News and Other Stuff

Well, lots of things have happened since my last post - mainly, one year has passed, and we're back in winter holidays. I've been working on my website and Project Nelson, as well as a comic viewer, among other projects. Also, our school just had its' ball, which was great fun!

On Favourites

I've seen the opinion that favourites should be a private affair - there for the favoring artist alone to view. That's all very well and good (and it'd make my job of clearing my six-thousand-and-something devwatch all the easier ^^). Perhaps for some people it's too much of a "look at me and all my favs" thing.

Buuuut... it ignores the reason I favourite in the first place - the same reason I write posts about people, have a blogroll or draw fanart for artists who's work I like. _{^{(OK, that last one was merely inspired by another artists' work, but it still counts, right? ^^)}}

Here's my laundry-list of reasons why I favourite art:

• Because I like the art: Well, duh. It's not like I go around favouriting stuff I don't like!


• To show the artist I like the art: Favouriting art tells the artist that they've done good work, that they're going in the right direction, ect. It encourages the artist to keep drawing, to get better, ect.


• To show other people I like the art: Favouriting art puts it on my front page, where other people can look at it, say "Ah, what great artwork!", and forget about me completely. This means more people can find artwork they like as well.

Ultimately, the people who brag about their favs all the time are jerks anyway and would probably be jerks even if the favourites system was scaled back. They'd just use pageviews instead (like everyone else ^^).

What about you guys? Why do you favourite art?

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