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Worried about "mysteryous" watchers by cuerva
Lately I've received some "weird watchers". One of them even admited to be following everyone and simply being using and automatized metod to add everyone to their watch list. I dunno about you but this troubles me a lot.
So far, I've "gained" 3 watchers that are kind of unsettling. I tend to visit all of the people who gives me a watch and drop a "hi" at least, however when I went to check on these people's pages I found things that made me feel very unseasy, or better said, i found nothing at all.
Their pages are empty, they don't even have an icon uploaded and their statistics and favorites are hidden. Their shoutboxes are not accepting comments and their galleries are empty.... Honestly this disturbs me.
I have my gallery set so only Weasyl users can see it so i'm sure I'm only watched by people who is artistically interested in my work, but when things like this begin to happen it just gives me the creeps. There are a lot of accounts of these kind in DA and PIXIV and you know what are they used for?..... to steal art.
I understand that this is not always the case. Sometimes they just belong to outsiders who want to look at your work and don't have much astistic skill themselves, but if that was the case, they why hide their favorites? Why not accept comments that would allow them to interact with the arists that they like?
Maybe I'm being too paranoid, I don't know. However I like to have at least a minimal interaction with the people that watches my art, to know they are REAL people, even if we don't ever talk.
This just unsettles me a lot. I wish there was a way to hide my gallery from users that I don't want looking at my work. Maybe I'm an ass for thinking this way but, really, I mean it, I don't like having watchers like these one bit.
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I know right? I mean. I could deal with they not having an icon or even hiding their favorites. i have a lot of watchers like these on Y!Gal, but they all still accept comments...
However whey they start Not Accepting comments, that's when i start to worry.
Why not accept comments? I mean, usually when you follow an artist is a great thing that they take a moment to at least say "hi" to you... But when you don't want the artist to drop by and leave a message, then something is very, veeeery suspicions.
At least that's what I think @_@
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Yeah... I know what you mean :|
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It's creepy. I've only gotten a few of those here... none on Pixiv. Maybe I'm not all that popular over there. I dunno. I get a few kids who ask for help with English or the odd youngin who wants people to read their comic before they take it to comiket (though they private message me asking me to), but no weirdo blank accounts. Which reminds me to go and slap my stamp on the submissions I posted. I really don't want 12 hours and a week of work to go to some art thief. flops over
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Ugh I also need to come up with some sort of watermark for my own works, I've been saying forever I should do it but I keep postponing it again and again @_@
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Put some images together, a bunch of random things you like. (that's how I built mine, Limes, Date Masamune, the mask I see in a lot of animes lately and triangles, perf combination)
Try a ton of them. Just doodle out random objects until you get to something you like. I must have covered at least 2-3 pages of random retarded doodles until I came up with an idea for one LOL. The watermark just helps me feel like some part of the picture is mine. Though there have been thieves who somehow take the watermark out (That's gotta take some talent, in which case, they could use to make their own artwork but I digress)
Go for it! You won't know what you can do until you've done it, yeah? Just doodle a bunch of things you like in the simplest form possible (for me this was difficult, I don't like to simplify things lol)
You can do it!!-
I might do just as you say. Coming up with a nice thing to use as a personal watermark is difficult so I think some experimentation is in order. I really need to start adding watermarks at my artworks even if I'm not that popular at all, i just don't like the idea of people claiming my stuff as their own @_@
I'm going to follow your advice (again lol), if it worked o ne why shouldn't it work again ahahaha I'm shameless |D
Thanks a lot for the support ♥
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Well for the most part, the watermark is for your sake. We're not very popular people but we want to put a stamp on our work, yeah? Our work, our characters, they're our life force. Our job is to protect them from others who try to kidnap them and make them do OOC stuff. Justice will prevail! Super Sentai pose I've actually had it happen to me but it was more so fanart chibi crap LOL still, if people show potential of taking your chibi fanart crap doodles, then that means a whole world of theft is open like a free for all swimming hole on a hot day.
Awesome!! I'm so happy you will and I've learned today that you're a fellow comic artist so ALL PROPS TO YOU, MAN! You go!! I'd love to read what you've done when you're ready! Comics!!!
And no problem! You help me out by commenting, giving me a mental boost, so it's only fair. Plus you've got some awesome story ideas and it'd be a shame to give that all up. OnO
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Well, i wouldn't call myself a "comic artist" yet sob. I'm a noob lol. I've just started incurtioning into this fine art of comic-making but I barely know what I'm doing (id I know anything at all) But I'll try to give it my best anyway because I really want to get serious about the comic-making thing, yep.
I'm curious, where did you learn this about me? XD
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Heck if you've got ambitions to BE a comic artist... you ARE one. At least to me. Whether you went out and got yourself an awesome crack copy of Manga Studio, or you're working on it traditionally, or you're messing around with the awesomeness of SAI. If you want to be one, you are one to me and that's cool enough. >^>
My only suggestion is to study your genre. Pick up a few comics, mangas, manhwa, mangwa and grind yourself into the whole thing that is comics. Study how panels flow. (I have a few books on comic making as pdfs if you like??) I've been studying and studying comics for years. I only had the steel balls to do them when I was 13. Now I'm all old and stuff and lose confidence so easy you'd think I was screaming like a little girl afraid of spiders. :|
I'm really happy and really excited to see that you're trying! This really helps give me motivation too.LOL where did I learn this? Arch. Haha it's allllll Archidaequiem.
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Oh my!, I'd love if you shared your comic-making books with me. i'ma total noob at it and though I've been researching and looking at lots of examples, i think it'd help to have some more material to srudy.
Sob, I should have known it'd be Aya the one you heard this from lol XD
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A!!! WELL! I've got a few to help ya out!! >o< Ohohoho! I've got about 3 right now as I can't find pdfs for two of the books I currently own. One is Writing Manga and drawing script and the other is a How to draw Manga book or any of the Manga Technique books from Deleter. Fffff. Poo.
http://www.4shared.com/office/qLo7K35Vce/framed_ink_-_drawing__composit.html --- Framed Ink pdfhttp://www.4shared.com/office/9UoSFeM-ba/More_How_To_Draw_Manga_Vol1The.html -- How to Draw Manga Vol 1 (this is basic character design but there are some other tips in here that are useful)
http://www.4shared.com/office/jlWlNdUWba/scott_mccloud_-_making_comics.html -- Making Comics... a tutorial in comic form about how to make comics LOL
http://www.4shared.com/office/CH9xM8qaba/Lets_Draw_Manga_Yaoi.html --- Well what the hell, why not? puts on sunglasses
http://www.4shared.com/office/1Cevknqjce/how_to_draw_manga_vol_5_-_deve.html -- how about some Shojo how tos?
(I have one more but it's a cbr file that I need to convert into a pdf so I will upload and share that link later)
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OMG so much useful material °¬°
I'm going to check ALL of them, thank you very very much Grim!
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LMAO I'm uploading 14 more books to share right now... hoping they all load before I leave the lirbrary... then I'm gonna link you to all of them in just a bit!
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OMG yes yes yes Thank you so much >w<
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http://www.4shared.com/office/o0cQF8J-ba/how_to_draw_manga_vol_10_getti.html -- Getting started!
http://www.4shared.com/office/UcLw0g_Jce/how_to_draw_manga_vol_12_giant.html -- Robots (and some other stuff in there that's useful)
http://www.4shared.com/office/iHM5TYhIce/how_to_draw_manga_vol_3_compil.html -- Application and practice
http://www.4shared.com/office/7vHl_rSwba/How_to_Draw_Manga_Vol_2_Compil.html - techniques!
http://www.4shared.com/office/4ZUn7ZS1ba/How_to_Draw_Manga_Vol_19_Super.html - Super deformed characters -- the animal version! (this is part 2... part 1 didn't finish today...)
http://www.4shared.com/office/B0G1cWw3ce/How_to_Draw_Manga_Vol_22_Bisho.html - Bishijo around the world
http://www.4shared.com/office/N081F2MEce/How_to_Draw_Manga_Vol_25_Bodie.html -- Bodies and anatomy
http://www.4shared.com/office/SE0WXNfZba/How_to_Draw_Manga_Vol_42_Drawi.html -- Drawing Yaoi (this is in Japanese)
http://www.4shared.com/office/9UoSFeM-ba/More_How_To_Draw_Manga_Vol1The.html - More on how to draw Characters
http://www.4shared.com/office/SYUeiD6iba/more_how_to_draw_manga_vol_3_-.html -- Enhancing Character's presence
http://www.4shared.com/office/vjWybGp3ba/More_How_to_Draw_Manga_Vol_1_-.html -- Basics of Character Drawing
http://www.4shared.com/office/R5oAI2FFba/More_How_to_Draw_Manga_Vol_2_-.html -- Penning Characters
http://www.4shared.com/office/I_p9XJiZce/More_How_To_Draw_Manga_Vol_4_M.html -- Mastering Bishojo Characters
That's it for today!! More later on!
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Woah, you're so awesome Grim XD
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Yeah, I feel the same way, honestly. x.x; There were several on FA, and I was hoping they wouldn't come to Weasyl as well. I mean, the worst part about it, is, if they're literally watching everyone (and a lot of these accounts are set up to do that) then they're just uselessly inflating our stats, and making it hard for us to tell how many people are -actually- following us. ._.
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Archidaequiem
I know how you feel. I don't like these watches either; they are extremely strange and I really don't understand. Mystery watches unsettle me quite a lot.