After reading Smocza-wladczyni's journal I felt the strange urge to write something similar.

As Smocza-wladczyni said, traditional painting is essential. I met a lot of people bitching about how their pictures are ugly or that they can't colour well or do beautiful linearts. JEEZ. Start using traditional media and learn something, then you can try your skills at digital painting.

I know that most of you will say it's a matter of taste...but please... There are thousands of awesome artists with great pictures, either digital or traditional. How many faves/comments do they get per deviation? 10, 15 maybe 30 huh? On the other side people with galleries (only!) full of random and simple characters get 300+ faves. I mean, WTF?!!

I wonder why people don't comment on complex pictures. Are they too complicated for a decent description? Or maybe some people's knowledge isn't good enough to form an adequate thought? I don't want to flame people who draw simple, sweet animals/ chibis etc., because I also draw these things. My point is to induce some of you to start appreciating GOOD art. And what I mean by good art? Pictures with background (yes, YOU are able to create a bg, just try very hard, nothing's easy), well coloured/shaded characters etc. Pictures made with love, pictures which were well-considered before being painted.
Last question. Do you want to be become a real artist or just a celebrity? Of course everybody wants to be popular, more or less. However, it's important HOW we become famous.

Amen.

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