Bah. I'm not buying it. So I'm gathering here that in the same manner that we all like some form of music, if you turn your radio on and hear a bad rendition of your favorite song, that's okay. As long as some one's singing it, it doesn't matter that they're tone deaf. Balls.
I'm all for everyone enjoying art and everyone participating if they like. Every piece doesn't have to be judged. I think everyone here with at least one eye can tell the difference between the levels of talent. I've seen a few people really put their mind to it and practice/learn from others and they've made great strides. And I see alot of people posting stuff that is so anatomically incorrect that a real person would die if they were like that. My beef is just throwing everyone who posts the same "AWESOME!"-style high level praise for something that they didn't even think about and took 5 minutes to draw. I could - but won't - name three artists off the top of my head who've pm'd me about it. Everyone is welcome to participate, but not everyone is AWESOME. There's nothing awesome about seeing a major joint missing on a limb or having a right foot on a left leg. Sorry.
Practice, practice, practice. The best artists on here aren't just naturals at it. They're the ones who've practiced the most.
When I posted in that "cack art" thread on the TMF, I had made the point that idle praise is lazy, disingenuous, and selfish. Half of the problem is the people who respond as they contribute to the delusions of the artist and their ego. If what they were saying was actually true wouldn't matter, since they're speaking without thinking, which is harmful to the artist if they're trying to get noticed or want attention. The reason it's harmful is because a frail artist will try and get any attention he or she can get, and they're willing to settle, put up, and tolerate anything anyone says to them as long as it's positive.
The problem with the art culture on fetish websites is that responses are selfish. As I said in the cack art thread, a majority of these people who respond with the "awesome
😀" responses are just passifying the artist, not helping them. If they really had the artist's best interests at heart, rather than their own, they would actually explain why it's awesome at least. But, I guess most people cannot be bothered to spend the five minutes or less it would take to come up with something worthwhile.
Idle praisers are the poison on TMF and TT. Rather than killing an artist, they cause bloating through exageration. They figure the more praise they heap the more likely this artist will stick around. That point of view is incredibly short-sighted, selfish, and shallow...not to mention it means you take the artist for a fool if you think they cannot see how transparent that is. Even though these are fetish websites where I must assume the majority come to answer the tingling call in their groin, this issue really comes down to basic human respect and concern. If these people really gave a damn about the fresh meat on the boards as well as the veterans and so called "legends" (another exagerated title), they'd get their act together.
Its just incredibly selfish. Whether you're not giving better responses because you're too lazy to, you fear telling the truth about an artist's suckage would make you look bad and so its about looking good in public and keeping your rep in check, or it's because you want to appease the artist in the hopes of getting them to stay so they can keep giving you the crack you're fixed on, its all selfish.
If you're lazy, you're being selfish, because you're more concerned about your inconvenience than the artist.
If you're not willing to admit an artist is horrible at drawing but still publically praise them as if they weren't, then it demonstrates how you're, again, concerned for how it makes YOU look. It also means whatever you're telling the artist is a lie, which is a shame on you and a secret wrong against them as you're lying directly to them.
If you're giving idle praise to keep the artist around, then it's selfish because you're doing it with the interest of keeping your supply of crack coming, not that the artist deserves it or not.
Indeed, the majority of the responders are just not bred well for this sort of thing....and it's the artists who suffer.
