Larry Correia hits it out of the park again.

[agilebrit]

I'ma just leave this here: The Legalities of Shooting People.

ETA: Okay, I realize that everyone is having a blast smacking Clamps around like a cheap pinata, but I'm going to bow out at this point in time. I have a Sunday deadline I'm desperately trying to hit on a story that's making me crazy

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[yamamanama]

Wait, why doesn't the collage one count? For that matter, why doesn't Fiberoptic Fireworks count either? Wait a minute, how does sorting by popularity even work? I thought it would be by views and by views alone. Is it views and comments, is it views and comments over time? Girl with Pastel Hair has 248 views and 3 favorites. There's a oil pastel tree with 336 views, a mask with 372 views, a mask with 469 views,

The hips thing can be explained by simple geometry. When she took a picture of herself, she took it around head level.
The hand I messed up. I was going for bent fingers, aside from her pinkie, and didn't want to obscure the patterns on her shirt too much.

You, however, are popular because you have bondage photography. I'm like Archer regarding that stuff: I'm happier not knowing about it. It doesn't help that very few, if any, people involved with that stuff are actually attractive.

Drow's most popular image is a pregnant elf. And that's the only reason it got 37 favorites.

[tlknighton]

The point, that you once again illustrate that you're incapable of comprehending is that a collage says nothing about your drawing ability. Different mediums use different skills, after all. You could be shit hot at making collages and still not be able to make passable stick figures as a drawer.

Not that I expect you to comprehend it this time either.

[yamamanama]

Nobody said anything about just drawing ability. Mauser was comparing my viewcount/favorite count with his own art's viewcount/favorite count and spoiler alert, he doesn't have any actual drawings or paintings in there.

[tlknighton]

Spoiler alert: Go back and read. Julie said the same thing a half dozen times.

Another spoiler alert: You're a moron.

[yamamanama]

I went back and looked and Mauser said that collages don't take skill and Agilebrit somehow mistook her icon for a mosaic and says they're not on the level as something done from scratch, and that's not true.

[werewolf_hacker]

This entire thing started because you said you once got five whole bucks for a damn portrait. Which I'm assuming you drew, and was not a mosaic or a collage; feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

So. This thread is about your drawing ability.

[tlknighton]

Remember when I said he willfully chooses to miss the point? He illustrates it yet again.

[werewolf_hacker]

That's because he doesn't have a leg to stand on. And he knows it, somewhere in the dark recesses of the thing he calls a brain.

[cutelildrow]

*smile* see the point I raise where I say that I've been paid up to $600 for a piece. This was the price that the person making the commission told me he would pay, and he did.

So that's what some people have thought about the worth of my drawing ability.

[yamamanama]

I'm guessing you mean R2-Double-D2. That thing is not worth 600 Burma dollars, which are used syringes.

[yamamanama]

I did. It was on the shuttle bus, she saw me drawing portraits of other passengers, she told me about herself, she asked me for one and she gave me five dollars in exchange.

I also specifically said artistic ability because there are no paintings by Drow or Mauser.

[mauser]

And a Collage isn't a painting.

They don't take any drawing or painting skills. This is why making them is so popular in first grade art classes.

You must have eaten more than your fair share of paste.

[yamamanama]

But collages take artistic skill.
There's a huge difference between the portrait I made out of bits of old paintings and National Geographic magazines and something a first grader put together.

[mauser]

Reeeealy. The problem is, you didn't create anything new out of the bits, like say one would do with a mosaic. You made a Collage that represents pretty much the same thing that all the original pieces you used represented, so you didn't really add much through your efforts.

And clearly it's not all that impressive, because it doesn't have much more in the way of views or favorites than anything else in your gallery. 445 and 5.

You say it's a "Huge difference" but I really don't see much of one. You made Baghdad out of Baghdad. BFD. I'm not seeing the skill here.

And this is your highest artistic accomplishment? Getting on four and a half years ago.