- it/its
Plural, Adult, Queer.
Making fancomics, and hopefully original comics in the future.
Current project focus: Our Assimilation AU Danny Phantom fancomics.
I've noticed that one of the things that consistently stops us or dampens our mood while making art is the idea of it having no emotional impact. Even a negative reaction is better than no reaction. Yes, yes, I know, wanting attention is a "bad" reason to be an artist, I've heard that before. :P
This is annoying to experience, because we also do like the process of making art... But much like talking, and how we enjoy it- talking feels pointless to do if no one is listening.
Any chance there's advice anyone has for dealing with this, or is it as I suspect- just something you need to figure out how to deal with on your own?
- Lady Zircon (She/Any)
EDIT: Potential advice that my friend has provided! (Paraphrased)
Find one person who's your target audience and make stuff to show them- that single person can be yourself, or a friend! Trying to make something Everyone will react to is impossible, but 1 reliable person is possible. For examples, strangers may not care about your oc... but someone who's heard infodumping about the oc and cares about them will! DMing friends with the art you want them to see can help, because it feels more meaningful to them- and also, in a discord server, it might be missed.
While this may not be useful for "audience growth," it will help you feel more confident in your work.
for art warmups, we should totally draw other sheezy users ocs n stuff by scrollin thru the tags... cause even if its hard to motivate ourselves into making original guys, we LOVE drawing other peoples guys
- briar (she/it)
Hi! We're the Abyssal System. I swear we aren't usually this formal, but my typing would come off even more stiff if I tried to be casual. We've done a lot of art over the years, though most of it is lost in deleted roleplay and askblogs. (Speaking of which, whenever the other alter who's supposed to actually be running the blog fronts and writes down a plot for us to follow, we'll start posting our Gaster askblog stuff)
We're interested in fishkeeping (... Even have an abandoned "Fishkeeping for beginners" zine), and have a pet ball python named Gooey, after the Kirby character. If we ever rapidly switch gears, or drop off the face of the earth, it's unfortunately normal. We have been trying to work on getting better at internal communication, so hopefully it'll be less dramatic in the near future :P
.... I'm sure someone else who has less memory problems than me will help make a real introduction post when they front next.
~ CCT (He/Him)