First, thank you for actually reading my rant.



Second (this's probably going to come off as more angry or self-hating than I actually am), it's fine that people like it and all that but using this as an example, it makes more sense to me to go and favorite Monty's renders and Roosterteeth in general before/instead of liking this picture. I stand by my statement that "it looks good" comments are so thoughtless that I'd rather not get them. I mean I took a few hours to draw this so the least commenters *should* do is write why they like it and, if it's not too much to ask, something that I should do to improve or keep in mind for my next picture.



"I like it"

Yeah, I already got that. Why?

"It's pretty"

What should I have done?

"I can't draw as gud as u"

... That doesn't invalidate your opinion. Did you notice you can see the sidewalk lines through Weiss's boots and the ponytail of the girl in the background through her shoulder? It's too old and I'm too lazy to fix it now but had people even mentioned that when I first posted, I would have fixed it the final product would have been better,and I would have learned to manage my layers better... but no one posted anything helpful. I don't expect responses as long as what I'm writing but I don't need or want "witty" or cookie-cutter comments. I want a genuine, serious, possibly helpful response to what I drew that took at least some semblance of thought (like yours). You at least read the description (so you took maybe a minute wondering what I thought about the picture as opposed to 3 seconds to look, click favorite, and move on) despite it being lengthy and whiny but I shouldn't have to fish for responses with substance. Admittedly, this is not a good description to get positive responses but it's also meant to get people to think about what they look for and why.



I know people just type in the thing they like and gloss through every picture until they can't stand it, favoriting things in giant batches and never looking at them again but what's the point? Maybe it's just me. I rarely look at other peoples' art because I'm really here for me and if I do like something I feel like I should comment but I'm long winded with this crap (if you couldn't tell). People that are here to have a massive collection of other peoples' art are here for those artists (there's a lot more grey in there than that but general premise is there). I post things because I want to or it's easy to share it with the people I drew it for. A lot of my stuff I don't think is real good but no one posts critiques or anything because people tend to look up the "talent tree" only ever looking at things that are better than what they can do AND only looking through incredibly specific filters so they miss people trying new things. Even I do this if I look through pictures most of the time (I'll still look at art that isn't as "good" as mine because I remember when I couldn't draw as well as I can now. I should upload some of the old pictures I have. <-note for future me) but I'm looking at how they drew something and not just because it's aesthetically pleasing. How did they get the angles to look correct? What did they do that I can learn from? How can I get better since no one points things out to me on my pictures? I spend more time looking through tutorials, exercises, and anatomy figures, than other peoples' fanart (for the coloring book reason. I'll look up the original thing if I'm going to get a reference [such as the rotating renders of the RWBY characters on Monty's DA]).



I like originality more as a concept. Original ideas can be crappy or, at least, not my cup of tea but there's something refreshing about original ideas/art from "nobodies" and even from friends I see such monotonous trends. It could just be because I want to be at a professional level of drawing as a hobbyist. Until I am better than most people, I don't see why others should favorite anything aside from the original especially since they most likely never look through their favorites again anyways. I'm tired and probably wrote things that I would word differently but I'm going to bed.