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More adventure-themed art, this time featuring jackal explorer Harrison, another one of those characters of mine I really like but rarely use for much.
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Thank you very much!
Backgrounds are something I tend to struggle with, honestly. There's this kind of feeling of "people are here for characters, not backgrounds" that often leads me to skip doing them entirely, and then there's often the lack of a good idea for a background at all, and if I'm being honest... I prefer drawing characters to scenery most of the time. I'm glad you like this one, though. Sometimes I feel like my backgrounds and characters are a tad "inconsistent" somehow, like one is more detailed than the other so they just don't feel like they mesh properly.
Enough of my ramblings, though... if you want to use this as a wallpaper, that's fine! The file is 1200x900 though so I'm not sure how well it would fit whatever screen you intend to use it on. Proceed with caution I suppose!
Maybe I should start doing more of my "complete" art like this in 1920x1080 so I can use them as wallpapers myself. Hmm...-
Thanks. It's also the atmosphere in this that I like, fun and optimistic moving into a new day, if I can make it fit it will be a good thing to wake up to in the mornings.
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It works quite well, set on span the top and bottom of the picture get cropped which does spoil the atmosphere but other icons standout well and knowing what the complete picture looks like I still get the feeling the original invokes.
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On the subject of your backgrounds, I like them they are cartoonishly like your characters but give a context. This one to my untrained eye is the best I can recall probably because it's simpler than the character and so doesn't distract. Probably not something you want to draw but I would like to see Angelo treated to a candle light dinner by his boyfriend. Yes I have a thing about that dog he is just cute and it would be good to see him treated.
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One criticism I would get on my backgrounds at times is that they were too "busy" or "detailed" compared to the characters--I'd go overboard with textures or colors, or trying to add too much detail, forgetting that my strength with character art is keeping their designs fairly simple and clean so the end product would be a bit inconsistent.
But, with art being subjective and all, I've also gotten compliments about just how detailed some backgrounds are. Just goes to show that you can't please everyone, I guess.
I've had much better luck with simple scenic backgrounds like this overall, it seems.I actually wouldn't mind drawing something like that! I don't draw an awful lot of art of characters interacting, part of that being the relative difficulty of it vs a single character, and another major part being a bit of a toxic aspect of "social media", it just doesn't feel worth it to put in the time, effort and energy to draw a scene where two or more characters are interacting when some lazy art of a fat monster in underwear will get far more engagement.
Ultimately, the biggest issue with drawing Angelo doing anything with his boyfriend would be that I haven't decided who he might be seeing! For a while I thought about pairing him up with my underutilized squirrel character Toby (who is bisexual, so it could work out), or even less-used fox character Casey. I think I have a couple other possible matches for him too, I'd have to venture back into the archives to see. It gets a bit complicated with how my universe is set up and there are multiple worlds that coexist, so some seemingly suitable romantic partners might be hundreds, or even thousands of light-years away. Talk about a long-distance relationship!Angelo is actually bisexual as well, although I've never really come up with a female character that seems like a good match for him, so maybe I should just stick to finding a suitable boyfriend for him..
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Oh dear now you NEEEED to draw the whole speed dating room.
Sorry hat coat
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Oof that would be a LOT of characters. I might have to pass on a whole speed dating room.
Although, some sort of parody of The Dating Game or similar game show could be a possibility. Art paying homage to some game show from several decades ago, but with gay cartoon animals? I'm sure that would confuse some people...
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Contradictory criticism is always going to be a thing, when I worked for Jaguar Cars twenty years back we were getting complaints about leather seats some said they were to tightly upholstered so the leather looked plastic, others that they were loose and creased easily, when you looked at returned seats it was almost impossible to tell which group a seat came from. As you say it's a matter of subjective taste, I just checked and the list of people following you runs to a third page so you must be doing something right.
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I tend to not worry about it too much, but if someone takes the time to actually give some sort of thought-out feedback I'm going to at least acknowledge it. A lot of the "positive feedback" comes in the form of silent lurker accounts dropping faves, and a few frequent commenters, so if anybody new shows up I tend to notice.
I guess that kind of complaint matters a lot more in a business situation, where there are sales to be made and customers to keep happy and actual standards to maintain. I honestly can't say I'm a fan of leather car seats myself, they get too hot in summer, but I think that weird upholstery stuff looks really cheap and ugly by comparison. Not sure what the seats in my Mazda are but I like it, some sort of fabric. Just goes to show how subjective tastes can be I suppose.
Anyways, I'm posting my art that I do to kill time between shifts at work for free, so I'm not too worried about keeping customers or selling commissions, so if I wanted to just keep drawing the same four characters in the same four poses over and over that's really my business, I suppose... but I do actually care a little bit what people have to say, and want to make things that others will enjoy at least a little bit. As much as people love to tell artists "just draw what you want" whenever they fish for suggestions, the best word I can think of to describe drawing with 100% selfish intent is "masturbatory", and maybe "draw what I want" means "I want to draw things people want to see".Not to brag (because only about 30 of them actually interacted at all and over 1100 of them were abandoned accounts as of 2019) but I had about 1300 watchers on DA back in 2019. Over on FA I have about 300, and I'd say about 15 of them are actively engaging with anything I do. In terms of percentages, Weasyl is actually where I pull my biggest numbers--I pretty consistently get 4-5 faves and 2 comments out of my 98 watchers! I guess a big part of that is my rapid output of content, though, I think with how boring (read, "the animal is wearing clothes") most of my posting is, I doubt I'd have anywhere near this number of people vaguely aware of my existence if I wasn't posting daily!
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Big numbers indeed and I wasn't serious about the speed dating. You could put him at the table waiting for his blind date and just see who walks through the door.
Posting daily is great but it's the quality that keeps people coming back.
I do try not to be a silent lurker giving a fav without saying why seems a bit rude when someone puts in the effort to create a nice piece but it can be tricky if you don't really know why you like something not to fall into the repetitive "beautifully drawn" also I feel I am learning from looking at work by both yourself and other artists, it can be hard as a non artist to give constructive criticism of a thing I can't equal.
On the subject of paying customers neither of the two artists whose work I spend most time looking at make money from their work (I just counted and I'm now following 16 of you), I understand not everything is done for money and that there are other rewards but your output would more than justify a patreon account, even if you set up a single tier 1$ sees all it might keep you in pens and smudging tools. You should be paid for putting up with the drivel I have been writing today at least.
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Unfortunately, I tend to be a bit of a "silent watcher" as I'm often too busy doing my own things to really be interactive, and I'm very old-school and see a "fave" as something important, like "I want to come back and look at this again sometime". I know nowadays it's basically a "like" thanks to social media, though, so I'm probably putting too much importance on it. On the other hand, it's probably even sadder if faves are treated as "likes", which tend to be the default "I have viewed this post" reaction, and I'm only getting five of them?
As for commenting, I really, really struggle to come up with much to contribute... not to mention, in my early days on DA I was there as part of a fandom and left some pretty stupid and misinformed comments on art relevant to said fandom because I was trying to fit in, and you can only deal with so much trolling for getting a basic fact wrong because you failed to notice it before you decide "yeah no more, I'll just stop commenting altogether".Some people have suggested Patreon to me, but I'm honestly not interested. I burn myself out bad enough trying to keep up a daily upload schedule that I'm under no real obligation to maintain, imagine if I had paying customers I had to worry about satisfying on top of that!
I guess I'm more like that guy playing guitar in some public space with his guitar case open if you want to drop some money in. I just need to come up with said "open guitar case" I guess. I know there are services like Ko-Fi that can be used for such one-time tips/donations/gifts, maybe I need to look into that. FA has a system called "Shinies" integrated into the site that serves the same purpose (I do have that enabled and have made $25 off it the past 9 months). I've also got some sort of PayPal link that I used to use when I did commissions, maybe I could start linking that on my profile pages. Although I do worry about bots and spammers finding my email address that way...
(If you're serious about wanting to pay me for my time, I suppose I could note you said link and you could send me five bucks or whatever, lol, not sure how much my Fat Animal in Underwear art is actually worth!)
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Very nice. For me this sums up your style, very clean line work and deceptively simple. May I down load this one to use as wall paper?