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Posted 3 years agohttps://artfight.net/~Electrocast
Hey. Thought I'd make an update about doing this for the first time this year.
If anyone else is.
:3
Hey. Thought I'd make an update about doing this for the first time this year.
If anyone else is.
:3
Setting up camp at Weasyl & Sofurry too!
Posted 3 years agoHey. Not leaving FA, just expanding my dong-- I mean my art presence. Yeah art presence and exposure is what I am expanding on
Anyway if you have accounts on these sites & would like to check me out there too, great, here they are:
https://www.weasyl.com/~electrocast
https://electrocast.sofurry.com/
Right now I'm just re-uploading old stuff. Once I have them up-to-date I'll start updating all 3 accounts simultaneously. So it doesn't matter if you don't have an account on those sites, it changes nothing for you, lmao.
That being said how is everyone doing? Feel free to let me know!
Anyway if you have accounts on these sites & would like to check me out there too, great, here they are:
https://www.weasyl.com/~electrocast
https://electrocast.sofurry.com/
Right now I'm just re-uploading old stuff. Once I have them up-to-date I'll start updating all 3 accounts simultaneously. So it doesn't matter if you don't have an account on those sites, it changes nothing for you, lmao.
That being said how is everyone doing? Feel free to let me know!
A small update.
Posted 3 years agoI sorted my art & made some folders in my gallery.
That's about it right now.
That's about it right now.
Feelings about comics [more musing]
Posted 3 years agoHad a hard time titling this one. But I needed somewhere to talk about this & I feel like I'm "talking too much" in the Discord servers I'd ordinarily textdump this kind of crap onto. Soooo FA is getting it instead. [Also, I should be posting some artwork here soon, I have a few things that are just about ready.]
Anyway, comics. A few weeks ago I got reminded, big time, of some shit in my past that needs some unpacking. When I was a teen -- probably 16 if I were to take a quick guess without looking at any post dates -- I was dabbling in making some comics & posted some goofy sprite-based strips on some forums. Things many of us did. I was proud enough of my work to show it off on multiple sites, but this was normal for me.
Well on one of them, someone basically went after me for even daring to make these things. There were only about six, but for some reason, this person had it out for me, and they weren't some random fuck, this was moderation staff & respected member of the community. Who also had an ego about it, since they were one of the only people on that forum that did a drawn comic instead of a sprite comic. Because of course they were -- it was a board for posting sprite comics! You don't get to feel superior for doing a completely different medium. And this is the kind of people that got staff positions? People that treat members like this?
Seriously, the more I look back on this as an adult, the angrier it makes me in retrospect, how someone so prone to punching down was allowed to remain a moderator, and how they felt all the hours of effort people put into editing sprites & pixel art was somehow less valuable than other art mediums. I actively still hope this person didn't achieve their dreams, whatever they are. lmfao
After this series of events, which I tried to act like didn't bother me, I did get really emotional, because even if my comic had been horribly resized jpged sprites on a plain white mspaint bg, I wouldn't have deserved that. And like, this wasn't even my first attempt at it, my even uglier earliest attempts at sprite comics were actually eyesores, and I cannot imagine how much that person would have ripped into me had I posted those. But this person made me feel like something I'd only just started creating was already ruined from the foundation up, and I felt like I couldn't do anything to fix it at all except scrap it. I wish I could go back in time & tell myself that it's fine to make changes as your story continues, just get it out there, you'll feel better for having done it.
And then I realised that every single time I've tried to do a story in comic form specifically, sprite comic or not, I couldn't do it. For some reason I'd always run into similar roadblocks. Feeling like it was flawed from the very beginning. Repeating things like "don't mix styles" and "don't put characters in a void" to myself, even though mixing styles is how art is made fundamentally, and mixing design elements is a core aspect to a lot of my characters. I allow myself to draw characters in a void outside of sequential art, why isn't it ok for me to do it in a comic?
Well it's because of this person. Those are criticisms they tried to bash into my head. They weren't even good ones, either. IIRC Bob and George did a void in their story at some point. And nearly every sprite comic I've ever admired mixed styles. Sometimes to mixed success, but I always loved the efforts when I saw them. So even in the medium I was working in, those words weren't necessarily true. But I'd then go on to apply those criticisms to myself whenever I tried making comics ever again, even in drawn format which this shit didn't even apply to, to the point where I'd somehow convince myself to abandon the project. Ever wonder why any of the stuff I "made for a comic" on this account & others never materialised into a comic you could find somewhere?
And for the record, this didn't occur on the MFZ. Like, I could say a lot of things that happened & comments people made there negatively affected me big time, for sure, but I don't recall anybody bashing the shit out of my sprite comic there, nor were the staff assholes like this. I don't have any friends from the forum this post is about so it remains anonymous, you don't know what I'm vagueblogging about this time!!
Guess I'm just airing out my dirty forum laundry here. Sorry about that, but it's my journal. My account.
Anyway, comics. A few weeks ago I got reminded, big time, of some shit in my past that needs some unpacking. When I was a teen -- probably 16 if I were to take a quick guess without looking at any post dates -- I was dabbling in making some comics & posted some goofy sprite-based strips on some forums. Things many of us did. I was proud enough of my work to show it off on multiple sites, but this was normal for me.
Well on one of them, someone basically went after me for even daring to make these things. There were only about six, but for some reason, this person had it out for me, and they weren't some random fuck, this was moderation staff & respected member of the community. Who also had an ego about it, since they were one of the only people on that forum that did a drawn comic instead of a sprite comic. Because of course they were -- it was a board for posting sprite comics! You don't get to feel superior for doing a completely different medium. And this is the kind of people that got staff positions? People that treat members like this?
Seriously, the more I look back on this as an adult, the angrier it makes me in retrospect, how someone so prone to punching down was allowed to remain a moderator, and how they felt all the hours of effort people put into editing sprites & pixel art was somehow less valuable than other art mediums. I actively still hope this person didn't achieve their dreams, whatever they are. lmfao
After this series of events, which I tried to act like didn't bother me, I did get really emotional, because even if my comic had been horribly resized jpged sprites on a plain white mspaint bg, I wouldn't have deserved that. And like, this wasn't even my first attempt at it, my even uglier earliest attempts at sprite comics were actually eyesores, and I cannot imagine how much that person would have ripped into me had I posted those. But this person made me feel like something I'd only just started creating was already ruined from the foundation up, and I felt like I couldn't do anything to fix it at all except scrap it. I wish I could go back in time & tell myself that it's fine to make changes as your story continues, just get it out there, you'll feel better for having done it.
And then I realised that every single time I've tried to do a story in comic form specifically, sprite comic or not, I couldn't do it. For some reason I'd always run into similar roadblocks. Feeling like it was flawed from the very beginning. Repeating things like "don't mix styles" and "don't put characters in a void" to myself, even though mixing styles is how art is made fundamentally, and mixing design elements is a core aspect to a lot of my characters. I allow myself to draw characters in a void outside of sequential art, why isn't it ok for me to do it in a comic?
Well it's because of this person. Those are criticisms they tried to bash into my head. They weren't even good ones, either. IIRC Bob and George did a void in their story at some point. And nearly every sprite comic I've ever admired mixed styles. Sometimes to mixed success, but I always loved the efforts when I saw them. So even in the medium I was working in, those words weren't necessarily true. But I'd then go on to apply those criticisms to myself whenever I tried making comics ever again, even in drawn format which this shit didn't even apply to, to the point where I'd somehow convince myself to abandon the project. Ever wonder why any of the stuff I "made for a comic" on this account & others never materialised into a comic you could find somewhere?
And for the record, this didn't occur on the MFZ. Like, I could say a lot of things that happened & comments people made there negatively affected me big time, for sure, but I don't recall anybody bashing the shit out of my sprite comic there, nor were the staff assholes like this. I don't have any friends from the forum this post is about so it remains anonymous, you don't know what I'm vagueblogging about this time!!
Guess I'm just airing out my dirty forum laundry here. Sorry about that, but it's my journal. My account.
Just musing about. Past things.
Posted 3 years agoI don't really have anything of significance to update with. I mean, I have a lot of things I could probably bring up & say stuff about, but I don't really think anyone would have much to add to it.
I guess that does get me thinking. When I was younger I used to be much more open about what was troubling me when things were going wrong. But the influence of toxic communities [that I nonetheless still thought of as "homes" anyway] still has enough sway to make me think not just twice, but entirely too much about saying things especially for too long. I remember I used to think it was incredibly unfair that other people could make really long emotional posts on the internet & everyone would be moved & admire them for it, but whenever I did it, people tore them apart paragraph by paragraph, tried to take apart my past, make accusations about my personal life based off of nothing, and even make judgements about people in my life that they didn't even know. Sometimes if I was venting about legitimate abusive events, I would be accused of either making it up, or just be aggressively told I deserved it. And at the time all I was doing was being a teenager trying to find things to enjoy and make friends.
So... if that is the kind of experience I'm to have when just trying to be a person that exists in any degree of visibility [because let's face it, I do exist right now, without this experience, but my "degree of visibility" is just about zero & has been for close to a decade at this point] why should I go on about it that way? It clearly doesn't work. This is why you have to be a genuine you, but also tolerate absolutely no bullshit. None of it. The second I sense bullshit, I leave, usually unceremoniously. When I cut someone, or something, out of my life, I have little trouble making it permanent.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't have a lot of energy any more unless my blood is boiling due to wanting to punch an asshole or group of assholes in the face.
I guess that does get me thinking. When I was younger I used to be much more open about what was troubling me when things were going wrong. But the influence of toxic communities [that I nonetheless still thought of as "homes" anyway] still has enough sway to make me think not just twice, but entirely too much about saying things especially for too long. I remember I used to think it was incredibly unfair that other people could make really long emotional posts on the internet & everyone would be moved & admire them for it, but whenever I did it, people tore them apart paragraph by paragraph, tried to take apart my past, make accusations about my personal life based off of nothing, and even make judgements about people in my life that they didn't even know. Sometimes if I was venting about legitimate abusive events, I would be accused of either making it up, or just be aggressively told I deserved it. And at the time all I was doing was being a teenager trying to find things to enjoy and make friends.
So... if that is the kind of experience I'm to have when just trying to be a person that exists in any degree of visibility [because let's face it, I do exist right now, without this experience, but my "degree of visibility" is just about zero & has been for close to a decade at this point] why should I go on about it that way? It clearly doesn't work. This is why you have to be a genuine you, but also tolerate absolutely no bullshit. None of it. The second I sense bullshit, I leave, usually unceremoniously. When I cut someone, or something, out of my life, I have little trouble making it permanent.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't have a lot of energy any more unless my blood is boiling due to wanting to punch an asshole or group of assholes in the face.
Oops.
Posted 5 years agoMy art computer broke.
I plugged a tablet into my desktop a few days ago and started on an art binge. I have some incomplete stuff I've been trying to get out & finished, so far it hasn't given me trouble like I expected... I got really, really used to drawing on a touch screen. But it looks like I can adjust to using a desktop again no problem.
Actually, I've even noticed significant improvement in the recent art I've been working on. So when I post it later, I hope whoever looks at my stuff enjoys it!
I plugged a tablet into my desktop a few days ago and started on an art binge. I have some incomplete stuff I've been trying to get out & finished, so far it hasn't given me trouble like I expected... I got really, really used to drawing on a touch screen. But it looks like I can adjust to using a desktop again no problem.
Actually, I've even noticed significant improvement in the recent art I've been working on. So when I post it later, I hope whoever looks at my stuff enjoys it!
Art Twitter
Posted 7 years agoHey friends, just thought I'd drop a link to my new art twitter. The first uploads will be older stuff, but I'll cross-post art to there from now on too.
https://twitter.com/artlectrocast
Not that I intend on leaving FA or anything. I quite like posting my work here, actually.
https://twitter.com/artlectrocast
Not that I intend on leaving FA or anything. I quite like posting my work here, actually.
