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Dear Tumblr,

All those posts you see of young artists charging $3, $6, $10 for a drawing because they need help? That’s fucking exploitation, and fuck you if you think it’s reasonable or a “good deal" to pay nickels and dimes to squeeze a full-color original drawing out of some talented, hardworking kid because things are tight, and they can’t afford their textbooks. Or food. They sure as hell can’t afford to make you art for $6.

Instead, stop. And ask them where you can donate. If you can afford a $6 drawing, then you can afford to spend $6 simply to help someone. You don’t need internal organs as payment.

Don’t allow young artists to be exploited.

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hey there! once you get this u have to say five things you like about yourself + send it to 10 of your fave followers. SPREAD POSITIVITY! but only if you want to though :')

cwell.... 

huh. Ok, sounds like a good start to the year! 

I like my hair, my drawings, my singing voice, my height, aaand... hmmm... one more thing...

uuuhhh.....

my taste in music? Does that count?

aaanywho, I’m just gonna tag the only followers I can actually remember talking to... @holmesazetaz @hebitonetsu @cake-by-the-0cean @pattythenest 

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People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

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teacher: write a 5 page essay analyzing this me: it’s not that deep 🏊🏼

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AMEN

shipping your own OCs

shipping one of your OCs with 4 other OCs and not knowing which pair should be canon

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WATCH: Ingenious Hack for Sketching with Two Point Perspective Using an Elastic String [video]

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 Best, most useful tutorial I’ve ever reblogged

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Heads up PayPal is changing ToS again

And they are getting even more strict when it comes to not using invoices for charging for Digital Goods.

Whatever Invoices make you uncomfortable or not, you gotta start using them if you want to keep your PayPal and your money. Changes starting this October 19th.

Honestly I don’t get why so many artists are so overwhelmed by invoices, takes just a few clicks to set up. 

And is not only “oh you have to use invoices because PayPal says so” if you don’t use invoices you’re putting yourself at risk of being scammed by an user abusing the buyer’s protection. 

Since PayPal ain’t got no idea of what those $50 you received were for, but the buyer is saying they didn’t got anything for the money, PayPal will just side with the buyer.

I’m seriously begging ppl, start using invoices. I’m tired of seeing ppl complain their paypal was banned, or is under investigation, or worse, the $100 they got for a very complicated commission, 3 months later get a refund issue. 

just

start

using

invoices

for your own sake. 

Here is how you use invoices because I can’t keep playing devil’d advocate, yes I would love to help you get your PayPal restored but just this last month I had to help three persons, and they were MORE than aware of this issues. 

Just protect yourself. 

Step 1. You login and click here

Step 2. You click create new Invoice. YOU NEVER CLICK REQUEST MONEY, unless you want to risk yourself to get scamer by buyer’s protection exploit and not only lose your money but your paypal account, and any future paypal linked to your irl name. 

Step 3 You follow this steps

1. Invoice for amount only

2. Ask your client for their PayPal email and put in that field

3. Add a vague description of what you’re doing, something like “Character Coloured with Background” is good enough, and if you need more than 1 character you can type in “2″ where it says amount, or just say “2 characters”.

Warning: don’t type in “Naruto rawing Sasuke”. That will get you banned. 

4. Click send. 

Optional steps. Create a template, doesn’t take more than 10 minutes and it will save you a lot of time for future invoices, you can even click on “items” right next to “create invoice” and add a list of services you offer such as “character sketch” “character flats” along with a price, so next time you invoice you just add to the invoice from your list of items and you saved yourself some more time. 

More importantly, you protect yourself from buyer’s protection exploit because if PayPal knows you’re doing digital goods, then you will be allowed that you did in fact created a digital good. 

Keep PayPal happy, as for right now there are no alternatives to this service, and this is the only source of income for many freelancers. 

Stay safe. 

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Holy shit. HOLY SHIT. 

YOU GUYSSSSSSSSSSS 

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I decided to be slightly productive today. Would ya believe this is only my second time using a tablet?

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hey look I’m still alive and somewhat productive! 

yeah no, I’m not productive, let’s not kid ourselves here. I can’t finish a picture without starting another every five minutes and none of those ever get done. Yes, you read that right: for everything you see on this blog, there are at least 3 abandoned doodles floating around somewhere. ANYWHO:

I decided to toy around with an idea I had for a fantasy race and this happened.

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And here we see a typical interaction between two wild artists

Since it's 'Tell an Artist Positive Things About Their Art Day' I'm here in ur inbox and I am so going to gush about ur frikkin amazing work! I love that not only is your work super detailed but you also draw such expressive poses! I always admire how you can fit dem robots into the most twisty and bendy poses and make them look AMAZING! Also your expressions are so so good and you draw super elegant, noble faces and ahhh there is so, so much to love in your art! <3 (and I looove your colorssss)

AAAA EPH YOU SLY MOTHERFUCKER!! HOW DARE

Thank you so much for all the sweet words and you know what?? HA! THE JOKE IS ON YOU CAUSE I LOVE YOUR ART I adore how sensual and intimate you make every painting and it’s a real painting with many hours of work and love put into every picture, how you work the lighting and mood is truly exquisite and jfc you manage to create such complex scenes I’m always stunned at your ability to create such intricate work aaa!! *slaps face* u are a good and awesome person too and i wish u all the best in creative an personal fields both <3

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artist tips

don’t save as jpeg

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What are these pens and where do I get them

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I finally got my tablet working; here’s my “I have no idea what the fuck I’m doing but hey practice makes perfect” test run. I was going for “generic human character” but my hand seems to have decided that Danny Phantom’s head was a thing that needed to be drawn. 

Also, I’ve completely forgotten how to use GIMP, any tutorials/tips will be greatly appreciated. I think this was actually EASIER to use back in high school tech ed when all I had was a mouse, to be honest...

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It’s still happening

Oh look, MORE porn blogs. 

Well, at least they help with anatomy references? In theory? 

.... yeah no not really. I don’t follow any of ‘em so nothing pops up on my dash.

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I realized I don’t really post any drawings here anymore. 

I feel I owe the handful of you that follow me an explanation: 

I haven’t drawn anything lately