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Description you see, these basic reading and writing skills are important. please spread this around.
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Ori-chan7 [2006-06-20 01:06:53 +0000 UTC]

hehe, when i first saw this i got a little worried that i would be feeling a bit guilty...phew... the only thing i do wrong is the speeeling. that would be my lack of typing skills...sad day. very funny, and i like the scribblies...*y'know, it'd be totally ironic if you put critique discouraged on this one^^*

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lilmissmaya In reply to Ori-chan7 [2006-06-20 01:09:41 +0000 UTC]

XD "if you are reading this, you prolly don't need to."
and there's nothing like piddling around with a stamp brush pack

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Ori-chan7 In reply to lilmissmaya [2006-06-20 03:39:13 +0000 UTC]

very true on both counts^^ now watch, after all these NICE people applaud you, along comes a bozo with a few dozen expletives....but maybe not^^

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Blue-Balloon [2006-06-19 19:06:01 +0000 UTC]

I actually didn't know some of these.

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lilmissmaya In reply to Blue-Balloon [2006-06-19 19:48:56 +0000 UTC]

I hope you knew about the no caps one at least XD

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Autumn-Sun In reply to ??? [2006-06-19 17:55:25 +0000 UTC]

Number Four can't be reiterated enough!!

Not sure if I totally agree with number 6, however. I know asking about technique is annoying, but complimenting it is that bad?

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lilmissmaya In reply to Autumn-Sun [2006-06-19 18:40:32 +0000 UTC]

what? I said to comment on technique, not the subject.

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Autumn-Sun In reply to lilmissmaya [2006-06-20 00:43:27 +0000 UTC]

Crap. I'm sorry! The wording confused me there.

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CraigzeFunky [2006-06-19 13:36:26 +0000 UTC]

Completly agree with the first one.. the second one, also agree.. number three, God yes I agree. Number four, HELL YES I bloody agree with that one (I can't stress enough over how many time's I've recieved "omfg it looks liek ". Number five, also agree. Number six, definetly agree, it's what I try and do with the artists who are on my watcher's list (the artist's that I actually like). Number seven, I wish people did that more often.. and finally number eight, I once again agree.

VERY nice, and funny tutorial you've made lilmissmaya, I really agree with what you've said. It's also a really clever 'tutorial', being both informative, and very funny. I'm not very much of a big or popular artist at deviantART myself, but when it comes to the comments I recieve, I can seriously say - many of those people (who attempted to comment on my work) could learn a few things from this. Regarding the actual presentation itself, nicely done, although a minor problem could be some of your spelling (no offense >_> ), it's probably best to copy and paste your words from Microsoft Word (using the spellchecker beforehand) then into the piece, regardless that's not a very big problem at all. The background is very cool, I especially like the skull and cross bones.

Great tutorial! I'm sure people will learn from this.

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lilmissmaya In reply to CraigzeFunky [2006-06-19 13:42:50 +0000 UTC]

heh yeah... my spell is pretty bad. I should copy and paste next time, I hadn't thought of that! I'm actually very mildly dyslexic (but not as bad as my mom or my brother) but it's a bad excuse XD
I'm glad you like it, I took what I've heard from other artists and slapped it together to make a point to someone else.

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TheEclipse [2006-06-19 10:41:13 +0000 UTC]

"READ THE ARTIST COMMENTS"

Favourite one by far. It's funny how these things are so blatantly obvious and yet it still has to be said. xD Sometimes people don't even read the start of your post. *sigh*

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Reba-Joy In reply to ??? [2006-06-19 02:39:29 +0000 UTC]

Thank you SO much for making this.

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DeesDilemma [2006-06-18 23:59:35 +0000 UTC]

. . . you rock.

Really, if your going to comment it doesn't take that much energy to make it a good comment D: The longer a comment it the more time a person spent on looking at something, unless they are truely at a loss for words.

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lilmissmaya In reply to DeesDilemma [2006-06-19 00:16:11 +0000 UTC]

so true. eventually I should make a new version adding a few things like "don't write comments less then 5 words" and "read the first page of comments to make sure you arn't repeating what has been said ad naseam"

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DeesDilemma In reply to lilmissmaya [2006-06-19 00:21:10 +0000 UTC]

haha yeah. I'm glad I don't get repeatitive comments xD;; often anyway. I try to say something different to catch the eye of the artist, since I like conversation, and i like art. And if i like something enough to comment on it, i try to make it somewhat meaningful ._.;;

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lilmissmaya In reply to DeesDilemma [2006-06-19 00:36:06 +0000 UTC]

those are always the best.
my favorite comments are ones asking for more info about the chars or the picture. ^_^

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DeesDilemma In reply to lilmissmaya [2006-06-21 02:03:59 +0000 UTC]

mm, I don't think i've had many of those, but to know your art has interested someone else in that subject I'm sure would be an awesome feeling

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diamondscan In reply to ??? [2006-06-18 22:27:04 +0000 UTC]

ahaha... this is great Sarah. You always want those critiques don't ya?

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lilmissmaya In reply to diamondscan [2006-06-18 23:31:03 +0000 UTC]

more like I want the idiots to wait 30 seconds and then re-read what they wrote before posting.

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puffgirl117 [2006-06-18 19:52:13 +0000 UTC]

That's too hilarious! And very useful!
"Think homosexuality is wrong? Good for you, but it isn't going to change what the artist is going to draw."

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Anukis [2006-06-18 19:42:51 +0000 UTC]

Amen. xD I hate seeing the second-grade material comments that really, NO one wants to pay attention to v_v.

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Sevyn [2006-06-18 16:54:46 +0000 UTC]

Ahah. xD Awesome, and very true. I bet a lot of people would learn something from this if they read it... -Adds to favourites and spreads the word-
I'm sure that all of the good artists who are sick of receving spineless, thoughtless comments salute you - myself included, despite how I am *not* a good artist. x)

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demonsaya In reply to ??? [2006-06-18 16:29:04 +0000 UTC]

This is really great, but you forgot one. No comment annoys me more than the 'Cool' comment, and that's ALL THAT'S THERE!!! It drives me NUTS! I don't mind so much if someone looks at it and says 'it's cool', but I'd like to know WHY they think it's cool. That way I keep doing whatever it is right >.<

But seriously though, there are several people off of Fanfiction.net who need to come read this before they go and write reviews on stories. I mean, they offer spell checking in reviews and half the people don't even USE it >.<; That's right, lousy, hard-to-read comments abound in every place that comments are an option XD I'm going to pass this around, maybe some people who need it will see it XD

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1PoetsWords In reply to demonsaya [2006-06-25 19:53:51 +0000 UTC]

I think the funniest thing about that comment is that...all the people on fanfic are writers, or trying to be writers....and they can't spell right in their critiques..... i dunno, it just cracks me up.

"i am gong 2 b a graet righter 1 day!!"

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demonsaya In reply to 1PoetsWords [2006-06-26 19:43:49 +0000 UTC]

ROFLMAO! Exactly!

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Arierure [2006-06-18 03:40:31 +0000 UTC]

this is way cool~~~~~
i totally agree with them all. especially #4. it makes me dskughskdlghsdlngdsnvdslngvdslnmldsk when someone says my characters look like someone else. DDD:

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lilmissmaya In reply to Arierure [2006-06-18 03:44:33 +0000 UTC]

oh yeah I've heard so many ppl complain it before ^_^

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Arierure In reply to lilmissmaya [2006-06-18 07:26:24 +0000 UTC]

yeah @_< its insaaanely annoying.

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PearlPhoenix In reply to ??? [2006-06-18 03:02:12 +0000 UTC]

Amen !
Thank you for spending your free time in doing good for others I'll pass this around ^^ Can save me alot more time when confronting a /coughtroll/cough. . .

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lilmissmaya In reply to PearlPhoenix [2006-06-18 03:33:16 +0000 UTC]

it's like the simple things go over ppl's heads XD I hope it's useful to you.

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severedscythe [2006-06-18 02:59:43 +0000 UTC]

XDD true.

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nolavon In reply to severedscythe [2006-06-18 04:12:39 +0000 UTC]

MY SEV IS ON! you should get MESSENGER again *sobs*

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Ko-chan [2006-06-17 04:38:59 +0000 UTC]

* Vulgar
**Actually


Sorry. I couldn't help it.

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FujiFox In reply to ??? [2006-06-17 00:54:57 +0000 UTC]

So True! People should learn form this!

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lilmissmaya In reply to FujiFox [2006-06-17 01:05:11 +0000 UTC]

unfortunatly the ppl who need to read this never will!

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