#from the artist to the person seeing it

[hyperfixated-homo]

What are your thoughts on abstract art?

-g

i think its fascinating from a psychological standpoint, both from the creator and the consumer.

art in general has been used as a form of expression since the dawn of time and i think that at it's core, that is what it was made for. to give artists the ability to express themselves in various ways. that's also part of the reason that i think art is so subjective and why i love it so much: anything can be art if you want it to be.

i love art and the people who make it because i love seeing how people can find new and interesting ways to show emotion, how they use colors and shapes to illustrate feeling.

and abstract art (mostly) does do that! artists who genuinely feel for their abstract are so cool because if it's genuine, there's so much thought and passion behind it that i want to know about. every shape and stroke can change the meaning behind the piece.

i also love watching people interpret abstract art. sometimes, the meaning behind it can just click for some people, while others find it unintelligible. every artwork can have a million different meanings, and that is so undeniably special that i can't help but adore it.

however. i do have some issues with abstract art, but the thing is usually they're issues with the handling and use of it instead of the art itself.

what's changed nowadays is everyone has become obsessed with profiting off art. people realised that it's valuable and therefore they can make money off it. and with this, came insincere copies. fake art with no emotion, no thought behind it.

this is my main problem with a lot of "types" of art nowadays. i have no problem with people profiting off things they love, but people don't love the abstract art that they make anymore. there's a clear difference between selling art you made with care (commissions, paintings, ect) and selling art for the sake of selling it.

honestly i have the same opinion about this as i do about most types of "new art". ai generators, nft's, "abstract art" (which is just someone throwing paint at a canvas and selling it for a million dollars). i'd have less of a problem with it if the people who made it actually gaf, but it's clear by now that the only people who actually contribute to things like that are people who are just in it for the money. its trashy and sad, most of all for all the other artists who often spend their entire lives devoted to learning how do Make Thing Good.

if you wanted a personal opinion on the art itself (since i actually havent given that lmao) it depends on the piece. im the kind of person who is literally happy when i see a couple of colors that i think compliment each other, it doesn't take much to please me LOL. shapes and colors make me :0

uhh TL;DR - i like abstract art usually, because i like the thought that goes into it. people kinda ruined it while trying to profit off it though. the art itself makes me happy in the same way seeing a cool looking bird makes me happy. its neat (most of the time)

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[razormaze]

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[golyadkin]

I cannot express enough that if your reaction, as a hobby artist, to not getting that many notes on your art is to say "maybe I should just stop doing art altogether" you need to stop posting art to tumblr

not necessarily forever, not even for long, but just stop putting your art on here and start doing it for you again, remember why you enjoyed doing art in the first place and stop relying on the attention of faceless people on the internet for your enjoyment of your hard work

believe me, I get it, nothing crushes the artistic soul quite like labouring for hours on a piece only for it to get like 10 notes, so you need to find your own source of joy in the act of creation and a lot of the time that means making art and not showing it to anybody

[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[spiritsong]

After seeing @felassan's post about there being two different versions of Neve and Taash's cards, I needed to sate my curiosity and went digging to see if I could different versions of the other companions as well.

Lo and behold, there are! I found them for every companion except for Emmrich. There's no way to say with absolute certainty which is the old version and which is the new; hopefully we can get some confirmation on this.

For the time being, I went ahead and marked the differences for those who have trouble spotting this sort of thing. Hopefully it's not too overwhelming for the ones that are very marked up, but I wanted to include some of the more mundane changes as well.

Neve — The biggest changes are the crossed leg (making her prosthetic more visible) as well as the metal rivet detailing on her outfit (see: the collar, the shoulder pads, the sleeves, the skirt portion). Some of what I'm calling the more "mundane" technical changes include the lighting and shadows on her staff, her nose, and her chest.

Taash — The most notable difference here is the coins (I didn't circle all the individual coins but you get the point) and the dragon in the background. In one version, the eye is more distinct, and a bottom row of teeth have been added to the dragon's jaw. There have also been changes made in the shading of her face. Her body shape (namely, the torso and her arms) have also been changed, as well as the general shape of the "spikes" on her hips and her shoulders.

Harding — Just a couple changes here. Her eye is more white/ghostly looking in one version, and the shading on her face and neck have changed.

Lucanis — LOTS of differences. They're pretty inconsequential, by which I mean there hasn't been any added/removed/changed symbolism in his card. The shading on his nose has changed, as well as the shading on his collar, hand, forearm, armpit (didn't circle this one oops), hips, and hip dagger. The purple "wisps" have changed in shape here and there. One of the orbs in the upper left have moved, and there is another orb above that one which has been removed/added.

Davrin — Just a few changes with Davrin, though they are big ones. His face/head has been changed, and the vallaslin has been redrawn. The scar on his eyebrow has also moved slightly.

Bellara — Bellara's head has shifted and her neck elongated/shortened. There are stars in the background and around her arm in one version.

As for Emmrich, I mentioned I could only find one version. I did compare the image we currently have with what I believe is the earliest Emmrich art that was shared with us (a cropped version of his card) by overlaying the two on Photoshop and didn't see any differences.

And that's it! You might have also noticed that some of the versions on the right hand side have a white line at the top of the image. Make of that what you will.

(People viewing this post on PC will have an easier time quickly clicking back and forth between the images to spot the difference. If you're on the mobile app and care enough to do so, you might have an easier time saving the images and flipping through them in your photo album. At least I know it's easier if you have an iPhone, I don't know about other models.)

[ionomycin]

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[bixels]

The Ryoko Kui interview's reception is such a disaster over a pretty normal (yet still flawed) interview between a non-Japanese fan and Japanese artistic. This is discourse for discourse's sake, and it's no surprise that almost every Twitter user I've looked at who's using this interview to parade Kui around as a goated mangaka standing strong against Western ideology is anti-trans.

Like, I do think the interview was kinda wonky with its focus on fandom culture, which Kui clearly didn't have much interest in. But sometimes that happens. Sometimes interactions between two people, especially a fan and a creator, two people who view and interact with a piece of media in completely opposite perspectives, don't click. Does this really need to get blown up into a "West vs. East culture war" issue.

Anyways, Kui saying "I don't consider my audience's interpretations when writing. I leave it to their imaginations, but I have my own read on things too" is the healthiest, most normal thing an artist/writer who wants a non-parasocial audience could say. Artists and writers use this line all the time. If Kui didn't enjoy autistic Laius or Farcille headcanons, she would have probably voiced/signalled her discomfort, like she did on the topic of Senshi fanservice. Overall, Kui handled the interview really well. Props to her to sticking to her guns and keeping a healthy disconnect from the fandom. While I think the interviewer could've/should've been more tactful and restrained, the flaws in their questions is not a symptom of the woke mind virus trying to wriggle its way into the pure Japanese psyche. It's the sign of an over-eager fan who sees a piece of fiction differently than its creator.