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he’s sensitive

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freaky little scavenger

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The Kaiju no 8 commission finished!

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🚧 Kaiju no 8 WIP 🚧

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Blue’s Feathers and Wings Compendium: Standard Wing Shapes

Wings Part 1 [Standard ]| Wings Part 2 [Atypical] | Feather Markings | Tail Feathers [Part 1] | Tail Feathers [Part2]

I have expanded the traditional 4 types; Highspeed, Elliptical, Low Aspect and High Aspect ratio, because they were very narrow and vague categories for the most part, adding High Energy, Thermal Soaring, Night Glider, and Passerine wings. I feel that these extra types make it easier to understand and visualize the differences and similarities between wing shapes.

I’ve renamed Low Aspect to Powered Soaring, and High Aspect to Dynamic Soaring for the purposes of the fact that names made it hard to understand purpose and were easily confusable. 

A lot of these wing types are also affected by tailfeather shape and size, and that will change their agility and energy expenditure as the tail also generates lift.

Disclaimer: This is in no way intended to be an academic dissertation or proposal, do not treat it as such. It is purely for art and writing references for others, to aid description and inspiration.

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Where i ended for the night, one Lovie down

⚠️ WIP ⚠️

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Little Lovie WIP ⚠️

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I made a new friend tonight

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Or send me a message on here if you’re interested! 💕

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It’s such a problem i get scammer messages all the time. I think Iva actually sold 2 or 3 commissions online in the past year to people i don’t actually know irl and the rest is a bombardment of bots or scammers and im tired

Artists, let’s talk about Instagram commission scammers

There’s been a huge rise in commission scammers recently, mostly on Instagram. A lot of new artists don’t know what to look out for, so I figured this might help people.

How they begin

Usually the scammer will write to you asking about a commission. Something deceptively cute - mostly I encounter asks about pet portraits, with one or two photos sent. They’ll probably try to sell you a sweet little story, like “It’s for my son’s birthday”. They will insist that they love your artwork and style, even though they don’t follow you or never liked a single piece of your art.

What to look out for:

Their profiles will either be private, empty, or filled with very generic stuff, dating at most a few years back.

Their language will be very simple, rushed or downright bad. They might use weird emojis that nobody ever uses. They will probably send impatient “??” when you don’t answer immediately. They’re in a crunch - lots of people to scam, you know. 

They’ll give you absolutely no guidelines. No hints on style, contents aside from (usually) the pet and often a name written on the artwork, no theme. Anything you draw will be perfect. Full artistic freedom. In reality they don’t really care for this part.

They’ll offer you a ridiculous amount of money. Usually 100 or 300 USD (EDIT: I know it might not be a lot for some work. What I mean here - way higher than your asking price, 100 and 300 are standard rates they give). They’ll often put in a phrase like “I am willing to compensate you financially” and “I want the best you can draw”, peppered with vague praise. It will most likely sound way too good to be true. That’s because it is.

Where the scam actually happens

If you agree, they will ask you for a payment method. They’ll try to get to this part as soon as possible. 

Usually, they’ll insist on PayPal. And not just any PayPal. They’ll always insist on sending you a transfer immediately. None of that PayPal Invoice stuff (although some do have methods for that, too). They’ll really, REALLY want to get your PayPal email address and name for the transfer - that’s what they’re after. If you insist on any other method, they’ll just circle back to the transfer “for easiest method”. If you do provide them with the info, most likely you’ll soon get a scam email. It most likely be a message with a link that will ultimately lead to bleeding you dry. Never, and I mean NEVER click on any emails or links you get from them. It’s like with any other scam emails you can ever get.

A few things can happen here:

They overpay you and ask for the difference to be wired back. Usually it will go to a different account and you’ll never see that money again. 

They’ll overpay you “for shipping costs” and ask you to forward the difference to their shipping company. Just like before, you’ll never see that money again.

The actual owner of the account (yes, they most likely use stolen accounts to wire from) will realize there’s been something sketchy going on and request a refund via official channels. Your account will be charged with fees and/or you get in trouble for fraudulent transactions. 

You will transfer the money from your PayPal credit to your bank account and they will make a shitstorm when they want their money back, making your life a living hell. They will call you a scammer, a thief, make wild claims, wearing you down and forcing you into wiring money “back” - aka to their final destination account. 

Never, EVER wire money to anyone. This is not how it’s supposed to go. Use PayPal Invoice for secure exchanges where the client needs to provide you with their email, not the other way around.

You can find more info on that method HERE.

What to do when you encounter a scammer:

Ask the right questions: inquire about the style, which artwork of yours they like, as much details as you can. They won’t supply you with any good answers.

Don’t let the rush of the exchange, their praise and the promise of insanely good money to get to you. That’s how they operate, that’s how they make you lose vigilance. 

Don’t engage them. As soon as you realize it might be a scam, block them. The sense of urgency they create with their rushed exchange, and pressure they put on you will sooner or later get to you and you might do something that you’ll regret later.

Never wire money to anyone. Never give out your personal data. Never provide your email, name, address or credit card info. 

Don’t be deceived by receiving a payment, if you somehow agree to go along with it. Just because it’s there now doesn’t mean it can’t be withdrawn. 

Here is a very standard example of such an exchange. I realized it’s a scam pretty fast and went along with it, because I wanted good screenshots for you guys, so I tried going very “by the book” with it. 

Please share this post, make it reach as many artists as possible. Let young or inexperienced artists know that this is going on. So many people have no idea that this is a thing. Let’s help each other out. If you think I missed any relevant info, do add it as an rb!

Also, if you know other scam methods that you think should be shared, consider rb-ing this post with them below. Having a master post of scam protection would AWESOME to have in the art community.

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WOLPERTINGER

doodling a bunny vs doodling a hare

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I don’t normally share stuff like this but what the he’ll why not what have i got to lose

May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨

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You can tell this was the era of dragon pen doodles because holy hell what happened??? They’re so good. The fraking detail?? And on a shitty ball point pen i got from a booth at the national FFA leadership conference

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Mavis, my current DND character is pretty homebrew, but that’s what I love about my DM. He’s more about having fun than following a billion rules. I found a Reddit post that showed reasonable stats for a living doll character and a few other resources we used to piece together her build, backstory, strengths, and weaknesses. She’s been super fun to play. She has an enchanted gemstone core, but can’t perform magic herself. The wings are a recent addition due to some magical spa water, so she hasn’t learned to use them yet, but she’s an alchemist who specializes in healing potions, and making mini bombs for her crossbow she stole after murdering her evil master. She’s been on the run ever since, with a goal to free other enslaved creatures, like she was, while keeping anonymity, else she be taken back and dismantled. I’ve been taking extensive notes of our sessions so I can share the fun through doodles soon once I feel I’ve compiled enough to start sharing the campaign.

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Quick lil something exploring new brushes on procreate

Speaking of dragons go read the fic Desideratum by @fianightshade since it inspired this piece

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I looooovvvvveeee this, so much that I will definitely use these ideas in my zombie AU… thank you @fianightshade for sending me this ❤️

Love zombie stories where being bitten doesn’t automatically mean death.

Like if being bitten means you automatically turn into a zombie in 1d4 days, the moment you’re bitten you know it’s over. Your teammates will kill, or if you hide the bite you might end up killing them. It’s a foregone conclusion.

But if it’s only, say, a 50/50 chance of turning into a zombie? there’s so much more suspense about it. You and your team care for the wound as best you can, but everyone sleeps with one eye open, having no way to know weather or not you’re going to turn until you start trying to eat your teammates’ faces. You have to sleep with one eye open, too, knowing there’s a chance one of your teammates isn’t willing to risk you turning into a zombie and might try to take you out in your sleep. You wouldn’t blame them.

Do your teammates tie you up just in case? Do you request it yourself, not wanting to risk hurting them? Are they afraid to get close to you? Do you end up needing to patch up the wound yourself? Are you crippled by dread? Do your teammates mourn you while your still alive? It’s all just soooooo *bangs head on desk*

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My Zombie Apocalypse AU is heavily inspired by what I have watched of The Walking Dead just FYI

Also I know I’m barely into actually talking about the Zombie AU… BUT I just watched Tombstone for the first time last night and holy crap I enjoyed that movie and now have two pages of notes on headcanons for a Wild West type AU somebody stop me