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« on: Nov 06, 2010, 02:35 PM »
I was brought here by mvm and penryn. They were talking about Void after I got back from playing football, and I had never heard of it... they showed it to me and were talking about how they had been reading stuff here for years but had never tried to make characters, and they started getting pumped talking about how all 3 of us should submit at the same time and try to get in, since they both drew and I had used to draw.
I hadn't drawn in a LONG, LONG time and I wasn't so sure I wanted to at first. I spent most my time playing sports and working, but they talked me into it and we made a deadline to turn it in by... they kept telling me they were going strong, they'd be done soon, and I'd better be almost done too...
but then I submited and they didn't.
I wanted to get on if they did... but otherwise, I didn't really care to do it at all, and I was pretty pissed they had talked me into it and left me hanging out to dry. I probably would have just left, but then people started critting me...
and it was really hardcore. I was upset. I didn't want to leave NOW. Defeated! I didn't really even want to come on in the first place, and now they weren't gonna LET me in?! It lit a spark in me.
James was gone, Ponbiki was gone, Mize, Marley, Seel, Bacardi, Kure, Sheldon, Griffin, Chamba, Lysol, Corry, Foo, P2... all gone. I wasn't here for any of those guys fights, they had all left... and when I came here, talent seemed pretty thin.
Why were people who sucked at anatomy, telling me I sucked at anatomy? Or people who couldn't draw perspective, ripping into my perspective? Why did some of the 'selection committee' members art look like they drew it on a bus on a bumpy road with their left hand when they were really right handed? or vice versa, and people I thought were horrible were in and had more then a few battles, and they wouldn't let me on?
Now I'm not saying I had the right attitude, I'm just telling you why I took it so hard when they told me over and over and over that I wasn't good enough to be on the site and to try again.
In retrospect, I would have done it differently... I'd try to not be so easily upset, or not try to out-dick people that are dicks... but now, it's funny, Void isn't that way as much anymore. It's way nicer. Far more welcoming. Sometimes even kind and encouraging. There are people of all levels, and people are fine with it. It even seems pretty easy to get in now... they even had a tournament, just LETTING people in. And we have NEW legends: Amazingdavid, One Dark Knight, Drastic Fantastic, Jet, Airlight, Squidman, and Orange... Ponbiki's back, P2, Kon, Jho, Perca and Mize have all stopped back thru, and there are many, many, many more awesome artists doing stuff right at this moment.
I've even been trying to bridge the WFA/Void gap and go over there and do stuff regularly and bring some of them over here to do awesome comics.
I've made some enemies on here, but I've made a lot of FRIENDS too... and mvm and Penryn finally got there butts in here also.
That's what brought me here, that's why I stayed, and that's why I'll be back.
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