Loser With A Pencil

The art blog of a starving artist going to MCAD

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Hummingbird card I'm making for my grandmother. It's gonna be watercolored of course :) 🌸🐦

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A loose concept of a piece I'm going to do on the balance of work and leisure. It's 5 o'clock somewhere 😎🍹☀️

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An underwater scene I am VERY excited to show off as I go. Heck yeah watercolors 🤘😎

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Doing some practice sketching. Draw a shape, draw something contained to the shape. This one is a star & siren! She's freaking adorbs

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A DnD WIP of Leelou! Our absent-minded too tall Wood Elf Druid! She spent a hundred years in the woods outside her destroyed home of Pomn, she probably did stuff like this a lot

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Doing some herpetology pieces for class. Meet Miss Spitz and her boa Bijou, and Ashley and her corn snake Sherbert! Cuties all around!

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My MCAD junior review set up! You should be able to recognize most of these pieces since they're on this blog. I'll find out in a week or two if I passed!! This is such a big task and such a huge step in becoming a degreed artist, but I'm proud of every piece I put up on that wall.

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A completed Witch and her Dragon! Sometimes even large evil beasts need a good belly scratchin'

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My magic instruments--watercolors!! Always trying to learn new techniques and improve my craft. Wish I had more reasons to use watercolors in my work

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Cute finished watercolor of an older dragon design I did

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A cat and her bubble. Meow 🐱

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Birch trees are always nice to paint

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Just some tree watercolor/acrylic practice

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How to help your artists - The circle of influence.

So over the past 10-15 years, as I’ve been trying to branch out, grow a following and sell commissions, there’s one phrase I’ve heard more than any other.

“I’d love to support you, but I have no money.”

And you know, I get that. I understand. I don’t have any either. But here’s the secret. The most powerful and useful thing you can do to support an artist? It doesn’t cost a penny. Reblog their posts, signal boost their commissions, advertise their patreon./ If you have commissioned them, or do support their patreon? Write a review, tell your friends, share their links. Keep circulating the tapes.

Every post is an artist laying themselves bare before you. You have the power to make them into somebody. You can make them into a big name, you can help bring them an income. All you have to do is share.

Here’s a handy infographic.

If artists get only likes, they never get any exposure. They find no followers, they make no money, and feel worthless.

But with reblogs, who knows how far they could reach? New people could see their work and follow them, and maybe one person will spot that commissions post or patreon promo, and maybe offer to help support them. And it didn’t even cost those followers a penny to reblog the post.

So please, anyone out there. If you enjoy an artist’s work and can’t afford to give any monetary support, you can give them something more powerful. A voice.

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And authors, too. Please reblog and share author commissions!

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To use the first 200 reblogs of this post as an example: 

That orange dot is OP! Look at how far those first few reblogs spread this post! 

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Preparing for the sweet sweet junior review!

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Ashkani and her fire bugs are coming along nicely!! Gotta do something in between sessions while our DM is hard at work attempting to give us a rich world filled with wonder and adventure. (The DM is writing this hi hello)

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Chose the witch and the dragon!! WIP update, now including watercolor!