[ SECRET POST #207 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #207 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 065 secrets from Secret Submission Post #030.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 1st, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Sorry to barge in...

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

I draw 90% fanart and a lot of people don't take that seriously. Honestly, regardless of what someone's opinion is if you enjoy doing something continue to do so. It seems more like a personal issue with how you valued your own work. I don't draw to please everyone, I draw for myself. Regardless of what I think about photomanipulation and what others think of it either, if it's something you enjoyed that's all that should have mattered. Obviously, that wasn't enough though.

Re: Sorry to barge in...

[(Anonymous)]

I tend convince myself everything I create is shit, even though I know it's not anywhere near the worst stuff. That in combination with other people constantly dismissing it made it lose all enjoyment. I know I should draw for myself more than others, but lacking confidence in my work seriously undermines that.

When I tried arguing with people about the topic, I compared it to fanart, actually. I hate how both get a bad rep. It's not like I'm just taking 4 random pretty pictures and hitting "overlay" like half the people out there.

My apologies for bothering you with this.

Re: Sorry to barge in...

[klytaemnestra.livejournal.com]

I understand that mindset. I was there for a long while myself.

I just hate to see anyone stop doing something creative. I know I might not consider it 'art' by my terms, or at least not in the same category as other media, but I'd hate to discourage someone from creating. I had people in art school who mocked the fact that I worked in Photoshop and sadly you're never going to please everyone out there because a lot of traditional artists don't consider my work to be art, and I share those same opinions on manips.

Maybe I'm just cynical when it comes to manips upon learning that one of my favourite digital artists was actually just doing photo painting while pretending to have sketched out the original on paper.