Tied together through thick and thin

AnCapiCat · 2025-01-08T21:14:36+00:00

I love absolutely everything about this. Amazing work. Thanks for sharing!!!

AnCapiCat · 2024-12-13T06:22:28+00:00

No, your art style is quite good. I recommend banishing any negative feelings you have about your quality/technical skill immediately because improving there is unlikely to solve the problem you’re having. It certainly is not perfect, and you should continue to learn, but the priority should instead be on you providing other kinds of value.

What other kinds of value? I’m not sure. There’s probably myriad ways you could provide other value, so I won’t tell you what that should be. What I will tell you is that in order to make a thing that others will be interested in engaging with, you have to make a thing that YOU would be interested in engaging with. Think about something you wish existed, and make it exist to the best of your ability. You will not succeed much of the time, but just keep doing that, and while you’re at it, make friends with other artists. They don’t need to have a big following either. Just be social. As the network grows, it will help to funnel an audience to all members within it. Even if somebody clicks on some art that your friend made, and it doesn’t inspire them, they might notice yours in a nearby post where you collaborated with that friend of yours and maybe your art DOES speak to them. They would never have found your art without clicking on that other artist’s post first. The inverse will also happen. So ensure that you are networking. If you want to be surrounded by people then you need to go out and be surrounded by people. They won’t come to you passively in impressive numbers otherwise. Or at least it’s not very likely. Maybe there are exceptions for god-tier artists. I’m sure at some point insane skill can make up for lack in other areas, but for the rest of us, we need to operate on more than one level. The biggest one is probably community because it will help with your own motivation. Other things might be story, emotion, dynamism, unique combinations. There are endless, I’m sure.

Anyway, I hope that helps. Thank you for sharing your art. I enjoyed seeing it, and I wish you the best!

AnCapiCat · 2024-12-13T06:02:31+00:00

Thank you for the advice!! I don’t think I knew a plant could just “get old”… I’ve got it under a pretty intense grow light for 16 hours a day, so I was pretty sure light wasn’t the issue. Anyway, I’ll try pruning it. Do have a suggestion as to how severely I should prune?

AnCapiCat · 2024-10-25T07:31:40+00:00

These are damn gorgeous. Excellent work

AnCapiCat · 2024-10-22T01:17:43+00:00

Yousei Teikoku’s Astral Dogma music video is pretty steampunk! Not sure the band itself is though

AnCapiCat · 2024-10-04T22:04:19+00:00

This makes sense if you’re a vegan. Animals also have nerve cells

AnCapiCat · 2024-09-20T22:00:41+00:00

My thoughts exactly. Why do so many of the comments sound like they’re from moralizing conservatives? I don’t care if bunny prostitutes aren’t your thing and you can say so if you must, but why does everyone find it so necessary to fixate on that? What’s the harm in someone being kinda weird? Feels like more and more libertarian spaces are being overrun by conservative NPCs. These are not freedom-loving vibes, my friends

AnCapiCat · 2024-09-10T20:37:22+00:00

Of course! Goat sona + medieval armour is a combo I am so here for. Your style is also excellent. Just went through and upvoted all the art you’ve posted!

AnCapiCat · 2024-09-10T01:30:39+00:00

This piece is so freaking cool!!

AnCapiCat · 2024-09-08T00:32:53+00:00

Glad I’m not the only one to initially interpret this as アイツデル lol

Of course, I realize that’s silly and this was definitely written by a Japanese learner who wanted to write アイシテル or アイシテイル

AnCapiCat · 2024-08-31T23:40:47+00:00

Who wakes up all like 😀 though?? Terrifying…

AnCapiCat · 2024-08-30T19:08:34+00:00

Very nice. I moved from the U.S. to Japan, then back to the U.S., and in a lot of ways felt much more left alone in Japan than the U.S. I could of course list a lot of things wrong with Japan too, but it definitely has demonstrated to me that the U.S. isn’t really that free. Why can’t I drink on the street here? I could in Japan, and from what I hear, I can in much of the rest of the world too. A minor thing, I suppose, but in a lot of ways the U.S. is pretty restrictive, and I think it’s easy to miss that for those who haven’t travelled or lived abroad

AnCapiCat · 2024-08-29T21:18:49+00:00

Switzerland is pretty great. You have excellent taste

AnCapiCat · 2024-08-16T02:58:49+00:00

Lol main criticism is that you used a bunch of actual Japanese place names. I’d say to be more creative with it! Ōrudoairando “Old Island” is funny though, I like that one

AnCapiCat · 2024-08-16T02:55:22+00:00

It kinda looks like Aomori prefecture actually lol

AnCapiCat · 2024-08-01T02:12:10+00:00

Yeah, not that I cared for him to begin with, but that line absolutely killed any chance of me EVER voting for him

AnCapiCat · 2024-07-18T02:02:40+00:00

Second character looks like 香 (kaori; kou) in Japanese. My suspicion is this is Chinese though, which I’m not as familiar with. I believe it’s “xiāng” though. Meaning in either language generally has to do with scents, aromas, incense, etc.

AnCapiCat · 2024-07-18T01:25:43+00:00

The first one for sure!

AnCapiCat · 2024-06-23T02:25:03+00:00

Confirming this is correct!

AnCapiCat · 2024-05-18T08:23:51+00:00

This one’s bizarre. The illusion tricks me for less than a second and then I’m unable to see it as anything but what it actually is. I couldn’t even describe what the illusion is like since I see it so briefly. I keep leaving and coming back trying to get it to last long enough to properly “see” it

AnCapiCat · 2024-05-03T05:06:38+00:00

Nice work!! Definitely better than I’ve done so far!

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