Reblog if you want one of these in your askbox:

thedeadorchestra:

• A compliment
• A story
• Why you follow me
• If you met me what would you do
• A cute message
• One thing you want to tell me
• One thing you want to know about me

ouo

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artist-confessions:

I’m not one of those people who doesn’t know when to ask for help, or when to seek references. However, I had a really nasty experience with an artist who instead of giving critique in a friendly manner dropped insults all over everyone’s art. As a result, I’m terrified…

Just because someone says nice things doesn’t mean they’re trying to be buttlickers or sugarcoaters. Saying that your colors look like vomit or how your characters have odd anatomy isn’t exactly constructive. However, if you say that you should do this with your colors to make them more eye appeasing or what parts of anatomy you should focus on, that can be considered constructive.

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Testing out watercolors. Still maintaining my cutesy style.

On my laptop, slouched over and I can’t seem to find a comfortable position.

How about you?

(Source: spectralumbrella)

aicent:

artist-confessions:

submitted by -perfect-english-gentleman

What utter trash. HER job is not to judge anybodies fucking art. STFU and go somewhere dark and soggy .

Whoever you are anon, don’t listen to her, use her words as drive to make EVEN MORE grand work.

Yeah, why would it matter that a skilled artist was doing it?  

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Where did all that Adventure Time magic go? We need more really good episodes like “What Was Missing” and ”Holly Jolly Secrets.” It seems that it has gone for now. Or maybe… is that what the designers of AT want us to think?

(Source: spectralumbrella)

poobuttface:

artist-confessions:

submitted by -slightly-illiterate

if you do have some knowledge when it comes to drawing, then you do know. why else would people ask? lmao

You do have a point, there. But when people do want to draw (at least… from how I experienced), it’s sometimes as if they want a crash course to draw well. You can’t just draw well. My suggestion is to just work and keep at it. It may take a while, but Rome wasn’t built in a day, as they say.

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reblog if you think planetariums is uguu

boxingsock:

voyagehour:

FOREVER REBLOG. FOR FRIGGIN’ EVER.

Everything about her is uguu /owo/

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riningear:

sourcecops:

carbunculus:

hya-hazama:

Um wow I don’t even know how to reply to these

But this makes me pretty sad.

I’m srsly crey.

sighs self off planet

Reblogging from my personal simply to show what posting non-sourced fanart without permission does to the artists.

Some people apparently think that “it’s not that big of a problem” and artists need to “learn how to deal”. The problem is so big that the artists themselves are giving up, simply because they think disrespect for artists is so big that this won’t change. 

Think about that if you ever feel like posting non-sourced fanart.

Wow. As an artist, I think this is one of the most legitimately heart-breaking things that can happen to an artist - when the artist himself/herself could be getting so much more respect, and someone takes it away because of greed or laziness. 

Like, I don’t think a lot of editors or copiers understand. There’s something that comes with seeing your own work taken as if it were never your own, like an old, prized possession stolen and being paraded around. You can go ahead and prove it’s your own, but seeing that someone else with it, as if they owned it all along, can do a lot to you. 

And then, even worse is when the artist (like these) has no will to go back and get it, because they’ve given up, because the thief is so rampant and has done so much to the prize that it’s unrecognizable, or because the artist literally doesn’t know how to say, “I would like to claim that as mine. Please stop saying it is yours.” And by then, the picture has gone around tumblr a time or two, and it might be almost unrecognizable compared to the original, and there will be so many chances lost for others to see that artist’s work. 

It can take hours, maybe days, for an artist to do the piece, but it only takes a few minutes for a blogger to skip over something as simple as sourcing or editing and to rip away the respect that the artist worked so hard to earn. 

Please, source your pictures. It’s a matter of copying and pasting a URL into a blog - much easier than saving and re-uploading a picture. 

And don’t edit without permission. If you like a work of art, why would you want to change it? 

If I had a nickel for all the stolen/unsourced art….

(Source: sassy-noble-luke, via luxrays)

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