Kashiwazaki-Studio

Title says it pretty well, my vision 「About Llamas」...

We alls know alreadyt hat this thing of llamas was kind of a random invention.

But sometimes people here may get a little too excited into asking for llamas to obtain a certain 「status」, and this is the point I want to get into.

Let's start by the fact you are giving llamas to random people expecting me to return you - the goal is pretty obvious, you want to increase your llama status (correct me if I am wrong in the following, or even at this point, as this is just my own perception of things happening).

This is just like in Facebook; you want to snatch 「Likes」, even from random people, about your profile photo of yourself, a way to try to get fame in some way.

Fact is, FAME won't necessarily give you money, the same way llamas won't give you money.

Back to Facebook, I post content I create from my hobby and don't even ask people to hit 「Like」 for them: those who like just do it, even commenting (I obviously appreciate), those I tag along aren't compulsed to hit it, and finally, it's a way for me to gain prestige over my works.

But it ends here: unlike some crap latinos who make a kind of papercraft, or any work of them, I don't beg with the desperate 「Please hit 「Like」, it doesn't cost you anything」, I prefer to just let things flow, not trying to obligate the peoples' consiousness to give the damn 「Like」.

You actually build a better, more trustworthy audience to your works if you don't ask for 「Likes」 on Facebook, or llamas here in dA.

I do criticize the 「Like」/llama beggers, especially those good-for-nothings asking for them about useless self portraits and other things that are of no use for society.

And for those who made their works and anything useful for our society and expose them, no criticisms, but an appeal: don't beg for 「Likes」 and/or llamas, you should rather allow the right audience to reach you, and that same audience will be the one carrying more 「Likes」/llamas for you, while it's a way - in the case of freely downloadable material - for you to keep a controlled traffic of people and easily catch the ones doing wrong with your stuff, which is less possible, for this audience can respect your work better than outsiders you begged attention from.

Again on the dA llamas, don't seek to upgrade your llamas for show-off, you have no gain at all with that; give them to express an appreciation for the wonderful artworks from the deviant you are visiting.

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That put aside now, I have good news for the MAN Truck and Bus fans: I decided to make a brief return to the European Highway Bus, and put one interesting highway bus in queue, the MAN Lion's Coach Supreme, exactly like the one I saw this morning, while about to board my second half of my commute towards my workplace.





Thanks to foolish Turks from the wowturkey forum, the papercraft won't be freely available, and users from certain countries (obviously including Turkey) won't be eligible to receive the patterns either.

Since very long time after I found out that wowturkey is a PIRATE site where many of my stolen patterns were indiscriminately posted, I no longer made my patterns completely available for free.

Actually, I haven't been so active as I was before; I made, printed and built them, and only showed photos of finished productions on Facebook and a Canadian transportation forum only...

URGENT MESSAGE: With the changes I made to my Studio, so as the name has also changed.

However, the bad news is that the dA team won't let us do that unless we buy at least the three-month duration CORE membership.

I am well aware it seems like I am wasting 1200pts (or the equivalent to roughly 13 USD) just for an username change, but there's a BIG reason why I prefer to acquire the membership at once;once I created a new account with the desired name, I cannot get back most of what I need from the the current account, including some favorites, comments and critiques.

Obtaining the CORE membership will also allow me to make other changes I could only carry out with this membership, so these 1200pts won't certainly be spent in vain.

I will also lay plans to open myself to commissions, to further improve my chances at obtaining CORE.

Also, I am not expecting anyone to ever gift me the three-month period at once, but if there is any chance someone would do that, it would be fantastic, a debt I would carry for quite some time towards the honor of that person.

Even the smallest handful of points is critical for me, because the more people gift me with these small handfuls of points, the closer Iam into obtaining 1200pts to achieve my needs.

Thank you very much for your support! (^^)

We all know when we really want to do something for good, we want it to be as perfect as possible, right?

Now, to achieve that, we must work our fingers, eyes and brains as best as we can - sometimes even in a frantic, hallucinating rhythm!...

I admit: I AM a person who hallucinates while watching a beautiful and/or cleverly painted grand touring coach passing by me.

Naturally, I plan turning that into a papercraft, in a manner I can replicate it as possible as I can, which is one of the things I love to do; something that is now an irrefutable and critical part of my own identity.

Now folks, let me get this straight, clearly and honestly: so far, I designed these with a second intention, which was sharing them with you guys, with reluctant trust on your respect, and this respect I wanted was at least in the shape of a fair use of them - to build them by yourselves, to ask me if you could paint them (not forcedly mandatory, but as an example of your respect towards my efforts) and, in the case you did modified, to keep my original credits exactly where they were.

Unfortunately, someone crossed all the lines and yet refused to admit it.

Worse: he refuses to remove the violating content, after I even told him "You can repost it, if my credits are put back there"!

This leads me to an ultimate decision - a decision I would rather never carry into practice, yet I feel forced to do it, for the sake of my own mental sanity.

The person in question has no idea how his actions severely hurted me, especially on the occasion where he says:

"I don't remove it again.

I don't remove it again.

I don't remove it again."

...In response to what I said:

"Guys PLEASE, for the last time, RESPECT others' work, don't make fun of our works, DON'T remove credits off, for God's sake!!!

[username]: you are to remove the violating material IMMEDIATELY, and if you wish to repost it, you do so WITH my credits intact!"

Now tell me what kind of reaction I am about to take?

Yes, you got it right: NO MORE papercraft templates in public, JUST the photos of assembled papercrafts will ever appear in public!

Like this, I'll let these thugs understand how much pissed oof they turned me, ONLY like this I make them understand what they did to me is not fair!

To my fellow and loyal fans, I am very sorry for arriving at this point, but I can no longer trust on the group from where most violators come from: Turkey.

No, don't even dare to say this is racism; it's just that I lost trust on the Turkish fans, because a small group of them took the wrong decision of picking others' works, then give themselves the useless job of removing the original credits, in a way to claim it was their own.

My decision is made and there is no turning back!

From now on, the only way to obtain one or another work of mine, is by asking me PERSONALLY, and under STRICT questionaries and responsibilities.

For my fans: Have a nice day.

For those who disrespected me: Sorry to disappoint your eagerness for collecting others' works, then claiming - directly or indirectly - them to be your own creations, but from me you won't get any more, it's simply OVER!!

I know well that there is art that specific types of artists don't like.

However, we all know the best thing to do when we see an artwork we did not enjoyed, we usually move on browsing around.

The example of someone who fell on the opposite was on my artwork "Seizon no tame no ki wa, kunrendesu"; this has been reuploaded to eliminate the bad comments of a specific user (too bad the best comment went away as well, as it seems the deviantART staff is stubborn in not allowing us to manage our comments... -.-).

I have an appeal to every single person, not only my watchers/friends, but also those from outside this circle who visit my profile, check my artworks out and comment on them:

You are not alone here - each deviant has his/her own tastes, so if you want to be respected and earn good karma, you should respect their tastes as well.

My artistic specialties are not rare here on deviantART, but their meanings themselves are unique; obviously I don't expect a community totally receptive to my artworks, but at least I expect those who didn't like them just because they don't fit within their tastes to express disregard, instead of using bad behavior and insults.

I guess you wouldn't like me to express unfair comments on you and your artworks, would you?

Think about it and be cool, so your karma can rise along yours friends' and fellow artists' karma.

Up here, things are getting better and better!

I say this, because of the new order that came to me last Wednesday, and is now nearly complete and ready to deliver.

As you probably did noticed, I have uploaded some pictures of bus papercrafts of a company called l'Oiseau Bleu.

Besides their immediate request of six bus papercrafts from the bus brand I am also working for, they also made a private request, something that it is made for personal use only, and not for the "traditional" role of avertising.

With Beulas, I am authorized to play further, as I am literally part of the Spanish bus bodywork builder, but in a moderate way (for this same moderation, there's the Beulas local salesman, who already invested so much on my concept, and is actually giding me through this play).

However, I don't have any permission from other builders, so the fact I am making tailor made papercrafts involving these brands remains - and will remain, at least until I officialize my Studio - strictly private, like for making miniature garages only for bus fleet owners to enjoy.

So Neoplan GmbH, Van Hool AG, Setra, Temsa, VDL Bova, etc., don't worry, I am working and playing inside the game rules, unless you have any conditions.