wandering lazily behind the herd

[egypturnash]

This Fur Affinity site is really, really slow. Do I really need to be on another site that's furry-only when I'm trying to get away from the furry thing?

Also, it strips out HTML in the profile and in the image descriptions, so helpful links and such are broken. Suck. And I have to provide a thumbnail for gifs.

But it seems to be where people are shamelessly dumping their PR0N. So that's good, I guess. I like nicely-drawn PR0N even if I never do it myself.

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[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I considered getting a FA account for a few minuets until I noticed their "logo" banner and decided to give them some time to... you know sort that out. I don’t want that thing staring at me whenever I go there. That and I don't have the fortitude to submit myself to a service where each of my pictures will have a thread of comments attached.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah. They've got a lot that rotate, and I really just kinda want to see if I can do some CSS trickery to take the logos out on my end...

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Ah, I didn't even realize there were different banners, I was refering to one with an anime type head with a scarf thing covering half of it... it was, um... yikes. I was afraid that was their logo. It seems I have to actualy hit reload to get a different banner, that was the only one I had ever seen up before.

[thaily.livejournal.com]

FA has a lot of unconventional stuff, so if you can't tolerate it FA isn't the place for you.

[thaily.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that came out harsher than intended.

What I mean is; lots of weird shit all over the place. The banner isn't so bad by comparison, if you join you'll see a lot of stuff you have no interest in seeing or may not want to see at all.

[jenkatb4u.livejournal.com]

I think most people like it because it's like VCL, but with a better commentary system - yet at the same time, it has glaring flaws.. For some reasing, enclosing something in quotations or using them at all will cause stuff like:
"don't I'm"
turns into
"don/'t I/'m"
Also, if I did enclose that in quotations, chances are, it would not appear. Oddly enough, if you go back and edit out the rogue backslashes, it fixes it.. but pointless...

SOoooooooOoo. There are a LOT of excellent artists there, but of course, just as many if not more really um.. .. beginners. n.n;;;

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that. It's all over my pages right now. I think it's because it's escaping strings for storage at some point, and never unescaping them for display...

Maybe I should just wait a bit for bug-fixes.

[ultraken.livejournal.com]

My guess is that their add-comment PHP script uses addslashes (or an equivalent) on the posted comment to prevent a SQL injection attack, but recent versions of PHP already do that by default for POST/GET/COOKIE data. The end result is that a mangled string gets stored in the database, hence the slashes everywhere. The edit-comment script does it correctly, so you can go back later and un-mangle it.

[jenkatb4u.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought about that, too.. But the few people that they have working on it are either inexperienced or bogged down by server load concerns.
I'm banking on inexperienced since it seems pretty odd that a forum-like environment like that is buggy. c.c

Glance around for a while. There are tons of incedible artists about.

[mutleyjames.livejournal.com]

Sloooooooooooooooooooooooow. But hey...

[cobaltie.livejournal.com]

FA's still buggy, sure...but the thing I like about it compared to VCL or other simple 'archive' type art sites is this: FA is vastly more linked together. It's much closer to a 'community', though that doesn't mean much.
I don't mind the comments or whatever, but the method I browse through FA is by finding an artwork or artist I like, going through their gallery but also going through their favorites. Chances are someone I like will have other artist that I might like as well. And so on.
That, and the 'watch' system (which is similar to LJ friends lists), makes it a huge deal easier to keep up with new art than anything else I've seen.

(Yes, DeviantArt uses the same kind of format, but not the same kind of art.)

[electricgecko.livejournal.com]

It's slow as hell, but I'm liking it. Due to the fact you can browse other people's favorites, I'm finding a lot of new and unique and really enjoyable artists and artwork I might never have found otherwise. I'd been wanting something equivalent for a loooong time, so it's nice to, all of a sudden, have it.

Sure, it's buggy. The internet is buggy. They could have done a better job, but they could have done a [much] worse job.

As for the furry thing... my thoughts are: why limit yourself? Nothing says your work can't simultaneously occupy space on furry and non-furry sites. You're not wearing it out by pitching it to several different, unique audiences, and there's no such thing as bad press. ;)

[thaily.livejournal.com]

FA isn't just for furry art alone either.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Mostly it's that uploading stuff to each site adds work to a drawing. I left GfxArtist a while back because putting stuff up there was more work than maintaining a gallery of my own by hand.

And I still feel weird about the furry thing sometimes. Showing just one facet of my subjects like that feels wrong. Admittedly, they don't seem to have a policy on "x% of your work must be furry" so I could probably put up whatever...

I wanted something along these lines a while back. I'm not sure I do, any more.

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

It's on my radar, but after the rapid rise and fall of SheezyArt, I'm mostly waiting to see if it lasts for more than a few months before I get involved...

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

shameless pron dump? where? i didn't see anything after some initial clicking around. urls plz.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

None off the top of my head. It's got an Adult Content filter, you don't even see thumbnails unless you start an account there and say you're over 18 and want to see pr0n.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Only tangentially related, I just saw Slow Motion Secrets and, well, <3<. Inspired by the undead city or by random Tokyo-destruction anime?
You are the mistress of character art, and your landscapes, while evocative, tend to be minimal. I'd be interested to see what you did with a picture that was all landscape.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

purrr! praise. buzz, buzz, buzz.

My original thought with the city, as I drew and painted it, was 'domed city with bits sticking out of dome'. But a lot of people read it as 'nuclear explosion'. And there was even a case of the ambiguous gesture being taken as obscene. It got a lot of discussion.

That image arrived in my sketchbook with a background. Usually they don't, and I have to fake something up later. I think there's a fantasy image that came with a bg on the opposite page of the sketchbook; I'd have to check.

I draw backgrounds in my sketchbook now and then, but I never seem to turn them into full images. Place doesn't seem to interest me like person does. I've planned to build on PB but never have.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

*bleep* Must praise Spider. Spider is pretty. Spider is mistress of pixels.

I think it's the starkness of the Dome, plus the seemingly chaotic, swirling nature of the cloudy bit in the middle distance, that said "shockwave". A faint little grid on the Dome would have tipped the scales in the other direction, made the rest seem more pastoral.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

spider is a slut for pixels at times.

Some people read it as pastoral. Which is part of the fun - I love ambiguity! I think I thought of some detail on the dome face, even might have had some in the rough (I'd have to check), but decided against it for laziness, distance cueing, and starkess reasons. It just works for me with the sharp color contrast and no details, yknow?

In fact, I think it was contemplating this one that really made me consider my artistic debt to the old Atari VCS games. Big, solid swathes of demi-subdued color. Some of those games had the usual intense colors, but some had really nice, subtle palettes...

[dustmeat.livejournal.com]

I cut them a lot more slack that I would, say, DevArt. DA can suck me dry.