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This really doesn't have any bearing on anything. I just need to vent. Feel free to ignore it, and really, just take it with a grain of salt. I'm only doing this because my roommate's asleep and I can't draw properly in the dark for an art vent. Slight language warning.

I don't know if I'm shaking because it's cold in here, or because I'm so annoyed/angry. I keep telling myself it's just the internet. It's nothing worth getting worked up over.

Actually, this is something I'd like to get your opinion on guys. This doesn't apply to just the internet...I've run into the same annoyance in my college art classes.

So. I understand that constructive criticism is part of being an artist. It's one of many excellent ways to improve. If you can't take it, don't ask people for their opinions. Sure, if you see something about a picture that could be done better, civilly say so.

It may be wrong, but it irks me to no end when people with no talent decide to give out this sort of criticism. Especially when they don't really have anything to back it up with. There's a girl in my design class who's nice enough. But when we do critiques, I really, really, just want to punch her in the face. HARD. She finds all sorts of things wrong with people's pictures and can never seem to find a way to explain herself or justify it. She and I have gone at it over one of my paintings (I won, because I adequately defended a decision I'd made with the work, and she simply couldn't figure out what the fuck she was trying to say.)

I wouldn't have such a problem with it if most of her art wasn't really, really elementary-ish ( Keep in mind, I consider calling someone's art shitty a terrible insult....so I use "elementary" loosely) Everyone's talented in different ways in the field of art, and that's great. But when you can't even apply basic techniques like SHADING in your paintings, shouldn't you really be focusing on that for the bulk of your time?

It's not in my personality to criticize someone who I feel is better/more talented than me. I just don't feel comfortable doing it. Balls to those that do, but I generally find they're just insecure individuals who don't seem to have a prayer at improvement themselves without the application of hard work that they're not willing to put in.

Basically, if you can't do better, what qualifies you to criticize someone's methods?

I dunno. That's been digging at me for a while. I'd love to go into more detail about what's bothering me, but I have a feeling it'd start a war. Young kids are getting ballsier and ballsier these days. It's like Colonel, my stepfather says.... "They're cocky until they've tasted their own blood when someone wails on them." And when that DOES happen, they bitch and cry like no other.

I feel lot like the Sick Puppies song that I've been muttering under my breath all week for different situations...

You can treat this like another, all the same
But don't cry like a bitch when you feel the pain
It's been a long time coming
And the table's turned around
Cuz one of us is going
One of us is going down
I'm not running
It's a little different now
Cuz one of us is going
ONe of us is going down!

This is hardly worth fighting for
But it's the little, PETTY SHIT
That I CAN'T ignore!
When my FIST hits your FACE
And your FACE hits the FLOOR
It'll be a long time coming
But you've got the message now
Cuz I was never going
Yeah you're the one that's going down!

...I should've gone to bed a long time ago. Luckily, I don't have class until late in the afternoon tomorrow. TGIF. Lots of work put in this weekend. I've earned my scheduled foam sword fight with one of the Flock, and the DBZ marathon to follow with her.

Gah. I wish I could call Armano. He's usually really good at logic-ing the FUCK out of my little angry fits, but I know he's asleep, and I don't wanna wake him...

It's been a long week. Sleepy time.
-DG (the quietly outraged one)

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Dead atm, but where I met some of my bestest saiyan buds, and two members of my "family" XD

VIVA TWILIGHT! XDDD Xytar is the fourth superior of this club JOOOOOOIN US!

Rory's one of the doctors here. Tis cool..JOIN JOIN JOIN! >D

Feature Works

by - I’m not sure how I found his work, but this guy has got some absolutely fantastic, quirky stuff. Some of the landscapes he comes up with…I just don’t know how he does it. It was hard to pick which one to feature, but I love this piece in particular…the colors and the concept of the bottles melting away. Go give ‘im a good look, he’s sure worth it! 8D

By Another one that was extremely hard to pick from. Nana’s got some GREAT stuff, and she’s got an even more wonderful personality. A mistress of digital AND traditional art, I stumbled across her artwork when looking for some Repo stuff. This one really caught my eye with the red, orange and yellow hues, and the shine on the cross...so realistic! XD Go give her a look, she totally deserves it!

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Requests in Progress

1. Blade and Hotaru for (20 %, digital sketch started...I have NOT forgotten guys. I just need to find the file, or start over.)

2 Taki and Kage hugging for (0% Still in the planning stage)