I
COMPLETELY flat-out agree with you, ninaste, especially for the following sheer variety of all-important reasons I am about to tell you right now.
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First off, you are quite splendidly damn correct on exactly everything you said (
), especially on the fact that even though I just yesterday sent in this very piece of “
The Lovers of the Sacred Sands” to a group on dA that says that it actually suggests artworks for a Daily Deviation (DD) for when they are accepted there, mature content or not... and guess what? It came out REJECTED a few hours later without any explanation whatsoever (I am not kidding!!!
!! ) — even though I
did follow all the rules and even checked their galleries as well — which is *rather* shocking indeed considering that this whole piece to begin with really deserves an entire lot better than that, to be honest!!! Wow.
It reminds me of some my own personal experiences like that as I now talk to you for the first time about my whole entire art style that I have been improving and improving upon over the years, ninaste, and it is right here in this special little journal piece of mine from August 23, 2010 that I
quite so encouragingly want you to read and pay such richly intimate attention to (
):
You know something, when it comes to my own art style, my man, I DO NOT do what’s popular. No. I do what is
intimately QUITE original as in uncharted, unusual, rather beautiful, and yet in such amazingly good taste (all in at least some way, shape, or form!) — something that a massive ton of people have never ever seen before, yet
something that they all CAN ACTUALLY RELATE TO, too. Wow, I cannot stress this quite enough, and it is especially,
especially well-plain-needed these days, you know!?
!!
In the case of quicksand and the way that I have undeniably implemented it most artistically in a number of my own digital paintings like this current new one of “
The Lovers of the Sacred Sands”, one of the most, most magnificent beauties of this soft, slimy, and yielding viscous substance is it *can* be used to create spectacular beauty in many unusual and challenging new ways, as well as letting us in on the raw, powerful emotion so intensely striking in making that very loveliness come alive big-time (which is no doubt the case with this very artwork right here, and nothing less!!!
)... all you have to do is to SIMPLY have an open mind that just transcends above both all familiarity and movie clichés, and it will surely take us to places we have never, ever been to before!!! You got me?
!!
I mean, listen, I have seen some
rather strangely unusual (yet splendidly amazing-quality!!!) artworks that were actually featured as Daily Deviations because they were all executed in good taste overall that ultimately relates to us, and that is quite evident in the fact that the many dA Gallery Moderators these days are especially looking for something spectacularly original, new, and entirely fresh indeed that is just worthy of being seen by over 18+ million deviants, something to truly break us away from the usual, everyday, popular stuff that we have been seeing in this art community all the time. More to the point, furthermore, these very people are UNDOUBTEDLY looking especially for that kind of incredible stuff from
hugely, hugely underrated artists who indeed have something so spectacularly original, new, and entirely fresh most brilliantly to say to us right through their own artworks, that it just speaks to them and to especially all of us worldwide deeply as well — from the concept, to the design, to the execution, and all the way to the overall damn impact out of it all that just blows us away speechless!!! You see what I am saying now?
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So as you spectacularly said, ninaste,
art expresses the passion of the artist, and that’s it.
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Having said all of that in entirety, considering that I already had my one and only DD feature so far on a pixel-art piece back on February 2008 (as you can see on my “DD-features”-page right here:
[link]), I want to hear your deep, in-depth thoughts on all of that I just said in this entire message here... I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE to hear that from you indeed, since it is such a phenomenal,
phenomenal damn pleasure with you around on deviantART and then quite some!!!
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