| Departure From the Gallery
| Originally released 19 June 2022
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I have stopped posting artworks on |
| DeviantART |
| for several years now. This post however, finally
makes it official: *I'm leaving DeviantART*
This is the last drawing I'm submitting there, intentionally made
with cheap silhouettes as my departure piece. But that
doesn't mean I'm going to stop making art really:
as you already seen here, I have made and posted several.
If you have an old URL of any specific drawing I posted there,
you can replace the "xwindows.deviantart.com",
"www.deviantart.com/xwindows", or "fav.me" part
with "tilde.club/~xwindows"; and it will lead you
to the correct place.
On the WWW part of this site, you may subscribe to an |
| Atom feed |
| to follow my artwork updates- just like the old gallery
RSS feed there but more reliable. Of course, my original
art pieces are still freely-licensed as they have been.
You might ask why I left: the most important reason,
as you probably already guessed, was the rollout of
DeviantART Eclipse: a redesign that makes the site
become unusable under a non-modern no-JavaScript browser
configuration I normally use. Artwork downloads were also
changed to member-only in the process, which voided
one of the free content licenses I use: |
| GNU General Public License |
| and defeated the point of freely-licensing my artworks
in the first place.
There were smaller reasons too, which they also added up:
from DeviantART dropping SVG submission support,
disabling anonymous view of those so-called "mature content",
making endless scrolling a default browsing choice
(and only choice for years), leaving interoperability feature
like RSS feed half-baked, dumbing down the search feature,
ripping away all the categorizations, to misrepresenting
my sex information on my profile.
For all these reasons, especially the first two,
I could not realistically use that site for my art purposes
for any longer; and that led to my apparent "hiatus" there.
All of my artworks already posted there would still remain
up there for at least some time being, and will also link
to itself on the WWW part of this site.
DeviantART /was/ once a great theme-neutral art gallery site
that was accessible, browsable, with pieces individually
downloadable anonymously, all without pesky JavaScript;
and also accepted the libre SVG vector format.
They were the reasons I registered back in 2014,
now these "goodies" were long gone.
After several years of trekking in the nigh endless realm
of cyberspace like nomads, I stumbled upon this remote corner
of the Internet, abandoned by the modern web. And here is
the place I decided to settle down, built it up as my new humble
artistic abode; where my new journey with my trusty virtual easel
have begun, once again.
The character on the left was last seen in |
| [2016-06-03] Knotted Mess |
| and the character on the right was last seen in |
| [2022-03-09] Sunset of Cyber Wasteland |
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Copyright (C) 2022 xwindows
This is a free illustration, you can modify and/or
redistribute it under:
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| GNU General Public License |
| or... |
| Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Unported |
| or... |
| Free Art License 1.3 |
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Note: If you need the 4:3 version, just crop for middle part
of this drawing.
P.S. The progress bar on the sign and the background are actually
inspired by a real public art gallery I have visited.
20 June 2022 edit:
- Minor grammar edit.
- Added a cross-post link and a note on missing categorization.
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| ^ Scalable, nominally 854x480 pixels; 59 KiB
View on Other Sites:
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| Departure From the Gallery (on DeviantART) |
| ^ Cross-posted, PNG version only
More from Eventful Scenes:
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| [2023-04-22] Walking into the Sunshine |
| [2022-06-25] Shaky Cameraboy |
| [2022-03-09] Sunset of Cyber Wasteland |
| Eventful Scenes |
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