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Girl's Diary

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Well, what can I say, Koreans really are creative. :) The moment I got this theme, I thought, "Oh-ho-kay.. How am I going to do a platform with this?" Hmm, well, I just didn't think about doing this. Ahehehehe, it took me minutes to draw a concept..

Hm, I hope you guys'll like this.. ;P



PS:
is it overdone, with all those flowers and stuff? whatcha think?
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I. I'm going to cry I think.


I know these beautiful, animated pixel landscapes from very old dA - the year this was posted and the next few years after - and some old dolling and dress-up sites, most of which are gone now. Over the years, I've started to collect them, gathering up every one I can find, trying to match the shading of water and sunbeams and sparkles to try and figure out which were by the same artist and which weren't, analyzing them like I know what I'm doing.


The one thing I've never found? Where they came from, and who originally did them. One of my major - and I do mean major - bucket list things has been to find one of the original artists, and commission a landscape just like these.


What I've been able to gather is that they mostly come from Korean artists on Cyworld and Sayclub, both completely down now; and a lot of them appear to have been prompt answers - why else do I have like four different landscapes of ski lifts, that are definitely from different artists by the shading of the snow and the methods of animation on the lifts? - but everything else is still a mystery to me.


Every other person I've found who collects these hasn't been able to give me an answer. I've found old dolling forums, I've found other bloggers, I've found internet archivists who were able to hand me a couple thousand landscape artworks that they found in the corners of the Wayback Machine on a Google Site. No one knows where these originated. I have over /five thousand/ landscapes on my computer, most of which need to be sorted into some semblance of order.


I've been using this exact art as a header decoration on one of the main pages on my website for probably a year now. I recognize half of your gems series. Some of these are brand new to me. And I finally found the original source for at least a few of them. I finally have a name for one of the artists of the landscapes that are the only reason I do visual art at all, that are some of the biggest inspirations in my creative life, that I have spent so much time collecting and analyzing.


(I'm crying a little bit at this point, actually.)


I'm gonna go through your gallery and save every single one of these, now. Some of the landscapes I've only found compressed, or resized, or the animation breaks halfway through. For all I know, one day soon I may have the only copies of these landscapes at all. And now I'll have a copy of all of yours that you've posted, so they'll never be lost. So when I have the chance, when I put them all up as a collection so the people after you and I can still be moved by their beauty, I'll be able to name the artist. I'll be able to tell them who made such beauty like this exist.


I'm gonna. I'm gonna go through your gallery now. When I'm done that, I'm going to check if your account here is still active, and if not, I'll try to find out where you currently are. So I can ask your permission to share your creations with the world for as long as I can, even if every other place they're posted is gone, so they're never lost. So I can ask if you know anything - /anything/ - about the other artists, about the history, about where I might be able to find what's left.


So I can say thank you. I'm an author, and I don't have the words to describe how much your art, and the art of the community that must have been around you, has made my life better over the past fifteen-or-some-odd years.


Thank you for your art. I mean it. Thank you.


<3