ConceptArt
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
In the horrible teenage wasteland known as Web 2.0, every known site or thing related with art is infested with the cancers known as furry, generic animu and teenage angst. It's a sad, but true, the people's first impression of art on the internets is the circle-jerk hugbox community known as devianTART. There is one place out there, one of very few that is a dedicated art site that the main focus is amazingly NOT about how many pageviews you can get, how well you can trace inuyasha, how you can express your angst through shit poetry and furry cutting action, or how many times you can say "OMG! KAWAII =^___^= *Hugs* *GLOMP* OMG!1 DOOM!! GIR! ZIM!".
The place is ConceptArt, and the main focus is actually to learn how to become a better artist through critique and discipline, which is a rare thing nowadays. Yes, it is hard to comprehend that there is actually an art site where teenagers and furries are surprisingly in the minority, as well as everyone not being the owner of at least 3 neopets accounts. So then why would a seemingly drama-free bastion of sanity even be mentioned here? Well, read on my astonished friend:
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[edit] Teh Drama
Who and what causes drama here? Well, mostly people from devianTART, of course! (God help us if anyone from Sheezyart tries.) Since being raised in the degenerating masturbatory hugbox culture of TARTland, where words like "critique" are not in their dictionary, TARTlets have an expectation of being showered with pageviews and at least 9000 glomp emoticons. Upon posting their art, which is usually full of photoshop filters, lens flare, and FAIL, the response is generally an honest critique basically saying: "Yeah, it's bad, but here is some helpful advice from real professionals that will make you actually improve rather than stagnate . . . " A TARTlet, who can't comprehend that this advice is helpful, will immediately do the most predictable thing that teenagers do best: Violently deny that they have done anything wrong, and take it personally.
The usual excuses are to the effect of:
- "This is my style"
- "I'm only 1X-teen years old"
- "this is an older pic"
- "i like drawing manga, get over it!"
[edit] The Furry Fury
A classic example of this lunacy is this furry TARTlet who wandered in with a bloated ego posting some abysmal art with the pretentious title: "The Puppet Master" [1] Epic amounts of fail and sheer arrogance were displayed with this thread, and despite ConceptArt's best efforts, he continued to deny any wrong doing.
After however, having a severe ego inflation, and perhaps getting his artcrap hit on by some furry, he came back once more to post some mixed media crapwork [2] before promptly being lulzed off Conceptart for his sheer inept failure to understand that he should quit Art forever.
[edit] SnapeSnogger loses it
One of the more famous events happened was when Ms. Ego-Snoggy-Supreme ventured blindly into the ConceptArt forums posting one of her classic fetish fanarts. [3] She received justifiable criticism, then unsurprisingly went batshit insane. To make matters worse, some other Snogger fans came into the thread to defend her from the harsh undeniable truth. One of these was some cunt with the predictable wapanese name "Yusagi" who said some amazingly arrogant drivel such as:
- "True talent doesn't require blood and sweat, and I don't know about Snogger, but I prefer to be taught by someone talented, than someone skilled--I can learn everything they know from a book."
- Favoring snoggers "art" over something decent like this with:
- "What makes that so good? I personally find them to be nothing spectacular, in fact, I find them to be dreary, and the second woman to be unintentionally fat." LOL, WUT?
Note: Read moar in the Snapesnogger ConcepArt incident
[edit] Chasethehedgehog lol =^_^=
[edit] INSECT BATTLE
To save the best for last, this masterpiece was posted by manky83 (who claims to be 23 in his profile) in this thread that became legendary in the CA community.
Just like people who will waste money on upgrades to cover up the fact that they drive a shit car, this is a perfect example of how no amount of photoshop shadows and filters will make a shitty drawing better. This thread became so awesome that the wasp and scorpion emotions were made official. There was even a fanart thread dedicated to the epic failure complete with multiple lens flares and lulz.
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 A True Masterpiece |
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[edit] See Also
[edit] External Links:
- ConceptArt - If you know any TARTlets you'd like to become an hero, trick them into posting their animu fanart here in the IT'S FINALLY FINISHED forum. There will be lulz. I guarantee it.)
- [4] - Worst of ConceptArt thread
