I LOVEEEEEEE THEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS! YOOOOU'RRRE TTTTHEEE BEESSSSSSSST!

Erhm, nice art there.

this is not about art, just expressing one more dysfunctional aspect of my years on the internet. To draw this better would be as counterproductive as the depicted act!

Heh heh, there is so much truth in this.................... Can't say I never reacted that way myself, however honest I want to be!

My issue is with insincerity. If somebody truly feels exuberant over a silly drawing, they should be free to express it. However, if they lead along someone whose effort disinterests them, that strikes me as cruel. Certainly it feels cruel when I experience it.

True indeed

How did you find out that the lizard didn't really want the drawing?

It becomes apparent across time. I never know any of these people by a few months afterward. One specific person I had an art trade with sent a few rather statements at me after I requested a revision on the drawing being done for me, and I wondered how many others are also faking appreciation but never get that far since I usually do not ask for anything back.

What a rude lizard! you poor creature. But never doubt, there are certainly those of us that truly appreciate all your lovely work :3

I think insincerity is bad for everybody, ultimately. However I ought to learn from my mistakes! This was meant to be amusing more so than pitiable.

...Now I am extremely to know of your thought process.
If someone doesn't appreciate the shit-ton of effort you put into the artwork that he/she has asked - and appears "polite" or fake-ishly "sincere", how would you approach such a person when you caught that person being insincere?
(There's... something that's similar that happened to me more than a year ago, when I was making a Secret Santa piece - think it's around 2017, that the person I was assigned to only merely commented on my work without fav-ing or even putting forth any artwork for others in that event.)

there is no point to trying. They will stick to the original assessment, and if questioned on sincerity claim it was the thought that counted, and once I have a problem, it can be blamed on me for being a weirdo to begin with. That is the way it goes; some people totally thrive with impulse based art, but my impulses are wrong and better off hidden, generally.
And when somebody seeks ME out and still treats what I made like trash/and or there was no way i could fulfill the request without it being trash, I think "bah I should just draw what i want!" and go back to the impulses! I am destined for obscurity.
something "secret" i have utterly no faith in. I only get what I want about half the time when i pay money to a specific person (which is better than it used to be); trusting a stranger to get it right without a direct incentive would never work out.

*hugs*