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Topic Started: Monday Dec 22 2008, 12:07 AM (3,277 Views)
Jacks


When I look at this thread, I think of 'The Daily Whinge' which is a thread my cousin made on his forum- the thread to get your gripes off your chest xD

Griff: That sounds awful, I hate some parents' ignorance and you don't deserve that kind of treatment. Hell, staying up all night to do things on the computer must be draining enough as it is! :| I hope she gets five across the face. ahem. I hope the university at least appreciates your work..

Anyway, my gripe is (stop the presses(!)) student loan. OK, I'll admit I'm lucky to have this. I know I'm fortunate enough to have something I can pay off in full when I get a proper job later on in life. However, I wish they'd stop pussy-footing around and do what they promise they're going to do. They keep bombarding me with requests for signed documents- AFTER the supposed 'absolute last one' which I already took care of- ... and I trip all the way to my university halls to find they've sent me NOTHING. I'm likely to be here for new year's as well waiting around for nothing. Also emailed the folk at my uni about it, and nobody's got back to me. Great. So I'm going to be masses in debt, through no fault of my own, the deadline for payments is early January. Hell will freeze over before I manage to succeed said deadline.
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I generally hate all of my artwork, I just keep all that hate bottled up inside.


That leads you to quit, Gamebuddy and you are not a quitter!

I think in my experience what bothers me is that people want you to be A when you are really B because it benefits them, not you. Not even in college or at home with my parents, but even on dA, I chose to draw AND be an animator. And some people told me to do both. So I politely cussed them out.

I also agree with Loor, but as an artist I never thought my work sucked or that my life sucked. I loved every single piece I did. However, I always thought my life as a professional artist would never start. I had a really bad year with not getting nowhere and people around me making it. I expressed it in my journals (those who watch me on dA know what I go through).

Then Eric Vedder told me I actually have skill but I had to practice. Then joined I did AFL and I did well and saw progession in my work. Then I went to my first Comic Con (something I should have done years ago, but I went to Anime Cons instead...which was a waste of time) and I shown my work to professionals. On dA I had a bunch of people tell me I had problems with anatomy, coloring (Something I know I have problems with, but I couldn't break not matter how I tried), inking (Which I have improved with) and all the other things underneath the sun, but I had professionals liking my work, giving me crit. Only one person commented on my anatomy and only another commented on my coloring. Most of them told me to get comic board and draw comics.

But if the talented artists are complaining that their work stinks for sympathy:

1. They should have started it over.
2. Try a different approach. If it doesn't work, tough titty. Go back to it later.
3. Take a break from art and experience life. HELLO? Why do you think the music industry is suffering? Overexposed singers that haven't experienced life and sing that one club banger (I'm looking at you BEYONCE)

Sorry for the digression.

In short:

I can see Loor's point.
I hate people who try to make you be something THEY want, not who you really are.
And if you think your work sucks, erase it and try again. If that doesn't work, Take a break. Eat a cookie.
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*looks down* (Wow. That is what I'm doing now! It's oatmeal raisin. :D)

Anyways, that is good advice. Sometimes, though, I have trouble looking back on my old works; I even destroy them. :( I regret it now...

@Jacksaw: I'm sorry... I don't know what to say.
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Dec 31 2008, 02:16 AM
Sometimes, though, I have trouble looking back on my old works; I even destroy them. :( I regret it now...

Hold that thought; Everybody, no matter how much you hate them, KEEP your old works! ;) My life drawing tutor gave the group this advice. Because when you get further and look back on these, you'll marvel at how far you've come as opposed to thinking 'URGH these are SHITE!' I made the mistake of throwing away most of my really old doodlings when I was cleaning my room (I thought they were taking up valuable space).

And Sketch, I agree with most of what you're saying, that's a really good point. When I was doing this Christmas sketch I really hated what I did first- even though I was told otherwise, it just didn't feel right to me. So I scrapped it and started over, really working on what possibly made it wrong although I couldn't for the life of me put INTO words how it went wrong, I just knew something didn't.. fit. But after that I felt good about it, and didn't want to destroy it at all.

However with some people it's a case of- they'll hate their work and always hate their work, and they're not being whiny but have in fact tried everything in their power to overturn this belief and whatever else their life has led them to believe about themselves. The reason such people carry on is not to whinge and moan but because, underneath all the self-hatred, there is a geniune love for the things they do and a hope to get better at it, despite being told/conditioned to believe they can't.

Although yes, another faction of this is of course the whiny-piny attention seekers. *cough* Who really need to stop being so spoiled. Like the emos of the music industry, lol.
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@ Jacksaw: Thanks, much. I really did need to hear this. I have a tendency to keep only the works I feel are my best... and treat the rest as trash. As a result, I've destroyed countless stacks of works; %99 of which were made before I realized I could have just put them on a da account. >->

I won't do this anymore. I will, maybe, just keep them in a spot that is far from my attention.

What is that shame-like feeling of not wanting to see one's own works??

Now, I guess I burn my own biscuits? =P
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You wanna know what grinds my gears?

When you go to a video game store looking for a nintendo game. There is always two whole walls dedicated to xbox 360 games, one wall for ps3 games, an other one for ps2 games, and nintendo games are stacked all on a tiny rack.

It always makes it look like there are only 20 games in the whole libary. I was trying to look for a used gamecube game the other day, and found nothing. I never find anything, and I've been looking for a few games for quite some time now.

MGS: twin snakes
LOZ: four swords adventure
Pikmin 2
Sonic Adventure 2
A few I can't remember
Ect.

(wikipedia, not always right but you know)
"There a over 648 games released for the Nintendo GameCube video game system", so why do they make it look like there's nothing!

Oh yeah, because there selling out to microsoft and sony, DAMN it, I love nintendo!
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Jan 15 2009, 01:34 PM
You wanna know what grinds my gears?

When you go to a video game store looking for a nintendo game.... (and so on)

What kind of game stores do you go to? EB Games, or something along those lines?
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Feb 5 2009, 03:05 PM
What kind of game stores do you go to? EB Games, or something along those lines?

Actually, yes that is exactly where I go, it's the closest place to me.
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Buy 'em new on Amazon. Usually the same price and you get it brand new.

Gamestop is phasing out GCN and XBox games, despite backwards compatibility. PS2 is still a big time seller, even though the PS3 has no backwards compatibility. Go figure.
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Feb 5 2009, 05:37 PM
Gamestop is phasing out GCN and XBox games, despite backwards compatibility. PS2 is still a big time seller, even though the PS3 has no backwards compatibility. Go figure.

Quiet ironic, recetly my roommate bought an 80gb PS3, but all we have are PS2 games and MGS4.

It sucks that we can't play anything on it...yet strangly enough I have RE2 and the worked fine of the PS3.

Also I can't use amazon, I don't use a credit card.
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Feb 5 2009, 11:42 PM
Also I can't use amazon, I don't use a credit card.

You can get a pre-paid credit card. That's what I do when buying games online.
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Feb 5 2009, 05:37 PM
Gamestop is phasing out GCN and XBox games, despite backwards compatibility. PS2 is still a big time seller, even though the PS3 has no backwards compatibility. Go figure.

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Backward compatibility: 
PlayStation (all models)
PlayStation 2 (20 GB, 60 GB and CECHE 80 GB models)

What?
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Sony recently took out backwards compatibility from the 80gb and that is the only model their selling.
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The 40 GB, 80 GB (2008), and 160 GB models have two USB ports instead of the four USB ports on other models, and do not include multiple flash card readers, SACD support, or any backwards compatibility with PlayStation 2 games. This was due to the removal of "Graphics Synthesizer" GPU, which stripped the units of all PlayStation 2 based hardware.
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You know what really gets on my nerves?

The fact that I can't find the one USB plug/socket combination I need to charge my phone on my laptop ANYWHERE - not even in Currys- and they're supposed to be the most common thing in the world now. They have every other HUB combinations you can think of under the sun, except for the one I need.

Not only that, but clerks I've asked don't even know where I can find a mains charger, because they claim it doesn't exist anymore. Which is bullpats, because Tescos were selling mobiles - THAT VERY DAY - with the exact same charger socket as my phone.

What else? I can't even find an alarm clock. I need one for tonight else I'll never wake up for Uni. That's what I needed my mobile for, and I can't find EITHER THING. Any. where.

Whenever I think I've found the right thing I needed... foolishly, I buy it, take it back to my flat and try to use it. When.. I realise that it wasn't the right one. I even bought a frigging USB CABLE of all things, when I stupidly realised afterwards that I already had that in my posession, and it wasn't what I needed. Even at my best, I'm a dozey little git. To top that off, I was too late to bring the last item back because Currys had closed, along with everything else. I'd spent so long bustling around several hours in vain, that it was time for the Sunday 'all shops close early fest', and I was having to walk back to the flat yet again. I felt like my legs were going to break.

I can't believe some stupid RIDICULOUSLY GENERIC piece of equipment should be so hard to find. Especially seeing as my phone worked perfectly well with Chio's charger. but none others. And my fucking laptop mousepad is being a dick and back-paging every time I effing click something. I'm going to lose my frigging mind.

Tl;dr: Had a very shitty day. :) Going to regret this post soon
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