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GhostlyFantasy

Hey~

its me, I'm around still. would you believe me if i said ive made art but haven't posted it due to severe anxiety. this mainly stems from a friend recently who was way too overly critical about the red guy art i posted. he wrote like a long paragraph on all the """mistakes""" with the art. and while i am admittedly not an amazing artist, i wasn't trying to make it look like fucking Picasso??? if your standards are that fucking high, then go circle jerk and worship the ridiculously amazing artists, dont drag your snobbish dickhead remarks to us casual artists.

what made this even worse was when he back pedaled after me reacting poorly by saying "am i not allowed to give an opinion??". i was like, uhh, no, you cant. you cant just throw your opinions around willy nilly where ever the fuck you want whenever you want. thats not how the world works. theres a time and place for everything, and its NOT HERE.

what made it even MORE worse was when he said i should do my art like his favorite artist. this REALLY got to me mentally because i had spent YEARS trying NOT to chase after and overly idolize other artists and just stick to my own thing, and this just brought some PTSD back to me. i told them to go suck their favorite artists dick and get out of my face.

this really begs a question btw. why even give criticism to artists at all? that might sound like a dumb question, but think about it. the vast majority of artists are casual and draw for fun, and if they were genuinely looking to get better, they themselves will ask people for criticism or look up guides and videos and whatnot on their OWN TIME. there are SOO many guides and tutorials and videos etc out there to help someone improve as an artist, so why do artists need to hear it from random jackoffs who have nothing better to do with their lives??

*sigh....*

/end rant
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ShiftyGuy1994
4 months, 1 week ago
Hey bro, glad to hear you're still around. I am too, but I've also been going through my fair share of bullshit these days too. A bunch of problems, piled up at once. Can't catch a break. So believe me, you're not alone. Just know that.

In regards of people who judge your artwork & give you anxiety, I urge you to just not say a word to them, silently block them & move on. Don't do what I did. I've fired back at people before (last year was a prime example of it). And look what happened to me. "Exposed" videos about my page, artwork stolen & posted onto Fandom, YT, and other sites, etc.

I kind of went through the same thing when it comes to having anxiety about how I draw my artwork too. In fact, I still kind of do today because of what happened last year. But the difference in my case is, is that no one else judged me. I was my own judge. I thought that my drawings either weren't good enough, or they were drawn all wrong. No one else thought or said anything, I did. Which caused me so much paranoia & anxiety that drawing freaked me out. And I'm still not over that. I'm a little better, but yeah the anxiety & paranoia over drawing still lingers.

I've had to convince myself that everyone has their own style. I have my very own style, I've been doing it that way for 10 years now, I've always felt comfortable making drawings the way I do, there's no point in changing my style now. Even IF I wanted to, I gotta convince myself I can't do that. Because again, I've made my drawings the way I do, for 10 years now (since 2014).

There's no point in changing style at this point. It makes sense not to, and I just gotta keep convincing myself not to. Because there's nothing wrong with the way I draw. People actually like it that way & say they look fine to them. Even if people don't, I really don't care. I'll block them & move on. I'm not going to give the haters the time out of my day anymore. They can sit there & talk to a well from here on out. They ain't getting a reaction out of me anymore.

But anywho, hang in there bro. I enjoy your artwork, talking to you, and again just know my thoughts, comments, and feedback are honest, genuine, and mean well. No matter what. Just know that.
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