Okaaaay...I rarely write rants and stuff, but for my own sanity I have to do this now. It's happening more and more lately and it's just hard for me to try to ignore it and probably cuz of all stress and meds this is affecting me way more than it should.
I don't know how are you dealing with it, or how much it affects you when/if you get comments like this, but every time someone writes under my art that my character looks like this and that person/character I just feel like flipping over. I don't find it a compliment if someone comments that my character looks like million others, especially when I never in my life heard of them or it wasn't inspired by them even 1%...LOL or just overall doesn't look like that character at all. It's not that it only bothers me that I get these on my characters... also characters which I drew which are owned by other people. But hey... if someone has white hair I guess it has to be Jack Frost? Or if looks green I guess it's Link...or if it's a badass guy with short hair it has to be Dante (probably with red tones here and there)... this doesn't work this way.
I think people are waaaay more occupied by trying to find minor details on art which reminds them of something than try to focus on art overall and try to picture it as a whole...with concept and story. I see comments like these on other artists' works as well and it bothers me as much as if it's my own work... especially if someone doesn't comment artwork at all. Just that the person reminds them of this and that character.
There's just a lot of fan art going on around here lately and it maybe has to do something with it, I dunno... but I just find it problematic that people try to seek fan art in original work as well. I own many characters and I drew characters by others too, and I think that pretty much on almost every work I get "This looks like Dante" comment... if 10 different characters can look like Dante then wow... I seriously have no comment anymore. I know that people will still comment things like that, even if I'd write this under artwork... people don't read descriptions much. I can't prevent it... I can just share my thoughts about it. I'll probably be ignoring comments like these cuz ya...it just affects me too much and I try not to flip over.
LOL sorry for a bit lengthy rant... I slept only two hours and this kept ringing in my head. I hope you understand... if you have any experience about the same situation you can feel free to share it...or whatever you feel about it. I'll read all comments even though I'm not sure how much I'll be able to reply this time. You'll find me in some corner while trying to calm down LOL.
UPDATE: I just want to clarify that I don't particularly find these comments hurtful, nor do I think my originality is being questioned. I just find the comments annoying and frustrating, especially when they're the only thing someone has to say about a piece and all the info is in the description. LOL and btw... I'm trying to calm down cuz of stress, not this... this is just one bit which adds up to it. 3 weeks of not properly sleeping and reading stuff about that brought this rant to life haha.
I don't know how are you dealing with it, or how much it affects you when/if you get comments like this, but every time someone writes under my art that my character looks like this and that person/character I just feel like flipping over. I don't find it a compliment if someone comments that my character looks like million others, especially when I never in my life heard of them or it wasn't inspired by them even 1%...LOL or just overall doesn't look like that character at all. It's not that it only bothers me that I get these on my characters... also characters which I drew which are owned by other people. But hey... if someone has white hair I guess it has to be Jack Frost? Or if looks green I guess it's Link...or if it's a badass guy with short hair it has to be Dante (probably with red tones here and there)... this doesn't work this way.
I think people are waaaay more occupied by trying to find minor details on art which reminds them of something than try to focus on art overall and try to picture it as a whole...with concept and story. I see comments like these on other artists' works as well and it bothers me as much as if it's my own work... especially if someone doesn't comment artwork at all. Just that the person reminds them of this and that character.
There's just a lot of fan art going on around here lately and it maybe has to do something with it, I dunno... but I just find it problematic that people try to seek fan art in original work as well. I own many characters and I drew characters by others too, and I think that pretty much on almost every work I get "This looks like Dante" comment... if 10 different characters can look like Dante then wow... I seriously have no comment anymore. I know that people will still comment things like that, even if I'd write this under artwork... people don't read descriptions much. I can't prevent it... I can just share my thoughts about it. I'll probably be ignoring comments like these cuz ya...it just affects me too much and I try not to flip over.
LOL sorry for a bit lengthy rant... I slept only two hours and this kept ringing in my head. I hope you understand... if you have any experience about the same situation you can feel free to share it...or whatever you feel about it. I'll read all comments even though I'm not sure how much I'll be able to reply this time. You'll find me in some corner while trying to calm down LOL.
UPDATE: I just want to clarify that I don't particularly find these comments hurtful, nor do I think my originality is being questioned. I just find the comments annoying and frustrating, especially when they're the only thing someone has to say about a piece and all the info is in the description. LOL and btw... I'm trying to calm down cuz of stress, not this... this is just one bit which adds up to it. 3 weeks of not properly sleeping and reading stuff about that brought this rant to life haha.
NO MORE TINCEK-MARINCEK
Some old info for people who are still not familiar with it or are still confused about it. I'm no longer tincek-marincek... I changed my name to Valentina-Remenar. I've made this account 7 years ago, with my sister Marina. We wanted to share account and post our works and collaborations. However, for the last a couple of years it was only me, Valentina, who's been posting drawings here (maybe 90% of the gallery is by me). LOL and we honestly collaborated only 3-4 times in our life. So, being tincek-marincek didn't make much sense anymore. You can read more about this here.
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