#the mailbag

Saw this and thought of you.

is this a shirt

So I decided to make my first ever Reddit post the other day and posted a drawing I made and it was all fine until one guy started pointing out how he doesn’t believe me that it’s my artwork. So we started arguing back and forth with him basically just saying he will believe me if I post a Timelapse of me drawing it since “every software has those now adays”.

I pointed out that I use Sai and didn’t record it since I was already streaming at the same time (so I also had a few people who can vouch and one even did). + I don’t see the use in doing Timelapse’s since I don’t post them anywhere and it would just be a waste of saving space.

Either way I didn’t want to let it sink in that my 10+ hour artwork was “faked” so I drew another (only 4 hours) recorded it and posted it. He then had the audacity to say (summed up) “it isn’t the same picture, it’s way uglier and you’re lying” which first of all ouch? It’s not ugly? But ok sure.

But more importantly I pointed out in the beginning of the argument that I didn’t had a speedpaint of the posted picture so obviously I was going to draw something else (same hyper realistic style) because I’m not going to draw another 10+ hours just to shove it down his throat. (Apart from that drawing the same picture twice so shortly after one another is just boring and meh)

Also I just feel like that even if I would’ve posted the Timelapse of the original picture he wouldn’t have believed me and would’ve found another way of accusing me to fake it. I just don’t get how some people can be so stuck up in their obviously wrong accusations instead of agreeing they made a mistake and apologizing.

But if you're taking a break and/or have moved on, just wanted to send you appreciation and gratitude.

So when I was 14 and in my freshman year of high school, I was in special education because I had autism and ADHD, among other things. I had recently discovered how to animate in flipaclip and, as I was excited about my new skill I told one of my special ed teachers. The next day she asked me to animate a 4ish minute long animation on social skills. I asked her to pay me for it (like 20$) because I knew what commissions were at the time. She said that she couldn’t (school policy or something, which is fair.) then she said that i would “make the lower functioning kids happy” so that’s why I had to do it. I told her to fuck off in more polite terms. She never liked me after that. Sorry if this doesn’t fit the theme of the blog.