skintone palettes
Oh hell yes
th-thank you Tumblr
yesss :A:
for any artists following me
i recently deleted all my photoshop swatches on accident and had to go back to the default with no skintones so yES I WILL MAKE IT BETTER THAN BEFORE
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Sam Luke is live streaming art for Engineer-eteers TODAY!
At about 1:00pm PST, the man behind the bronze robot Hatchworth will be live with his art in an exclusive Engineer-eteer stream! Chat with each other and with Sam himself as he creates something for you.
This is one of the many perks of being an Engineer-eteer, and you still have time to join if you’d like to see this and other awesome benefits! For as little as $2 a month, you receive access to behind-the-scenes content, digital downloads of nearly our entire discography, forums and live streams, and much more! Sign up now! http://steampoweredgiraffe.com/engineers/
I have just one question…
How fucking fast does liberiproject work?
(Source: liberiproject, via seapeny)
Friendly reminder to all working artists or (especially) aspiring artists.
If a client says they can’t afford to pay you but you’ll get good exposure, one of two things is happening:
1. They are lying. They can afford to pay you, but they are choosing not to. They will pay the printer to print the books, they will pay the mail service to deliver them, and you’d better believe they’re going to pay themselves for sending you an email explaining that they can’t afford to pay you. They think you are a sucker, and if you take the job you’ll be telling them they are right.
2. They are not lying. They have zero budget, no audience and no real distribution system. They’ll still be paying the printer and mail service because people who work in those professions don’t work for free just because someone promises them a recommendation. But they aren’t paying themselves, they’re running on an incredibly small margin, and there’s a good chance they won’t exist as a corporate entity in a few years. Publishing your work with them will give you less exposure than putting it on tumblr or Instagram for free would. It will never lead to a paying job.
If a client starts ranting about the “short-sightedness” of artists, or otherwise complains about artists in general in their opening offer to you, run. Run as fast as you would run if a blind date spent the whole of dinner ranting about how horrible your entire gender is. Yes, there are doubtlessly clients who’ve been screwed over by artists in the past, but the ones who complain about artists in general will not respect you, they will not treat you well.
Working for free does not prove that you are passionate about something. It proves that you do not need to be paid for your work. How many doctors went into medicine because they are passionate about saving lives? Do you think any of them are asked to perform heart surgery for free?
No one will ever pay $50 for something if they can get something similar for $5. When you charge next to nothing for art that you’ve worked for hours on, art that required years of training to create, you are telling your client that it is worth next to nothing. They will remember that the next time they want to hire an artist.
People who are looking to exploit artists know that artists are hard on themselves. They know that most artists don’t think their work is good enough to charge top dollar. They know that artists have been told from the first day they started taking their art seriously as a career that they’ll never make any money off it, that it’s not a real job, that it has no value to society. They know how to push artists’ insecurities about their profession in order to convince them that that demanding fair compensation is unrealistic and uncooperative.
If you’re just desperate for a job in the arts, any job in the arts, give yourself a job. Start a webcomic, or give yourself illustration assignments that you post on social media regularly, create work for a gallery show even if you don’t have one yet, or make a book. Give yourself a job. If you’re going to work for free, you may as well be working for yourself, setting your own hours and following your own interests. Having original art with original characters and ideas in your portfolio, and making sure your art is visible online will get the attention of publishers who are actually looking to hire people for good jobs. Drawing a shitty comic for a defunct publisher based on someone else’s shitty ideas will not.
Protect yourself, because no one else will. Protect yourself, because no one else will. There are people lining up around the block to exploit you. Protect yourself because no one else will.
(via cartoonnutter)
Twinkle Twinkle fucking why
Can’t I draw the other eye
What the fuck’s up with your nose
Fuck those folds in all your clothes
Twinkle Twinkle fucking shit
Fuck this art, I’m done I quit.
(via otterdott)
The Vice of Music Artists
This seems like a good time to remind folks of a pretty controversial subject.
Whether or not to pay for the art we create.
We have an album coming up soon, and we’re excited for you to get your hands on it. But, we also need people to buy it. Otherwise, well. We can’t do what we do. :)
The Vice Quadrant is 28 tracks, and just a few seconds short of 2 hours long. It is a two disc Opera in two acts. :) Now, I know the price for this guy is more than our other albums. But that’s because it’s essentially two albums. It took twice as long. But we also realize some of our fans might not be able to allocate the funds for it, so…
qnq:
ALERT FELLOW ARTIST - BEWARE OF WALLPART.COM
DO NOT BUY - SPREAD THE WORD
They are selling artwork they have found randomly online without permission from the artist.
Today I found out I was a victim of their scheme and have since reported my works demanding they be taken down. [ x ] [ x ] [ x ] [ x ] [ x ]Many other artist both known and unknown have become victims of these thieves [x]. Fellow artist please go check your user name, real name, and anything else your artwork might be under!
In my case the artwork was stolen off of Society6 and my own personal portfolio site! They are hot linking all the graphics to their website (check the URL of your image you can see where they got it from).
To report your artwork, there is a link hidden at the bottom of the page in which your artwork is featured. Click “Report Violation” to start a report to the website owner.
Featured in the last image above is the rest of their contact information from the contact us page (or you can visit this website of horrible reviews featuring the same info). It is listed on the site but they try to hide this information by having it direct to another page before you can read it.Hey guys, spread the word! My good friend had her art stolen by this website, it looks like they rip off Society6 or other similar sites and just repost a bunch of work from the artist they lift the work from =\ give it a pass and make sure nothing of yours is on there, if there is make sure to report it!
Surprisingly enough I have two pieces on here and both were swiped from Weasyl. Put any names you go by (in my case Swaggaraptor) and see. When I viewed both pages, they said the item was out of stock and all of the information wasn’t viewable. I still reported them and threatened with a DMCA and legal action since one of the pieces stolen was giftart of another person’s persona character.
Found my art being sold on there without my permission. Please check name, username, and portfolio site stuff. They seem to especially go after things posted on blogspot.
THEY ARE ALSO SELLING A PICTURE OF ME OH MY FUCKING GOD
TRY ALL VARIATIONS ON YOUR NAME INCLUDING MIDDLE NAME THIS IS NOT OK
… im… there’s a lot of my art ok, but they’re selling a pic of my dad biking with his friends im… i can’t stop laughing
I ended up finding something of mine on there, please be sure to check for you own, guys!
Uh.
They’re selling a picture of me from another site I’m a member of(It’s rated 4,9 stars and has almost 200 views did someone actually buy it what the fuck???). None of my art at least, so… okay then.
Check this fucking site for your stuff guys,
report the thingsand spread the word.Bonus tidbit from their site:
“WallPart Respect the copyright of others.
This means we don’t steal photos or images that other people have shared and pass them off as your own.
We have no base of images, and doesn’t host and store the image on servers.
Wallpart.com only helps the user to find the images interesting him, the site uses data of the most known third-party search engines.
Process of search happens at user’s browser.
The user himself makes search queries, all content displayed in a window of the browser is received from third-party search engines.
The displayed images are loaded from third-party servers, and aren’t host on the site hosting.
When the user make the order, we get the image from the user, he is responsibility for use.
Wallpart.com doesn’t bear responsibility for the images received from users.“Wow. So they just literally sell any image off of the web that shows up in the search engine. Okay. Solid business plan right here(not).
Because what they are after is not stolen images, but your credit card info. the “stolen Images” are using Google analytics so the images are not hosted on their site (which explains the unstable search system)
I will continue the say this as no one is listening DMCA TAKE DOWN REQUESTS WILL NOT WORK! They are not hosting the images on their site and their sales are more to distribute virus and to steal credit card info. The email address is now private and the contact me seems to be missing specific parts of the code. THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOU, THEY ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN SENDING OUT EMAILS FULL OF VIRUSES.
https://who.is/domain-history/wallpart.com on the 23 the info was updated as a result of the popularity, but if you want to go against something, use this info and go after the hosting provider.
!!!
Thank you for the info!
SPREAD!
(via transvoidspace)
Since my BFF is an artist, and people seem to be unclear on the art of befriending artists and getting free art, I figured I’d make a slideshow to explain the process for people.
(via pumpkin-spice-fartte)
eyqu:
so glad I found this
it’s
evolution
follow one cell from the middle outwardsHoly shit
When it gets to the end it exhales a soul
this is the coolest shit I’ve ever seen
(Source: berkeleyhippie, via sermoth)
This thing took me a weekend.
I couldn’t resist.
And I’m not sorry.
Quality is kinda bad, though…Oh my god.
This is gorgeous!
THIS IS WHAT I LIKE TO SEE
More of this!
Omg
(via kinshisetsunai)