i was looking through today's deviations in top favourites order, and couldn't go any further than the 10th page..
if you think about it, more than 90% of daily submitions are no better than miserable snapshots, or rubish work you'd better use for recycling than submit it
i'm sick of browsing through dA and finding stuff like bad quality snapshots, with no content, huge unfocosed photos that occupy two screens on the scroll, drawings that might have been taken from the 1st grade yearbook or something, awful clichés, nude porn-wanna-be-but-dA-doesn't-allow-me photos of your girlfriend, sick bad taste manipulations, rubish pictures attacked by the PS filter maddness, cuty-fluffy-weee pet photos, etc, etc, etc
i mean, how can people consciously submit stuff like that to the Art Photography category, for example?!
and don't throw me that "this may not be art for you, but it is for others" theory, cause we all know that isn't true! sure, there's a lot of art out there i don't like, even though i consider it good, but some things, you have to admit are pure garbage!
i'd give you some examples right now, but that wouldn't be very fair.. so i just ask you to do a little bit of browsing in case you never did it and see for yourselves
come on people, put some good sence on your minds, this isn't a simple Photoblog, or "Mrs. Whoever's Cuty Webpage", or a wanna-be porn site, this is deviantART (the caps on the ART are so for some reason..)!
i think this site has tons of incredible artists, but half of them have their work drawned by these.. "things"
and i'm not saying that just because you have bad work you can't be on dA. i'm saying that if you have bad work and are aware of it, don't want to do anything to improve it and simply submit, submit, submit and submit, then NO, you shouldn't be here. create a photoblog, or anything like it, and submit any daily snapshots you like!
for me, this comunity has the porpuse of allowing me to meet other artists good works, browse through them, learn from them, submit my rubish photos, get them criticised, improve, and submit better and better things
don't know if you've noticed, but i deleted a lot of stuff from my gallery recently, cause despite some comments, i think they were really bad.. and, hopefully, in the future i'll be deleting my curent works, because they won't be good enough anymore. ok, so maybe i have bad work, but i'm trying to improve it!
sorry for all the arrogance, but i just can't be indifferent to this anymore. we have to be honests, not everyone can make art, it's the truth, why are we fooling ourselves?! if you don't have recognition on your work, it's not because your unknown, it's because you're no good! i'm sure you have many other qualities better than art, go and find them out! tell me i suck, and i'll leave the next day!
this is the truth, either you like or not, but many good and medium artists left dA because of this. i only didn't leave dA already, because i keep learning a lot with this, it has very good features and resources, i love finding incredible work here, this is the easiest way to show my work to my friends, i have nice people commenting on my stuff and if there's a few people watching me, it's because those few people like what i do and i intent to continue to do it for me and for them
i dream with the day i'll browse through dA and find only the medium-good stuff (even if i don't like it, everyone knows what's good and bad!). anyway, you can say i'm a bad person, or whatever you want, but this is my truthful opinion and i'm sure it's the same as many of you, who are silent
best wishes for you all
and a continuation of good Art
Devious Comments
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Soul-Scape.com
glad there's someone who understands what i'm talking about
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too bad there's nothing we can do about it, other than complain
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vou ver sigur ros dia 8th july
so p deixar uma boa continuacao de trabs,
fica bem,
bj
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design is in war with itself.
smiles, peace, love and have fun.
e por aí vejo que também.. sigur rós, muito bem!
obrigado, bj
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Amon Goeth: I would like so much to reach out to you and touch you in your loneliness. What would it be like, I wonder?
but there is stuff here that is just unimprovable
glad you understand what i mean
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---> I agree 100% with you! Finally someone said what we're all thinking!
I am not the greates artist dA have, but at least I'm trying to keep my gallery clean of that rubbish. Photos I though was nice when I shot it, I throw away, because at second sight, it's not that great.
How about people filling theire gallery's with photos of themselfs? That drives me nuts! It is not unlimited for how long you want to see the same face over and over again, at least if the gallery contains unsharp photos, submitted because the artist's fat chin didn't show, another unclear where your eyes was kind of cool, but the shot crappy, and another one, where your cat ALMOST looked stright into the camera. To bad about all the mess in the background.
Argh
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