A very belated thank you for the on my duckies pic...

Greatly appreciated...



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“All you need is ♥love♥...but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt”_{Charles M. Schulz}
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GOD, ARI!!!!! Looooooovely lovely lovely lovely lovely picture of you!!!!!

Art. I should draw more. In choir. hahahahaha. Um, anywho, see you tomorrow @ Ensemble!

A third reason for my art being ignored - the fact that I rarely draw fanart. I have... two (?) pieces of fanart in my entire 123 piece gallery. This is bad, as generally the only reason someone will look at a piece of fanart is because it is from something they like and obsess over. The most traffic I ever got for one piece was when I had 42 pageviews of my piece of Kano fanart for Kagerou. (And that was only because Fireball put it in her favorites.) Of these 42, approximately two continued on to glance casually at my homepage. There is a slight chance that one of these two actually skimmed my gallery, or perhaps even looked at few pieces. Needless to say, this isn't working. Almost all 10 of the poor souls who chose to watch me (well, actually, I hate one of them, so, yeah, not a poor soul in their case) have stopped caring. You know, I would feel better if they just took the time to take me off their watch list. Really.

Continuing on - because I almost always draw my own characters, this is bad for developing an audience. Because nobody cares about them. Nobody but Aulani, Andrea and now Rachel know anything at all about Mai, romantic fool with ninja skills. Nobody but them truly understand Chikoru's need for extensive angst. Nobody but them know what the fuck is up with the half foot tall angel thing that I occassionally draw pictures of. Because of this, nobody /but/ them actually cares about a single picture I draw. All of them (except maybe Aulani, because she's now used to me being an obsessive moronic thing-whatsit) really do care when I draw something new. It's wonderful to have Andrea exclaim, whenever I start to thumb through my sketchbook at choir, "Did you draw something new?!" Or to have Rachel, during math, force me into allowing her to see the character pages I wrote for the band (because for some reason, those are really exciting... what?).

Anyway, the point I'm trying to get at here is - I really do appreciate it when people care. I don't have enough people to NOT care. I mean, god, just look at my account stats. 360 pageviews in four months since joining DevART. I know of little annoying girl things who have hundreds more than that, even though they have only been around three months and can't draw worth shit. Both my dad and sister suggested I draw more Kagerou fanart.

And you know what?

I just might.

Another reason I think my art may be ignored is that it is generally in the "anime" style. And believe me - I will be the first to say, "What the fuck is up with the eyes the size of melons, you nitwits?! Even the original Japanese anime eyes were not that big!" Also, "STOP WITH THE GODDAMN ANIMAL CRAP!" Meaning the ears. And tails. So stupid. So annoying. So irritating. Anyway, back to my point, because my art almost always goes in the "anime" category, I am automatically lumped together with all the terminally hyper, obsessively stupid twits out there in anime-land. And almost no one wants to spend their time looking at another piece of anime-d drivel. Thus, I lose even more possible audience.

You know, I really can't understand (well, I sort of can) why nobody gives a damn about my gallery. I've seen galleries that, to put it gently, looked like crap, and /they/ had a following of many! WHY?! Hell if I know.

I feel that the reason nobody likes my art is because I rarely color it. In my defense, any coloring that I enjoy (aka with colored pencils) looses a lot through scanning. Which leaves me with the other option of coloring on the computer. Which I rarely do, because it takes forever and eternity. Anyway, so when my drawings that I have labored over for some hours appear on the DevART home page as little icons, nobody wants to click on them. Because they're not /colorful/. Bitches.

Fourteen more boxes to get rid of. Hm. Er.

AVENUE Q!

"If you were gay
That'd be okay
I mean, 'cause, hey!
I'd like you anyway..."

I love that song. So much.