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   One of my favourite things about livejournal is the feedback one gets about one's writing (/photos / drawings). This feedback comes not just in the form of actual "I liked this" or "this was crap!!" comments, but more commonly in the number and variety of comments themselves. I write to be read and constantly aim to improve, so I'm constantly taking note of all forms of feedback that I can. In fact as you may or may not recall this very livejournal started out as an experiment in gauging people's reactions to varying different variables in entries.

   One generally assumes that comments are indicative of people enjoying an entry and/or finding it interesting. When you get no comments and just hear the crickets chirping, it's time to be worried.*

   After posting the link to the completed drawings about my day yesterday I got exactly two more comments all day. This is way below par. To better serve you we here at Emo-snal are interested to know why that was.

* or your audience might have died, as happened with the oriented-towards-people-from-real-life [livejournal.com profile] emosnail before my embracing the anonymous masses here. The friends-list of Emosnail, once veritably spinning with entry turn-around, is now a slow trickle, and entries I post over there more often than not get no comments at all. That low of a turn out is extremely unusual, so I'm curious if you all hate my drawings and I should never do it again or something.

[Poll #1520866]

            

Bee from one of the cartoons, coloured, and, just for Stacey, bee butt!

See also, my new icon!

Date: 2010-02-03 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
Yeah several of mine I'm not surprised people would find were unclear. It would probably help a lot if I had a way to distinguish between the stick figures!!

Date: 2010-02-03 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crysania4.livejournal.com
LOL yes that would definitely help! Maybe some sort of hairdos? Or closing indications (i.e. a triangle if the woman is wearing a skirt?). I can't draw at all, mind you. Just thinking out loud here.

Date: 2010-02-03 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
Yeah giving the one girl who featured in it "girl hair" was easy. I notice most webcomics give the male characters wildly different hairstyles / different facial hair. Several of the guys I work with thouth have nondescript dark brown hair and are cleanshaven. How do you distinguish between such people?! I'm thinking arbitrary distribution of top hats, monocles, and such. :D

Date: 2010-02-03 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crysania4.livejournal.com
Hmmm...draw a shirt on them and put a letter on it? Yeah that's a tough one when they all look alike!

Date: 2010-02-03 11:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
that's too easy though :D I was trying to avoid things like giving peopel name tags or just writing in a label and arrow. /:

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