Welcome to Gaia! ::

Part one.

When you do two pieces, one is a very well executed, well designed piece with an original character and the other is a bit of rubbish fanart that you’ve tossed off quickly; we all know which one will have people fawning over it and putting it in their favorites and collections and all.

Or you can do two pieces of fanart, and you cannot use the attention they get to judge if they’ve been executed well because the attention will be directly proportional to the popularity of the series and the characters. We all know this, we all accept this, and I’m sure most fanartists are rolling their eyes right now because I’m stating the bleeding obvious. And really, we shouldn’t be doing this because we love the characters, not for the attention of strangers on the internet? No. Darn it all, would we be drawing other people’s characters if we didn’t understand how flattering and necessary for mental health attention is?

Guess which piece has twenty-eight favorites and which piece just got put into a collection of art dedicated to "Art meant to pay tribute to an earlier style which defiles the original without merit."