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I guess you're right about how I had strong feelings about the issue. The reason for that is because I care about trying to help make things into a good experience for everyone. I mean obviously I failed here since the only thing I actually ended up doing was accidentally offending you. Again, I apologize for that.
I suppose another reason I kept trying to make the argument was due to the eighth point seen whenever someone uploads something. Perhaps it needs to be altered? I wouldn't know. But yeah, I'll stop now.
Telling an artist that their work is a clog in the gallery is always discouraging if not outright insulting. Let's not pretend otherwise. You continued use of that terminology is problematic, especially when no such issue exists. You are, furthmore, correct that it is not your place to argue this point with me. The admin of this site, whose place you have usurped, has been nothing but complimentary of my work.
You obviously have unusually strong feelings about this issue or you wouldn't still be arguing your point, but you have gone too far. In the future, when you do not mean to argue, as you claim is the case now, then simply do not argue. It's not appropriate to post self-described rambles in the comments under other people's work. That is not what this space is for, and you are completely out of line abusing the comments system this way.
You claim you respect my choices. If you mean what you say at all, then prove it and let me be.
I never discouraged prolific spriting. I'm 100% for that discipline of being able to create on a regular basis. The issue I had is just for a potential one of "clogging up the gallery," and as such, my suggestion was to simply wait to post the sprites as a single image, thinking it would work since the images are part of an "art event" as you said before (I may personally prefer for them to have been posted as one, but I really don't mind either way, in the end it's up to you anyway and I respect that). But I really don't see how that discourages the actual spriting work. It just means waiting a bit to post the images as one, and as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with how an artist creates their art, only with how they release it.
But, I do have to say again, I'm honestly not sure how much of an issue this is or isn't. I am wondering what the website's limits are. For all I know it could be a huge one we don't even need to worry about.
All that said, I'm sorry for rambling on so long with this. I didn't mean to try to argue all this for so long, I just wanted to share a simple suggestion that I thought may make the experience a little smoother for everyone on this site. I understand that it's not my place to really make this argument though. If anything, if the website itself thought it was a problem, they would have likely stepped in by now and said something, so that leads me to believe that it isn't an issue at all.
Apology accepted, Srtawzzboy64, but you're wrong about one thing. Plenty of people do go out of their way to discourage prolific spriters. You're just the latest of several I've had to deal with since joining this place, including two others commenting on this same series.
There is no reason to discourage artists from posting often in a gallery with virtually unlimited display space. Pixel art is is not capable of "clogging" anything. If you want a more curated version of recently posted work, we already have a weekly showcase and a monthly top gallery, in which several of the sprites in this series actually appear.
If anything, we should worry about people NOT posting often. It already takes much more work to post here than it does anywhere else, and that's before people start telling you not to post individual pieces individually, which I was fully aware would happen before I began posting these recently sprites. I for one, would love to see the artists I follow post daily.
I didn't call your work a clog, or at least, I didn't intend to. I'm sorry it came off that way. I was just saying that by posting daily, there's a *potential* issue of the work clogging up this site's gallery, although to be fair, I don't know if that's really a big issue for people here or not as you can easily just scroll down or click on the next page.
I don't think anyone has ever complained about anyone else having a productive week. If anything, I support that! As I said in the previous post, I actually like the idea you had of posting each piece once a day as a halloween art event. I wasn't trying to say that you shouldn't do it at all. Again, I just think it doesn't work as well on this particular site as it does on pretty much every other site.
Again, I apologize for coming off as rude, that was not my intention at all. I actually do like your work and will continue to follow it for a long time coming.
It's rude to call anyone's art a "clog," Strawzzboy64. Each image I upload took a great deal of work, and should be looked over carefully. If there were a way to upload instantly, like on most sites, I would--that's just not an option here.
This is the only site out there were people actually complain if you have a productive week and post your work as you go. It's not normal, it's not helpful, and it's not polite. If you don't like how I post my art, then don't click on it.
Ah, I see! That makes sense then, I like that idea of doing this as an art event.
However, I think the idea is difficult to do on pixeljoint for a couple of reasons. For one thing, there's the issue of potentially clogging up the gallery, as Fusionnist said in the Carmilla piece. Another issue is that it's difficult to do timing-based uploads here due to the approval system. I uploaded a halloween piece at midnight, but had to wait a couple hours for it to be approved, soiling the effect. Mind you, I'm not really complaining, I'm just saying that's how the site works. Lastly, I feel that as a gallery, we like to think of the pieces here as being single complete images that we can carefully look over and appreciate. By uploading the images seperately, it gives the impression that the pieces are not part of a series, when the reality is that they are part of that art event, as you said.
The way I would have done it/compromised is to upload once a day on all the sites except for Pixeljoint, since as you said, the process is a little different here. Instead, I would have waited until halloween to upload them all, then explain in the description that they were part of that series/event. I think the only problem then would just be waiting for the piece to be approved before Halloween is over, but I think it's a smaller "price" to pay.
Thanks, Strawzzboy64. I made these sprites as part of my Twelve Days of Halloween pixel art event, and wanted them uploaded in the order I made them. I've done one a day on my Tumblr, Twitter, and DA, but the posting process is a little different here. Suffice to say, posting them individually leading up to Halloween is preferable to posting a single image when the holiday is already over.
Thanks, Paddy, but I'm satisfied with how I curate my art.
I love this cartoony/NES style you got going with these. The humans kinda remind me of the Mother series, especially Grandpa Munster and Fiona Goode. Kang so far may be my favorite, the style works really well on an actual cartoon, hah (Where's Kodos??).
I agree with Paddy. I would love to be able to see all of these in one image, though I think the Slimer and Carmilla sprites may not be as fitting since they have more shading detail, almost like SNES sprites. I think it would be easier on the guys who have to approve each piece one by one as well.
I'm guessing you're making these seperately and uploading them as you finish though?
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I feel like it probably would've been best to upload all these as one image but oh well, they look pretty nifty regardless.
Yes, please do stop. And please don't hassle anyone else as much as you've hassled me.