Project Comment Monthly ~ Commenter Newsletter

ProjectComment is a Group that provides Guaranteed & Constructive comments for the deviantART community.

In order to support those efforts, we encourage dedicated users to give comments too. For those who are critics, artists, or just helpful in the community, we now offer something in return for all that you do - be it helping the participants of ProjectComment, or the group itself!

This article focuses on awesome deviants, who have given fantastic comments, through excerpts of those comments, artwork by the deviants themselves, and much more! Your support in the article would be much appreciated.

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Spotlight Commenter : MummyWriter!

^{Each month, ProjectComment will select one member from within the group to be our Spotlight, based on the comments we have seen in our gallery submissions! We choose this member based on the quality, and reliability of their comments and their dedication to the community.}

, MummyWriter, Artist | Hobbyist | Literature

Commented on Solitary by EstrellaDelVenice258.


"Really nice photograph, I love the perspective and the black and white is nice. I noticed you mentioned in previous comments you have an inexpensive camera. So do I! (So I know how difficult it is to get a nice shot.) My suggestion for that is to play to the advantages of having a less than sharp shot and make it intentional. You could try double exposure as well which gives it a ghostly effect and would remove the attention from the not so great quality.

My other suggestion for this piece is something out of your control, but I feel it would have been just a touch more powerful if the man had been facing away from the camera and his face had not been visible. Also with such a great opportunity for perspective, I'd suggest getting closer to the ground and shooting upward at an angle to increase the illusion of depth. This could also be produced by a wide angle lens if you happen to have one.[...]"

Here is a selection of art created by MummyWriter.
The Fictional Part of ExistenceI paint myself in volumes
And bind back the tendrils
Of meadow sweet
And summer orange.
And every breath
Is the poetry of your addiction
And the fleeting touch
Of illuminated letters.
The fictional part of existence
Is drenched in the sad sound
Of your footprints in the marsh
And the silver full moon.
And every spun thread
By spiders in the morning
Catches the dew
And drapes the faults.
Pages strewn
With the ink of ages
Sit peacefully by the riverbank
Returning to silt. Love Lettersi.
She walks
In the copper grass,
Just knee high and
Bending to the south,
Bowing in the sand
Where little moths sleep.
ii.
You are
Vicious
And starling
And coiled like a snake,
But soft like the breeze,
Warranting love
Even when you reject
What I hold so dearly.
iii.
Your world
Is fiction
And your life is a lie
But I cannot refuse
The crashing tide
Or the seagull call
Or the unrelenting love
I cannot stop
Feeling for you.
iv.
They can
Keep us apart
But the words
Will keep us alive.
v.
I would lie down
For her
And fall
A thousand miles
Just to tell her
I love her. Disguised Like a SoulThis clay and alabaster
Is disguised like a soul
And forced to contain
Imperial nothingness.
This rose colored child
With almond eyes
Is crying for a pain
She cannot feel.
And every day
She pricks her fingers
To bleed out in the snow
Just a bit.
But the pain never comes
And the rush
And swell
Cannot subside.
And every cinder is shriveled
Like a dying flower
Under the florescent lights
Of the world on a train line.
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Calling All Commenters!

We are looking forward to your reply to this month's Commenter Question! Please feel free to answer it in a reply to this blog for the chance of being featured in the next blog!

Q. What prompted you to start commenting?

Thanks much to camelopardalisinblue and Felizias for answering last month's question: How often do you comment?

Check out their art!

camelopardalisinblue ~ his hands are not like yoursii.
i cannot remember
what i should not forget
you are nothing, now,
but echoes.
i.
these shadows,
[hands]
peeling back layers
of bone. your hands--
cauterised nerves
and steel-edged gilding--
pry me apart
& i break
open. Bury Me (In White)"I'm living backwards
so bury me
in white:--
I will reclaim
my purity."
iii.
The funeral is a small affair, ungarnished and over early. There mainly out of obligation and the need to be seen doing the right thing, the mourners are a motley assortment of relatives who are quick to kiss cheeks, and even quicker to take their leave. None of them felt the need to dissect this empty place in our lives that he once filled, and after only 2 hours, the only people remaining at the gravesite are myself, my sister, and the empty cage of his decaying bones, buried deeply beneath our feet.
Her fingers are swollen, like her face, and we both know she will soon follow him. "When it's my turn," she whispers, "bury me in white."
ii.
Her curls damp against her face, my sister adjusts the baby without stopping. Her feet are always in motion, as though she can build safety for this family as long as she never stays still, and all that's left for me is to watch. She is 14 years old, living her life backwa

Felizias ~

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Lucky Draw Selection

:thumb342812117: God Always Comes Through (Poem)
Sometimes we live through a horrible experience
It's not easy to wrestle with personal demons
In our impatience we do things we shouldn't do
But even then, in the end, God always came through
The things we hate, those things we do
The things we'd like to do, those we can't do
If Paul the apostle went through it, so will you
But even then, in the end, God always came through
When we  misaligned our minds from the will of the divine
Sin seeped through to seduce with promises of good times
Promises we paid a heavy price believing they'd be true
But even then, in the end, God always came through
Whether your affliction is violence, sex, or drugs
An unlisted addiction or all of the above
And though you feel that this is all there is for you
Remember that in the end, God will always come through
It's not because you deserve it or He owes it to you
Not because of your talents or the work that you do
It's because He really loves you and His promise to you
Is that in end, He will always co :thumb351258416:

If you want to be in for the chance of being featured, feel free to submit to this folder!

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Three Comment Challenges for April

Do one of the below well and you may win yourself 10 ! Please link us to your efforts in this blog, though, otherwise you may not get your 10 !

Constructively comment on a piece that you're not familiar with in terms of the genre of art and/or medium!

Participate in our Comment Threadby constructively commenting on a piece by the last person who commented!

Try to include the good and bad points of a piece in your constructive comments!

If you have suggestions for any more comment challenges we can do, feel free to note us at ProjectComment!

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Favourites Selection by Riemea

Green Valleys and Weeping Willows Green Valleys and Weeping Willows
Ironically, it was her zipper that was undone.  
I didn’t even know her name; it was the first time I’d ever laid eyes on her. It was rather rude the way that she pointed out to me that my ‘fly was down.’ …What kind of an introduction was that?
*
It was raining, just like every winter. That’s what it does here this time of year; it rains. Well, it rains here pretty much all year, but January was usually when it started in earnest. It made walking home unpleasant business, but I always enjoyed the way the water brought the earth to life in vibrant green hues.
I sat in class, listening –but not really listening –to my history teacher, Ms. Pepper, talk about the Civil War. My eyes looked to the whiteboard where she wrote down important dates. Seeming to take notes by themselves, my hands copied the dates onto the notepaper that I had laid out in front of me.
“…And that’s all SearchI'll trace the galaxies under my feet,
So I'll know my direction,
Because I've injected wisdom in my veins,
Only to be left with an infection.
I've sought to understand myself,
And to understand us,
It seems perhaps--
My journey was only powered by lust. :thumb360694368:

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Featured Commenters by VimislikArt & Riemea

^{These commenters are determined by you, the users, through Nominations (read below for more information). Each week we will be selecting a few of the most frequently or positively nominated commenters. Anyone on deviantART is applicable for this feature!}

_nosedivve

Commented on The Road Ahead Poem by Tigueron.

The Road Ahead (Poem)
These tears from my eyes have never fallen in vain
They're a sign that in me, your kingdom still reigns
That you're still working in the depths of my heart
Embedding that fear that sets us apart
That fear that brings us to do the right thing
That fear that motivates us to glorify our King
That fear that prevents us from living in sin
That fear of God we lost, when we let rebellion move in
I'll be the first to admit, It's not easy to walk on a straight line
While sin constantly tries to exploit the weakness in our minds
Thinking we will never get caught committing crime after crime
With deaf ears we hear and we see with eyes that are blind
We flake and we fall, we see it happen many times
But you still pick us up and wipe the tears from our eyes
When I can no longer walk, your foot prints replace mine
You who left heaven, to save billions of ungrateful lives
I still remember that long road I thought I had to walk all alone
But when I looked down, I saw your legs next to mine ready to go "My only suggestion is very personal so feel free to ignore it! It's to add in punctuation in your poem. I just feel it can make poems flow better, but this already has a fantastic flow (the rhymes really help).

Oh, two questions. Why did you type & instead of writing it out? And why did you add in the two bible verses in the poem and not just leaving it in the description?

I think, for the style you seem to have, it might be better to type out and (sorry this is my only other suggestion), but do what you wish! And the other question is genuinely a question and not a question and a possible suggestion like the first was. XD [...]"

Here is a selection of art created by the Commenter, nosedivve.
(Heated) Waterand I told her;
water won't waste gravity.
she breathed in
scraps of a
wonderful life,
until she melted
down.
(she loved to swim -
sea-burns & headaches;
the way it made
her smile, she
couldn't stop)
her clammy breaths
enraptured
humidity,
as heat felt her
up.
(she wanted to drown -
wayward & dehydrated;
this time it made
her energy
stagnate)  
and I told her;
water won't waste gravity. Pasting Skini.
magazines make words
spin into the
skin that holds
you tight -
the chlorophyll
sets in. (your mind & get born into something new,
             you're only ugly)
ii.
silicon people fade
into plastic,
as you plaster
yourself in the
same sick thing. (get stuck in your head, you'll never get out,
                       you're only ugly)
iii.
pasting a smile
on your face
only makes -
they laugh,
"you're only half-ugly."
| | |
they laugh;
you cut
off your head. (you haven't thought in awhile)
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_SofusGirl

Commented on OC: the band -no text by fuckin--eh.

"First things first. I really like how your characters are designed. Their personalities really come through, and they seem well thought out
Your style is very comic-like, which I quite like, but you might want to work a bit on the shading (I know it's difficult, I struggle as well)
Another thing you might want to consider is the anatomy. Now, as the style is very comic-like, some liberties can be taken, and some of it might just be your style. However, the legs of the brown haired girl look a bit off, as do those of the pink haired one, and the hands of quite a few of them (Though, admittedly, hands are very difficult to draw)  [...]"

Here is a selection of art created by the Commenter, SofusGirl.
Chapter 1
She had always loved to dance; it was her one true passion. As an only child in one of the high class families in Ciervalle she had always gotten things her way. When she was six her talent for dance had been very much apparent. It had led to her parents buying her the most expensive dancing shoes and dresses they had found. So she had kept dancing, attending classes and being at the very top of her class all the way until she graduated from Ciervalle Dancing Academy when she was 17. Now, four years later she was one of the best dancers in the city, maybe even in the entire kingdom of Corsaltare. Her pale blonde, nearly silver, hair reached her waist and icy blue eyes sparkled like diamonds when she danced. Her feet stomped the ground and her hands, hips, everything moved in the rhythm of the music. People came to watch her dance. She loved their attention, she loved dancing, and she loved the outfits, the makeup, and the accessories. She loved being a dancer.
At the moment she
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_caminante0

Commented on Schatten: Chapter 01 (Page 006) by AiriKanda.

"Well, first of all, I love your drawing style. The way you draw the shadows is really eye-catching, it has so many details that is a delight to the eyes.
But you have a few little problems whit the perspective, especially in the girl. For example, in the top left one, the street has a mono-focal perspective, and it seems like it's the view from someone in a higher object/building like a balcony for example. So the girl's body should look something like this: kxhara.deviantart.com/art/Let-…</a> [...]"

Here is a selection of art created by the Commenter, caminante0.

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Artist Q & A

This is an open call to artists to reply to this blog with any specific questions on art that you'd like answered! We'll include the questions in our next article and hopefully get the answers you require!

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How To Nominate

We need nominations of deviants who you think should be featured!
Send us a note with the subject "Nomination" and the following information.

The name of the Deviant you are nominating. Link(s) to the deviation(s) on which they commented. (The more, the better!) This is great way to give back to a user who has given you an exceptional comment!
• You can suggest anyone and everyone (except yourself ) at any time and include as many nominations as you want in one note.
• The news feature occurs once every month and all nominations will be taken into account.
• If your nomination isn't featured immediately, it may still be featured in a future news article!

3wyl, posting on behalf of ProjectComment