kept getting requests for gryphons so heres a bunch of them At Once
wonderful
Oh god the kiwi one is like the corgi of gryphons
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Shout out to Tumblr’s top artists and illustrators – enter our competition and you could see your very own original design for sale at ASOS.
Just hit the submit button on our page, check out the important admin bits herethen submit your best of the best.
And remember to keep checking back to have a look at the competition…
Entrepreneurial, you? Most def.
· Your artwork will be a placement print, in the centre of the tee.
· Please work to A3 portrait parameter, and the image resolution must be 300dpi.
· There is no limit on colour levels, world is your oyster there.
· It must be your own original artwork, no copycats ya hear?
HOW ABOUT YOU PAY AN ARTIST TO MAKE YOUR DESIGNS? YOU CAN AFFORD IT. DON’T COVER UP THE FACT THAT YOU’RE REALLY JUST LOOKING FOR FREE WORK FROM UNSUSPECTING YOUNG IMPRESSIONABLE ARTISTS.
“By submitting your design on the ASOS Tumblr page, you automatically assign all rights in your design to us and you give us and any of our associated suppliers a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence for a term of 3 years to use your image (including comments you submit in connection with any image) on product to sell on the ASOS website(s) and to display the design in any and all media (including, without limitation, on our social media channels, websites and tangible media) without accreditation or notification. If you would like us to remove the design after the end of the term of this licence, our duty to do so will be limited to those channels still reasonably under our control.”
AS CONTESTANTS DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? IT MEANS IN THE EVENT THAT YOU DON’T WIN THEY CAN STILL USE AND MAKE PROFIT OFF YOU. YOUR ART IS THEIRS AND THEY DON’T HAVE TO PAY YOU A CENT.
BECAUSE YOU AREN’T WORTH A PAYCHECK.
Say “NO” to contests like these. Take back your worth.
I went to read the tags hoping it all would be against the contest, but there’s still people considering doing it or asking artists and friends to do it. So I feel it’s still really important to share. Don’t do it!
I’m halfway tempted to enter a black-on-white all-text design that reads: No artists were paid in the making of this shirt.
Other tempting words to put in “entries”:
- I designed this shitty t-shirt and all I got was $0
- Designed by the starving. Made by the poor. Bought by the rich.
- Stolen art? No problem!
- Multimillion-dollar company pays artists zip [news at 11]
- Design: $0. Sweatshop labor: $0.02. Shirt sales price: $20.
- Starving Artist [small print: designed this shirt for $0 pay]
- Minimal cost. Maximum profit.
- FUCK ASOS
But I can’t be arsed opening Photoshop, so anyone wanting to shitstir can have my ideas for free.
(via cosmo-ren)
I have a problem
Entries into the writing contest need some splash art.
1200 by 420 pixels.
For each story.
I’m planning on putting in ALL my short stories (except RTFM, that’s in the slush pile at Andromeda Space Flight Magazine) and excerpts from my novels,
That’s a lot of art.
And I have the compositional skills of a dead whelk.
And I’m stony broke. I can’t afford to pay anyone. All I can offer is my writing.
I promise. Anything you concoct has got to be better than my pathetic efforts.
OK GO’s new music video STARTS off cool and then it just escalates to ridiculous proportions by the end.
WHAT JUST HAPPENED
That was an adventure from start to finish.
ok go is so ridiculous
Did anyone notice that whole video was one shot? The rest of the music industry needs to get on OK GO’s level.
how do they keep doing this.
It gets even more intense when you realise that this isn’t real time. The footage is one take, and it’s been sped up. [there’s little tells here and there. Watch the clothes] Further, in order to get the massive pull-out at the end, the entire thing had to be shot with a helicopter drone.
That is a huge amount of data. An enormous amount of co-ordination, and probably SO many outtakes where someone fluffed something up.
This is why I love OK GO. They put so much effort into their product, it shows.
Damn.
(via toobertpoondert)
T'reka taking shape, care of fabulous artist, Erica Syverson.
These are ROUGH SKETCHES folks. Her rough sketches are enough to make me want to pack in my pencil and quit doodling forever.
And if you’re bothered by the sketchy lines making T'reka look old in the second pic, you can pretend it’s Elderly!T'reka recounting exciting tales of her youth to enraptured grand-keets while a human tries not to laugh in the background.
Book cover wanted
internutter
What I want drawn: The setting is a rainforest-type jungle, loaded with alien plants and strange creatures that look like they belong there. Two figures are prominent. In the foreground, a scientifically-plausible anthropomorphic guinea-fowl wearing a pocketed vest and a small number of over-the-shoulder bags. Her feathers appear, from a distance, to be pale grey. Her arms are a hybrid of wings and tetradactyl(four-fingered) hands. She is clearly in a panic. [If you show the bird-person’s legs, she is also wearing what appears to be leg warmers. All her clothes are Jungle Explorer Khaki]
Behind her, the ‘monster’ of the cover is a red-headed human tweenager in denim overalls and a T-shirt. She is reaching for the bird person in an attitude that could equally be menacing or curious.
How I want it drawn: In a painterly, vintage movie-poster style. Dimensions must be 1600 by 2400 pixels - portrait orientation. There must be room at the top and bottom for the title and the name of the author. [Yes, you can put jungle foliage in that negative space]
What I can pay: $320-$395 USD [Be warned, I am going to be picky about this. Book sales depend on the quality of the work] you will be credited in my book as the cover artist.
How to contact me: email cat@internutter.org, or send me an ask or a fan-mail via my blog [internutter.tumblr.com]
Whoomp. There it is.
Any of my dear followers willing to give it a try?
(via the-commissioners-corner)
tbh making commission posts is really weird but here it is???
I’ve got a part time job and p much everyone in my house is trying to borrow money from me when I’m trying to save up so I’m openin’ this up to see if I can get any extra cashhhh
SKETCH/LINE ART - 5USD
FLAT COLOR - 10USD
CELL SHADE - 15USD
BLENDED SHADE - 20USDEXTRA CHARACTERS (More than 1) - 5USD PER CHARACTER
BACKGROUNDS - 3USDI WILL DRAW:
OCs
Fanart
Scenes from an RP??
????
P much anythingWHAT I WILL NOT DRAW:
Porn
Excessive gore (guts)
That should be it but it’s up for change
Signal boosting a brilliant dang artist. Pay this marvellous person to draw things for you.
That was officially the last story for 2013
No, I’m not taking a break.
I am continuing onwards, because writing instant stories on a daily basis is an excellent exercise for me.
What I am doing is attempting to create a cover for this mess so I can publish it on a pay-what-you-want basis while I work on the sequel, One Leap Year of Instants (Subsequent sequels will just have the year as part of the title. Yes, I am planning to do this for as long as I have breath and time)
Now. On to the tricky stuff.
ART
I have not arted in a very long time and it SHOWS. I’m trying to get my groove back in my weird free moments and having a scratched-up graphics tablet does not help.
I have temporarily nullified the scratch by taping a manilla envelope to the tablet, and all seems to work fine.
Everyone who’s trawled my archive knows that I don’t have titles for some stories because they came to me as asks. Alongside editing (UGH) I shall be concocting titles for those.
The cover for One Year of Instants is going to feature the characters who got the most ‘action’. My extant cover artist is a photomontage expert (Hi, BespokeBookCovers! I’m sorry I give you so much shit) and I have looked and found zero references for the following:
- anthropomorphic guinea-fowl people (T'reka)
- shadow elementals (Shayde)
- Mauve-skinned shapeshifters (Rael)
- anthropomorphic Saint Bernards (Nanny)
- anthropomorphic beagle-mutts (Boy)
- and so on
My only logical course is to make these images myself. Unless someone better pops up and does the art for shits and giggles. Because the way things are looking, I might not gain satisfactory art for 2013’s year of instants until somewhere around 2017. [I have a plan B! The interim cover is going to have a melting clock on it with the numbers replaced with months] But I’m still going to try to get my arts on, anyway. Maybe I’ll be prepared for 2017…
So… alongside the regular fictitious insanity, do expect some sketch dumps interspersed with pleas for better artists to come along and help me out.
…any artists out there willing to deal with an author?
FAN ART CONTEST! $1K IN PRIZES!
This contest is also open to people outside Tumblr, so if you have a really awesome friend on DeviantArt or elsewhere, please let them know! They can submit entries to my email (thecrownnovel@gmail.com).
FAQ:
Is this for real? Yes, it’s for real.
That’s a lot of money, are you fucking…
