maybe i need a loooong break from dA.

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i can barely fight the urge to gouge my eyes out every time i see some crappy Harry Potter or manga/anime fan art - and i don't mean fan art in general, i mean all the really, really bad stuff. or those mass produced silhouette vectors - a tree, some grass, some figures and that annoying 'rays of light' background - oh, and those f*cking islands hovering in the air. am i missing something? is there some kind of generator (with very few options) for this kind of thing? is that some kind of recipe for 'success'?? 'haven't i seen this one somewhere before?' just doesn't cut it anymore.
when did 'art' become a trend?

start using your heads and have an original idea for once! ok, not necessarily original, but at least your own. one could take only so much incapable people copying other incapable people. and again - i don't mean incapable of drawing, that's surely not a sin, i mean incapable of thinking for yourself.

</rant>