Oh, and also: Don't you 'dare' delete your account if you ever were to leave NG, @ShangXian. We focus on different things, but your comments are generally higher quality (as well as better worded) than mine.
I still think @YendorNG/@Yendor's departure hit this community harder than most will realize. Aside from being a very agreeable person, he wrote an _enormous_ amount of helpful posts, and comments, all of which are now lost to our little community (and artists in general).
This world has become a lesser place, just because some *******s felt the need to bully him. I hope those people [censored] and [censored-censored-censored-censored]. In a FIRE!
So if any of you, yes 'you', dear readers ever see somebody being bullied who clearly cannot defend themselves, please take the up to 2 minutes out of your day that it takes to pen up a report. It's not just 'that person' you are protecting; it is every future victim as well.
Yatsufusa
Unfortunately 'the person who deeply touched you as an artist' still remembers that post you quoted. You left out the part where it turns out that they labeled their submissions kind of backwards. As it turned out the piece I was praising was created by another artist who 'they' commissioned to draw the piece. While I'll always appreciate people who help keeping artists fed, I thought the title was misleading.
(Anybody can feel free to disagree with me there. As somebody whose first language isn't English "Commission by: [Name]" sounds as if [Name] was the person handing over the money. It seems either the uploader or an Art Portal Moderator agreed with me there. The link is dead now and I'm not going digging to check if they re-uploaded it with a better title. Let's hope for the best, shall we.)
I'm glad for every reader who can take something positive and inspirational away from what I write, but I felt the need to move the camera back a bit to show the whole picture - so I'm not misrepresented in a 'too positive' light...
Also need to maintain my 'grumpy old person' image. ;)
ShangXian
I know that it's important to show the whole picture (no pun intended) of your interaction with that person, I found that interaction through a link in a forum thread while I was browsing some forum threads. I read your interaction and that last part of the comment was very beautiful in my mind and served the purpose of showing what I was saying about you. Thanks for explaining better the overall background context of the image I showed.
"Also need to maintain my 'grumpy old person' image. ;)"
^^