OMG, ALL THIS IS THE BEST POSSIBLE THING TO HEAR. I'm glad you've enjoyed watching the process, even when I was making complete icon messes - I love that you see value even in those stages. And wow, I love that you see more logic in my progress/constant style changes than I do.
Another thing I'm just SO glad of is that you seem to approve of my texture addiction and even call it a strength! I always worry about if and when it's too much, so this really made my day. And yeah, both the textureless and the text sets happened just because it just bugs me if I know I'm bad at something, so I do this counterintuitive thing where I focus on improving my weaknesses rather than highlighting my strengths and taking them further. It might be a bit stupid cause it leads to sets that aren't as good quality as they could have been, had I taken the other option, but then again I always love challenging myself so I don't know if this strategy will continue this year or not, we'll see!
Glad you like the resolutions! I'll just have to keep them clearly in mind, cause the center crop + negative space happens so freaking automatically when I'm not thinking. Oh and major thanks for the commenting encouragement too, I know people should - logically thinking - appreciate a short comment better than no comment at all. But then I start worrying that if I leave just one sentence, they'll think 'what, doesn't this john_scorpy person usually leave much more in-depth comments, guess he didn't like my set much then' and in the end the comment will be more of a disappointment than not getting one at all would have been. But then again I may be thinking too much again, and people might actually have better things to obsess over than the length of some random person's comments. Also it's really good to hear that you at least don't see it like that (still, comments to you are far from the first thing I'd cut content from - I'm mostly thinking of entries I 'have to' comment on, in 20in20s and such, and also really big posts like battles where I usually don't even know where to begin).
Thanks again for taking the time to take a look at a post like this, it's really appreciated and an unexpected treat considering the size of this thing!
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Another thing I'm just SO glad of is that you seem to approve of my texture addiction and even call it a strength! I always worry about if and when it's too much, so this really made my day. And yeah, both the textureless and the text sets happened just because it just bugs me if I know I'm bad at something, so I do this counterintuitive thing where I focus on improving my weaknesses rather than highlighting my strengths and taking them further. It might be a bit stupid cause it leads to sets that aren't as good quality as they could have been, had I taken the other option, but then again I always love challenging myself so I don't know if this strategy will continue this year or not, we'll see!
Glad you like the resolutions! I'll just have to keep them clearly in mind, cause the center crop + negative space happens so freaking automatically when I'm not thinking. Oh and major thanks for the commenting encouragement too, I know people should - logically thinking - appreciate a short comment better than no comment at all. But then I start worrying that if I leave just one sentence, they'll think 'what, doesn't this john_scorpy person usually leave much more in-depth comments, guess he didn't like my set much then' and in the end the comment will be more of a disappointment than not getting one at all would have been. But then again I may be thinking too much again, and people might actually have better things to obsess over than the length of some random person's comments. Also it's really good to hear that you at least don't see it like that (still, comments to you are far from the first thing I'd cut content from - I'm mostly thinking of entries I 'have to' comment on, in 20in20s and such, and also really big posts like battles where I usually don't even know where to begin).
Thanks again for taking the time to take a look at a post like this, it's really appreciated and an unexpected treat considering the size of this thing!