Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-25618373-20150112032742/@comment-25618373-20150114015403

Angel Emfrbl wrote: I don't tend to respond to this sort of thing anymore, not since the Dragoncave Frilled dragon retirement. I learnt that some people use retirement as a weapon to cause drama and rally support. Even if its not the intention, its best to let someone go quietly then to make a fuss.

DA is a place full f artists, I've been there 10 years and now its harder to get noticed then before. I've considered countless times quitting, and was even heart broken myself this year when my MLP art got more views then my hard-effort work I'd been doing all year.

I have 1 particular Mortal Kombat piece of the female ninja Frost, that gets comments, and favs despite being in my scraps (I believe).

http://emilybee.deviantart.com/art/Frost-21279824

I can do better then this now. ¬_¬

But I understand the woes of DA in particular and think its likely the case wherever you do. It can be greatly disheartening for someone. I remember working out to make being an artist profitable when your just starting out, one needs to sell close to 500 images a year if their just a pencil worker like myself. 500 images sounds a lot and it is. But when you consider 5 minutes of animation requires something like 2,000+ drawings, its nothing.

When my half-bro went to music college, he was warned about the same thing I was warned about with art, that there is just too many musicians/artists these days. :-/ She actually originally intended to just make a video. I however brought it on her remix of her Goodbye remix, and we had a whole conversation. She left a short goodbye message on her deviant art which is how I found out.