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This is why people should just get a deviantart account, so they get actual criticism from actual artists instead of the usual "OH s**t YOU CAN DRAW THAT RULES" that happens in the Art Arena. And as if that wasn't bad enough all the non-anime art gets pushed aside like it isn't important. Fie! Damn them all twice under a full moon, for art is art and there is no superior style.

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I do cartooning. People are like "oh no not anime" like the dude that was gonna give me 3k for a drawing then ended up seeing my deviant and being like "oh it's not anime no thanks I don't want it anymore" when I was half ******** way done with coloring.

I laugh my head off whenever I see a non-Japanese person who originally develops an anime art style suddenly try to change it because they keep attracting people who go "OMG AMINE STYLE MARY ME". Honestly, Space Coyote's trying, Josh Lesnick's trying, so many artists I know of are trying. It's like anime art is being put on the same plane as the black plague. Why not take pride in the fact that your art is better than the standard crap or traced Inu-Yasha box art?

I mean, Serial, dude, your art's great even if it does have a slight anime influence. It's noticable, but I can see it isn't your only influence. It's fine, so why change? You got a good thing going. Don't worry about not being the next TVSKyle or Andrew Dickman. Be happy for what you have, rather than what you don't have.

Honestly, anime's just an art style. It has no mythic properties. Whether people like it or not everybody's treating it like some kind of magic force that needs to be protected or destroyed. It's just art. Just like Fauvism or Futurism is just art. They caused a lot of controversy in the art communities, but they passed, just like this will pass. Granted I may be pushing it by comparing it to those particular, famous styles but you see my point right?

I'm done ranting.

God damn picky ******** Art arena.. I used to submit the odd drawing here and there, but instead of pointing out what needs work or whatever, they basicly told me it sucked because it wasn't colored or it sucked because it was in pencil or whatever.

It a pain in the a** to submit art there now anyways. It hardly works to begin with. Bah

Alright, that wasn't clear to me originally. Thanks for clearing it up, and good luck in whatever you're doing!