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THE TUMBLR EXPERIENCE (help me)

Posted by Emrox - July 14th, 2015


Up top- are you an artist? I want your feedback! Details down near the end.

Last night I was looking at some old "tutorials" I wrote a while ago and I still think they're kinda funny so I put them up on my art blog. Speaking of art blogs I made an art blog this year which is now also my website.

But Marty, why do YOU need a website?

Please don't use my first name that's really weird. The thinking was that if I had an outlet for stuff too sketchy/crude to put on the art portal, I'd be able to get more frequent feedback without having to put in the effort of polishing and perfecting every doodle. So the whole tumblr thing worked okay, except for a few things:

1. tumblr is a waste of time

Like just about every other social media platform, it's really easy to lose sight of why you joined, and get caught up in the following and reblogging and stats-whoring. Even though it's less of a time suck than facebook and twitter, checking your analytics is really addicting, and if you're following a lot of people, you might feel obligated to keep up with every new post.

2. "tumblr people" don't give as much criticism

Admittedly, I don't have very many followers on tumblr. BUT I still find tumblr guys less critical than Art Portal guys and I have a few theories on why that may be:

  • Because it's social media

Unlike the regulated content on NG, there's too much stuff on tumblr to stop and critique every piece of media you consume. For most people, the extent of their feedback is whether or not they click "favorite." And it might feel good to get those "likes", but it's not very constructive.

  • Because it's SOCIAL media

And you've got your image to protect! On sites like NG and DA, things are pretty much anonymous, which means you can be as mean as you like. On twitter, criticizing someone's art makes you an asshole, and you have followers at stake, so you'd better watch what you say. (To clarify, I don't think giving criticism makes you a jerk, but sometimes you get worried that your words could be misconstrued as you being a jerk, so you might never say anything critical ever.) 

3. I'm a perfectionist

And this is actually the MAIN problem, even though the problem is just me and not the tumblr/art blog format. I feel like my art blog has become more of a "best of" than an archive of all my drawings. I don't like to put up art I don't like, and no one wants their feed polluted with every last doodle. As a result, I feel less inclined to challenge myself and more inclined to make stuff that I know will look good. The art that actually NEEDS criticism is never posted.

THIS IS THE PART FOR YOU ART GUYS

So now I'm going to try something a little different- I'm going to take "every last doodle" from the last three months, and put it online for YOU to critique. If you see something that sucks, and you can articulate why it sucks, I want to hear it! Really! Don't hold back - you can find the smallest dumbest pickiest thing and tell me about it. I won't even hate you for it. I can take it. (And if you still want to keep it anonymous, you can use the ask form.)

You can download the "sketchbook" below. If you want to comment on anything (I appreciate it!), be sure to tell me which page you're on.

SWF (just added, no download)

FLA (recommended)

PDF

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Or just check out the free art!

 


Comments

frame 8 is really the only thing i liked

but if you want serious I think frames 192-195 show a healthy amount of knowing what things to fix to make the drawing feel "stronger" for lack of a better word

In page 22 to 26 -> at page 26
dude looks like cry? if you make smile exagerated he looks like more laugh!

I mean frame sorry!

Just added a SWF option so now you don't have to save 40mb of bitmaps to your downloads folder!

ALSO those "Hey Look" comics are scans from an old out of print book by Harvey Kurtzman. You can find them HERE: http://bit.ly/1TBxoIg

Im going to be honest here, after about 3 days of watching flash movies on newgrounds I was only really persuaded to make an account because I feel you deserve some actual feedback. No other reason. That aside, im not very artsy myself so my feedback would be mediocre at best. The only feedback I have is that the hands are what grab my attention every pic. I dont know if I would call it an art style, but you seem to make the hands or fingers a bit disproportional and slightly larger than other parts of the body. If the point in most of them is not to focus on the hands I would make them smaller. Very interesting to say the least, hope it works out for you.

Also I dont know if its just me but that guys face on page 59 looks like its melting off... Actually now that I think of it quite a couple of their faces look like theyre melting or dripping off. Dont know if thats intentional or not.

Hey, thanks for signing up!

The only intentional melty-face guy is on 131. The rest of them are supposed to be either old or fat or I didn't know what I was doing. A lot of them just have weird noses too.
Also, thanks for the bit about the hands. I like drawing hands, so I guess I have a tendency to make them the focus of the picture. I'll keep that in mind when I get back to doing more refined stuff so it doesn't get gimmicky or annoying.

i really like ur tumblr... but... i hate tumblr... so i hate your tumblr.... at the same time i dont hate your tumblr though......

I like your tumblr, but i hate tumblr itself.

When are you releasing a new cartoon? :(

I'm working on it! I always wonder if it's weird that I keep doing these "updates" but I never put anything out. Right now I'm mostly just focusing on getting better at draftsmanship, but I also have a new cartoon in the works that should be out by the end of the year.

lookin forward to it!