1) they have to be from an officially printed comic you’d have to pay money to own, this blog isn’t meant to shame or discourage burgeoning artists, everything on here should be from a professional in the comic industry receiving a paycheck for their work
2) if you’re submitting a photo PLEASE submit it as a photo, submitting it as a text post does very strange things to it because tumblr is a very badly made website
3) all submissions will be credits to the original submitter with an @ unless otherwise asked, if you don’t want me to @ you please tell me either in the submission (which I’ll just delete before posting) or sent in a separate ask, your URL will still be connected to the post in the source so if you want to submit fully anonymously please make that clear and I will post the photo as a separate post fully removing you from it, this @ing is because I felt bad taking credit for things other people had found because tumblr doesn’t make it very clear who submitted something
4) please try and make submitted photos as high quality as you can (submitting as a photo and not a text post also helps with this) or if you can’t please let me know what it’s from (issue #) and I’ll try and find a higher quality version, but you’ll still be credited as the submitter on the post
5) any nudity will be censored before being posted, I just don’t want to have to deal with tumblr’s we-got-caught-hosting-mass-amounts-of-CP-so-we-created-the-virtual-simulacrum-of-a-chimpanzee-with-a-gun horny filter
if you’d like to submit something please do so here
Fixes:
1) if you have a fix I’d love to showcase it here! you can @ me on any post you do of your fixes, submit them directly, or just send me a message letting me know you posted one! you can also post them as a reblog if I posted the original but if you do please still @ me as just a photo with no words doesn’t show up in the notes
2) if you want a fix posted anonymously please contact me by message
I’m going to put the FAQ under the cut as it might end up being kinda of long!
FAQ:
Q: how do I know what to get bad art from/what kind of things do you take submissions from?
A: I mainly want to keep it Marvel, DC, or other major indie publishers (like Image or Dynamite) because these are the people that should be held to the highest standards, you also should have to pay to own whatever the panel/panels are from, even if it’s for sale on Comixology for like 99 cents that’s good enought for me, but also please consider the source material, I could get a years worth of content out of the Sonichu comics and Chris-chan does technically charge for them but that’s not really the spirit I’m going for
Q: do you take submissions from mangas?
A: I do but also I don’t know anything about manga and haven’t ever read any but at the end of the day bad art is bad art
Q: do typos, misattributed speech bubbles, miscolors, etc count?
A: sure, they’re not as fun but they’re still errors that went to print
Q: how do I know if I’m being too picky?
A: that’s kinda of up to you, I generally end up deleting most stuff I find because I’m like ehhh it’s whatever but also remember that at the end of the day these are professional artist working for, in the case of Marvel & DC, multi-million dollar companies who expect consumers to pay money for their art so it should inherently be held to a fairly high standard
Q: should I put the issue and artist on my submission?
A: issue # sure go ahead, I’d actually prefer that because it helps with tagging and also if I need to find a higher quality version it makes it easy for me, but as for the artist’s name I generally don’t unless they’re a repeat offender or if it’s really bad, but I’m going to leave that up to your discretion and won’t delete it if you put the name on it
Q: I submitted something but I haven’t seen it posted?
A: you’re more then welcome to message me asking if I received your submission or when it will be posted but also please know I receive quite a few submissions a day and I like to post them basically in the order they’re received so it may be a bit but know it’s going to be posted, if I do reject a post I’ll send you a message letting your know
Q: why would you reject a submission/why was my submission rejected?
A: so actually I’m not the only one who decides if a post is bad enough, I feel I’m a little bit blind to this stuff after putting up with it for years so if I have a doubt about a post I’ll send it to 3 of my friends (the three I’ve been sending them to recently are artists themselves and don’t read comics/don’t read them much) and if at least two of the three say they don’t think it’s that bad unfortunately it’s rejected and you’ll receive a message letting you know (this only applies if I can contact you, I’ve run into several situations where people have their ask boxes closed and can’t receive messages from people they don’t follow so obviously I can’t let them know)
Q: if one of my submissions gets rejected can I submit something else?
A: yea absolutely!
if you have any other questions please feel free to ask!
This was part of a Kickstarter for something called MERC Magazine. My bf and I saw it driving today and I had to submit it. Please look at the weird tiny left hand!!!
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I’m always a little torn on kickstarter stuff but apparently the first issue of this raised over $50,000 so I say it’s fair game lol
Question: why is using free stock images bad art? If someone's not good at designing or drawing vehicles, horses, space ships, etc, but the story calls for them, why can't they use resources other artists have created? People get heckled for drawing badly, for tracing over objects, and for putting stock images in their work. How can they win?
I’ve gotten this kind of ask a lot over the years and I used to spend a lot of energy trying to think of compelling arguments to answer them but honestly Ive come to the conclusion that if you don’t get it you won’t get it, you win, can’t explain why tracing is bad (this is obviously talking about in a professional setting for all the hit dogs in the audience) I can’t explain why photoshop filtered 3D models are bad, it’s too fundamental a feeling to explain beyond “because you’re an artist dude” why do chefs slave away in the kitchen when they can door dash, why do musicians practice a piece for hours when they can just play it on YouTube? You’ve got to try, if you can’t draw a space ship, not drawing the space ship and just slapping in a model isn’t the answer, you have to practice, you have to learn how to draw it but that takes time and effort, If your main goal as an artist is to save time, find a short cut to get around having to improve, to just fucking trying then why bother? Why are you as an “artist” taking up room in a cut throat industry when someone infinitely better than you is begging for $10 commissions on twitter? Or even if they aren’t better just someone that would try and improve and maybe one day get better than you, do you think Adam Hughes when he was learning to paint was ever like “this is too hard let me just slap some jpgs in here” no, he learned form drawing, because he loves what he makes which people like Greg Land clearly fucking don’t, I don’t believe theres ever been a great artist in any medium that didn’t fundamentally love art, if not the process than the outcome but if the outcome isn’t yours to begin with then who gives a shit, not you obviously but hey you didn’t have to try and plus think of all the time you saved, that’s what really matters
Tau Sky Rays in Venom: Space Knight #6 (2016) you can even see a Tau symbol (on the weirdly shrunken door, possibly to try and hide the symbol?) in the second image, I think they might literally be this free 3D model
