User blog comment:Freefalling Lilacs/An Art-Based TDI:FYE Blog/@comment-2021069-20110719042536/@comment-1153194-20110719152627

A. Thanks for this post. I'm glad you understand how I feel on it. I don't get jealous or anything (usually), but like you said. This isn't a competition. I like it when other good artists post their own pictures for their stories. It gives me something to look at, and enjoy. I just don't like the comparing one to another, though I admit that your character models and mine (probably not so much my newer ones, given their size) are similar. Which is entirely fine by me. I know I've inspired other artists on here, and I don't let it get to my head. The truth is, I was really just the first person to make character images here without recoloring, at least the first that took off. If it were someone else, they would have been the inspiration. I try not to view myself as better or worse than anyone else (to avoid egotism or depression), so flat out hearing it from other users was slightly disappointing, but I'm over it. I look forward to more of your art (which I always try to be supportive of, if you haven't noticed on talk pages for your characters/doing alts for one of your guys, which I'm all for doing again sometime, if you have a sequel), and this blog should have been about your art as opposed to mine, anyway.

As for your proposal to make a how to background blog, I'm 100% for it. I'm always willing to learn to get better. Kgman also posted a character how to, that I fully intend to incorporate some of the tips from.