Meet Imgurian Smawg, real name Becky, who has been an Imgurian for 5 months. You may recognize a few of her lovely posts as, in real life, she’s a full time graphic designer and illustrator.
Becky first found Imgur through an Imgurian friend (Eccid) who works with her. “He would share Imgur posts when things got slow,” she explained. “If he hadn’t continually been showing me all these Imgur memes, gifs, and cat photos, I probably wouldn’t be here creating OC.”
She currently lives with her pet snake and cat.
It didn’t take long for Becky to get hooked on Imgur, as she enjoyed the fact that everything is visual and nothing needs headphones. “Imgur makes it easy to scroll through endless images, animated gifs, and memes,” she said. “I love reading the comments and the images themselves can be pretty hilarious. What’s also nice is that it’s not only images found on the internet, but there are plenty of original artworks and stories.”
Her first post to make Most Viral was not of art, but a GIF of herself and her cat.
oh, here, let me pet you too
“The Imgur community was so kind (even though it was a borderline selfie), it gave me the confidence to share more about me and to share my work.”
Becky started to share some of her illustrations.
How I imagine my username
“The community feedback has been great. Most comments that I’ve experienced are relevant, positive, funny, and constructive. I’ll even get a few kind private messages now and then relating to a post I’ve made. Sometimes people ask things like ‘what program did you use to make this?’, and I love that because people can be inspired here and show an interest in learning.”
Becky made this drawing for Imgurian MechaGandalf, as she loved their username.
You Shall Not Pass! -Mechagandalf
As Becky is a relatively new member of the Imgur community, she is new to some of the classic Imgur moments. “I haven’t been a user for that long, but I was around to see @ANewBadlyPhotoshoppedPhotoofMichaelCeraEveryday retire from his daily posts. It was certainly the end of an era… er.. cera…”
She made this to honor his year of posting a new GIF of Michael Cera everday.
I made a thing
Becky also took part in our latest GIF contest, and was one of the two runners up.
I made a thing – "You Are My Otter Half"
Becky has big plans for what next to do on Imgur. “My cartoon dragon blew me away with the amount of attention it received, so I will be doing more cartoons (and art in general) in the future,” she said. “I would love to do more posts that are related to Imgur as well as some that aren’t. I think users really enjoyed the fact that this one was related to Imgur, which is great, because it shows that users really like the site and there really is indeed an Imgur culture of specific likes and inside jokes.”
WHERE. IS. MY. SUPERSUIT?!
“The fact that whatever art I posted could potentially be viewed by a mass amount of people was a pretty good incentive as well,’ Becky continued. ‘Posting OC has been working out great as far as getting my name out there, and I really feel like I have a community I can call my own. I can’t wait to create more.”
Thanks Becky! We love your art and we can’t wait to see what you create next.
You can now buy Smawg’s adorable dragon t-shirt from the Imgur store!
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