Rants About The Bionicle Artwork Forum
And this time, it's about something other than breasts.
Anyway, I've been noticing a surge of artpad topics on the artwork forum. Not that it hasn't happened before. For the most part, Artpad works like a zombie. It comes, and then it dies and then just when you think its dead, it comes back again. It's fluctuated like that since... well, every since I've been here that's for sure. However, this time Artpad has made such a strong recovery from obscurity that not even I could have predicted how strong it would be. The result, almost every single art topic in the Artwork forum comes from artpad.
For those that don't know, artpad is a program on the internet that lets you draw. One of the neat things about it is that the people who view your art can play back how you made it. Sounds good, but the thing is, it turns out horrible pictures. Many of them are worse than if they had been made in paint. Now, due to the fact that almost every topic the forum is artpad that means that we have a lot of crud on out hands.
Now I would like to point out something at this point. I do not think that nothing good can come out of Artpad. In fact, I've seen a few (read: maybe one) good pieces of art come from it. However, that piece of artwork would have been much better if it had been made in paint. And then there are almost all the rest are bad.
Thus, I declare a boycot! Let us BZPers unite in a holy crusade against Artpad. Let us finish the fight!
But what can I do to aid the boycot?
Don't use artpad. Even better, don't post in artpad topics. If we can resist it enough, it should go away.
Why should I do this
Because you would make the world a better place.
Post in non-ArtPad topics, show more support for artists that actually took the time to draw or edit something, people who aren't taking the lazy way out by using ArtPad.
I actually thought ArtPad died at one time, but then someone posted a topic, and it grew even worse then before. Artpad is like a chain. When one person uses it, the next person can make another one with the click of a button.
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How can I infrom more people about this boycot?
Just link to this blog entry.
And there you have it. Just some simple ways to make the world a better place.
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