EBK's dA Personality Rules - a short FAQ

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Introduction

* Question A: Why did you came here?
* EBK: Well, I had more reasons than one. 1). The idea came first when I planned to write music and to upload it to Youtube. But Youtube videos have to have a video track, else no one would see them. I started to make some initial pics with various instruments of computer graphics for them and needed a host domain to upload them (I like to see my hardrive stuff also on the net, there were some cases when I lost important data - music, handbooks, or all my previously existing poetry, all written by me - because of Windows 98's stupidity, or virus attacks.) One of my friends, whom I met elsewhere, Glanthor, had an account, so when I saw that I immediately knew I will try dA. 2). I thought that if I'm here why not to upload my old 'art', textures, fanart, and other kind of graphics. Till this time, they were just a private madness of me, almost sleeping or forgotten by me - and by everyone of course - for years (I still have an amount of unpublished, solitary madness kinda things like this so-called 'computer art' of mine in my pocket ;) )  But when I started to upload my old pics, I thought 'hey, here and there they need remaking'. And I started to correcting them, and you probably still make up the end of this story - when you start correcting your old things, sometimes brand new pieces are born. So I yet started to doing 'art' again for a time. 3). And I'm doing that now. These are my great purposes and this is my exciting great story of comin' here.

* Question B: Do you consider yourself to be an artist?
* EBK: Eeeeeer ... well, I'm not a professional artist in any meaning of this word. And in a less strict sense? Hmmm. I don't know, but I'm sceptic. It's hard. In my mother language "artist" has a more serious connotation than in English, so ...  rather no than yes, maybe. Maybe, sometimes yes I do ... when I'm in the mood. Maybe. Maybe not. Eeeer.... but let's jump to Next Question.



Personality/Etiquette FAQ

* Question 1.:  Do I need to thank by comment for favs?
* EBK: You need not, but I don't mind if you do, It's a kind gesture. If I fav a lot of your art (this is usual), it is enough to thank for once and ever, or you can give me a Llama badge also in this case. But if you don't, I won't be resentful. Your thank or not thank will not determine whether I fav your pics or not and the quantity of my favs, watch etc., my attitude to art and my attitude to authors are two different things for me.

* Question 2: Do I need to thank by comment for watching?
* EBK: No, you need not, however I don't mind it. If I watch you, that means that you have good artworks, and I'll watch you (with your kind permission, I hope), no matter whether you thank it or not. ME need to thank to YOU that you are here, and uploading your beautiful images. You need not watch me back; however, of course I will be glad if you do.

* Question 3.: Why did you gave me a Llama badge? What is it?
* EBK: Llama badges are just funny, silly pictures, which make you dependent to the collecting process, if you have the cognitive tendency to. They don't do anything else, and they don't mean or sign anything relevant. I used to give Llamas in four cases:
** 1). Randomly, if the madness is on me;
** 2). If you faved me or watched me, but you have't got anything I can fav or watch for (not because you are a bad artist, just because I'm not interested seriously in your genre or style), there is a 99% chance of that you will get a Llama from me. This means 'Thank you very much for the favs and the watch, it means a lot to me, and I really should appreciate your work pieces much more.'
**3). If you have something in your gallery what worths more than just a fav, what is fuckin'-bitchin'-mindblowingly awesome; I often give you a Llama after the fav stars or watch flag. That means 'Hey, you are above good. I beg your pardon for calling myself an artist!'
**4). If you give me a random Llama, you have 99,999% chance to get back one.
**4+) If you have birthday today and I haven't gave you Llama yet.

As you see, in cases 2-3 badges do mean "something relevant" - for me. But you won't know that why did you get the badge, and I won't tell you. :D So, you won't know the meaning, and that means badges rather still have no relevancy. :D

* Question 4.: Do you use to thank by comment for a faving or for watching?
* EBK: Sorry, not always, I'm a bit awerse of smalltalk, or to take the initiative of pseudopersonal communication. Sometimes I even can't be here for weeks because of IRL  things (work, home, studies etc.) Sometimes I'm in a more social mood and will thank you. But you have 90% chance for that I browse your gallery (if I have time, also your favourites) in a few weeks time and fav you, or watch you, or at least badge you. I'm not joking, I have a small list of deviants to browse their gallery along. This list grows at slow speed, but recently I still can handle it :D.

* Question 5.: Do you use to thank for badges?
* EBK: Often, and you have 60% chance me to browse along your gallery also. But it is almost sure I'll give your Llama badge back.

* Question 6.: What about my nice new print?
* EBK: If you disfigured it with the fumbling dA watermark, then don't expect me to like it. The dA watermark is extremely ugly, and makes your image unseeable. On principle I won't fav, vote or watch anything that has the giant dA watermark (personal watermarks are good otherwise, if they don't ruin the pleasure of art to the ground).

* Question 7.: Dou you mind that, if I thank you for faving or watching, I also make a link or a thumb to that artworks you faved?
* EBK:Absolutely not. Feel free to make internal (not outgoing from dA) links or thumbnails in your messages to me if you can, I like them.

* Question 8.: Can I mark you as 'friend'?
* EBK: Yup! "I'm a human being, and no human thing is alien to me!" - said Terence (Terentius), the latin author. In fact, I still doesn't know, what consequences does the "friend" flag mean exactly on dA, but it's time for me to learn that, I suppose.



If my English is not good enough, sorry for that. I dry do to my beast.
--------------------------------------------- EBK, 29-03-2013; 01-04-2013.
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