Inktober - you will finish it this time, maybe

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One Man Bland said:
My favorite part of the backlash was all the whiners who were posting pictures of shitty scribbles and formless blobby bean-mouth people while going "well I did Inktober digitally and I used the Undo button until my Z key fell off and look how much I improved! Checkmate, gatekeepers" while the traditional artists were churning out god tier illustrations without comment.

The "muh expensive traditional tools" shit always annoyed me the most though, since it’s always been made explicitly clear you can participate with a ball point pen and stick notes if that’s all you have. And it was always fuckers with equipment that costs thousands of dollars who were complaining about Parker’s statement enforcing a price barrier.
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Yeah, it's people like this that turn me off from wanting to do anything artistically.

EDIT: Guys like Walt Kelly would throw a fit if they knew how easy
today's tots have it.
 
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Win98SE said:
Dunn makes excellent videos IMO, but I'm a beginner and have no formal training/education in art, so I think the assessment of his videos largely targeting people who are more disconnected from the larger art communities of Twitter/Instagram (and therefore won't question his reasoning) are right on the money.
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I bought Dunn's books last year because of this (I don't and usually can't watch videos, but the unpretentiousness of his general audience, like man I just wanna grill draw, filtered through to the amazon review section).

One Man Bland said:
If this happened during a less polarized year, I'd be inclined to think this is just another case of delusion and ego, but as it stands I'm down to two theories:
  1. ...Being entirely self-taught with no point of reference for other art education material on the market...
  2. ...Dunn saw Parker promoting his own book, got dollar signs in his eyes...
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I'm thinking dude drank too much BLM koolaid and was looking to get oppressed. Not a true grifter like Juicy Omelette, but a bit off his rocker like John Boyega.
 
Safir said:
I'm thinking dude drank too much BLM koolaid and was looking to get oppressed. Not a true grifter like Juicy Omelette, but a bit off his rocker like John Boyega.
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Yeah, I’m starting to get that impression too. Although I’m also starting to think that catching BLM’s attention was more a side effect than the main goal, considering it’s been a month and Dunn‘s been pretty quiet on his YouTube, Instagram, and what I’ve seen of his Facebook (and fuck getting a Facebook just to find out) about the incident, and he doesn’t look to have a Twitter.

Which made realize that this pattern of behavior reminded of another internet clique that has this kind of drama all the time: fandoms, especially the fan girl heavy ones. You see this a lot in those circles where some fan artist or writer of varying quality will get super big in a certain corner of the community, enjoy what seems to be a period of relatively unchallenged popularity and therefore a monopoly on that particular market, so when people either start putting their own spin on the idea (and said idea wasn’t exactly groundbreaking to begin with) or came up with similar ideas independently, which the popular fan creator takes as a threat to their territory and starts throwing around accusations of copying and theft.

Which I suspect now was probably the bigger motive behind Dunn’s actions. From a glance at the internet art instruction circles on YouTube, Dunn definitely seems to be one of the bigger names out there and his videoed are frequently in the top 10 or 20 in relevant searches. And considering how isolated he seems to be from the rest of the community, seeing Parker’s book might’ve been his first glimpse outside of his bubble.

Although it would be hilarious if this kicked off a whole string of copying accusations on Dunn’s part. Because by his own logic every website and video that includes texture cubes and spheres or uses the word variation as a synonym for pen pressure must be copying him, so why not call them out too?
 
I've never done inktober before but I feel like trying. I always forget it started and say "oh well whatever". But maybe now? I don't usually use pens though, I'm more of a pencil person but maybe it will be fun. I haven't drawn in so long I feel like I've devolved.

(also I feel like maybe twisting the prompts and deciding which day's word over the years I prefer to do instead of sticking with 2020's list)
 
Coffee Druid said:
I've never done inktober before but I feel like trying. I always forget it started and say "oh well whatever". But maybe now? I don't usually use pens though, I'm more of a pencil person but maybe it will be fun. I haven't drawn in so long I feel like I've devolved.
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That's the whole point of Inktober: to grow in using inks. It will help broaden your horizons

As for me, I was meant to go out today and I planned to buy a sketchbook while passing by the art shop but I have to stay home today so I'll just draw on paper and stick them in when I buy one.

I won't post any of it here cos I'll be drawing my OCs only and I don't want to announce myself. Good thing I have fish OCs for day 1.
 
Still October 1st. Have a shitty first start.
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The site has been unstable lately and Tor's onionsite isn't working again (now it works) but this had to be shared: ClownfishTV decided to become what they hated by siding with the miserable morons who don't want to read the truth and get some fucking sleep, but rather lie awake at night thinking making money off art is super bad.

TL;DW Inktober crossed with [adult swim]'s Primal to hype up the new episodes and twatter threw a bitch fit right on schedule.

I suspected they chose this side when they started liking comments on their first video that shat on Parker. This burns me up because they're usually more informed than this but chose not to this time??? Clout chasers gotta chase clout I guess.

One Man Bland said:
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I think you're close but missed the mark by a hair. Dunn is taking advantage of the "community" and "fandom" hiveminds' nasty habit of only hearing about shit through the grapevine and not stepping back and getting the actual truth. I doubt he was taking note of this and planning to strike while the world worships negros for being negros, but rather he truly believes he's an art genius and not a bubble-living jackass who's ruining someone's career for nothing. And like it was said before, he's been on the internet for a while so it's not like he's unaware of what happens to content creators when they get "cancelled".

Yukari Yakumo said:
So.. Blacktober's apparently a thing.
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So is drinking the frustration away. 🥃
 
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Coffee Druid said:
I've never done inktober before but I feel like trying. I always forget it started and say "oh well whatever". But maybe now? I don't usually use pens though, I'm more of a pencil person but maybe it will be fun. I haven't drawn in so long I feel like I've devolved.

(also I feel like maybe twisting the prompts and deciding which day's word over the years I prefer to do instead of sticking with 2020's list)
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Perfectly valid, the list exists as a suggestion for people with artist's block.
 
One Man Bland said:
The only - and I mean ONLY - people who were hurt by this were people who literally copy-pasted Jake Parker’s logo onto a cheap PDF cover to try their sell their shitty art at a ridiculous markup. All of them being danger-haired Tumblrinas who had a history of over-blowing perceived slights to start up witch hunts, might I add.
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One Man Bland said:
Well, predictably, they'd all give me the same whiny "b-b-but what if I don't get as many LIKES? I have to tag it Inktober!" because what really pissed them off was not the limitation of the medium or their cries of "ableism" or "classism" ow whatever, but because they interpreted Parker's statement as him calling them out as the leeching posers that they are.
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I only ever saw the one Clownfish video about the matter. Good to see my suspicions confirmed.

One Man Bland said:
The "muh expensive traditional tools" shit always annoyed me the most though, since it’s always been made explicitly clear you can participate with a ball point pen and stick notes if that’s all you have. And it was always fuckers with equipment that costs thousands of dollars who were complaining about Parker’s statement enforcing a price barrier.
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That gets me too, even outside this Inktober slapfight. People with wacoms costing hundreds of dollars, running a subscription-based art program. How much do they think a crow quill and a bottle of ink costs? A copic? A micron?

Coffee Druid said:
I've never done inktober before but I feel like trying. I always forget it started and say "oh well whatever". But maybe now?
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Same.

Kuchipatchi said:
I won't post any of it here cos... I don't want to announce myself.
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Same!
 
Somewhat off topic but I hope Parker sues Dunn for Slander as not only is Parkers reputation being tarnished for absolutely no good reason but is also costing him deals and such that he was working out with others. It would also be good to bring down the slowly inflating egos alot of Western artists are getting especially on Twitter.
 
Yamma Damma said:
The site has been unstable lately and Tor's onionsite isn't working again (now it works) but this had to be shared: ClownfishTV decided to become what they hated by siding with the miserable morons who don't want to read the truth and get some fucking sleep, but rather lie awake at night thinking making money off art is super bad.

TL;DW Inktober crossed with [adult swim]'s Primal to hype up the new episodes and twatter threw a bitch fit right on schedule.

I suspected they chose this side when they started liking comments on their first video that shat on Parker. This burns me up because they're usually more informed than this but chose not to this time??? Clout chasers gotta chase clout I guess.
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Am I the only one who never cared for the Clownfish people? Even when I agreed with them, they always seemed to fixate on the least important elements of a given topic and blow it out to be the biggest part of the story; and they had a bad habit of their discussions being really circular as they’d repeat the same sentences over and over and never actually build those thoughts up to a real point. And honestly I don’t think I ever managed to finish an episode because that Geeky Sparkle chick’s voice is so shrill it would literally give me a headache to listen to her for more than a minute at a time. Kinda seemed to me they were never doing their own analysis so much as repeating better points made by other people, so it doesn’t really surprise me that when the more knowledgeable people are either being buried or keeping their head down that Clownfish jumps in with the mob.

What really stuck out to me in their last Inktober video is when the girl said something like "I teach art and I’ve NEVER seen the stuff that’s in these two books" Really? You’ve never seen axonmetric/isometric drawing used for practicing your light sources? Or seen spheres arranged in a circle to demostrate the effect of the same light source on the same object? Or seen any of these phrases being described as the main elements of art? What the fuck were you even teaching then - finger painting?

Though I will say I love how so far the rest of the internet has been so blasé about this whole thing. Inktober’s sponsee continu to sell Inktober merch and most of the people complaining have hardly noticed, Adult Swim is still going forward with the Primal prompts and didn’t even bother "addressing" the controversy, no one’s trying to review bombers the book anymore, and the people participating are just going about their day without a care and minimal flack. Of all the things I thought would be able to do such a graceful tuck-and-roll through this CURRENT YEAR environment, it certainly wasn’t Inktober.

This whole thing’s just been:
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