The Last Poster Wins! [v21]

[Chakramaster]

Why has no one been commenting on my art recently? D,:

Sadly, things die down like that. I feel the same when the Fit the Theme was active, now it had a 2-3 day period where no one posted. Same goes with Gemma's Blind Drawing thread. It was pretty active for awhile then no one wanted to continue with it.

Plus, some have been busy like I know Xanthe has. Neo had interviews and his trip, the PXR lag issues came up. Lots of things I could probably go into.

[Noblejanobii]

Sadly, things die down like that. I feel the same when the Fit the Theme was active, now it had a 2-3 day period where no one posted. Same goes with Gemma's Blind Drawing thread. It was pretty active for awhile then no one wanted to continue with it.

Plus, some have been busy like I know Xanthe has. Neo had interviews and his trip, the PXR lag issues came up. Lots of things I could probably go into.

True, I've just working more and more and to have it go unnoticed it upsetting.

[Neo Emolga]

True, I've just working more and more and to have it go unnoticed it upsetting.

Your art has gotten better and I see improvement going on, but I'll admit... I honestly dislike Mimikyu. That kind of makes it hard to comment.

I know you love Mimikyu and like drawing it in all kinds of ways. That's cool and I'm glad you enjoy doing that. But on my side, I'm just not a fan of it.

[Chakramaster]

Your art has gotten better and I see improvement going on, but I'll admit... I honestly dislike Mimikyu. That kind of makes it hard to comment.

I know you love Mimikyu and like drawing it in all kinds of ways. That's cool and I'm glad you enjoy doing that. But on my side, I'm just not a fan of it.

It was really overhyped in Sun and Moon. Only to kind of turn out..."meh" in the end sadly. They really tried to push it out there for the new gen. I really liked it at first myself, but now. Well it's "okay" and that's about it sadly. That's just a personal opinion though. That doesn't mean others can't love it though. We all have our favorites.

[Noblejanobii]

It was really overhyped in Sun and Moon. Only to kind of turn out..."meh" in the end sadly. They really tried to push it out there for the new gen. I really liked it at first myself, but now. Well it's "okay" and that's about it sadly. That's just a personal opinion though. That doesn't mean others can't love it though. We all have our favorites.

Your art has gotten better and I see improvement going on, but I'll admit... I honestly dislike Mimikyu. That kind of makes it hard to comment.

I know you love Mimikyu and like drawing it in all kinds of ways. That's cool and I'm glad you enjoy doing that. But on my side, I'm just not a fan of it.

Oh... okay. I just won't say anything anymore.

[Chakramaster]

Oh... okay. I just won't say anything anymore.

Noble, we don't mean anything wrong by it. If it's something you like and it drives a passion. Keep at it! Just cause someone doesn't like something like you hasn't stopped you before. Sometimes things have slow periods. Where some seem interested then it dies down. Then suddenly it picks back up again. Yeah it can be hard, but don't let it stop you. If it's something you like. Keep that passion going!

[Neo Emolga]

Noble, we don't mean anything wrong by it. If it's something you like and it drives a passion. Keep at it! Just cause someone doesn't like something like you hadn't stopped you before. Sometimes things have slow periods. Where some seem interested then it dies down. Then suddenly it picks back up again. Yeah it can be hard, but don't let it stop you. If it's something you like. Keep that passion going!

This.

I know not everyone likes Emolga either. And that's fine. It doesn't bum me out even though I love the little guy.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

True, I've just working more and more and to have it go unnoticed it upsetting.

The forum has been super quiet lately, so don't take it personally. Everything has died down a lot and lots of people are currently relatively inactive :( I'm sure it'll pick up again soon!

I know I've personally been really busy with work as well. D: I have heaps of marking to do for the class I'm teaching in at the moment. But hey it's nearly Easter break! :D

[Noblejanobii]

The forum has been super quiet lately, so don't take it personally. Everything has died down a lot and lots of people are currently relatively inactive :( I'm sure it'll pick up again soon!

I know I've personally been really busy with work as well. D: I have heaps of marking to do for the class I'm teaching in at the moment. But hey it's nearly Easter break! :D

My activity will be taking a sharp decline most likely. We've entered the last three weeks of school which means finals season is upon us. It's why I've been working my butt off to get as much content up and ready as possible because I know I'm about to hit a dry spell.

This.

I know not everyone likes Emolga either. And that's fine. It doesn't bum me out even though I love the little guy.

Noble, we don't mean anything wrong by it. If it's something you like and it drives a passion. Keep at it! Just cause someone doesn't like something like you hadn't stopped you before. Sometimes things have slow periods. Where some seem interested then it dies down. Then suddenly it picks back up again. Yeah it can be hard, but don't let it stop you. If it's something you like. Keep that passion going!

You gotta remember though, I live off positive reinforcement. So if my stuff is going unnoticed, I tend to think it's not liked and finding out someone doesn't like my content, or even the genre my content is in, is even worse. It's why I stopped my comic the first time. I received too many hateful comments and not enough positive ones to balance it out. And there's not much I can do about it since it stems from my childhood being drenched in bullying and gas lighting. That's why it's so easy to ruin my day completely when your intention may not have been so.

[Neo Emolga]

You gotta remember though, I live off positive reinforcement. So if my stuff is going unnoticed, I tend to think it's not liked and finding out someone doesn't like my content, or even the genre my content is in, is even worse. It's why I stopped my comic the first time. I received too many hateful comments and not enough positive ones to balance it out. And there's not much I can do about it since it stems from my childhood being drenched in bullying and gas lighting. That's why it's so easy to ruin my day completely when your intention may not have been so.

You can't live off of positive reinforcement, though. If you do, then you'll quit something that could be good just because of a couple of naysayers (or in this case, people that just haven't commented). And on the other hand, if people just shower you with mindless praise that doesn't have any substance, that's never going to help you either. You have to ask yourself, are you making and posting art to express, create, and pursue a passion in art, or are you just throwing it out there just to fish for compliments?

Don't do a comic or anything if it's only to get appraise. It will never be truly yours and will instead just be fodder to feed to the masses. Instead, create something because it's your personal passion to pursue it and that you're willing to work on it to the end because you want to see it completed, to hell what anyone else says. Use constructive criticism to help build toward making your passion better. Forget the insults. But if you let insults and negative criticism be the reason you end your projects, that's bad and if you're giving those critics so much power to just end every last one of your creations. If you can honestly take a step back and say "you know, I'm happy with this and I personally think it's good. Screw those guys," then you're good and you have a solid reason to keep going. You have to understand that not everyone is going to love your work. And there are plenty of times where it takes multiple failures to make a success.

"Create to express, not to impress. Work for a cause, not for applause."