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contemplating a gallery purge by aaronsartstuff
i'm not happy with my work, or being here. :/ sorry, guys.
contemplating a gallery purge
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I have posted over 50+ pieces of junk on this account. No comments, no faves, nothing inspirational or interesting to reply back to. The only person who has been faving my work is a guy I see on my deviantArt account who does the same thing: he's got nothing to say, nothing interesting to say, nothing enlightening to bring to the table, no "Wow, this is pretty great, I like how you did (x)" or even "Wow, I remember this character" or hey, how about, "Wow, great comic series! I can't wait to see the next page."
If FA deletes itself, good. Weasyl is an offshoot of FA that's an offshoot of dA. The only reason these sites exist is because they rebelled against dA's policy: "You mean, we can't draw ourselves in diapers? Let's make a site where YES WE CAN. You mean, we can't draw tits and assholes on deviantArt? Forget that, let's make a website where YES WE CAN."
Even if the next new picture I post here, I'm still gonna see sexual intercourse between elephants and alsations in their underwear on the front page.
I'm sorry but I find it hard to take it that you like my work - or anyone else for that matter - when they barely acknowledge anything I've done. You'd be plenty surprised that I actually put some effort into my shit when I'm actually happy, and other folks are happy that I'm happy by rallying for some sort of support. The only time you guys arrive is when I post a journal, but the last ten pictures I've posted, the last one-hundred, where were all of you? Just hitting the fave button, waiting for the next big thing to come. No appreciation, no support, not even a Hi/Hello/How's it going note. Are you sure your blog comment even holds merit?
LOL, followers and favorites? Dude, I've got 430+ on deviantArt. The difference between them and the five here is that actually put some effort into holding a conversation. FurAffinity and Wesyl suffer from "thats nice now do more" syndrome.
I tried drawing pin-ups, no one commented on those.
I tried doing comics, y'know, with plot/storytelling, no one comments on those.
I took the risk into doing fetish commissions. No one wants to take a stab at commenting on those.
So where the hell is the support here? Guys can't even be nudged to lend a hand or two in polls discussing everyday news topics, let alone my actual artwork.
You want me to stay? Make me stay. Convince me here that my time here isn't being wasted. Convince me that if I tackle another new subject or improve upon another, that you're actually going to talk about it. Stop hiding between the curtains-- I don't fucking bite, I'm not Jaws. When stick figures and Lola Bunny "original character" edits made on MSPaint get more comments than you do, you seriously can't look me in the eyes and tell me that's pretty fucking sad.
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I am an artist that works best when I'm feeling good, for one, and feeling confident.
I'm not feeling good, and I am not feeling confident. No one is making me feel good, and no one is making me feel confident. I'm slaving off of art that people claim they see, but I don't feel they are.
Funny story, a guy watched me last year. He said he liked everything I did. I asked him about the webcomic I've been doing for five years now. He didn't even know I was doing one.
So, 'following' my ass. Claims they like what they see, but don't remember what I did. My art is forgettable, then.
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Fair points.
I can't convince you to stay.
Alls im sayin is its easier to abandon than destroy the account. I wouldn't have followed you if I didn't appreciate some of your pieces. Hope you find greener pastures.
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I'm glad you followed me, and don't get me wrong, I appreciate all that. I enjoy getting followers, but I'm different than other artists. I'm not aiming for popularity, I'm not aiming for more followers - I'm just pissed because these folks added me for 6+ months plus and I'll be damned if I've ever heard a single thing from them. It doesn't matter if I take calculated risks and try something new, no one is going to at least comment on a good job I've done-- it doesn't help me improve, and it doesn't make me happy.
Until folks start doing that, I'll stay here. I've got a whole library of art here, plenty of material for folks to comment on.
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I don't want to, but I need something to cheer me up somehow. I've been feeling so miserable and low for three weekends whole, pretty soon it'll be a record. I'm not doing this for attention, I'm doing this because I am confused and at a loss on what to do. I always feel bad making these announcements - but what else can I do? I need something uplifting, and I'm not getting it. Friends can only take me so far, but I don't want to have to keep relying on them.
I still hold my ground on the lack of comments. I'm proud of quite a few of my pieces, and yet--
https://www.weasyl.com/submission/1001936/kuwt-fnaf-mashup-vinnie - no comments
https://www.weasyl.com/submission/1001934/comic-commission-galactic-flu-p2 - 1 fave
https://www.weasyl.com/submission/1001928/nostalgia-critic-art-contest-entry - no comments, no faves, not even support
https://www.weasyl.com/submission/1001919/comic-commission-sneezy-elephant - this is growing to be a trend
https://www.weasyl.com/submission/934416/kuwt-issue-14-preview - nothingStuff where I'm putting my 110% on it. Flies past the radar.
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Sorry to hear. I hope whatever you do helps. I don't think removing all your work from here will help with gaining recognition, but if it helps you feel better then maybe it'll balance out. This journal does seem like a passive-aggressive shout for attention though, especially at a glance. It's got a click bait title, and is essentially holding the gallery hostage because you don't feel you're getting recognition you feel should be coming to you.
It takes a lot of self-advertising and/or pandering and/or talent to get yourself out there and get people interested in you, and I see in a comment above this that you didn't consider someone as a true follower of your work for not knowing you had an ongoing comic when I haven't noticed it advertised anywhere on here. It isn't popularizing to snap at fans for a potential failure of advertising on your part. You've got to work to get people involved in your art.
I don't want to be too down on you; I like what you've posted here so far, it's why I followed you on here. Hadn't heard of you before, but found your stuff while browsing here and added you after checking your gallery. If you're bothered by lack of recognition and are struggling with confidence issues I think you need to take a step back, take a deep breath and reevaluate how you're going to help yourself and get yourself noticed. Whether that's deleting galleries and refocusing your efforts on the sites you're already more known on, or casting your net even wider and doing as much as you can to expose yourself to as many viewers as possible, or doubling down on your productivity and talent and hoping that draws more clicks by its own merits or some combination of tacts, that's up to you.
I don't know you well enough to really give specific advice, or even to tell you to keep at it if there may be something more exciting and productive for you to do with your life. I guess I just sense conflicts in your words/feelings and your actions and hope you find some way to reconcile those, however that may be.
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I'm already on seven different websites. Facebook, Tumblrs, was once on Twitter for three years whole, deviantArt, FurAffinity, here, DrunkDuck, Comic-Fury. I can't maintain all of them. I've been advertising myself for five years and the highest point of achievement I ever got were some notable webcomic awards. Since then an opportunity hasn't arose because that same site essentially broke itself into oblivion.
I'm trying my damndest to get noticed. I've drawn everything from fetish to pinups to comics to fanart with little interest on doing an original project. I'm growing fatigued. Click-bait or not, I need some serious help and if you don't know what to suggest, I don't know what to suggest either.
It takes time and even money to advertise. I put $15 a month to get my webcomic advertised. I don't make enough money to support my comic or my work. I could certainly use some help since I can't do all this by myself. All the webcomics I read all have fans willing to lend a hand or an arm or a leg, but whenever I try to do a similar ting, no one shows up.
My comic -is- advertised here, dude.
https://www.weasyl.com/submissions?userid=89887&folderid=68778
https://www.weasyl.com/submissions?userid=89887&folderid=68915
The only reason I've stopped is because the advertising has gotten me nowhere. I can't promote something that gets 15 views or less the minimum. At that point I'm promoting to a graveyard. I can't keep posting up my webcomics if no one's giving them a second take, and I'm also certainly tired of reposting the same pages on a billion websites.
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I will go through with the purge. I've uploaded a bulk of all the pictures I felt I liked. I've tagged them with the right tags, I can't find anything else to upload and don't have anything else to contribute that's not already elsewhere. I spent lord knows how many months on Weasyl but I'm getting no results out of it.
I'm going to have to disagree that this isn't click-bait. If it is, so be it. Not like anyone noticed these: https://www.weasyl.com/journals/aaronsartstuff
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Sometimes self-advertising isn't enough. You need help sometimes from other people. I've done self-advertising myself for years and only in a few places do I actually get any sort of notice. So I can understand how tiring it gets when you do everything in your power and get nothing as a result. It's disheartening.
For some people it isn't about popularity. Some artists rely on their art as part of their income so they do need to have the notice. But if a place isn't getting them anywhere they might leave and go to where the business is better for them.
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Do whatever makes you happy. <3
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hug :) Thank you.
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Fine. Whatever.
What's the point of purging? Just to spite the folks that were happy? The path of least resistance is just to ignore the account altogether. Do that instead.
Then a year from now, after FA deletes all user content except for PMs (which it will publish on the front page in a searchable, plaintext format) you'll have your Weasyl account right where you left it, followers and favorites intact.