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Manga artist/Illustrator I like birds and silly character dramas

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Demon's Funny Burger Funny Burger is a oneshot I concocted when I was working just a little too slow on the last chapter of my collaborative series, City of the Sun. It was intended to work more as a snapshot from another story i've been slowly trying to put together. It is of course Hayashida Q inspired right to it's core especially with the comedy horror, a lot of the themes and ideas are also inspired by one of my favorite artists, Keith Thompson. I had a lot of fun doing this and was totally in my element. My most favorite thing to draw is "provacative" art. I rarely get to indulge in going balls to the wall with art that is gross or uncomfortable which is what made this so satisfying to do. I'll consider more one shots in the future for sure.

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Gyoza Devil @fancyrook

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Heart Exploder

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art thoughts

Lately I've noticed i'm getting more comments praising my techniques and i've been cataloguing that in the back of my head. I guess some people might find it weird for me to say I don't get much direct positive feedback but I really don't. I think in my experience I'm not a stranger to praise or criticism but in reality most of it is kind of this nebulous thing I have to unwrap the real meaning of, I guess I get tired of having to do this. Direct feedback on little things like stylistic decisions I've been making are motivating, a "You're on the right track" kind of thing. I've spent most of my artistic journey wandering around in circles and extremely lost. It's only lately i've thought about it as a whole and why I chose to do this or that I came to understand just how much having a goal gave such power over my decisions. It's a cup half full and half empty situation. It's good that what I do has worked well to show me the way, but then I notice that without it I really don't know what to do or where to go. Things are okay now, but there's always this thing dangling off of me like a fluke and that is that i've had a harsh past with criticisms especially about my art being ugly to look at and of course not in any intentional way. Just the lingering pain from being in that awkward stage where you are learning how to do new things but lacking the guidance that would quickly get you through it. Not only did I not quickly get through it I felt stuck like this for something like five or six long years. People attempting to sit on a high horse (whether that horse is strong or a cheap plastic pony) berated me in ways I don't think i'll ever really let go, and for what? honestly. It's nothing but bad feelings. It's a fluke. I'm a shark with this stupid thing on my fin and it will never come off, not without some kind of help. And everyone needs a little. Sometimes I'm not sure what to think. Some people make art choices that are beautiful but controversial or unique in way I think of as being a product of a great vision- But I think in my personal history I just find most people to just feel strangely offended by whatever i'm doing for one reason or another and I get lost not being sure if or when what I do will resonate with someone. It's then that suddenly people are noticing what i'm doing has a pleasant touch, I guess that's why something like that could suddenly feel valuable.

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I wrote a tutorial on how to set up a deviantArt-like art gallery on a neocities (or other static site) come check it out:

It was a lot of work to put my art gallery together and get it working, but because I didn't see literally anything on creating such a gallery (other than ready-made templates) I decided to write up a tutorial hoping it will help others who want to code a more robust art gallery that goes beyond just using a simple slideshow/lightbox. Each image is its own post, like how deviantArt works.

This is a draft of the page where I copied my existing posts just to fill up the gallery and see how it fits:

and this is what my individual post looks like:

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interior design malice

[ravenlynclemens]

the man who hates trumpets

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I don't have a whole lot of symbolic images I associate myself with, but the strongest one is the Cabbage Butterfly. The Cabbage Butterfly is extremely hardy, and it's one of the only insects I normally see casually fluttering around even in winter months. Eventually it (no pun intended) wormed it's way into drawings next to my avatar. I started to associate the butterfly with blissful ignorance. There's another symbol that appears less frequently which is a bird of some sort, usually a magpie, which is alarm and vigilance. Here they are together. Nothing about it was absolutely intentional, but they just kind of slotted in a natural way. It's just neat.

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i don't usually make these kinds of posts but in the tags tell me what symbolic imagery you associate yourself with i'm curious. personally i associate myself with eye injuries, the color red, and scorpions.

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Outsider artists are weird to me because it's strange for me to look at a person "doing" the thing that I am doing but under vastly distant perspectives. I think what makes someone an outsider artist isn't only their will to create beyond strong influence as I noticed, it's also a position taken on art as a whole and that "art" as what they think of it is always either juvenile (I paint fruit 'n shit) or not taken with some level of value or importance. I think "Art" as a matter of humans mastering a will to conjure an idea through their hands is a pretty important thing to me. I am always focusing on how to communicate through drawings and sharpen my ability to express my thoughts, and I use art to understand other people as well. With that in mind it makes me feel like the outsider artist has no relationship to me or the thing which I do every day, they are entirely alien, because there's not much of a chance we can really talk about art when it gets down to it without missing each other like cars passing on opposite sides of the highway. In reality it's kind of frustrating. There is a level of ego that comes with being an outsider artist. That ego either gets crushed because they're too sensitive to handle it, or it gets full up in a CWC kind of way (they hate me because I'm great) neither can really handle a slightly negative opinion which is the root of a lot of outsider artists (though not all of course, the best outsider artists are pure and have ascended to a level of confidence that makes them unshakable because they love what they do that much)

I watched an unrealized outsider artist slam head first through a brick wall when asked to produce something artful, and the result was a mess because that territory was naturally something unfamiliar. Ego when it comes to art is this weird element that can really make or break a person. This might also come as a shock since the work "Ego" always comes with some negative connotation but it can actually be an equally helpful tool and it's not something that should be totally shunned either. Artists only survive because they have the arrogance to make things no matter how inaccurate or ugly it is. Without enough of it you lose a grip on the identity of your work. Too much, and you lose touch with the world. Truthfully either of these extremes can produce works of value, the trouble is when artists fall into an extreme without understanding their place in the world or lacking an acceptance for it. You can either be a Wesley Willis, or you can be a CWC. No one wants to be CWC.

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Hello!

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Today's Big Stink

Is something I learned turned out to be something completely overblown thanks to what appears to be a some negative habits cultivated here and allowed to persist and proliferate on ecks dot com. It all starts with one guy giving his pretty innocuous opinion on a character design, and somehow that's enough to warrant a mass public spiraling when people realize he's an author who has written some novice level stuff. What bothers me about this isn't only that people want to drag him for it or are, it's that people take a self righteous position for doing it as a "haha gotcha, you're FUCKED buddy!" kind of standpoint. It might have even upset him at first until he realized the jokes are pretty funny, and that's evident enough by the fact that he has been taking this attempt at punishment in stride. He just doesn't seem to care and we could all learn to be a little like him, cause, you know, I don't think this would have happened to begin with if people didn't flinch at some random guy's opinion of a dude on roller skates. Something to think about.

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I wore my Saddam Hussein Hawaiian shirt to the last edm festival I went to and some guy behind me in the crowd tapped me on the shoulder and was like “yo who is that on your shirt?” to which I responded “that’s my uncle” and he was like “yoooo that’s what’s up brooo familyyyyyy” and gave me a high-five. big ups.

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soros??

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oh this fucks please show us more drip

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small sample of others y’all might appreciate, keeping up with the theme.

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I

FUCKING

KNEEL

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Most insane bimboid drop to date and that’s saying a lot

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There are so many mangaka and stories out there, I wonder what some mangaka feel about their peers and their own success, especially about what consumers may consider success versus what they consider it to be. I think my own confidence lies mostly in what I'm doing and having a small group of fans. I don't think dwelling upon comparison is very useful long term, but it's a thought most everyone has at some point. Lots of people see becoming a working artist as being like "This is it! I've succeeded!" In reality it's a single step. Everyone has to ask themselves what they actually want, or what about manga in particular brings them joy enough to continue it. I guess when you are at the point where all you need to do is just focus on your work and please your fans, that could be enough for many artists. Maybe even a lot of them don't desire the spotlight some of their peers are given by the majority. Maybe some of them feel sad that the spotlight will never be theirs.

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"You've met Grigori already right? I got him for a couple odd jobs... if there's one thing I appreciate about these for hire types, it's the ones that just shut up and do what they're paid to do. Can't wrap my head around what the hell he is and to be honest he gives me the creeps but MAN can he kill a jug of OJ."

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Shark Toothed Smile

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Love from The Moon