Drifter: Ding! That was one of the reasons I picked the name, heh. The others being that it bears a vague resemblance to my actual name ("
Conor" - plus the first initial of my last name "
G", hence if the letters are re-arranged: "
Cono G Man".... which is another reason why "
CogNorman" would be a good name, because it would anagram to "
Conor G Man" - which would make more sense). The other reason I picked the name was that I was under the impression at the time that "
cogno" was Latin for "
thinking", so it could be read as "
thinking-man", yuk yuk. And since then, I've started infusing the name with other meanings for the heck of it (one being "
Cog? No man!", like, as a statement of personal freedom, heh heh - although that one's kinda stretching things), but those were the original intentions.
Bumble: Haha, no worries - After years of writing sarcastic good-hearted jokes to friends in e-mails, and then having them reply defensively because they thought I might have insulted them, I make a fully-aware conscious point never to read any comment on the internet as either positive or negative because of the fact that it's nigh-impossible to perceive subtleties/tones (such as sarcasm). Which is why we have emoticons, I guess. And I'm also just fairly easygoing anyway. And besides, you literally never know where somebody is coming from - as in, maybe a person talks in an aggressive manner as a way of being friendly. It's impossible to read things just by looking at typography alone - which is why it bugs me when I see people (including myself) getting bugged by comments they read on the internet, heh (like YouTube comments). You never really know what the intention behind the words was - even when you think you do - and even when people explicitly SAY what their intentions are, heh.
But besides that, I literally NEVER EVER EVER perceive any comment on a drawing I did as negative. EVER EVER EVER. Even if somebody said "That looks like ass and you deserve to die for making it", or something, heh, I read that as a positive comment. And I'm 100% serious. My best art-friends are the ones who tell me when something sucks. Honesty is a hard trait to find among nice people sometimes...which sounds backwards, but I think there might be truth in it. And even when you find honest people, sometimes it's hard to find honest and
opinionated people, heh (I'm notoriously unopinionated myself - when it comes to art especially, I literally believe that everything is good in its own way and has its own unique valuable qualities...which isn't really all that helpful when somebody's looking for specific bits of information in order to improve, heh heh). Opinions are gold. Positive opinions, negative opinions, all of them, from anybody no matter who they are or where they're coming from, they're all gold - an opinion is evidence that another human being wanted to help you out by either encouraging you, offering their own personal insight based on their own life experience, or perhaps just venting some rage and thereby enriching your own human experience, heh, who knows. But either way, it shows that they thought about you and put effort in to communicating with you - which is a valuable thing for a human being. That's why it's absolutely foolish to take anybody's comment on your work as negative.
Or maybe I'm just being naive. Possible - but I hope not, heh.
Oh - and thanks for the beetle comment Bumble, haha.
...Oh my crap. Did not mean to type that much. Got carried away blathering.
Almost spent as much time on that comment as I did on the actual drawing below, heh. Yikes-
Day 23. Trying to learn digital painting again-
Tomorrow: Less typing! Haha-