Departure From the Gallery

	Departure From the Gallery

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	I have stopped posting artworks on
	DeviantART
	for several years now. This post however, finally
	makes it official: I'm leaving DeviantART

	This is the last drawing I'm submitting there, intentionally made
	with cheap silhouettes as my departure piece. But that
	doesn't mean I'm going to stop making art really:
	as you already seen here, I have made and posted several.
	If you have an old URL of any specific drawing I posted there,
	you can replace the "xwindows.deviantart.com",
	"www.deviantart.com/xwindows", or "fav.me" part
	with "tilde.club/~xwindows"; and it will lead you
	to the correct place.

	On the WWW part of this site, you may subscribe to an
	Atom feed
	to follow my artwork updates- just like the old gallery
	RSS feed there but more reliable. Of course, my original
	art pieces are still freely-licensed as they have been.

	You might ask why I left: the most important reason,
	as you probably already guessed, was the rollout of
	DeviantART Eclipse: a redesign that makes the site
	become unusable under a non-modern no-JavaScript browser
	configuration I normally use. Artwork downloads were also
	changed to member-only in the process, which voided
	one of the free content licenses I use:
	GNU General Public License
	and defeated the point of freely-licensing my artworks
	in the first place.

	There were smaller reasons too, which they also added up:
	from DeviantART dropping SVG submission support,
	disabling anonymous view of those so-called "mature content",
	making endless scrolling a default browsing choice
	(and only choice for years), leaving interoperability feature
	like RSS feed half-baked, dumbing down the search feature,
	ripping away all the categorizations, to misrepresenting
	my sex information on my profile.

	For all these reasons, especially the first two,
	I could not realistically use that site for my art purposes
	for any longer; and that led to my apparent "hiatus" there.
	All of my artworks already posted there would still remain
	up there for at least some time being, and will also link
	to itself on the WWW part of this site.

	DeviantART /was/ once a great theme-neutral art gallery site
	that was accessible, browsable, with pieces individually
	downloadable anonymously, all without pesky JavaScript;
	and also accepted the libre SVG vector format.
	They were the reasons I registered back in 2014,
	now these "goodies" were long gone.

	After several years of trekking in the nigh endless realm
	of cyberspace like nomads, I stumbled upon this remote corner
	of the Internet, abandoned by the modern web. And here is
	the place I decided to settle down, built it up as my new humble
	artistic abode; where my new journey with my trusty virtual easel
	have begun, once again.

	The character on the left was last seen in
	[2016-06-03] Knotted Mess
	and the character on the right was last seen in
	[2022-03-09] Sunset of Cyber Wasteland

	Copyright (C) 2022 xwindows
	This is a free illustration, you can modify and/or
	redistribute it under:

	GNU General Public License
	or...
	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Unported
	or...
	Free Art License 1.3

	Note: If you need the 4:3 version, just crop for middle part
	of this drawing.

	P.S. The progress bar on the sign and the background are actually
	inspired by a real public art gallery I have visited.

	20 June 2022 edit:

	- Minor grammar edit.
	- Added a cross-post link and a note on missing categorization.

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	Downloads:

	Departure From the Gallery (PNG)
	^ 1922x1080 pixels; 123 KiB
	Departure From the Gallery (SVG Original)
	^ Scalable, nominally 854x480 pixels; 59 KiB

	View on Other Sites:

	Departure From the Gallery (on DeviantART)
	^ Cross-posted, PNG version only

	More from Eventful Scenes:

	[2023-04-22] Walking into the Sunshine
	[2022-06-25] Shaky Cameraboy
	[2022-03-09] Sunset of Cyber Wasteland
	Eventful Scenes

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