.

[lenko]

"Because I see years of college gone to waste over the biggest pile of drivel ever! And I'll have you know that this work will never be seen in the art world as nothing more than an elaborate highschool project fueled by the mind of a sick individual...and the very fact that you use these cartoon elements will ensure that nobody will validate it as nothing more than a child's piece better left in a kindergarten class room.. Where it belongs!!"

lmao the fact that someone in this day and age speaks like this is enough to make me punch him in the throat

[Kött]

CVG, your story shows how individual tastes can be and I just think the world would be boring if there only was one kind of good or bad. Such an unconstructive kind of critism on a gallery exhibition, though, just shows that this guy doesn't know much about art and and how little his opinion counts and how little it should affect you. These people think that art is defined by beauty and aesthetics and think that there's only one kind of good taste. Your reaction was clever, though he probably wasn't worth the wittiness (and the inner anger).

[rtil]

i bet that guy got owned on halo 3 by a kindergartner and he's been taking his anger out on people ever since

[Mew_User]

"Nice rack."

"I don't care for your rack."

[CVG]

Thanks guys! ^^ Yeah and besides that it really was like the best exhibition because of all the good stuff  I had so many positive reviews and the SF gate newspaper used a pic of my painting in their arts/entertainment section!

Kott: Yeah it's true; I mean diversity is the spice of life and I suppose in effect it was good to hear something like that, just to judge how I handle it and to further strengthen your own personal ability to stay strong in the light of negative feedback. Haha but it sure was quite a mouthful of insults said point blank to my face. It was most definitely not acceptable art gallery etiquette so I think he couldn't have been anyone professional. Just a normal run-of-the-mill asshole heh :b

[aether]

Thanks guys! ^^ Yeah and besides that it really was like the best exhibition because of all the good stuff  I had so many positive reviews and the SF gate newspaper used a pic of my painting in their arts/entertainment section!

Kott: Yeah it's true; I mean diversity is the spice of life and I suppose in effect it was good to hear something like that, just to judge how I handle it and to further strengthen your own personal ability to stay strong in the light of negative feedback. Haha but it sure was quite a mouthful of insults said point blank to my face. It was most definitely not acceptable art gallery etiquette so I think he couldn't have been anyone professional. Just a normal run-of-the-mill asshole heh :b

I should start to watch out for you stuff in the paper then!  

I've never been to a gallery where the artists themselves are actually there, but it sounds like this guy was a total

[MarcK]

that guy looks like he has a slight scratch of intelligence carved into his brain.

[emanhattan]

best comments: I very often get "your stuff is so much fun/ so stylish/ so colorfull".
I did get a lot of positive reception from my fellas in Monterrey. I showed some of my cartoon designs to my classmates when I was taking the animation course at ITESM and They tought they were very cool, and thanks to that I got to co-lead a collaborative animation project at school involving nearly 30 incompetent flash animators and even gave a few character design classes, wich was nice. I eventually left the project and quit giving the design sessions because most of the people involved it were not skilled enough and didnt give a fuck about the advice I was giving them, and because the main idea of the lead director was this terrible anime (and he tought it was really damn good, he even walked to me one day to show me his SUPER AMAZING CHARACTER DESIGNS BECAUSE HE DREW THEM FROM EVERY ANGLE wich were mostly bullshit).

worst comments: it reminds me of invader zim/Jhonen Vazquez (thats not really a bad thing But I suspect people tell this to me for the wrong reasons). Or "It reminds me of Tim burton." Jhonen Vazquez?...I understand, but I have no idea why people compare my work to tim burton´s.

I think the most hurtful thing that someone has ever said to me about my art (and all art in general) was a comment my cousin made:
"animation... wow man such a hard job. all you have to do is draw!"
Coming from a close friend and relative this really affected me because knowing how passionate I was about cartoons and animation, he still considered it an easy job and made no effort in hiding it, meaning he tought of my cartoons as "easy to make". (Wich is understandable because I only make crappy cartoons, but who says you cant be emotionally caring about your crap toons?)
Not only was this comment ignorant and personally offensive,having worked on a fair share of animations myself and knowing that even making a crappy one takes practice and dedication, but it opened my eyes about how poorly most people around me percieved a life dream and a carreer for wich I had spent so many nights training myself to be good at and still sucking at it.
Sure the man doesnt draw, but he blindly believes, like most people out of the art world do, that artists magically sprout in the ground and already have skills in them and that they paint chappels from the moment they are born

yep

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

you shoulda slashed that guys tires, cvg

[DrRumack]

you shoulda slashed that guys tires, cvg

This is to voice my dissatisfaction with Zekey S. Lizard's invectives. I assume you already know that Zekey makes decisions based on random things glamorized by the press and the resulting rantings of avaricious scumbags (especially the uninformed type), but I have something more important to tell you. It should be clear by this point that he emits an essence of "raving" that is so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics as we know them. There are several logical contradictions in Zekey's position on this matter. For example, he's causing all sorts of problems for us. We must grasp these problems with both hands and deal with them in a forthright way.

I hate to say this, but I feel that the natural result of Zekey's expedients is an intolerance that, in the long run, tends to destroy our country from within. My views, of course, are not the issue here. The issue is that if I have a bias, it is only against namby-pamby pseudo-intellectuals who tear down all theoretical frameworks for addressing the issue. I want to reverse the devolutionary course that Zekey has set for us. But first, let me pose an abstract question. Why does Zekey insist on boring holes in the hull of the boat in which he himself is also a passenger? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it.

I once told Zekey that one of the illiterate remarks we often hear from him is that he has mystical powers of divination and prophecy. How did he respond to that? He proceeded to curse me off using a number of colorful expletives not befitting this letter, which serves only to show that wherever you look, you'll see Zekey enforcing intolerance in the name of tolerance. You'll see him suppressing freedom in the name of freedom. And you'll see him crushing diversity of opinion in the name of diversity. As a closing statement, let me emphasize that we have no choice but to defy Zekey S. Lizard. The time to act is now.

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

you shoulda slashed that guys tires, cvg

I once told Zekey that one of the illiterate remarks we often hear from him is that he has mystical powers of divination and prophecy. How did he respond to that? He proceeded to curse me off using a number of colorful expletives not befitting this letter, which serves only to show that wherever you look, you'll see Zekey enforcing intolerance in the name of tolerance. You'll see him suppressing freedom in the name of freedom. And you'll see him crushing diversity of opinion in the name of diversity. As a closing statement, let me emphasize that we have no choice but to defy Zekey S. Lizard. The time to act is now.

I love this paragraph because it is so accurate. Like a miracle accident.

[jebxz]

'all your characters are looking a direction.  maybe you should add more variety"

i dont know how to do that man
how do you NOT LOOK a direction??!??!

[shura]

the guns i draw look like hairdryers/dicks

which actually is pretty true but damn