ElStormo

I've amused myself writing up these 44 Rules of DeviantArt. If you think anything's missing, feel free to suggest :) HOLY SHIT THEY'RE ON ED NOW! I put them there, but it's still cool. Let's see if they last! 44 Rules of DeviantArt 1. DeviantArt is serious business 2. One day, I’ll be a great manga artist 3. The longer the journal entries, the better my art becomes 4. The more flashing friend icons, the better my art becomes 5. Tracing and recoloring is the same as using a reference 6. Blurry MySpace pictures of myself, taken without even using the timer mode are art 7. Photoshop filters are the same as photography skill 8. Len

We don't care when you're online or not. You're not that important.

Just so it's said, I'm getting increasingly peeved at people who think this is a MySpace. Everywhere I look there's dorks who post silly snapshots of their cats, their left feet or the waterboiler in their basement and post them here. Those are usually the people who can be found whining about how "their art" is so-and-so, and "their art" is such-and-such, and how "photography is just as artistic as other artforms". Yeah, photography *is* art, but only when it's done well, not when you snapped a pic of your toolbox and uploaded it to your PC. If you're one of them, I hope you experience something very unpleasant, like having your excrement g