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i’ve been having an amazing time drawing little plant bros lately

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It's her! Doing her secret job!

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Supportive smol sammy

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Get down with the thiccness

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SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT!!!!

Leaving my abusive home

https://twitter.com/Pathesisx/status/1135917950462939137

https://www.patreon.com/Pathesis Or Buy me a #kofi ( it’s like a tipjar 3$ a cup ) https://ko-fi.com/A4059K4

Hey Guys so a place I thought which would hold a job for me when I move fell through and i’m seriously panicking.

I’m terrified that i’ll be forced to move back into my abusive home so If y’all could reblog this just to get it circulating it would mean the world to me. 

I draw NSFW and SFW stuff so any supporter would me so much to me♥

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Anti anxiety.

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Check it out, I do Photography 📸

Title: A Cleansing Sage

The Image above is an assortment of gemstones surrounding a sage bundle used to smudge a room or cleanse other stones. The sage bundle is in a ceramic dish with a large raw amethyst chunk along with some tumbled amethyst stones. The gems surrounding the sage starting from the top left are Onyx, Labradorite with firing, Opalite wand, Labradorite heart without firing, & Red Tigers Eye. [plus a lighter]

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10 Digital Art Tips For Beginners by Laovaan

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【Tutorial】 Zubora people teach How to draw cuphead style It is a sequel to the previous “How to draw a picture defeated by the boss of cuphead”.

なんて書いてるか分からない？考えるな感じろ

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me: [listens to a new song]

my brain, upon receiving one single hit of Döpamine™: we shall listen to only this song until we have wrung every last neurotransmitter out of it

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Pricing your Art

So @dreriart made a post about commission pricing and I thought since it is doin’ the rounds I’d copy-paste this thing I wrote on DA over to Tumblr because for some reason I … never … did that … before?? So one recurring thing I see a lot in the art community in many different formats is ‘how much should I charge for my commissions?’ What normally follows is a lot of bad advice. Terrible advice. So I’m here to give you some good advice and tell you all about how to value your skillset and price accordingly. This guide has been written with the intended audience of folk who are just starting out with commissions, but I hope it will encourage other artists to give themselves a fair wage and, of course, a lot of this can be transposed over to other creative professions as well. So let’s answer the question of ‘how much should I be charging people for work?’ The answer to this is deceptively simple. Here are the questions you need to ask yourself to form an appropriate response:

Where do you live?

How old are you?

For obvious reasons I cannot assist you with these. But once you have these you go to Google and you type in the following: ‘minimum wage per hour in <location name>’ Which is more than likely going to bring up an official government page for your area. Here is the one for the UK since that is where I live.Now what? Well. How old are you? Because some locations have different rates for those in different age brackets. But essentially all you need to do is get the following info: How much is the minimum wage per hour for my age in my area? Now that you have this, how long does a piece take you? You do not need to be exact. A rough guesstimation will do. This will form your base price of: Minimum Wage x Estimated Hours Therefore if I take five hours to paint a portrait and my min wage is £7.83 then my base price for a painted portrait is £39.15.

That is the absolute minimum you should be charging for your work.

And please take into considerations the following:

Working outside your comfort zone will up times taken on a piece.

If you’re working with traditional materials, how much for paper/canvas/paint/pens/etc?

Minimum wage is quite often garbage anyway.

Whenever I say this though, I often get a variety of responses in the negatory for this method. I have answers for each of them. So, let’s run a sort-of-FAQ on this method shall we?

I’m not good enough to price that high.

Yes you are. Who says? Your government, for starters. Also me. Here’s the thing. No matter the quality of your art, you deserve a fair living wage for your work. There are lots of people out there with no understanding of the time, effort and tears that go into honing artistic skills. Digital art, making comics, mastering musical composition, sculpting, or whatever it is all takes time to learn and we are constantly growing and improving. And if someone wants to hand you money for what you are producing guess what? You ARE good enough. That is the proof right there. Another human being wants to give you cold hard cash for something that only you can make. If it puts a different perspective on things for you, think of job roles that would be traditionally minimum wage. Probably the one most people will go to is ‘burger flipping at McDonalds’ as an example of a low skill occupation that is stereotypically easy and for those who failed in life etc. etc. (spoiler alert: it isn’t, but that’s a journal entry for another day). Why should this theoretical failure of humanity earn more than you doing a job that ‘anyone can do’? Because art is absolutely more difficult than cleaning out a McFlurry machine (that’s a legit fact by the way: I’ve cleaned one of those and art is way harder). Also, art is a luxury product my friend. No one needs to be buying commissions of their MMO character. They want it? They can play by our rules. And they will.

My family member/friend/random internet guy said that’s too expensive and I should lower my prices.

Your family member/friend/random internet berk is a fucking idiot at best, or intentionally trying to get you to undersell at worst. Firstly, I’d be willing to bet that the person who said this to you is not an artist. If so, what makes them more qualified than another actual artist to tell YOU how to price yourself? Because you trust their opinion? Yeah, but what if their opinion is formed on a factually incorrect assumption of how much art costs/the time it takes to produce because that is a HUGE deal in our community right now. And what if they just want you to stay cheap because it threatens them? Or, as a consumer, want you to stay cheaper for their own selfish purchasing habits? What then? Tell them to fuck off.

But there is someone better than me charging less! Why should a client pick me over them?

Spoiler alert: there will always be someone better than you charging less. There are thousands of mega quality artists out there. I’m considered expensive for what I produce, especially as I live in a country with a currency that translates highly to other currencies. Yet people constantly ask me for commission work. So what gives? Here are some reasons why a prospective client might chose you over someone else:

You are nicer than they are.

You are faster than they are.

You’re working in a niche sector.

They know you personally.

They like your art style better.

You have lots of good feedback.

A friend recommended you.

They aren’t even open for commissions right now.

They had a bad experience with that artist in the past.

You’re easier to purchase from.

You have a larger following and purchasing from you exposes that audience to them by proxy.

There are lots of other reasons but price isn’t necessarily often the deciding factor for a lot of clients. Don’t spend your life being concerned with how other people are better than you or you’ll never be happy.   I’m nervous about pricing so highly! What if no one wants my art?If a client doesn’t want to pay you a fair living wage for their luxury item purchase then that’s a client you can probably do without to be honest with you.Someone complained about my prices being so high! What do I do? Refer them to this:

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Idk what to do and who to ask but you’re one of my favorites and someone I’ve been following a long time so I thought I’d give it a shot. Do you have any advice for someone who wants to draw and stuff and has ideas but whenever they try to draw they only can get themselves to do it for like 20 min before they get too tired (depression)? I want to draw so bad but idk what to do... (also I’ve already tried getting tested for sleep issues and nothing came of it). I’m really sorry to bother you

It’s not a bother, I’m sorry to hear that you’re struggling with this.  Sometimes if I’m stuck on something, procrastinating, or going to draw a thing that I don’t want to I take a few steps to try and reward myself. 

As a comic artist, sometimes you have to draw scenes you’d rather not, or characters that aren’t your fave. I guess you need to analyse yourself a little. What is causing you to be feeling tired or depressed about your art? Is it the subject matter that you don’t really want to draw? Is it the act itself, in which case why is it you really want to draw? is it the result, you not happy with it and how it turns out? is it Social Media FOMO and you’re not getting the reception you want? Is it generally depression, and things that used to give you joy aren’t anymore? In any case, really think about yourself, how you’re feeling, and why it is you’re feeling this way. 

If it’s less serious than all that, what I do to make myself push through, I’ll doodle  and scribble something self indulgent to get me in the drawing zone. Or, I’ll give myself time slots. “from 1pm to 3pm I will draw this thing.” Then it’s not a huge daunting task, but a manageable bite size chunk.  Sometimes where possible too if it’s not working, and I keep trying, I’ll scrap that idea entirely, or put it somewhere to come to later if I want to.  Move on. All that being said, maybe you need a little bit of a break from art. Pushing yourself will only poison the activity for you. Stop, give yourself time to miss it a bit. You might come back refreshed. Also, this is only my exceptionally non expert advice. I would recommend talking to an expert, councillor or therapist about it if it’s bothering you. They’re a godsend and can help you far better than some random jesster on the internet.Also, 15 minutes of cardio a day. Seriously…it actually does wonders for your mental state, because brains can sometimes be hacked. It may be hard and boring, but your brain actually really loves exercise and it clears general anxieties and gets you motivated. 

hope you find your muse again Nonny! 

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“Since Tumblr like to make my image blurry, here a close-up.” -Brittney

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Erik: *knocks on Christine’s door* It’s me

Christine: *peeking through peep hole* Say it

Erik: *deep sigh* Christine, could we please not-

Christine: I’m not letting you come in if you don’t say the thing

Erik: Christine, why must-

Christine: Erik.

Erik, defeated: *singing* I’m here, the Phantom of the Opera

Christine: *snickering*

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These adopts are still up for grabes! if you’re intrested send me a DM!

Blue Kit Kit Official Adopts! I got some pretty babies who need a home! come get ‘em while theyre avalable!  Avalable: -Jingle Bell Gal $25 USD -Soap Head Sir $20 USD -Android Alien Girl $20 USD

If you’re intrested in any of these lovely characters send me a DM! Paypal payments only~   Once payment is comfermed you can edit and do what ever you like with the character.

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Morning Reblog ovo! These babies still need a home <3 

Blue Kit Kit Official Adopts! I got some pretty babies who need a home! come get ‘em while theyre avalable!  Avalable: -Jingle Bell Gal $25 USD -Soap Head Sir $20 USD -Android Alien Girl $20 USD

If you’re intrested in any of these lovely characters send me a DM! Paypal payments only~   Once payment is comfermed you can edit and do what ever you like with the character.