Art problem

[silverness185.livejournal.com]

I'm in a bit of a crisis, here. No, this is not an art search...



I keep procrastinating all the time, and in doing so, I keep drawing these H/D sketches. And I keep posting them here, and over at some other communities. These take up a lot on people's flist pages, and I was wondering if this is bothering anyone? I mean, I know my art is crap, or rather, it lacks the slash quality, and follows more into the yaoi one.

I honestly don't feel comfortable posting these sketches in a community that doesn't like yaoi, or the seme/uke thing, or girly!draco. So my question is, should I post the art once it's coloured? Or keep it the way I'm doing, by putting up the sketch, and later on posting once it's coloured? In other words, posting BOTH the sketch, and then the coloured version. This means it would be two different posts. Am I making sense?

Or should I not post my art at all, and just keep them in my own LJ? Until I can get a good, 'slashy' one that lacks too much girlyness and seme/uke-ishness, then I should put it here?

I just hate it when someone comments or complains that the character does look girly, or that it takes the whole point of 'slash', and things like that. I see a lot of girly Harry pics when he's paired up with Snape, and no one complains about that. -grumbles- Yeah, so I'm kind of bitter here, but please give me your opinions ;)

Comments

[silver-osiris.livejournal.com]

Putting my personal views aside (I don't care at all for a girly!Draco or girly!Harry), I think it would be best to put both the colored and the sketch in one post under a cut so it doesn't take up as much room. I don't see a problem then with posting to multiple communities if the post itself is only a couple of sentences and a cut. But I do feel like multiple large posts to different communities do irritate me a bit as I'm scrolling donw my friends list.

I don't see a problem with posting H/D related stuff in the proper communities even if it's not necessarily to someone's taste. I don't enjoy girly!Draco, but as long as there's some sort of warning (just like some people don't like bondage or whatnot) on the info and before the cut-page, I can skip over it and its all good. Point is- you can modify how you post if you want to, but I would never say stop posting completely because that's not fair.

[silverness185.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I see. Maybe you're right, about having the sketch and coloured version in one post. I usually keep them under a cut anyway, and I don't know if you've seen my cuts when I post piccys, but I hope it's a fairly short cut. Even though I have a little preview piccy on it. -_-;

Thanks for the encouragement ^_^

[snuffylicious.livejournal.com]

Aw, Silver, honey, your art isn't crappy. I like it. Sure, it's not perfect, but no one expects perfectino. It's cute.

Seme/uke can be a respectable part of slash, too, of course. Slash doesn't exclusively mean a relationship in which the "roles" are switched; it depends upon the taste of the writer (or in this case, artist). And frankly, I think Draco is girlier in canon, srsly.

You don't have to be so worried abuot how people react to your work in communities like this. If they don't want to look at it, they can just skip over it, and everything is copasetic. So just keep doing your thing, yeah? I look forward to your stuff. :-)

[silverness185.livejournal.com]

Really? Aw thanks, I had no idea you've seen them ^^'

And you're right...if they don't like, then it's their problem. I just don't want to have a huge angry mob of H/D fans, or rather, D/H fans grumbling at my art. Ah well...

Eeep, I was almost half-way done with Chapter 3 until my stupid cat jumped on top of my laptop (because it's warm) and moved on the keypads...and held the 'power' button for precisely 8 seconds -_-;
My cat is eeeevil, I tell you. But no worries, I WILL have it up, and I will send you the doc files for the beginning chapters.

Thanks so much for your encouragement, hon ^_^

[rainbower.livejournal.com]

i feel that one of my comments upset you. I'm sorry if you took offense.

I'm an art student myself and i KNOW that criticism may sometimes hurt you deeply.

I know my art is crap
One thing that I do know is that you're to never apologise for what you've created in terms of art. I think my art is mostly crap, that I lack the skill, but still, it's a way for you to express yourself.

So, keep on posting your sketches, coloured or not, on communities. However, if you post like 5 entries a day then it might be more convenient if you kind of combined them all into one big entry instead. I, for one, am on both domharry and bottom_draco communities so I get to see all the H/D posts twice anyways. of course, that's just my own problem.

[silverness185.livejournal.com]

Oh no, hon...you didn't say anything offensive, don't worry! I've had worse comments before...and not by 'n00bs' as one would call it, but by literate people who actually go along with a 4 paragraph post as to what is slash, that yaoi is terrible, and so on.

But I do admit I'm sensitive to criticism, but I'm also very attentive. Sometimes I take them as hints on what to do better or improve. Although sometimes it just doesn't feel like...me, and ...I don't know. Have you had that happen before? *sigh*

Hm, and since you're in the same communities that I post them in, I imagine it must be a little irritating for you for it to take a lot of space. I still have them under the cut and all. But yeah, I'll try combining the sketch and coloured version in one posts ;)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an art student, and I can tell you one thing. Art is not about portraying realism an absolute 100%. This is why we have movements like impressionism, and cubism, etc ... Of the artists who are considered to be the greatest, Picasso was someone who played around with a lot of different styles. Art is about interpretation, creativity, and effort. In my school, we are graded not on how beautiful our piece is, but how hard we try and how we try to develop our skills. You should never say your art is crap, because there is no such thing, this is why we have things like blue canvases in the Museum of Modern Art. If you are worried about people's reactions, maybe you could post a comment about your new artwork, give a small description and ask people to tell you if they would like to see it and then post the link in the comment area? Just keep in mind, there were often artists who were not appreciated in their time, but if everyone kept within the "rules", then we wouldn't have such variety in the art world now. So keep up the hard work!

[(Anonymous)]

I forgot to add, if you want to practice drawing people, you should find an art studio where you can draw nude people and also study the human skeleton. I took a class where I had to do this, and it really helped me understand anatomical proportions, the human body, musculature, forshortening, etc ...

[mickeylover303.livejournal.com]

You should be proud of your work. I think it's amazing that you can come with ideas on your own. As for me, I can only emulate what I see. I blame it on four years of "still life" projects. Even so, I wish I could bring my imagination to life.

And you know how I stand with the girly!Draco issue. However, I knew yaoi and shounen ai before I ventured into slash.

At first it was kind of awkward; Because not many people would view Harry and Draco with the seme/uke perspective. I compare this feeling to wearing a yutaka to a nightclub. I completely understand where you are coming from. But just do what has already been suggseted: put up warnings - just to be courteous. It's not like you're spamming the community.

Now if only people would warn me about girly!Harry...

[triospleasure.livejournal.com]

I'm an ass about stuff like that.

To each his own I always say....

Put your stuff behind a cut with a warning... if they still look at it and don't like it...fuckum...

I'm a fan..you got me...

I know what I like..

People will always bash someone, I guess that's what makes them feel powerful.

Hell, if he's a girly man in your eyes..so be it...

Your art, your mind,

~H