In the last few month i’ve seen a lot of good artists here on DA. Good Traditional-Artists, Photographers and Manipulators! On the other side i’ve seen a lot of crap on here. I don’t know what it’s all about this photomanipulation-thing…must be the technological virus of the time i’m living in, i guess. Anyway…it seems like this virus causes, that every shithead, who’s able to handle a computer and several programs, can call his/herself an artist or whatever. I think that it’s pretty sad, if you’re surfing around on DA and the only thing you find is the same crap over and over again. Same subjects same style etc… For example: I’m a member of several clubs right now, which are all pretty busy to create something cool and support their members by exposing their Dark-Art , which is a good thing of course. The less good thing: If you check their Gallery, you’ll find the same stuff over and over again. I’ve now stopped to check out new club deviations, because even if i only read the title of a new deviation, i can tell you what you may see on it: 30%= A woman infront of a haunted house/church, 30%= A woman infront of a dark landscape, 20%= A H.R. Giger wannabe, 10%= cheap fantasy-stuff, 5%= Fetish-Girls doing something extremely „evil“, 5%= Something really good! Most of them are a lot more worse than the covers of some 70’s Trash-Horror-Movies. To the clubs: If you feel offended by this somehow, you’re free to kick me out the club! It’s just my opinion and i don’t force anybody to share it. And again: I don’t wanna piss off every Photomanipulator here on DA!!! I got a lot of really talented Manipulators in my Friendlist, with really cool ideas and a lot of skills! And i really respect their work and their talent! I think that these few people really deserve „A Watch“ and the definition: Artist! My criticism goes out to the other 95% on DA! On the other side, i know that i’m not really in the position to judge a subject like this! If you check my Gallery, you’ll see that i’m also not a big genius if it’s about Traditional art….i also got a lot of missing skills and talent. But i think that i’m free to say what pisses me off. I miss some creative people on here, who are able to seperate themselves from all the others. And i miss some people, who are able to handle a pencil or a brush these days…. But it seems like it’s the artistically hype of this century: Being a Photomanipulator. That’s it for now…
So bring on the hatemail, if you can’t handle it!

„Thanks for listening!“ or „Go fuck yourself“ (Choose one!)


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