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Posting to Pixiv!
Jul. 12th, 2021 12:38 pmI was poking around the Japanese art site Pixiv and there was surprisingly little art for some MXTX characters/pairings I like, so I finally got over my self consciousness and uploaded some of my art, eventually going through my art tumblr and posting a bunch of my better pieces from the last few years. I've gotten a smattering of likes which is good enough for me.
The site is pretty easy to use in English, especially if you're just bookmarking other people's art. And then you get some very pretty recs! You can see my bookmarks here if you have an account. You don't need an account to see this little article about MDZS which has some lovely fanart.
Figuring out the Japanese tags for non-Japanese canons can be challenging, in some cases I gave up and used English. Luckily, for the MXTX novels they use the Chinese spellings(*), and from there I could find the pairing tags.
Two annoyances are that the site keeps randomly not loading, and that free accounts can't edit an image once it's posted, though you can edit the tags and notes.
I copied over my existing author's notes, which are generally like 90% image description, but I feel a little weird about it. The odds of anyone who needs an image description AND reads English stumbling across my art on a Japanese art site seems low, and I imagine all that English text is just a confusing annoyance for the average only-kinda-English-fluent Pixiv user. But they can hopefully still enjoy the art!
Since I'm an inveterate tweaker I'll probably only upload art every now and then, when it's old enough that I'm unlikely to edit it again.
(*)I know Japanese people sometimes write Chinese words/names using the same characters as in Chinese, and sometimes don't, and am incredibly fuzzy on the difference.
The site is pretty easy to use in English, especially if you're just bookmarking other people's art. And then you get some very pretty recs! You can see my bookmarks here if you have an account. You don't need an account to see this little article about MDZS which has some lovely fanart.
Figuring out the Japanese tags for non-Japanese canons can be challenging, in some cases I gave up and used English. Luckily, for the MXTX novels they use the Chinese spellings(*), and from there I could find the pairing tags.
Two annoyances are that the site keeps randomly not loading, and that free accounts can't edit an image once it's posted, though you can edit the tags and notes.
I copied over my existing author's notes, which are generally like 90% image description, but I feel a little weird about it. The odds of anyone who needs an image description AND reads English stumbling across my art on a Japanese art site seems low, and I imagine all that English text is just a confusing annoyance for the average only-kinda-English-fluent Pixiv user. But they can hopefully still enjoy the art!
Since I'm an inveterate tweaker I'll probably only upload art every now and then, when it's old enough that I'm unlikely to edit it again.
(*)I know Japanese people sometimes write Chinese words/names using the same characters as in Chinese, and sometimes don't, and am incredibly fuzzy on the difference.
