Christ, I know what you mean. I'm so utterly sick of people coming up to me and critiquing my fun-doodles. They're bloody doodles! Go away and leave me to my scribbles! *RANT OVER*
Anyway, I got linked from QC, and I must say, this is a very good comic. Keep it up!
I always find myself in the extreme self conflict of "dude... doesn't care, and you'd probably be annoying them" vs "but if you don't go say hi, you'll never get a chance at friendship!"
Usually option 1 wins. Whenever option 2 wins, option 1 is what happens. I think it gives me a complex. :P
Submitted by Shocky_Monkey on June 10, 2008 - 9:20pm.
gods my graphics design teacher had the entire class critique our work right so we would sit there and nit pick everything even if it had a genius design I had many projects that were 98% because I would always make one minor flaw. More often then not the flaw is what the teacher would suggest to do to begin with. never the same flaw twice but eh.
piccolo14 wrote:Christ, I know what you mean. I'm so utterly sick of people coming up to me and critiquing my fun-doodles. They're bloody doodles! Go away and leave me to my scribbles! *RANT OVER*
Anyway, I got linked from QC, and I must say, this is a very good comic. Keep it up!
Ditto to that.
Submitted by hawkbat2001 on June 23, 2008 - 3:13pm.
sushii wrote:I do a lot of nude art. Nude ART. Not PORN. So why does everyone insist it is when they grab my sketchbooks?
Well its not drawing, but I did a series of photos for a friend, they were topless but far from sexual. One of the photos i thought was very artistic and i use to keep it in my profolio. I removed it because I got tired of people asking for copies of the 'naked chick.'
Just fyi, it was a black and white of my friend wearing a pair of boxer shorts painting a picture.
Submitted by sharidar on January 1, 2009 - 11:19pm.
worse then that is when you draw the body first before you put on the clothing and every bugs you about it being pron as sushii said.
high schoolers can be immature.. but i only feel comfortable drawing in school.. but i hate critics who only make fun of my work
Submitted by WikidWorx on January 9, 2009 - 10:12pm.
The Sailor Moon thing is annoying the first time around, let alone the INNUMERABLE times it comes up! "You should be more original. Stop trying to copy *insert commonly known and badly dubbed anime here* and make your own stuff"....swear to God if I hear that one more time...Oh, btw, you wanna know what the worst thing is? The requests from people who know NOTHING of the medium. These range from either: "Oh can you draw something for me?" or my personal favorite : "Can you draw me?" And when/if you do no matter which way you go about it, it always ends as follows:
(because of this, I either decline requests, warn them in advance of what it might look like so as to have them not bother me about it again, or both)
"Eww, what's that? I didn't ask for that? Can't you do something else? Why can't you draw better, you know like real people?"
I dunno, maybe because my major is Animation & not FINE F&%ING ART! Those moments, are only SECOND to the random people grabbing your book. I don't care if they're eating or not, I don't care if your curious to see, and, yes, believe it or not, I don't care even if you do like my work, just DON'T do it, ESPECIALLY if you see me working in it. It's a huge pet peeve of mine and just down right RUDE AS HELL! I could be at work on break ALONE, and somehow, some way, someone finds me trying to *obviously* work in peace alone, and they start asking questions, taking the book, playing wannabe art critic and annoying you the entire break until you have to go back. >.<
Also, it's not just artists. It pretty much happens to anyone who's minding their own business and/or enjoying what's captured their attention to ignore the world around them. Lets say your reading a book and your so into the story someone just HAS to ask "Whatchya readin' thar?" as if they can't see the f^%ing cover. (if they can't I do show it so I can continue reading) It's just WORSE with manga. I'm able to convert a few people into anime and manga every now and then, which is sometimes worth it, but the majority of the time its "OMG, why are you reading the book the wrong way!?" Try to give the simple answer: "It's how its read in Japan" and then you get "Why do the Japanese read that way? Its in English, right, so why can't they make it the American way?".....T-T; *sigh* It's only worth it if they ask to read one and are TRULY interested (and you damn well KNOW you can tell which is which) Then there are the jackoffs who think its "funny" to grab your book flip it to some random page laugh stupidly and say "haw haw! You lost your page!" only for you to immediately flip right back to where you left off without the bookmark and continue. This is humorous when the jackoff gets laughed at by his peers who jeered him into acting in such an asshole-ish way, but overall, its stupid, rude and just makes the person look like a total jerk. (Bookworms, especially Potter fans, KNOW what I'm talking about)
Overall, it isn't just an artist thing and, overall, its ALWAYS rude.
Still, your comic is really cool and deals with a lot of real life situations that very few webcomics make the basis for their storyline, with the occasional exaggeration here and there. I approve and keep up the awesome work Jam-jam! =^-^= *kitty for joo*
Submitted by Rayearth on January 13, 2009 - 8:28am.
I've had to get to the point of being a rude and nasty b!#ch to make people leave me and my books/sketchpads alone. Then they get all whiny on me, but I explain very slowly and clearly that "no my work is not in my hands here for your approval, I'm WORKING so leave me alone!" Yes I comes off as rude, but I prefer people to keep their nasty hands to themselves. I get the "make better art/more original/less animey/ect." crap all the time and I keep telling people, this my art not yours and if you want to see "insert their pov here" then go make it yourself or see someone's who's on display. I'm not here for your entertainment value if I'm not displaying my work, so bugger off. /rant
Submitted by benBear on January 16, 2009 - 6:27pm.
i feel your pain, this does happen quite a lot to me as well, especially the cubism one, the amount of times that comes up is just stupid >_> "this art it miiiiine, not yours! miiiiine, so go away silly person, before i make fun of your hair" a few of the people on the art course im on a the moment find that if they describe the person goin on at them in the poorest light as an art medium means that they go away
and crazily enough describing to the person how they are a failure as an artistic piece works :p
Submitted by AmandaPants on February 12, 2009 - 4:18pm.
~_~ In middle school, I had a kid in my class who would call anything anime-ish Sailor Moon, so if myself or any of my friends were drawing anything he'd be all "IS THAT SAILOR MOON?" SO dang annoying.
Submitted by JR_l'artiste on February 12, 2009 - 11:12pm.
lol, i agree. It is most annoying. One thing that happens to me alot is the pointing out of obvious mistakes in the first stage of drawing something.
That stage is just meant to get the pose and general shape of everything! It doesnt have to be perfect! And since i cannot draw hands very well, (and i know this) I get really annoyed when someone looks at an awesome piece, and all they can say is: What happend to the hands?!? or "You should let me draw them for you" Gah!!! So rude.
Ah well. I have now taken to not showing anyone :P
Submitted by teddybearprincess on March 10, 2009 - 5:02pm.
i'm not an artist *yet*, but i understand your feelings
sometimes, i'll be drawing when some of my parent's friends come over with their kids and i have to hide my notebook so that they won't look at anything.
i also have to hide it when my parents or ANYBODY else is there because they'll open it up and make comments about everything, which i hate. my personality isnt much of a mean person, so i if somebody starts making rude assumptions/comments, i immediately close my notebook and put it away.
PS: i made an account because i just HAD to comment on this...:D HEE. i'll be commenting on others too i think. keep up the good work! :)
All of these have actually happened to me, and most in the last week. Uuuugh. I consider these things fairly high in the rudness scale, but I'm not sure if non-artists would get it :/ oh well.
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Christ, I know what you mean. I'm so utterly sick of people coming up to me and critiquing my fun-doodles. They're bloody doodles! Go away and leave me to my scribbles! *RANT OVER*
Anyway, I got linked from QC, and I must say, this is a very good comic. Keep it up!
Coming to this from a completely different angle, I have to agree that LotusNotes is a steaming pile of excrement.
Word.
I always find myself in the extreme self conflict of "dude... doesn't care, and you'd probably be annoying them" vs "but if you don't go say hi, you'll never get a chance at friendship!"
Usually option 1 wins. Whenever option 2 wins, option 1 is what happens. I think it gives me a complex. :P
gods my graphics design teacher had the entire class critique our work right so we would sit there and nit pick everything even if it had a genius design I had many projects that were 98% because I would always make one minor flaw. More often then not the flaw is what the teacher would suggest to do to begin with. never the same flaw twice but eh.
I do a lot of nude art. Nude ART. Not PORN. So why does everyone insist it is when they grab my sketchbooks?
piccolo14 wrote:Christ, I know what you mean. I'm so utterly sick of people coming up to me and critiquing my fun-doodles. They're bloody doodles! Go away and leave me to my scribbles! *RANT OVER*
Anyway, I got linked from QC, and I must say, this is a very good comic. Keep it up!
Ditto to that.
sushii wrote:I do a lot of nude art. Nude ART. Not PORN. So why does everyone insist it is when they grab my sketchbooks?
Well its not drawing, but I did a series of photos for a friend, they were topless but far from sexual. One of the photos i thought was very artistic and i use to keep it in my profolio. I removed it because I got tired of people asking for copies of the 'naked chick.'
Just fyi, it was a black and white of my friend wearing a pair of boxer shorts painting a picture.
worse then that is when you draw the body first before you put on the clothing and every bugs you about it being pron as sushii said.
high schoolers can be immature.. but i only feel comfortable drawing in school.. but i hate critics who only make fun of my work
The Sailor Moon thing is annoying the first time around, let alone the INNUMERABLE times it comes up! "You should be more original. Stop trying to copy *insert commonly known and badly dubbed anime here* and make your own stuff"....swear to God if I hear that one more time...Oh, btw, you wanna know what the worst thing is? The requests from people who know NOTHING of the medium. These range from either: "Oh can you draw something for me?" or my personal favorite : "Can you draw me?" And when/if you do no matter which way you go about it, it always ends as follows:
(because of this, I either decline requests, warn them in advance of what it might look like so as to have them not bother me about it again, or both)
"Eww, what's that? I didn't ask for that? Can't you do something else? Why can't you draw better, you know like real people?"
I dunno, maybe because my major is Animation & not FINE F&%ING ART! Those moments, are only SECOND to the random people grabbing your book. I don't care if they're eating or not, I don't care if your curious to see, and, yes, believe it or not, I don't care even if you do like my work, just DON'T do it, ESPECIALLY if you see me working in it. It's a huge pet peeve of mine and just down right RUDE AS HELL! I could be at work on break ALONE, and somehow, some way, someone finds me trying to *obviously* work in peace alone, and they start asking questions, taking the book, playing wannabe art critic and annoying you the entire break until you have to go back. >.<
Also, it's not just artists. It pretty much happens to anyone who's minding their own business and/or enjoying what's captured their attention to ignore the world around them. Lets say your reading a book and your so into the story someone just HAS to ask "Whatchya readin' thar?" as if they can't see the f^%ing cover. (if they can't I do show it so I can continue reading) It's just WORSE with manga. I'm able to convert a few people into anime and manga every now and then, which is sometimes worth it, but the majority of the time its "OMG, why are you reading the book the wrong way!?" Try to give the simple answer: "It's how its read in Japan" and then you get "Why do the Japanese read that way? Its in English, right, so why can't they make it the American way?".....T-T; *sigh* It's only worth it if they ask to read one and are TRULY interested (and you damn well KNOW you can tell which is which) Then there are the jackoffs who think its "funny" to grab your book flip it to some random page laugh stupidly and say "haw haw! You lost your page!" only for you to immediately flip right back to where you left off without the bookmark and continue. This is humorous when the jackoff gets laughed at by his peers who jeered him into acting in such an asshole-ish way, but overall, its stupid, rude and just makes the person look like a total jerk. (Bookworms, especially Potter fans, KNOW what I'm talking about)
Overall, it isn't just an artist thing and, overall, its ALWAYS rude.
Still, your comic is really cool and deals with a lot of real life situations that very few webcomics make the basis for their storyline, with the occasional exaggeration here and there. I approve and keep up the awesome work Jam-jam! =^-^= *kitty for joo*
i get it (not an artist(yet)). are nested parentheses ok?
I've had to get to the point of being a rude and nasty b!#ch to make people leave me and my books/sketchpads alone. Then they get all whiny on me, but I explain very slowly and clearly that "no my work is not in my hands here for your approval, I'm WORKING so leave me alone!" Yes I comes off as rude, but I prefer people to keep their nasty hands to themselves. I get the "make better art/more original/less animey/ect." crap all the time and I keep telling people, this my art not yours and if you want to see "insert their pov here" then go make it yourself or see someone's who's on display. I'm not here for your entertainment value if I'm not displaying my work, so bugger off. /rant
i feel your pain, this does happen quite a lot to me as well, especially the cubism one, the amount of times that comes up is just stupid >_> "this art it miiiiine, not yours! miiiiine, so go away silly person, before i make fun of your hair" a few of the people on the art course im on a the moment find that if they describe the person goin on at them in the poorest light as an art medium means that they go away
and crazily enough describing to the person how they are a failure as an artistic piece works :p
~_~ In middle school, I had a kid in my class who would call anything anime-ish Sailor Moon, so if myself or any of my friends were drawing anything he'd be all "IS THAT SAILOR MOON?" SO dang annoying.
lol, i agree. It is most annoying. One thing that happens to me alot is the pointing out of obvious mistakes in the first stage of drawing something.
That stage is just meant to get the pose and general shape of everything! It doesnt have to be perfect! And since i cannot draw hands very well, (and i know this) I get really annoyed when someone looks at an awesome piece, and all they can say is: What happend to the hands?!? or "You should let me draw them for you" Gah!!! So rude.
Ah well. I have now taken to not showing anyone :P
i'm not an artist *yet*, but i understand your feelings
sometimes, i'll be drawing when some of my parent's friends come over with their kids and i have to hide my notebook so that they won't look at anything.
i also have to hide it when my parents or ANYBODY else is there because they'll open it up and make comments about everything, which i hate. my personality isnt much of a mean person, so i if somebody starts making rude assumptions/comments, i immediately close my notebook and put it away.
PS: i made an account because i just HAD to comment on this...:D HEE. i'll be commenting on others too i think. keep up the good work! :)
I just like to stand over artists and mumble silently to myself while i look at there work. Most of my mumbeling include how i wish i could draw....
Salior Moon? *nods with eyes closed* Indeed, not familiar with the culture at all.
It must be hard to draw. I write, and the only comment I've ever had from a passer-by was "Would you like some paper?"
(Cause I was scribbling on a small note of paper and apparently it looked like I was vandalizing the table.)
Oh, how I understand you, Jam...
SAILOR MOON. man. *headdesks*