I dunno if you guessed it, but I like drawing cute little
ponies….fanart of a children’s cartoon. And every so often, someone
feels the need to tell me that my personal interest is stupid, childish,
cancerous…..“cringe-y”. Boy howdy, do I hear that word tossed around a lot. Cringe, cringe, cringe. We’re all afraid of making something cringe-worthy. Something that could end up in those lovely “Bad OC” cringe compilations. I see other artists, especially young creators, getting policed and attacked for creating something that could-gasp!- be interpreted as the dreaded Mary Sue. So artists stifle themselves. Can’t make your OC too colorful. Don’t you dare make
them related to a canon character! Better watch that backstory, lest
somebody decry your character as an edgelord. You can have a nerdy
interest, but you better not be too fucking passionate about it. Watch yourself. Don’t be too different. Don’t be cringe-y.
So
here’s my question to ye gatekeepers of content, ye knowers of all
things cringe-worthy, ye adamant enforcers of creative
conformity………..Who cares?
Really.
Why. Why is “cringe” an issue? So what if someone makes an edgy
black-and-red OC, or a sparkly mary sue alicorn princess? So what if
somebody makes up an over-powered self-insert and ships them with a
canon character? So what if somebody dares to be unironically passionate
about a fandom or interest considered less-than-cool? Who cares if
people have imperfect, cliche-riddled characters they love?
Cringe culture is mean-spirited. It demands creators conform. It’s perpetuated by people who, quite oddly, get really bent out of shape at the sight of people unironically enjoying harmless things.
I
say forget it. Trample it. Let people have fun. Especially don’t be
cruel to young creators- nobody learns to be a skilled artist or writer
overnight. And this is by no means a statement against criticism…..but
there’s a big, big difference between giving constructive criticism, vs choosing to crap on somebody for having a “cringe-y” interest.
Idk.
I’m a teacher with an Art Education degree, and I believe one of the
most important things is to encourage people’s interest in the arts, not
push them away (out of a mean-spirited attempt to seem cooler by
proxy). My favorite Mister Rogers quote (applies to artists of all
ages):
“Do you like to draw with
crayons? I’m not very good at it. But it doesn’t matter. It’s the fun of
doing it that’s important. Now, I wouldn’t have made that if I just
thought about it. No matter how anybody says it is….It feels good to
have made something.”
Maybe pick you fav and tell me what mood/atmosphere they show to you? A few colour and lighting experiments i’m doing while i work on a tutorial for simple shading, knowing what you think might help me improve it! These are all using the same base colours and the same technique but in different ways, i’ll cover that in the tutorial.
[Image: Screencap from the above website; you can click through to read the whole thing, but I’m going to copy-paste this same bit because it answers so many questions in my life – mostly related to “Why am I crying about this?”]
Rejection sensitive dysphoria
(RSD) is an extreme emotional sensitivity and emotional pain triggered
by the perception – not necessarily the reality – that a person has been
rejected, teased, or criticized by important people in their life. RSD
may also be triggered by a sense of failure, or falling short – failing
to meet either their own high standards or others’ expectations.
Dysphoria is Greek for “difficult to bear.” It’s not that people with
ADHD are wimps, or weak; it’s that the emotional response hurts them
much more than it does people without the condition.
When this emotional response is internalized, it can
imitate full, major depression complete with suicidal ideation. The
sudden change from feeling perfectly fine to feeling depressed that
results from RSD is often misdiagnosed as rapid cycling bipolar
disorder.
It can take a long time for physicians to recognize that these symptoms
are caused by the sudden emotional changes associated with ADHD and
rejection sensitivity, while all other object relations are totally
normal.
When this emotional response is externalized, it looks
like an impressive, instantaneous rage at the person or situation
responsible for causing the pain. 50% of people who are assigned
court-mandated anger-management treatment have previously unrecognized
ADHD.
Capslock translation from above: “Wow Im so glad my doctor told me about this” said none of us ever
One more reblog for the road. I’ve seen at least eight people go “There’s a name for this?” as a result of sharing this link, and I want to try and reach even more. It’s so meaningful to me to know that there’s something going on, and that it’s not just me being inadequate at dealing with my emotions. When you consider the level of horror I feel over even minor screwups, my reactions are completely understandable. My feelings are valid.
For anyone else out there who cries over spilled milk, or at the drop of a hat? This might be worth a read.
This is your irregular reminder that Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Is A (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad) Thing.
Alternately, this is your notice that There’s A Name For That Horrible Experience.
Support to all of my fellow ADHD-ers out there; RSD is made of terrible.
if it wasnt for undertale, i probably wouldnt have my job? i applied to my current studio over a year ago with a storyboard test i had done for Disney TV the previous year. i didn’t progress with the disney job because of location reasons, but the director who contacted me for the test found me through the UT animatic I made. once i applied and supplied the test i did, our director was like LOL START RIGHT NOW. if it wasnt for undertale i wouldnt have made the UT themed animatic, and i wouldnt have done the test and i wouldnt have had anything Good And Decent to show when i applied since i was working as a janitor at the time and had zero motivation. now i work full time in the animation industry as a storyboard artist…. all thanks to Toby and fanart….. if someone tells you that you cant live a life doing fanart as an artist, vomit on their shoes and then walk away. its perfectly fine.
Same dude. I got my first job in an animation studio a few years ago, but it wasn’t even in animation. I lost the job because I couldn’t keep up dealing with it and finishing college ( with a graphic design graduation because it was the closest I thought I could get to digital art) so I lost so much of my motivation. A while after I went through some heavy family problems that only made it worse, but in this moment that I needed the most, Undertale came up and filled me with passion, drive to create, motivation to study again, show what I could do. So in another studio, with a bunch of fanart, I studied more then ever, applied myself, and now I work in a project in a studio I’ve been dreaming to work through most of this journey. It will always mean so much to me.
I got my two current animation jobs and my previous design job through Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sonic, and Ghost Rider fanart. Fanart is a BOON in this field – it gives you something to be passionate enough about to do good work. Nobody cares what it’s fanart of – if it’s good work, that will speak for itself.
EVERY. SINGLE. CUSTOMER. EVER: Well, I guess it’s free. ^-^
I have found the best way to combat this! Look the customer dead in the eye and with the most serious, deadpan face say “No. That means I get to pick the price.”
“I GET TO PICK THE PRICE.”
I think you’ve destroyed the dreaded “it must be free,” phrase once and for all!
My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.
I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”
I searched and searched for the post this graphic was from, and the OP deactivated, but I kept the graphic, because my BFF does the same thing, uses her imagination to come up with the worst pain she can imagine and pegs her “10″ there, and so is like, well, I’m conscious, so this must be a 5, and then the doctors don’t take her seriously. (And she then does things like driving herself to the hospital while in the process of giving birth. Probably should have called an ambulance for that one!)
So I found this and sent it to her. Because this is what they want to know: how badly is this pain affecting you? Not on a scale of “nothing” to “how I’d imagine it’d feel if bears were eating my still-living guts while I was on fire”.
I hate reposting stuff, but I’ll never find that post again and OP is deactivated, so, here’s a repost. I can delete this later, i just wanted to get it to you and I can’t embed images in a chat or an ask.
This is possibly why it took several weeks to diagnose my fractured spine.
Pain Scale transcription:
10 – I am in bed and I can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.
9 – My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.
8 – My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.
7 – I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.
6 – I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.
5 – I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.
4 – I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.
3 – My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.
2 – I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.
1 – My pain is hardly noticeable.
0 – I have no pain.
It’s also really important to get this kind of scale to people who have chronic pain, because chronic pain drastically lowers your perception of how “bad” any kind of pain actually is, and yet something like this pain scale is extremely user friendly.
For example, if someone asked me how much pain I’m in at any given time, I’d say hardly any, and yet I’m apparently at a chronic 2.5, and it only goes up from there depending on the day.
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