That's it.

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Seriously... In my latest deviations I've improved by ALOT... I've been making an effort to make and write my own original stuff, original OCs, original machines, fix proportions... And yet, the better I get, the less favs/comments I have...


I'm seriously getting tired of this system, what's the point of improving if you are loosing popularity ? What's the point of having artists who draw poorly MS paint shits with 65 000 watchers, and amazing artists who have... 2 WATCHERS ?! Are people's IQ too low to recognize good art ? Do they really pay attention to what they fav ? Or their mind is limited to "OLOLOL ITZZ FUNNEEH I FAAEV" ? I'd prefer it to be the first possibility...

So... If we sum up, there's 3 MAJOR reasons to that :

1 : Everyone hate me (LOL, paranoid power, but I doubt it since I'm not alone in this case.)

2 : People are too dumb to appreciate GREAT art and don't want to overheat their neurons by reading fanfictions/understanding ADVANCED pictures (This one is possible though)

3 : ... IT'S COMPLETELY RANDOM (I doubt it).


Sorry, I'm not use to make these kind of journals but that really begins to piss me off.


And, just because a demonstration is worth it ...


aragorn by talaziom => Amazing Aragorn portrait.

Try to guess the amount of favs... No ideas ?

3. 3 FAVS FOR A 25 HOURS PORTRAIT. And the artist has... 3 watchers !

Finn by makra111 => 15 minutes FINN THE HUMAN drawing...

261 favs.

So I need to say more ?


Fuck popularity.

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Aviseya's avatar
:thumbsup: Pretty much what's happened to me. As I started improving and moving away from just drawing animals all the time (which bored the hell out of me) I noticed a faves/comment drop.

I don't really care much anymore. Of course I love my watchers and stuff but being DA famous isn't going to get me into my animation course in college. I mainly just draw to entertain and show my friends because I'd rather have a small support group that backs me up 100% than a large group that only supports me when I draw the things they want to see. My most favourited things are stuff that's related to fandoms and crap which I probably haven't spent that much time on.

I've basically learned to do a huge 'nope' and stop trying to please people. Popularity on DA doesn't get many people far in life.

Just do what make you happy C: