Dark Kitten Mewlings

Ok, I gotta rant on something here. What is with artists these days on DA? Specifically, what is with all the praise mongering?

Now, maybe I'm in a glass house when I speak on this, but frankly, the only time I lit into someone is if I think they are intentionally being hard to get along with. If they are really truly being disrespectful. Sure, I may have had my share of giving billy-o-and-what-for to someone that didn't deserve it because I miss read what they meant or something, we all have.

But what I'm getting at is worse than that! So far I have lost respect within the last four months for at least three really recognizable artists on this sight because of how they act to commenters.

For example: (no names. you know who you are.) There was this artist with amazing work. I faved her work often, paid her complements often, and I even expressed my support to her when she was dealing with an issue with a couple other artists. Well, in a search for TLK art, I found her pic of Simba. It.....did not look like simba, at all. I mean, this was beyond the "it's just in her style" clause. Sooo, I decided to very politely voice my opinion and offer some friendly suggestions, you know, a c-r-i-t-i-q-u-e Yea, that word, that long lost thing that DA was originally meant for, right?

So she snapped off hardcore at me. yup. I tried to state my point in a better, more explanatory way and also indicated to her that that sort of nastiness was not necessary. She exploded at me, attacking me as a person and then blocking me.

(By the way, to anyone that knows who this is and wants to come here and defend her, this is my journal and I don't have to leave her anonymous you know. so don't start a war over this where there doesn't need to be one.)

That's just one. Another one played out exactly the same way. Another extreamly popular artist. I watched her work for a long time now. There was a piece that was not really her best, plus, I feel she overworked most of her pieces, so I critiqued, making sure to be nice, give the good with the bad, and offered some thoughts on ways that she might avoid overworking pieces. The rest is a perfect mirror of story number one. She explodes, I explain, she deomonizes and blocks. XD

So now we are at contestant number three. I love this person's work. It's brilliant work, honestly. But this one commission she did looked exactly like a published character (will not say more because as I say, i'm attempting to be honorable and keep them anonymous. If you do know though, remember, that anonymity can change. this is a rant on MY journal so deal with it. I'll have no flame wars and drama here.)

Anywho, I noted to her the similarities, but never the less, I acknowledge that the character was all to simple and there for easy to make similar. Well, she bit my head off and she threw the very fact, that I had noted to her in the first place about the character being kind of a duh concept and there for easily similar, back in my face. It was RUDE and at the end she even put "not trying to be rude but..." oh, it was rude, so let's not pretend there.

I sent my usual shocked response (though I dunno why I am shocked by anything people do anymore.) explaining my point better and attempting to show that I was saying what I said to be helpful. That was today. what do you guys think? Will she give me a verbal spanking and then block me? LOL *faceplants*

So, popular artists, you folk with a fandom, what, do you think you are celebrities? oh now you have everyone oooing and awwing and so you don't have anything more to learn from life and certainly not from us peons bellow you?

Now I know why people don't comment anymore. Wow.

I'm sorry folks. this was ranty but it just PISSES me off that so many people, who's work I liked, decided to behave in such a childish, unprofessional manner. And the saddest part is, now I really can't look at their work with the same innocent admiration that I once did.

It's kinda like finding out that actor you idolized as a kid is really rude, rich scum. It really sucks.

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