the-hybrid

Won't you be so kind as to visit me on my new account? ~Empiricyst (https://www.deviantart.com/empiricyst) Empiricyst Same special individual, new name :thumbsup:

Ha ha, this makes me a n00b here then.  I've heard about deviantART for a long time, but never really checked it out.  This place really owns!  I sense a general theme here too... uh... maybe someone could send me a "devious" something comment note thing about... Well when I uploaded my one and only CG worth uploading here, Third Fingers Down, I included a thumbnail file as well.  I was unimpressed to discover that the thumbnail had overwritten the real image as well though, and that my 1024 x 768 wallpaper was reduced to 100 x 70... So I deleted it and tried again.  Same thing.  Third time around I did no thumbnail and of course it worked...

I'm in such a state of frustration.  Perhaps there are artists out there who have been here, and perhaps there are more artists who are here where I am, but I haven't really wanted to ask.  I am an artist.  I want to believe I'm good, but I'm just not (yet?)  I don't know if this is what you call humble beginnings, but it would seem as if I'm not able to do anything incredible.  Maybe I'm just going nowhere?  I spend hours in my sketch book practicing, or, perhaps, trying to get one aspect correct, but it never turns out "amazing".  What is this madness of inexperience that I'll have to spend weeks on top of years to overcome, and why the hel