Okay, so could someone please explain this manga thing for me? Don't get me wrong, I like some styles of manga...but what the hell is this?

A lot of talented artists just throw their pens in manga's direction and don't bother expanding. I'm not a very good artist, but at least I try doing new things. And a lot of people are total manga junkies, so you search for, say, Harry Potter: [link]

Notice how many of the most popular pictures are manga? (Also portraits based on Daniel Radcliffe. Now THAT's creative.) Now take a look at ALL of those, and then compare to this: [link] It manages to be realistic, but it looks NOTHING like the actors. To put it simply, THIS is probably what Harry Potter looks like. And yet, this picture has 16 000 faves less than this. (Not that there's anything wrong with that picture, except that the idea's been done a gazillion times before.)

Okay, fine, so maybe Harry Potter isn't your cup of tea. I'll try something like Zelda, which is, hey, Japanese, so it would automatically appeal to manga junkies.

What is this? Look at this, is this even human? Okay, so maybeeee....this. What the heck is that? Actually, take a look at ALL the most popular Zelda pictures:[link] I mean I've heard of LOVE but this is just ridiculous. ALL OF THEM ARE MANGA?

Now, compare those to this, by the late but immortal Mike Wieringo: [link] It's fresh, and it's interesting. Yeah, I know its lack of popularity would be because you can't get it in search results, but the number of people who've visited Mr. Wieringo's page since his death and who have taken a larger appreciation of his art should mean this picture gets more lovin', but I guess you'd have to be manga for that.

So, that's my story. I hate manga, because 1. It looks freaky, 2. everyone is doing it, but 3. other great art escapes the radar because of it. Time to grow out of your obsession with Naruto and Ichigo, lad.

(PS: I also don't get the weiiiiird poses a lot of people draw characters in. It almost always looks like they were modelling, and badly.)

Control yourself. I know you're going hysterical but those tears and that blood will not bring them - my art pictures - back. Sorry. They're gone. Poof.

"Why?" you may ask. "What hath brought hell's fury like this?"

Man, that's easy. I'm just doing other stuff right now, most of it very experimental (well of course) and I'm going to gradually post it on DA.

We'll see how it goes.

Just click here: [link]

And spread the word a little Poor psmonkey = extremely underrated.

Try not to die with jealousy, but joshalmighty created a fish! For me! AND IT IS REEKING OF AWESOMNESS! [link] I love it! Thanks Josh!

In other news, I shall name the Fish Fishy, and he shall be mine, and he shall be MY FISHY!

Please, stop dying with jealousy. It's not funny. You, there. Stop dying.

Once upon a time there was a crooked dude who lived in a crooked house in a crooked world, and he had a crooked cat and a crooked dog and he sat on a crooked chair that looked more crooked than a kid playing How Low Can You Go. The crooked dude had crooked red hair, and wore a crooked cap. He also had crooked freckles.

His life was quite normal, until one day when he sold his soul to the devil and promised to draw him a fish.

Well, joshalmighty, the devil wants his fish.

Where is mah fisheh!