(fifteen, fourteen, thirteen...)


Well, more like slightly less obscurity, a momentary prominence in dA's little corner of the internet, at least.

Of course, praise and recognition are always fun and satisfying. But it feels odd to get a DD on an image that, I have to say, is not one that I feel is among my strongest. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth at all.

I'm VERY glad that =EternalFallacy found it interesting enough to recommend, and that ^opioid would choose it! And I never post anything that I'm not happy enough with to put my signature on, as it were.

(twelve, eleven, ten...)

But getting a burst of activity and messages and comments makes me mull over, at least briefly, why it is I'm here on dA. For me, having a dA gallery basically serves as motivation to create new work. I try to post something new every week. Not that I have an artificial quota for myself, but because if a week goes by without something new to post, that means a week went by during which I didn't create anything worth posting. Which is a bummer, because the time I spend on my art pieces is so enjoyable and satisfying, though occasionally frustrating and *unsatisfying* if after many hours of work I end up with nothing, zip, just more files filling up the old hard drive.

(nine, eight, seven...)

And so, after a few unproductive weeks, as my dA traffic slows down from lack of new work, I get tempted to post something that I'm not entirely thrilled with, even though I tell myself repeatedly that it is the *quality* of the work that counts, not the quantity. So there's that inner conflict between the "only post the best" voice and the "Zero messages??... nobody loves me anymore" voice.

(six, five, four...)

But then when I see that the new visitors generated by the DD are looking through my whole gallery, and faving even some of the old pieces, I realize that there's probably truth to the old "there's no such thing as bad publicity" saying, and so I'm back to being thrilled to have a work of mine included amongst the DDs, and looking forward to working my way through the replies to the various messages, and hoping I'll have some time at the end to work on some more new stuff, and recommitting myself to only putting up things that I'm completely happy with, and hoping I can blow the socks off of all those new Watchers I've accumulated today.

And a special Thank You to all my past Watchers and friends! DA is always a highlight of my day.

(three, two, one... and *back* to obscurity. Thank you Andy Warhol, wherever you are.)