Artist creativity and intent shouldn't be discounted.
The opposite of creativity is Rigidity.
Rigidness is from the same root word as 'Rigour' as in rigor mortis -- a sign of death. Perhaps anyone who has
rigid ideas of what is creativity is, should consider retirement.
It's interesting how whenever I do something creative it's called something else.
It's not a vector -- that's the first comment.
It has a vector in it, but that's why vectors are done of original art. The background is entirely original and not
vectored, but in order to see that you'd have to actually look at it.
As for things being done some way for 2 years.. that's way too long for the internet -- that simply means lack of
growth on an internet site. Is that why site views and submissions are down nearly 75% from a year ago?... or was it
just the rigid views and hostile attitudes towards fledgling artists?
Seems like my other wall paper was the one that the moderators, here, nearly unanimously, told me was **impossible** for
anyone to do -- that it was BEYOND the creative skills of anyone on the site. Yet I came up with a wall from
it.
Now let me ask you this... if my picture isn't creative -- show me *1* still that someone created from a live anime
and put in their own background -- show me one that has the clarity and size mine does at 2x screen size. You won't
find one because no one is creative enough to figure out how.
Of course -- the fact that no one has done it -- or the fact that no one does lots of things -- isn't
"creativity" when I do it -- because no one else is able to do it. You consider it some magic trick or sleight
of hand -- that isn't " real " creativity. But when someone does something that no one else came up with
the idea for -- that is creativity. Churning out walls every few days like many veteran wallers do isn't a sign of
creativity -- it's a site of mindless, rote production.
Real creativity isn't being rigid and rule-bound, nor is it being hateful and spiteful.
As a perfect example of the admins' idea of creativity -- and how perfectly wrong they have it -- take the
wide-screen low-res scan that replaced mine -- that was used for my other wallpaper. How many people have used that scan
to make a wall? Show me 1 wall made from that scan. There isn't one -- why? It's a wide screen in a setting
that doesn't allow for
creativity and do something that is meaningful to the series -- so no one uses it.
However, IF it had been a high res scan, of the central character of the series... which mine was, then someone with
extreme creativity and talent (completely beyond the abilities of anyone on here, I was told), could remove the
superfluous elements and create a wall of the primary character of the series (s1+2 anyway). Yet did I get 1 compliment
from anyone here?....
Rigidity and sameness (2 years?) is antithetical to creativity... Ask ANY one -- without any context about this
discussion -- if rigidity and sameness foster or are examples of creativity... and think about changing your rules to
respect and nurture people instead of trying to kill them.
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and -- still -- no one has commented on why the 1920x1080 version isn't available ?....
