Honestly, when I make a comment on deviantart, I don't expect the artist to respond. I figure they're too busy making art--it takes me two moments to make a comment, but you two hours to answer *all* the comments. For the comments I recieve, I've adopted Ursula Vernon's policy: I'll answer it if it's a question. If they ask a question then they're really hoping to hear from you; if they're just giving a compliment, getting a "Thanks" doesn't really make a difference in their day.
I get asked about patterns a lot too and it's frustrating. Firstly because I've only explained a billion times that needle felting isn't the kind of craft that *has* patterns, and secondly because I made up all my creatures myself. People ask for tutorials on my dragons, but if I make a felting tutorial I think I'm going to have to make it *not* a dragon...because I'm perfectly happy to help people learn my techniques, but only so they can make up their OWN designs. Not so they can make identical dragons. Which I think is what they're hoping to do. *sigh* Your tutorial was great, and it was really smart of you to use one of your more unusual designs instead of a mega-popular one--if you'd used a stormwolf, I'm sure there'd be tons of copies out there by now. I'd just be polite and explain you're happy to help them learn to work leather but not to replicate. It's for their own good, ultimately.
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Date: 2009-05-26 03:01 am (UTC)I get asked about patterns a lot too and it's frustrating. Firstly because I've only explained a billion times that needle felting isn't the kind of craft that *has* patterns, and secondly because I made up all my creatures myself. People ask for tutorials on my dragons, but if I make a felting tutorial I think I'm going to have to make it *not* a dragon...because I'm perfectly happy to help people learn my techniques, but only so they can make up their OWN designs. Not so they can make identical dragons. Which I think is what they're hoping to do. *sigh* Your tutorial was great, and it was really smart of you to use one of your more unusual designs instead of a mega-popular one--if you'd used a stormwolf, I'm sure there'd be tons of copies out there by now. I'd just be polite and explain you're happy to help them learn to work leather but not to replicate. It's for their own good, ultimately.