Hassan-Draws In reply to SnowCrasher [2017-11-23 13:41:38 +0000 UTC]

Wait... he's actually dead? No way... 

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sethness In reply to Madam--Kitty [2014-04-27 22:32:33 +0000 UTC]

Ummm.... I took a look at your gallery, and formed an opinion of the group. Although I'm broadly anti-religion, this group of yours seems a little too "fringe", "out there", for me. It sees blatant "all-seeing eye" symbol use as "subliminal" when it's in reality quite overt. It sees that as proof of the influence of the Illuminati (a secret religious group from waaaay back in European history) today, whereas I see the "all seeing eye" (one eye atop a pyramid) as a symbol of Freemasonry's influence, not the Illuminati's, in American government since America's inception.

I see the Freemasons as a fraternity with secrets. I don't see evidence of an "Illuminati" that is a religious zealots' secret club working toward world domination.

I think there are forces working to undermine democracy, but I see those as 1-percenter superrich and corporations, who only incidentally invoke religious themes when it coincides with their core goals.

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Madam--Kitty In reply to sethness [2014-04-28 00:01:22 +0000 UTC]

the group also focuses on freemasons.

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sethness In reply to Adrianna-Grezak [2014-04-27 23:51:39 +0000 UTC]

I'm hunting for the button that says "I hate FaceBook". Seriously.

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sethness In reply to Xyra-XIV [2011-06-04 13:36:32 +0000 UTC]

Hey, thanks. While you were at my website, did you notice the GUEST ART galleries? (hint-hint) If you and your classmates make some tessellations, let's post'em on my website for all to see. (My site gets between 3.5k and 8.5k visitors per day.)

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Xyra-XIV In reply to sethness [2011-06-07 00:22:08 +0000 UTC]

We went through the galleries, but school is out now and my teacher was retiring so we all gave her our projects to put in her new classroom... ir else that would have been fun to do

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sethness In reply to TheSleeperAwakes [2011-02-26 10:58:37 +0000 UTC]

You fall into it. Basically, I pick a target country, move there, and then try to figure out which of my hobbies will support me there. In Thailand, it's been PC teaching / website design, and to a lesser degree magazine/newspaper illustration.

Although the Thai community has plenty of good artists, the staff of English-speaking publications are unable to make the Thai artists understand what's wanted... so I've got work.

I'll be moving to another Asian country soon, where PC experts are commonplace but English teachers are rare, and I'll be trying to add illustration to my careers there, as well.

I'm quite aware, though, that in any English-speaking country, there's no shortage of English-speaking pro artists... so I wouldn't attempt to be a pro artist there. Working as an English-speaking artist in an English-speaking country is like a license to starve.

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sethness In reply to Momotastic [2010-06-06 08:06:15 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much, "Momotaro". (I'm deliberately conflagrating your name with the name of a wonderful character from Japanese folk tales. I assume you know of Momotaro, and that your name's a play on his?)

You've made my day. Too often, battling with witless trolls like that Draconis fellow on Yuumei's thread [link] is simply unrewarding. I'd rather not speak badly of the Special Olympians, but you know what they say about engaging in an online debate. (If you haven't heard that particularly wicked line, I'll put it in a reply. It's a bit awful though, so unless absolutely necessary I won't trot it out. It's like horsedroppings at a rose show: it adds flavor, yes, but an unwelcome one that could've been done better with a mix of wits and good humor.)

I can't take credit for this icon, by the way. It's simply borrowed from an online store that sells Darwinfish things. If you like Darwinfish, though, please take a look at my "Putting the 'win' in Darwin..." cartoon: [link]

How about yourself... which is your favorite piece from your own pen?

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Momotastic In reply to sethness [2010-06-06 22:45:46 +0000 UTC]

I know of the character Momotaro, but my user actually comes from a nickname. Maureen to Momo to Momotastic. I'd never made the connection before!

Internet arguments are futile and frustrating, so I tend to avoid them. And the places where they often spring up (Youtube comes to mind). I've heard the Special Olympics analogy before, so no need to pollute the rose show. Honestly though, I hate how one can deliver the ultimate argumentative smackdown (as you did) but essentially remain unheard. Those in possession of willful ignorance rarely admit, even to themselves, that they are wrong. So there is no satisfaction to be gained in debating with them.

I suppose my favorite would be this one: [link] . I'm not very active as an artist, but I do like having a username to comment and favorite and whatnot.

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sethness In reply to dtw42 [2010-05-30 11:00:31 +0000 UTC]

Yes. I wonder why the spammers have chosen this year to spam WOE's forum so heavily? Is this a worldwide thing happening to all forums this year, or is WOE the unlucky winner of some cosmic lottery?

Hey, are you entered in the latest contest? I am, and I've encouraged members of the club :M-C-Escher-Style to join. With luck, there will finally be enough adult entrants to inspire WOE to make a separate adult division.

What's new with you?

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dtw42 In reply to sethness [2010-06-02 12:53:33 +0000 UTC]

Oh, not much happening here; especially with regards to actually drawing anything new!

I really should submit something to one of the WOE contests - I agree with you that many adults are probably put off from entering because of the preponderance of schoolchildrens' pictures in the previous contest pages, under the assumption that the contests are specifically for kids. Just looked at the submission date for the current contest and found that it was, er, the end of May, so if I can overcome my inherent laziness to draw something up it'll have to wait till the *next* one.

At any rate, a mixture of complex home life (looking after my increasingly frail old mum) and the enormous pile of to-be-read books that comes from working for a publisher (!) have conspired to leave me little free time for artistic endeavours.

If I can come up with anything new and Escherish to post on here, I'll click the link to join your M-C-Escher-Style group. I've been trying my hand on and off at ambigrams recently. (Actually, might be an idea to join AtheistsClub too, as I'm a "happy heathen" too :^D)

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sethness In reply to dtw42 [2010-06-06 10:42:43 +0000 UTC]

We've got a section on ambigrams, in the M-C-Escher-Style club, you know?
Feel VERY free to join up and post your ambigram art there.

I've tried a little of it myself. Tricky stuff, that. I'm particularly fond of the extra-tricky works that spell out DIFFERENT words when viewed differently, and the ones which make use of negative space to spell out the "other" word. See the Nicolas ambigram for an example of that negative-space type.

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dtw42 In reply to sethness [2010-06-08 21:02:40 +0000 UTC]

John Langdon's book "Wordplay" is very good. The text drifts a little too far towards the pick-n-mix-spirituality pseudointellectual philosophising for my liking in places, but the artwork's fantastic. (Actually, in my copy, some of the pictures look like the publisher lost the postscript image file and the low-res header got printed instead, but that's not Langdon's fault.)
Funny, there are lots of ambigrams floating around on DA, but 90% of them are crap. (Of course, Sturgeon's law says 90% of EVERYTHING is crap, so fair enough...) And about half of the ones that aren't crap are faithful copies of pre-existing stuff :-D

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sethness In reply to DramaQueen99 [2010-03-05 08:41:34 +0000 UTC]

When it's YOUR work, no.

When it's work you steal from another artist and pass off as your own, as you've done at least 5 times, YES.

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DramaQueen99 In reply to sethness [2010-03-05 20:25:47 +0000 UTC]

Good now leave me alone

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sethness In reply to DramaQueen99 [2010-03-06 00:06:40 +0000 UTC]

I will... when you start displaying some respect, responsibility, and remorse.

Respect for the artists who make original art. Be one of them, and don't steal from us.

Responsibility for what you did. An apology to the dA community for passing off someone else's art as yours, instead of a journal entry that whines that someone was mean to you.

Remorse for stealing and then pretending that the person who found you out is somehow "the bad guy". You're the bad guy in this story, DramaQueen99. A whining, irresponsible, unapologetic thief.

Oh, and of course... don't steal any more.
So, how many thefts was that, in all? I count 5 for sure, and another 5 or 6 that are probably theft.

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sethness In reply to ministerart [2010-03-01 10:51:05 +0000 UTC]

(Halloween joke)
Thanks. I promised to give them back when I was done, but I grew attached to them.

Hand anatomy is sooo hard to master, isn't it. Like any artist reviewing his own work, I still mostly see the flaws, looming large.

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sethness In reply to DramaQueen99 [2010-03-04 00:21:22 +0000 UTC]

ANd while we're on the subject of you stealing art and violating copyright, let's talk about "your" picture of Kino Makoto (Sailor Jupiter of the Sailor Moon Japanese manga series).

The line art IS NOT YOURS, but you don't bother to mention that in the description of the piece, do you.

This particular line art shows up in
several dA members' art galleries. Most of them don't bother to mention that the line art IS NOT THEIRS.
Check it out: [link]
and here [link]
and here [link]
and here [link]
and here [link]
and here [link]

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sethness In reply to DramaQueen99 [2010-02-27 14:44:42 +0000 UTC]

DramaQueen99 said:
"i got rid of the ambigrams. Now can you please never contact me again."

DQ, you're angry at ME? You should hate the crime, NOT the COP.

YOU chose to steal 4 pieces of art from a famous person. YOU posted it on dA, pretending it was your art.

YOU denied that you'd stolen art, despite me posting links to the original artist's work online.

You didn't take the art off your account until dA STAFF TOLD YOU TO.

So don't bother getting angry with me. Instead, try APOLOGIZING to the dA community and then do things honestly, posting your own art and taking RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS.

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sethness In reply to ozplasmic [2010-02-27 14:48:06 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, long time no see.
As you can see, I've given up on W1k and I'm happy to never look back.

I kinda miss the contests and some of my friends there, but nothin' else.

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ozplasmic In reply to sethness [2010-02-28 05:31:25 +0000 UTC]

I miss those days too Seth!
Craftlord made some awesome Escher stuff as well back then , remember his whale tessellation?
Awesome!!

Life goes on regardless,
and it's great to see that somethings never change.
ie You still make amazing art.

Sites change quicker than friends do!

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sethness In reply to ozplasmic [2010-03-01 11:05:34 +0000 UTC]

Sure, I remember Craftlord's whale fractal/tessellation. I think I've got it on my website ( www Tessellations org ).

I have HeyDoofus's "Devil Ducks" tessellation on my site too, I think.

Hey, may I post your "two kissing fish and a ray" tessellation on my site? I'd need only one thing from you: a little description to go with the piece, describing either your methods or inspiration.

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ozplasmic In reply to sethness [2010-03-05 11:49:45 +0000 UTC]

I think it's already there?

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sethness In reply to ozplasmic [2010-03-05 15:59:24 +0000 UTC]

I would've thought so too, but this is the page it would have been on [link] and it ain't there, buddy. Oughta be, so let's correct the oversight, eh!

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