Questions Artists get tired of

http://reiq.deviantart.com/journal/Rant-of-the-day-420961559

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Quoted from Reiq's journal:

First this is my Pixiv  account pixiv.me/reiq  ('ll be posting more Ero art there )

Questions I like to Answer:

Drawing Questions, methods of working, good personal Questions, learning and practice tips, about Reiq in General.

Questions I do not like or not Answer:

-What tablet you should buy According to you budget (It’s not my problem your budget) do a little research yourself. the internet helps a lot. 

-What brushes I use: Learn how to make them yourself, you'll be better off. I had to learn myself! also there;s already a bunch of brushes online, here in Da and 3d total brush tutorial are great.

-Technical questions about problems you're having with your tablet (i’m not a Wacom Technician) or you computer etc.

-Really stupid Questions you should google yourself, like Does a Cintiq has to be connected to a Computer? can I buy this On the internet? PLZZZZ.

-Do you take requests? NO, I have never taken requests (don't see the point of doing them) I draw what I want but I do accept suggestions.

many will think, what an asshole reiq is. but the truth is there’s a handful of people who ask the right questions that will really help them to improve, the rest is just technology and hardware, that will be obsolete, your skills will not.

Rant of the day. Back to work.

Why Reiq is one of my favorite artists:
http://i.imgur.com/oigIqvp.png

This may help your linework

Just stumbled across this today.
http://nsio.deviantart.com/art/Nsio-explains-Line-Dynamics-411098876

A lot of it is beginner info. But there are a few bits that are helpful for anyone.

The creator of the tutorial has other helpful tutorials in their gallery.

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Also just mentioning -again-. People that claim they 'look for tutorials and couldn't find anything'. I just highly believe didn't look for more than 15 minutes. Sometimes you have to look for an HOUR. Things won't be handed to you all the time. Don't be lazy. As i've said, i've gotten this far in digital art myself on searching things online and watching livestreams alone. So.

Immitation vs Inspiration

Screen shot journal

1st http://i.imgur.com/9q1asEp.png

2nd http://i.imgur.com/oHwiDS7.png

3rd http://i.imgur.com/epgsJZQ.png


TLDR
It is one thing to be inspired by something and make it your own. It is an entirely different thing to be inspired by something and making no changes whatsoever, incorporating it into your work. It is hurtful to both you and the artist, to copy.

Time i've put into art

2014
http://i.imgur.com/2HH0YJ3.png

OVER 7,833 hours and 20 minutes to art    

How much time have you put in?

Improvement really is the time you put into something.

And i thought it'd be interesting to see where I stand when i realized i noticed the "viewer minutes" on my livestream page. 

As well as to prove just how much I really immerse myself into art.

So in the past two years i've dedicated OVER:

470,081 minutes to art

which is 7,833 hours and 20 minutes

which is roughly 326 days

Which means I spend 46 hours a week average on art

(Look. I can math)

I emphasis OVER because for 2 years I also spent at least 4-5 hours 2-3 times a week on art at school that Isn't factored in

As well as the times I didn't stream.

AND nevermind the hours i've spent looking up tutorials, refs, and reading art books.

So when you wonder how i went from this-http://vexstacy.deviantart.com/art/Dubstep-OC-dragon-v2-268414243

To this- 

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11927166/

or this

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12463488/

In two years? These are the numbers.

Honestly even i kind of can't believe it because i remember reading an article that says it takes 10 years OR 10,000 hours to become proficient in a skill. I remember at the time i read that...i wanted to slam my face into a table.

and here I am now with 7,833 hours captured while streaming alone. 

And still growing. I still have so much to learn and grow at. I hope i never grow complacent.

"Complacency is the paper that burns within the fire of passion"-Me

Thank you journals

I unforauntely deleted about 6 others before I got the idea to screen shot


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Remember when I tried watcher wednesdays?

http://i.imgur.com/jMKFHFx.png

Or the 24 hour free art streams on NYE?

Being an artst #1 rule

Actually. It's the number 1 rule in LIFE.

please.
please.
please.
read carefully what i'm about to say.

If you take nothing else away from this journal.

burn this into your mind.

"You cannot please everyone."

If you stop reading this journal now. I'd be fine with that because that is the most severely important part. Remembering that can honestly help you get through your days. Can make or break you.

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"You cannot please everyone. So do you. Be you. That's all you can do. And the people worth your time will be there FOR YOU."

People will find any reason to hate you or what you do when given even the slightest opportunity even if you are right or have done nothing to them.
This is what i've re-discovered in the past 2 weeks.
And recently...i forgot that a bit.
And i felt the need to defend myself from retarded accusations after having my artwork jeopardized.
As well as people who can't fathom the fact that I prefer to chat with people via livestream rather than skype 9/10 of the time.
And people who insist i'm just an all out bitch.

And then I remembered. You can't please everyone.
There will always be people willing to BLINDLY defend someone, proof or not.
There will always be people ready to call you an asshole the moment you don't do something exactly how they'd prefer you to do it, even if you've been nothing but nice to them.
There will always be....haters and ignorant people.

Point being:
Don't change. Don't justify yourself to assholes. Those worth sticking around, WILL.
Draw what YOU want to draw. As long as you aren't tracing/cheating, who gives a fuck if some people don't like it.
Be who YOU want to be. As long as you aren't hurting anyone, who gives a fuck if someone doesn't like you.
Do what YOU want to do.
You are the only person that can live your life.
YOU.
no one. else.

So live it to the fullest FOR you.

For every negative --Personal Journal--

Tumblr link: http://vexstacy.tumblr.com/post/79929373125/for-every-negative

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There is a positive. 

I was sitting here at first for a moment thinking how much it gets real old and tiresome being hated for silly shit and sometimes even nonexistent shit.
And as I was about to post it for more than 300+ people to read I stopped for a moment and let that sink in.
For every negative person in my life
There’s an infinitely brighter star illuminating or snuffing out their shadow trying to loom over me.
And many more bright stars around that bright star.

For every person that hates me and wounds me I remember that there’s this beautiful safety net of wonderful people, people like you who follow me who are reading this right now. Who are there to help put a bandaid on, to be there while it heals, and make me smile as soon that negative person fades completely from my life. Out of sight. Out of mind.

Thank you for being my stars. 

You may look up to me.
But a ceiling will surely fall without the most important part the holds it up.
It’s support.

With all my heart,
Vexstacy/Pierce