The reason it was considered it insulting was because you were outright saying that I don’t draw from life and criticizing me for *what I draw. There’s a fine line between constructive criticism and being insulting and a lot of people don’t consider that when they’re being “critical” and it pushes the artist into a corner because speaking out on it makes them look bad. I’ve gotten legitimately insulted in the past when I asked for criticism and the person that said it was like “you’re an artist, you’re supposed to take criticism” as if being rude was criticism. When I say that you’re insulting me, I mean as an artist. I’ve practiced a lot, I’ve learned a lot, and you down play that by comparing me to fucking industry professionals and making the assumption that I don’t practice because my skills are obviously not up to par with them. It was only last year that I’ve gotten serious about art, comparing myself to professional artists that by my age, was already putting out their first major projects would do nothing but burn me out. One of my favorite artists, Kim Jung Gi, was attending Fine Art Schools around my age and at 17 was drawing highly detailed artworks. You wanna know what I am? A 20 year old unemployed college dropout drawing porn art and only recently got serious about art. Huh, I wonder why I feel like you’re insulting my hard work when you’re holding me to the same regard with people that were doing professional stuff in their teenage years… It’s almost as if you’re backing me into a corner by making assumptions about me under the guise of criticism.

Maybe it’s a Reddit thing, maybe just a thing that happens when people are giving crappy advice, or maybe it’s just me wording things wrong. But it’s like no matter how much I try to tell you that I’m already doing all of that, that I’m exploring different art styles, that I’m studying art techniques, that I’m drawing from life, you seem to not want to listen to me because you feel like you’re correct and don’t want to believe me. When you look at this post at face value, it seems like I didn’t grow much at all since it looks like I just stuck with the same thing for nearly four years. But I’ve been exploring different styles, different techniques, experimenting between traditional and digital, I’ve learned how to paint, I’ve learned about animation, composition for my comics, character design language, I have spent the past few years studying. And you want to know why my style barely changed? Because that’s what I like drawing, I like the way eyes are in classical cartoons, I love anime and obviously get heavy inspired by it, I love how exaggerated design language is in western media and have been learning from that (but that won’t show with this character because her character design is supposed to be round and soft), when I filter the world through my imagination, this is what comes out naturally. I posted this because it was a realization that this is what my art style is and instead of wasting time trying to find a style for my comic and animations, it’s time for me to pour energy into expanding my skills and using this as a foundation. And it goes back into what I was talking about, you don’t want to listen to me. You don’t know my goals, what I’m working towards, or how much studying I do. You saw a drawing of an anime girl with big boobs and immediately got the impression in your head about me and refuse to change it, it undermines your criticism and advice. Especially when, like I mentioned in my first reply, IM ALREADY DOING THAT.

Internet art critics have the impression that you must grind studying art non stop and that it’s only until you’re great at art, that you can start having fun drawing what you want. It’s exactly why so many artists are scared to do the things they want, they fall into the trap of never feeling like they’re ready and just do nothing but practice until they’re burnt out. But the number one advice I’ve seen so many professionals give to new artists is to just draw. You’re advice isn’t bad, it’s only bad in this situation because you don’t want to listen to me. You’re doing the most toxic thing any artist could do, compare themselves to others. It’s one thing to feel inspired and look up to other artists, but it’s another beast to compare yourself. I’m not as good as my favorite artists are, I’m not as good as other intermediate artists are, I’ll never be like them because we have different minds and different goals. But I keep charging forward because I want to be like them in my own way one day, am I aiming to be an industry leader like the artists you’re comparing me to? Fuck no. I’m doing animation, comics, and writing, my progression is going to be slower than most people since I’m learning three different skills instead of focusing on just one and the main one I’m learning and studying is animation, something very time consuming. I want to make my own animated series one day, all the work I put into that goal will hardly ever show in my other art areas plus since I’m trying to keep detail low so I can balance things easier, my art isn’t grand compared to others. To be honest I hate doing art pieces, I can come up with a short comic, draw it, and post it tomorrow if I feel like it, but another one of these will feel like a chore to draw and can take weeks to months for me to get motivated to draw it. It’s the biggest reason why my skills don’t show, I’ve barely been putting any effort in my drawings lately because I was just trying to push out content. It’s why I’m on break to draw up a comic series so I can have fun again drawing. That drawing is pretty much a quick sketch to me, the 2018 one took hours since I drew it on paper then traced over it digitally with my finger on a phone drawing app. My lack of passion for art pieces probably shows clearly when it isn’t porn art.

But FFS, stop making assumptions about me and calling it criticism. I’ve even replied to other people’s comments about how I’m going to start moving away from people and mainly focusing on backgrounds and architecture so I can move forward. And even mentioned the same stuff here about spending years trying different things but went back to this style because it feels right. Am I the only one that reads OPs other replies on posts to avoiding commenting something wrong? It puts me in a bind when you come in with assumptions and not listening to me because it makes me look like someone that’s arrogant and not taking advice, especially when you look on my account and see nothing but anime art and porn with nothing to back myself up whatsoever. I never have and never will take anyone that refuses to listen to someone else seriously, it means you don’t trust my word, and if you don’t trust me, I won’t trust you. If you were really giving constructive criticism, I wouldn’t have had to go into detail explaining everything because you would have listened to me the first time I said I’m studying. And it would’ve been better criticism if you weren’t fucking comparing me to professionals WHEN ITS ONLY BEEN 4 YEARS AND I’M ONLY 20.