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cutterl · 6 years

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Hats off to Miiverse

Just gonna copy my sappy story from Miiverse....it's very long and still chopped into 400 character blocks.

{Cutter's Corner #387} Mario doesn't have as good of quotes as Zelda games, but these lines from Jump Up Superstar! are pretty good.

My Miiverse “ending” with how it all “began”. It was about 3 years ago now. I had already been on Miiverse for about 2 years prior, but I didn't do much except for an occasional dumb post or quick joke drawing, or something for Splatfest.

There was a Miiverse announcement made to honor Mario's 25th anniversary, and some details about Mario Maker. I “took a chance” and randomly decided to draw an ugly cartoony Mario in the comments of that post. And to my surprise, lots of people liked it! So I later redrew the picture on the Mario Maker community, and once again gained more attention than I usually ever did!

I'd always wanted to be more active in Miiverse, but I wanted something unique, and I wasn't very confident in my drawing, but at that moment I realized that just maybe people would actually care to see me do more drawings. And a new journey started, a new world calling out to me.

I began drawing really simple cartoony versions of Nintendo characters (the first ones I can remember drawing like it was just yesterday) to different communities. Slowly learning which communities were best to post to, or at what times. There were so many great inspirational artists I was already following on here that I wanted to be ore like, and become friends with.

But I never annoyed them about being friends, I knew that wasn't the way to go, plus I've always been shy. At this time I was also getting my start in Mario Maker, creating the Maker Meetings, and beginning to actually make some new friends. It's hard to tell if at that time people truly liked my drawings, or if they were just giving a yeah to support a friend, but either way I appreciated it.

One thing I did begin to notice while here on Miiverse was the fact that most people liked to draw humans, and for primarily one game, but I wasn't super interested in that. I like all of Nintendo's games, and the weird monsters included in them, so I think that's always been something unique about my drawings.

I'm guessing most of you have at least tried making a drawing on Miiverse, so you know that it's not the easiest form of drawing, and at the time I started taking an art class in high school, but I just really wanted to get better and improve my skills, and maybe start gaining some more attention for it.

I tried to draw whenever I could, but you know how school can keep you busy, but I was inspired by a different Miiverse user. I decided to take on the challenge of posting a drawing here every day, thus my Daily Doodles were born! Of course there were a few days I missed, but I really kept on top of the goal well, forcing myself to at least do something small if possible.

Even simple looking drawings can take lots of time, but doing this taught me how to manage my time even better, and of course really helped me improve my skills. There were hard times, I had very few actual friends in school, and I'd say I was actually depressed at the time, but I'm a strong person in a that aspect, and never really let it bother me.

But posting the drawings on Miiverse really helped me feel good, I think. As I continued, everything about it just got better. I started gaining more followers, but the real joy was noticing the people that would actually yeah the drawings, or frequently read the comments I always write, and maybe even chat a little bit.

I remember distinct mornings where some popular artist randomly would yeah one of my drawings, and it would just make me happy for the whole day. I felt like I was actually starting to fit in some place, but I still knew there were certain “restrictions” about where I should post drawings to the most successfully. And I dreamed of a day where that wouldn't exist.

I'd say the Summer of 2016 was when things really started to pick up for me. Since there was no school, I could really focus on posting a drawing every day. It gave me the opportunity I wanted to spend as much time on a drawing as I wanted, and get more work out on Miiverse. It was also the first time I tried asking for drawing requests, which a new experience

and I found it immensely fun to do for friends, and I think it even made me feel closer to some people. The requests also challenged me to draw some things that I would have never done otherwise. That was also the Summer I was playing Paper Mario 64 and Zelda Majora's Mask, with drawings to go along. Which were both really fun to do, and oddly makes me feel nostalgic thinking about it.

I think that it was about this point that I realized that I really didn't care about ever becoming friends with the more popular users, because I'd found my own friends that I'd come to cherish more. After that Summer I think I became more comfortable with myself in general. I was still really shy and introverted, but that's just who I was.

I came to completely enjoy being left to myself at school. Finding it more fun to play my 3DS or draw something alone than trying to join some group of people I wasn't really interested in. I was confident in my loneliness, awkward situations made me laugh instead, and I think people at school may have noticed some difference.

I wasn't very different, but people actually said that I seemed cool, or chill, nothing really effected. No one ever really bullied me in school, but when someone tried, I usually wouldn't even realize what they were attempting, and since I was somewhat friends with everyone at some point, a different person would always stick up for me.

I'm getting sidetracked here, and not sure where I'm going with this, but in the end I guess just saying thank you sums it all up. I started here with just a sudden decision to follow a small dream, and I've come so far by sticking with it, so as Miiverse comes to a close, just make some kind of start to follow a dream of yours.

You never know how it might open up new pathways with just a little work. I plan to do one more drawing after this, not sure what I'll talk about during that, but thank you for reading this if you did, and thank you in general. I'll see you later.

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