Keturah's posts

@Pachi:
Awhh!! Thank you so much both for the welcome and the compliment uwu!
I'm only so fancy thanks to my sweet friend Amber who sent me some event items to get me started! All the pixel items are so detailed, it's so cool seeing what other avatars people have created!

Ooooo did you draw the webcomic in your signature?
The art style and colouring is gorgeous!
It's great to see fellow artists on this site too ;w;

Heyy, this is so sweet of you!
I just joined yesterday and would love any fantasy-esk items to help!
My friend already gave me a few event items, because she's a babe!!

Sorry If I do this wrong, i'm still a bit confused on items and their names;;;

@vengeance: I would love some freebies!
Username: keturah
Event/knick knack items wishlist! Victorious Captain, Midsummer Night's King, Urro the Corrupt, Pumpkin King, The Ruffian, Wondrous Wisteria, Ballad of the Bard, Fortune Teller, Inari's Oath, Faerie Queen.
Sorry that's a lot of suggestions! I'd be so happy with any of those or any fantasy-based item you think I might like!

@Kairu:
I just realised!!!
Are you an artist for the site?? I wasn't sure if the ''artist'' header was from settings or because you're a website artist
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Where do you meet /communicate with your mentors? Do you have a website/twitter/insta I can check out? I'd love to see more of your work if ya don't mind!
I'd love more artist peers of a similar level as it gets quite different the more I learn and more I see I have to learn! It's always been hard finding someone who matches that passion and interest in art as It's pretty much both my day job AND hobby.

That's so cool!! I know the site isn't hiring rn but I did apply to be an illustrator as it doesn't hurt to try!
Is the artist galleries the only art section of the site? do we just... make a post and post our work? even if it's old?

so sorry I have a lot of questions, haha;; still getting used to stuff around here~

@kreatura:
Read those both!!
I'm not sure If I'm dum or it's a new part of the site but knowledge base is super empty for me???
Both helped a lot so thank ya! I'm probably going to go around reading all the rules somewhere to get an idea LOL

Yesss!! God gaia's market was so messed up! They did nothing to fix it and still don't bother tbh, it sucks because otherwise gaia's actually not so bad;;;
It's just super unapproachable for new users.

That's so true!!! i think Corona also made my loneliness a bit more apparent as I'm not able to see anyone, including my partner so finding people online helps a lot!!
haha! You should start doodling if you wanna! I always found it super fun doodling my avatars and still do it. Once i work out how to make a good avatar on here I'm so ganna draw her xD

@kreatura:
Damn you on a roll!!!
Okay cool that all seems to make sense! Nice nice~
Thank you for explaining that to my dumbass, haha! Everything I learn I keep relating to gaia. It's so weird this site doesn't have a market so I don't know how you know how much items are worth ... hmmmmmm
Maybe it's a think you find out as you keep playing!

I found the artist forum!! It seems you just post a gallery of your own work...
I love looking at others but feel a bit weird posting my work when it's not related to this site at all :S
Maybe i'll check a few peoples out and see~

What are you here for on the site? pretty avatars? art? friends?!~ :3

@kreatura:
Yess!!! N00bs togetherr!!!
I'm still trying to work out the currency rate. Like what even are love letters??? can I open them???
Who knows when I'll find out ~

Oh speaking of gaia art, there was so many amazing artists! I still post on there and am friends with most of the active artists (we like to stick together it seems, haha!). It always surprises me just how skilled some artists are and still hang out on gaia!
Keeps me motivated to keep improving my own art as I've always loved drawing avatars. Maybe I'll set up shop here when I finally work out what's what.....

@kairu:
That's awesome you have mentors who have helped you along on your art journey.
I've always been doing mine with peers, rather than mentors so have no idea what that's like. I went to university for illustration animation but found most of my fundamental skills and practices came from self learning.
I loved having peers to grow and swap new skills with though I lost quite a few along the way as I improved and changed the way I worked, a lot gave up or moved on to other 'hobbies', haha.
Though I'm proud of how far I've come, I don't feel I have any deep connections with any peers anymore which sucks, but at least twitter makes it a bit easier to interact with peers. Even if it's not on a personal level.

Oh yeah I definitely believe that.
It's something you either are taught or work out that looking at different sources of creativity often will drive you in your own work, as well as trying out new ways of working helps determine what you enjoy or want to do with your work.
There's a lot of historical art movements I don't personally enjoy the look of but it's definitely important to realise their importance in art, as you describe! The issue is there's almost too many great artists now days. The industry is oversaturated so that art geniuses exist all over the place with how much access we have to learning tools.
I just have to remember to ground myself in my own learning and growing at my own pace.

I understand fully why you'd want to move into a structured learning environment, I'd never question that! A lot of people say you don't NEED art degrees now days but the truth is some people do and some don't. It's a very personal and situational decision that you'd know best what to choose! I'm glad I went to university but I also accept some people may not have needed the structure to learn as much as I did.

Do you do art for Voltra or is all your time, when not in class, focused on learning?

@kairu:
ah that seems like a really common theme among artists is parents not realising that art can and is a viable career. Though obviously it's a very hard industry to get into, there are many non-creative career paths that are also hard to get into but aren't looked down upon.

There are a lot of online resources, I'm not too familiar on animation ones but there are tones of artist ones to be found and learn from in your own time. Though obvious the fun will be trying to find the time to do them! Drawabox is a great course i'm going to spend a week doing next week to boost my perspective work and help generally drawing from scratch, which I can do but I could always improve on!

I'm not sure on how animation helps you create comics but I wish you luck with it all!!! I personally work as a 2D animator but find it's mostly building and moving assets to simulate frame by frame motion. I'm learning a lot but I definitely throw in any frame by frame I can have when necessary!
In my free time I don't even think about animation as I'm too busy drawing fantasy characters. I'm not sure if I'm more or less passionate about animation than illustration! I like em both in different ways.

Welcome to the site also!!!~
I didn't realise you were also new, haha!

I definitely agree with the compliment to the pixel artists. Some I've seen already are so detailed I'm in love!
I used to play a lot of gaiaonline and while I do love a lot of the items there, I love the more elongated and detailed look of these avatars!

I'm sort of the opposite!
I need that sort of brave attitude when it comes to my work as I am proud of what I do.
I think I just remember a time when I used to be proud and show off my work BEFORE I had much skill in it and found people either didn't like it or didn't care;;

No shame in being proud of your art, if anything all artists should be proud!
As long as you're not insisting they follow your art after they say no then there's no issue!
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@kairu: Thank you so much!!

Oooo do you animate?
I couldn't see any of your animations but your illustrations are lovely! (sorry for stalking, haha!)
I haven't quite worked out the forums yet as to where to post my stuff or if it's worth it currently;; I always love joining sites as a resident artist but I'm still a bit confused on how to find items and their worth to know how to trade art for them.
Ahh! I'm so sorry to hear you're to focused on rent you're not able to be more creative! It must be super hard. What do you work as? (if I can ask!) I truly hope you're able to find more time for online courses too! I totally understand the feeling of never having enough time! I'm currently trying to work on some OC outfit pages and it's taking me forever because I just constantly don't have time or energy to do them.

I really need to get into doing more personal animations! My last one was from over 6 months ago ;___;
All the animations I do are for work now days~

@kreatura: Awhh, haha! It's a great name to steal!
I definitely did the same thing with one of my old gaia name, Mimki, was stolen from a friend as it was such a nice sounding name to me at the time.

Ah! I'm glad you see it that way too, my mum loves that I use it ;w;;

Ayyy!! They're so close to being the same, though Kreatura sounds slightly more magical!
Where did you get your name from?~

Mines a Hebrew name my mother was going to name me but dad decided differently. I like the sound of it a lot so decided to use it as an art name!

Welcome vawnie!!
It's nice to meet ya~
Seems we both joined for similar reasons, haha!
Hope you're able to find some cute eye/hair items soon!

It's so cool to hear you're a full time artist as well! are you in-house or commission based?
Either way, super cool!