Nice drawing, but this isn't speedpainting, it's just a timelapse.

Thank you for your explanation. I understand. Cheers!

In reply to this comment by EDD:
Hey, I've never had anything against you personally, quite the contrary - because I knew from the very beginning that you and zonbie were a couple I was biased towards you, because I was one of the first (I think) to make friends with him here shortly after he began sifting.

Please don't get the wrong impression: I think some of your sifts are of the finest quality. I'll explain the reasons for each DV because you asked and there are always clear and definitive reasons for me downvoting, but the short story (not the reason, rather something that serves as a cause) is that I've been getting the impression that you and your man have been lately sifting for the sake of getting things sifted, not for the sake of *quality. Now, I'm no saint here either, no-one is but I'm always trying enforce this rule on myself - which, combined with my and others' recent incentives (see Rottenseed's Sift Talk on downvoting and my Poll on queue escape limit) to downvote more, resulted in said downvotes.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Wednesday-Addams-Speedpainting - I watched it, saw no way it would stand above all the other speedpainting videos on the sift, of which my opinion is that there are waaay too many, and downvoted.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Nihhh-Noo-Nahh-Weuu-Mah-Teef - I absolutely loathed the commentary, I usually do on those "Americas funniest videos". I'm even unsure I'd have upvoted had it been something more decent, it simply seemed completely unfunny to me. Aah, maybe I'm just touchy about this, you know, weddings and all (mine was less than 2 years ago).

And the World in Conflict Soviet Assault trailers - I gave the Hydrogen bomb one a major upvote, because I really, really liked it, but I thought the other two trailers clearly paled in comparison (and were just plain bad videogame trailers). Also, I just don't think submitting the 3 of them simultaneously was the best way to go...

Hey, chin up, you're way ahead of me as it is, so even if you disagree with what I've written here completely, just think of all the upvotes you ARE getting

In reply to this comment by LadyDeath:
do you have something against me lately or is just an simple coincidence you voted against 3 of my videos in a row huh? Just a question...I mean 1 is ok but 3 in a row wow this a record...

Inspiring, if inscrutable... I do wish the Sift had a 'Speedpainting' channel, since it always makes me want to dust off my tablet.

That comment was obvious, so is the "artwork".

I can trace that well thanks, went to artschool.

What i object to is that if someone does a realistic looking speedpainting (you can't see the detail on youtube anyway) then everyone goes gaga, ooooh, that's really hard to do, wow that must have taken ages and many pencils. Top 15. shut up mink, it looks impressive.

While other videos that show people with talent expressing themselves creatively die in the queue.

But hey, that's the way art education is, they praise copying and suppress creativity. Now why would they want to do that?

think about it, get back to me, i am allowed to take something seriously even if other people think it's "just a cool painting" and have no way to judge artwork other than by assessing its similarity to a photo.

Why do you think artists stopped painting like photos after the photo was invented?

gah, one man's overreaction is another man's life's work.

In reply to this comment by deedub81:
In reply to this comment by rychan:
Just because a machine can do it doesn't mean it's not impressive that a human does it. For instance, http://www.videosift.com/video/iHate-Innovative-Commenting-software could probably have created your belittling comment but I still appreciate that you did it by hand.


You have to admit. That's funny stuff. Nobody ever said that vid was creative, but you kept saying it wasn't over, and over, and over. You must be jealous, like me, 'cause we couldn't even trace that well.

first time you see something difficult done by a human: impressive.
millionth time you see it done: not impressive.

there is a difference between creativity and copying. for example one million people can play a concerto on the violin really well, by reading the music, but there's only one Tchaikovsky.

there is a difference between creativity and difficulty. for example it is very difficult to run a marathon but it isn't in any way creative. I would still be impressed if someone ran 1000 miles but i wouldn't call it art.

OK? understand now? sorry for making a fine point instead of upvoting yet another boring speedpainting.