let me art

lots of fanart and occasional original art; commissions open!

[cadaverkeys]

What’s art fight??

I was hoping I’d get an ask like this so I had an excuse to go all out like this! Artfight is an annual art event that surrounds giving and getting art for a whole month!

once you make an account you can upload all your ocs and their information on your own page! This should include stuff like references and small bits of character info (enough for someone to draw them accurately). You need to have at least one OC uploaded to participate so people can draw art for you during Artfight (although i would say upload about 3 so people have choice.)

All people who sign up for Artfight that year get separated into two teams once the event begins (I’m using red and blue as an example but they are usually stuff like sun vs moon, technology vs nature, coffee vs tea etc)

Once that happens people can make art of your OCs in exchange for points for their team! Yep! You get free art of your OCs!

But that means your team is now down a good few points so its not without consequence.

By drawing an OC that belongs to the opposite team for more points than the piece you were given your team is able to stay on top of the game and you also put some good out in the world in the process.

if you draw something for the person of the opposite team and they attack back you can get extra points for your team by starting a “revenge chain” its one of the best ways to get a point multiplier going and to start a friendship with someone who has cool characters!

So what happens when your team wins?

Your team all get a nifty little digital trophy, all the art development that comes with drawing competitively, the knowledge that you’ve put a lot of good and happiness into the world by drawing peoples ocs, and complete ownership of bragging rights! (I personally developed my art style a whole lot during artfight last year! it was super fun!)

So what about when your team looses?

Well the reason why the other team won is because they gave your team the most art of your teams characters! So statistically you just got a whole bunch more free art than they did! Even if you don’t get all the celebration and bragging rights you now have so much more amazing art of your characters!

So basically…

I totally implore everyone who loves to do visual art to participate in artfight! It’s an amazing event that challenges you in a great way and you get to be introduced to a lot of really amazing artists and make alliances with people on your team!Here’s the link to the websiteHere’s the link to my account on art fight if you want to check me out!Keep in mind you don’t have to participate in artfight once you make an account, you need to opt in for that year at any point during the month so you can absolutely just make an account to watch and look at the good art!

[galoogamelady]

I’m playing again this year! Team Sugar! I’ve got a lot of work to do so I might not be able to make as much art as the last 2 times and I can’t return everyone’s attacks… but add me nevertheless!  https://artfight.net/~Galoo It’s a fun game with no strings attached!

[eyeplague-del-deactivated202007]

The internet is unsafe for children

[eyeplague-del-deactivated202007]

If you’re 15 or under and you’re making nsfw jokes on the regular, you need to step back and realize that is not normal, that is not a good example of productive internet usage

[eyeplague-del-deactivated202007]

If you’re 16 and you have a “kink list” there is something wrong with how the internet has affected you. Take a step back and assess yourself

[goldenaltar]

The internet may be unsafe for children, but fearmongering is not the way to solve the issue.

I don’t know if you remember being a child, but nsfw jokes … are very common amongst children, to say the least, especially children of the 10-15 variety. I teach children in that age bracket and kids are making the same sex jokes they did when I was their age. Like, I really cannot emphasise enough that teenagers are gonna make sex jokes, that’s … that’s what they do.

As for having a ‘kink list,’ well, yeah, I can see how publically listing your kinks and sexual interests is a problem if you’re underage, and sometimes even if you’re of age and just not that great at interneting anonymously! I’ve actually spoken about why underage people trying to access nsfw material should, if they won’t reconsider, at the very least not advertise their age or create accounts with the intention of interacting with nsfw communities. That’s not fair to either those minors or the adults who might not know they’re interacting with a minor. 

(Somewhat off topic but: when you’re a minor accessing 18+ material, you should realise that you’re violating the consent of the person who created it. Adults with good intentions never, ever intend for erotic/pornographic material to end up in the hands of minors, and that’s why you have to click “yes, I am eighteen!” on multiple websites! Many of my adult friends and myself are highly disturbed when we find out minors are accessing our nsfw material! Please don’t do it, or at least don’t tell us about it!)

But to suggest that teenagers shouldn’t have sexual thoughts or feelings at all, which I feel is the implication in this post, is blatantly dangerous. Teenagers going through puberty  have sexual feelings and thoughts, and it’s fine. It’s only a problem if an adult tries to take advantage of those burgeoning thoughts and feelings. Teenagers are not bad for having them or for trying to explore them safely through fiction or consensual activity with people their own age. 

To be frank: shaming teenagers for have sexual thoughts and feelings, a message which is heavily coded into this post, is unhelpful. It targets the wrong people, and it encourages teenagers to be ignorant of their own sexuality, which is certainly not going to help them make healthy decisions regarding it.

What we need on the internet is harm reduction. Teenagers are naturally inquisitive and curious about sex, so we should be giving them appropriate resources - Google should prioritise sex ed resources instead of porn or erotica, nsfw content should be behind consent/I am eighteen warnings, and accounts created for the purpose of interacting with nsfw communities which are blatantly listed as being underage should immediately be banned (I’m looking at you, Twitter.)

Can teenagers still access nsfw material? Sure, if they’re determined enough. But harm reduction starting from the top down, at the hands of adults, is far more effective and far less puritan than the shaming going on in this post.

[artbymoga-deactivated20200516]

Inspired by a recent experience I had with someone stealing my art and cropping out my URL. Dedicated to every artist who has had their art work stolen.

[lonelyblackwing-kt]

Art theft is bad guys, always keep that in mind!

[sappi-papi]

SIGNAL 👏 BOOST 👏 THIS 👏

[primedoverlord]

Repost culture at its finest. Oy vey… 

[xxtc-96xx]

man I feel this deeply…

[arietesmusette-deactivated20230]

Personally I have experienced art theft in the past and it does not feel good what so ever, so I really feel this is important to signal boost

[hezenkoss]

my art may never be as good as i want it to be, but i have hands and a pencil and i will make that everyone else’s problem

[anartsyhuman]

can i offer you an astrid in these trying times

[casphic]

what this means: corporations often force creativity out of artists, forcing them to make art with little passion behind it, while underpaying them

what this doesn’t mean: artists should work for free

[scarlct-vvitch]

i honestly dont get why people stopped reblogging things they like on here bc like what are you afraid of??? people thinking youre cringey?? guess what bitch! youre on tumblr! it’s all cringey! reblog everything you like and do it shamelessly no one fuckin cares

[lesbianpraetor]

people stopped reblogging things because it is a lot easier to like things than to reblog them on mobile, and that’s what the majority of people use. It’s a design flaw not the users fault

[tekehu-archive]

idk if most people are aware of this, but if you hold the reblog button down you can literally just swipe to the icon of the blog you want it to reblog to. it‘s quick and easy

[lady-divine-writes]

I just reblogged this for a second timr. Wrote this note, too. On mobile. Took seconds. No biggie.

[princessmisery666]

They say you learn something new every day. This was today’s lesson.

[dsfjhd34jb2ibd-deactivated20210]

people on tumblr tend to be pretty good about the whole “you should pay artists thing” but i just want to put out there: that includes fibre artists

i can’t count the number of times i’ve been knitting or embroidering something and someone is like “oh can you make me one?” and then they get offended when i tell them they’d have to pay me.

real talk: nice yarn/wool is expensive. sewing machines are expensive. for every handmade skirt or stuffed animal you see online there are at least a half-dozen prototypes in the creator’s closet that can’t be sold.

and that’s not even getting into the time spent on these projects. i have some things i’ve probably spent in excess of 100 hours on. i can’t even fathom making a living wage knitting stuff, because nobody would ever pay that much.

tl:dr; fibre artists deserve to be paid for their time and skill just like visual artists and if you can “buy something just like that at walmart for $5″ please just do that and stop wasting our time

[nyctoheart]

My intention isn’t to BOSS people around. But people who don’t create on tumblr really have to understand that if creators stop posting here, you won’t have anything else to like but maybe memes. If you want content to circle around to your dashboard... you have to pay it forward and reblog. That is why this website is dying. The Ban is not the only reason.

[nyctoheart]

And its like.... people dont even fucking realize how special tumblr is

Tumblr doesn’t have verified checkmarks. Tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm to you show ❝The Best Stuff❞. Tumblr doesn’t display how many followers you have. Tumblr isn’t obsessed with subscriptions. 

Tumblr is an even playing field compared to websites like Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. Which means its up to us, the users, to spread the word of people we enjoy-- the way the internet should be.

I’m not asking you to reblog shit you don’t like. I’m not asking you to reblog everything out of pity. But when you see a post you genuinely like, reblog it.

[tywvin-archive]

I think so many people mistake the ‘you should reblog’ message with ‘I’m greedy and all I want is notes’ when it’s really not at all like that.

When creators say they’re discouraged from creating because their posts get no notes, they don’t mean they will refuse to create unless their last edit reaches at least 1k notes. What they mean is that the effort they’re putting into creating something purely out of inspiration and the need to share their passion and creativity with the world is being consumed and forgotten, just like it is on Instagram. Tumblr has changed from having an even reblog-like ratio, or even twice as many reblogs as likes, to being another social media where users consume content instead of sharing it.

We’re not trying to force you to reblog everything or want you to fill your blog with things you don’t like. But Tumblr is built on reblogs and likes. This is not a fast-food company where you can order something, consume it, and then throw it away. The very base of this website is sharing, as opposed to Instagram. Here, likes don’t give our posts exposure, reblogs do.

Notes are not the problem, the fact that you want new content without supporting creators is. So yeah, don’t be surprised if creators stop creating because nobody wants to share their creations.

[anartsyhuman]

the purble tiefling we all know and love

with gif for added shiny (i spent good money on those pens)

[iraprince]

Teach me to do teeth pls

any time you notice something specific abt my art the response to “how did you get good at that” is probably “i’m horny.” my number one art tip at getting good at specific things is be horny.

to give some actual advice, tho:

i think teeth are sometimes kind of tossed into an already-drawn mouth as an afterthought, like the mouth is just a flat plane and the teeth are another somewhat flat thing laying behind that, like a theatre set behind an open set of curtains. but a mouth is a hole and teeth are two curved sets of largeish objects that take up a lot of space in there!

i think you really only have the SPACE to do this in closeups — if u scroll through my art you’ll see plenty of very small mouths that are just white with no detail to indicate a smile that shows teeth — but when you have the room to do it, a little detail goes a long way.

i don’t delineate every tooth unless i’m going for an unsettling horror look — i group similar shapes, i.e. the incisors and other teeth in the front are all grouped as one flat mass, but then i make the canines another distinct shape, and then if you can see them the molars behind them as another shape beyond that, etc. (these are all drawn with huge fangs bc that’s what i’m horny for but this can be done w less dramatic shapes, too). this is really personalized but i also like showing the gumline when the lips are pulled back; i think it helps show that the lips and the teeth are two independent pieces. they interact really closely, the lips wrap around the teeth, etc, but the lips can also pull away from/move independently from the teeth, they aren’t permanently attached to each other (and the teeth do not follow the lips around). the gumline thing isn’t really a “drawing tip” bc i think the way i use it is pretty specific to my style and it might not look good with everyone else’s styles; it’s just something i use for dimension, and if it doesn’t work for you i’m sure you can find another similar visual cue to do the same work.

so yeah! tldr pay attention to teeth as a SEPARATE OBJECT, not just lines you fit into the shape of a mouth; don’t overdo it, a little detail goes a long way and you have to adjust based on how much room you have to draw/how zoomed in on the face you are; and think about finding other visual cues to show dimension and communicate information about how the teeth are sitting behind the lips, like how i show the gumlines when appropriate.

[anartsyhuman]

more dnd art - my character, andraste!

she’s a half-elf monk who loves swords and knitting and also has a son

[anartsyhuman]

(Same anon) that's good to know! Thank you and have a good day!!

ye! that’s also why jester’s skin is bright instead of muted.

thank you for being kind about the warning, anon!

[anartsyhuman]

Honey be careful because you whitewashed Beau in that piece, other than that its very cute. Just keep in mind that she is a brown lady

thank you for the warning! with the materials i had at the time i straight up didn’t have skin colors dark enough - i’m doing all my stuff again in digital and i’ll make sure she’s better represented in that!

[anartsyhuman]

up next, with more critical role art: jester and beau at pride!

[anartsyhuman]

ronnie revives their art account, take i don’t know anymore

now ft: digital painting and more critical role!

[somnolentsuggestions]

hmm. hm. think i will spend my entire life devoted to creating art and being as kind as i possibly can