Part-time Bear @middroo - Tumblr Blog

so, announcement?

Hello! haven't been here in... awhile. (I've even changed my url name aha) kinda dont know if i’ll post here anymore, but we’ll see. I’ve mostly left this blog up as a archive for all my older art and memories, so its not going anywhere. So anyway, life has been pretty busy irl and theres a lot going on for me right now. Taking things slow and doing art when i can. Just wanted to let you guys know I'm on twitter and FA if ya’ll wanna follow me there. Twitter: you’ll see me post art and rt a bunch. https://twitter.com/jatobear_

FA: i’ll mostly use it as a place to post art and do commissions.

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/jatodraws/ See ya around~

Hey I'm a little new to Tumblr and I saw your post about reblogging art vs reposting it and I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me the difference so I don't offend any artists in the future?

oh sure! i’ll do my best to try and explain. its basically this. reposting is basically stealing their art. the artist doesnt get the credit they deserve from it. A lot of the time when people do this, they post it with no credit, and make up excuses like “credit goes to the owner.” or they make their own edits and claim it as their OWN art work. other excuses like “its exposure” is utter bullshit. its a helluva lot easier to simply hit that reblog button with their credit/source in tact.you know if you think about it, reposting is sort of similar to a game a of telephone. where you put out art with your own captions and say “hey i made this!” and it goes from person to person and by the time it comes back to you that artwork you made has been edited and another person has claimed that they made said artwork and has 10,000+ notes while you look back at your original post and its got like 79 notes.Here’s also so info about “public space/domain” that you should give a read, when others give you the excuse of “its on the internet, it belongs to the internet” or “i found this on google tho” or... something like that. i hope that makes sense.reblogging is the way to go! artists can keep track of where their art is going and is being scene, the artist can see who liked their piece ect. its giving kudos to the artist, and showing love and support! its encouragement to draw more and show more art.While there are some artist that give permission for you to repost, you should ALWAYS ASK PERMISSION, AND RESPECT THE ARTIST if they refuse. Many artist have their own personal reason for not wanting people to repost and you've gotta respect the artist.i dont think i quite said everything i wanted to but i hope you get the gist of it aha, thank you for taking the time to ask and try to understand things.

Oh my god, I love your art. I have a question though. If I were to get an icon like the one you gave to naoren as a birthday present, how much would it cost?

i think you got the wrong person. but if you're talking about nao’s current icon on tumblr, then it was made by juliekarbon and heres her commission info

pissyeti

good artist tips

there’s always gonna be someone better than you. try to work less on comparing yourself to their work and instead learning from them and turning envy into a personal challenge for your own stuff. i know its hard, trust me.

the best way to get better at art is to practice. there is no special trick to improving, no secret method. practice makes perfect is a tired old saying that im sure you dont want to hear but unfortunately, its true.

draw as much as you are able to. i wont say draw every day!!! because i know that there are folks that dont have this sort of luxury, whether it be because of physical or mental restrictions, or simply because they dont have time. draw whenever you can and have the strength to. try not to be too upset if you miss a day or a week or even months. shit happens, do the best you are able to.

if you get bored or stuck, try another way. change mediums if you can, flip the canvas, do something weird that you wouldnt normally do. sometimes this is the best way to un-stick yourself from art block.

dont be afraid to ask for help. this is so important! its ok to ask for assistance from other artists you admire (given that they have time to give pointers.) even if asking for help is straight up asking for a redline of your work, its ok to ask for it. improvement doesnt come without outside assistance, more often than not.

references are 100% a legitimate resource. i’m not really sure where the idea came from that real artists dont use references, but its not true. every renaissance painter used references in the form of in-house models. disney artists use references of animals and people to correctly model and then correctly exaggerate their designs. you cant learn to draw the world around you without actually studying it. use references, even if its just google searching.

your art is not an island. you will pick up styles from other people like tape picks up pet hair. its inevitable, and its not something that should be seen as a negative. artists inspire other artists. use your discretion, and study what you like about another artist’s work. every artist’s style is a mashup of a hundred other artists. its ok, experiment.

youre not going to make masterpieces all the time. youre gonna suck more often than not. but youre putting effort into something you enjoy and in the process you are getting better, slowly but surely. you arent going to see your stuff improve overnight, be patient.

please be kind to yourself. you are making a unique form of artistic expression, regardless whether you see it that way or not. youre doing fine, please keep going and pat yourself on the back for getting this far.

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Many things that I often have to remind myself of.

artistsaurio

Heads up PayPal is changing ToS again

And they are getting even more strict when it comes to not using invoices for charging for Digital Goods.

Whatever Invoices make you uncomfortable or not, you gotta start using them if you want to keep your PayPal and your money. Changes starting this October 19th.

Honestly I don’t get why so many artists are so overwhelmed by invoices, takes just a few clicks to set up.

And is not only “oh you have to use invoices because PayPal says so” if you don’t use invoices you’re putting yourself at risk of being scammed by an user abusing the buyer’s protection.

Since PayPal ain’t got no idea of what those $50 you received were for, but the buyer is saying they didn’t got anything for the money, PayPal will just side with the buyer.

I’m seriously begging ppl, start using invoices. I’m tired of seeing ppl complain their paypal was banned, or is under investigation, or worse, the $100 they got for a very complicated commission, 3 months later get a refund issue.

just

start

using

invoices

for your own sake.

Here is how you use invoices because I can’t keep playing devil’d advocate, yes I would love to help you get your PayPal restored but just this last month I had to help three persons, and they were MORE than aware of this issues.

Just protect yourself.

Step 1. You login and click here

Step 2. You click create new Invoice. YOU NEVER CLICK REQUEST MONEY, unless you want to risk yourself to get scamer by buyer’s protection exploit and not only lose your money but your paypal account, and any future paypal linked to your irl name.

Step 3 You follow this steps

1. Invoice for amount only

2. Ask your client for their PayPal email and put in that field

3. Add a vague description of what you’re doing, something like “Character Coloured with Background” is good enough, and if you need more than 1 character you can type in “2″ where it says amount, or just say “2 characters”.

Warning: don’t type in “Naruto rawing Sasuke”. That will get you banned.

4. Click send.

Optional steps. Create a template, doesn’t take more than 10 minutes and it will save you a lot of time for future invoices, you can even click on “items” right next to “create invoice” and add a list of services you offer such as “character sketch” “character flats” along with a price, so next time you invoice you just add to the invoice from your list of items and you saved yourself some more time.

More importantly, you protect yourself from buyer’s protection exploit because if PayPal knows you’re doing digital goods, then you will be allowed that you did in fact created a digital good.

Keep PayPal happy, as for right now there are no alternatives to this service, and this is the only source of income for many freelancers.

Stay safe.

awkwardtimezone

Heads up, all commissioning artists

adriofthedead

Heads up to people looking to commission artists, too

Read an artist’s TOS–if anything in the TOS so much as mentions an invoice, do not send payment without an invoice. Even if an artist doesn’t work with invoices, ask for one anyway. Cover both of your asses. Link them to this Tumblr post if you have to. With PayPal’s policies getting stricter and stricter with digital goods, you could potentially get an artist in a lot of trouble and their account frozen if you just up and send payment without waiting for them to send you an invoice.

I’ve been using PayPal invoices for three to four years, and I still get people who pay for their commission before I can even get an invoice filled out, despite being told outright that I’m sending them an invoice. It’s very, very nerve wracking for me, especially if the payment is a large one. I need my PayPal account to make a living; I literally can’t afford to take a gamble with commissioners who can’t be patient anymore.

Lemon’s character yggdra! From his webcomic on ssp, go check it out!

#ssp-comics #my art

speedpaints from my twitter!

#my art

sanjanasart

I have been asked many times here on Tumblr for tips and tricks to improve one’s art. This is quite a daunting, extremely broad question to answer. However after talking to a lot of art students over the years, I find that the biggest obstacles hindering their improvement, comes from themselves. I believe that succeeding as an artist and building up your skills lies in your state of mind. There are thousands of tutorials and art books out there, which you can study to build up your own creative voice. This is what I have learned so far - Be persistent and diligent, by doing drawing exercises every day to build up your hand/eye co ordination. Consistency is key and work smarter, not harder. 15 mins of sketching every day is better than one weekend where you work for 20 hours a day. Don’t burn yourself out.

Learn resilience and dexterity, through endlessly researching the subject matter you wish to draw, and to further your understanding of form and light. If you can’t get your head around something, search for advice that gels with your brain to make things click. Everybody learns differently.

Be brave, and do colour/tone experiments on scraps of paper, before committing yourself to the final canvas. Be brave to face mistakes, and be brave enough to learn from happy accidents. Be brave enough to face what you may be doing wrong, and take ownership to make a change. Stop being held back by the possibility of screwing things up. Failure does not invalidate your existence - failure is a valuable tool for improvement.

Be honest and objective. Look back and compare your current work to previous years works, to see development, mistakes, and the emergence of your artistic voice.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help and advice, there is always someone there to help you and get a second opinion.

Be empowered, as you compare your childhood scribbles to your current work. Check yourself to see where you are, and always remember, that there is nothing wrong with NOW.

Face the inevitable fact that things are not set in stone and they they evolve, and improve solely as a result of your efforts.

This mean having a GROWTH mindset as opposed to a FIXED mindset. Embrace challenges, don’t avoid them. Persist in the face of setback, don’t give up easily. See effort as the path to mastery, instead of as a drag. Learn from criticism, don’t ignore feedback, weather it comes from yourself or others. Find lessons and inspiration in the success of others, don’t feel threatened by all the amazing art you see online.

Every painting has hundreds of sketchbooks leading up to it’s creation, so just stop being so damn hard on yourself. Art is not an innate, god given talent. There is no such thing as talent, only time and practise. Realising this is oddly liberating. After all, life is not just something that happens to you. It is how you respond to what is happening to you. When you realise that you have full autonomy over how you respond, take the bull by the horns and steer it in the direction you want it to go in.

toriitorii

It's time I say some things all fans are a thinking. For starters, you only answer a few questions. That is rude, and unacceptable. You have a fanbase, and you ignore us like its nothing. I've asked so many questions, and I've only had a few get answered. Are we just unimportant to you? Secondly, what is it with you posting all this other stuff than art ? If this is your art blog, you dedicate to art. Anything other than that should have a SEPARATE PAGE. You've been too unappreciative of us !

Sorry if one of your many messages got lost in the fray. I am way more likely to answer something if it isn’t anon. That way my blog isn’t swamped with anon asks all the time, I am sure that falls into the category of content you don’t want to see. I like to keep anon on though because some people are too shy to be off anon. If you are so desperate to get a hold of me then just message me :TMy followers are not unimportant to me but you have to keep in mind that I don’t really do this for followers. I draw because it is something I like doing for myself. It’s just a happy bi-product that other people like what I draw.I was doing full time work and tumblr is just something I do for fun. I don’t get paid to make these posts. I make literally nothing. So if people like what I post that is cool but if they don’t then they don’t need to follow me. I am not holding you hostage.

I choose what I post on my blog so if I want to reblog my friends art, reblog a motivational comic, or share a picture of me and my friends being goofs, then I will c:

littleblackchat

For starters, thank you to ALL my followers for not being this person^

And to this anon: I’m going to hope that you’re a child who simply doesn’t understand the ramifications of what you’re petulantly demanding (as opposed to some completely entitled, up-himself 30 y/o who thinks the world owes him), so instead of telling you to go f*** yourself for being a total dick to an extremely nice person, let me break down how incredibly, insanely rude this message is and why —

Keep reading

hchano

^ Reblogging to immortalize this fuckin beatdown

support-every-artists-deactivat

What Stealing Artwork Does to an Artist

Financially

They can get sued. If they work for a company or studio, their artwork is usually copyrighted. Japan has strict laws about that. If their employer or the company finds one of their works floating around, they can get in trouble, and face lawsuits.

Many artists participate in doujinshi groups, or cons. To ‘advertise’ their future prints, they sometimes show samples, sometimes even full ones, that can be stolen. And when they try to sell their artwork prints, they get very little revenue, because it’s ALREADY FLOATING AROUND THE INTERNET, so why spend money for it?

Again, Artists also rely on commissions to support themselves and their loved ones. For those who are seeking jobs in the industry, having one of their drawings floating around can be very detrimental to their chances of landing a job. If their employer has already seen it on the internet, it looses it’s ‘effect’ once they see it from the artist themselves.

Basically, a LOT MORE.

Emotionally & Psychologically

It can make them LOSE THEIR CONFIDENCE to draw more artwork, because people keep claiming them as ‘theirs’

It can make them DEPRESSED AS HELL, and their family and friends will notice.

It can make them feel PARANOID about putting ANY of their works ONLINE.

It can make them lose SLEEP, APPETITE, MOTIVATION and INTEREST in doing what they USED TO LOVE TO DO.

Socially

Makes them lose their TRUST in letting foreigners see their art

Makes them UNCOMFORTABLE sharing their artwork AT ALL

Makes them feel so INSECURE that they make their accounts PRIVATE

Makes them feel that the best thing to do to stop the problem is to DELETE THEIR ARTWORKS or LEAVE ART SITES like Pixiv

You didn’t think it would have this much of an effect, did you? Of course, many people do not even think about these things. Posting an artwork is as easy as right-click save and paste. But the people who suffer for it are the artists.

This is why it is SO IMPORTANT to ASK PERMISSION. They NEED TO KNOW where their art is going, WHO is allowed to reprint from them, so they can keep track, and WHICH ARTWORK it is. Because some are OK, while others are not. Communication is the KEY to bridging gaps, and fostering TRUST, and building a positive relationship with ANYONE.

Btw, if anyone wants to add a point on there, feel free to message me, and let me know. I’m just putting this here, because many times, we do not even think about how our actions effect other people.

Edit: THIS is not limited to just Artists. Creators/Scanners/Translators (especially on tumblr) are also applicable to this, for the last two categories. I have some SEEN people STOP TRANSLATING/SCANNING for a certain fandom or group because their translations/scans are often STOLEN and pasted to other sites.

iamherenotthere

Seriously, I’ve seen more than a few artists quit or make their art inaccessable because of this.

kaiko-art

Okay guys, This post is important. Please read the whole thing. This isn’t just about only asking an artists’ permission. It’s about everything an artist has to go through. I weep whenever I hear any of my personal friends announce they’re not doing art anymore for these reasons! I even feel like I have to worry about my own future! I keep holding onto the dangling thread and to this day I am one of the FEW former employees of an animation studio to STILL do cartoon work out of my friends! Because I LIVE on this, I can’t imagine doing anything OTHER than this, and I am nill-average doing anything else. I will be very happy if you support and help artists in anyway. I know some people say the “starving artist” doesn’t exist, but if that’s the case, the Big Man doesn’t seem to get it.

gosh, haven't updated here in awhile. have some speedpaints I've been doing on twitter~

#jatobear #my art

angelxhunter

Don’t Tell Girls

“You’re too pretty to be single” Why is one person’s idea of ideal aestheticism A basis for a relationship status And furthermore What is so goddamn shameful or pathetic about being single anyway Is confidence and comfort in being by one’s self intimidating to you

“Swearing is unladylike” Bullshit Swears are only words And these words do not negate my intelligence, or passion, or define anything about me as a person or my character Men are never told not to swear Swear as much as you fucking want

“Your standards are too high! Just give him a chance” No You are invalidating a woman’s right to say no She doesn’t need to explain herself to anyone She doesn’t owe anyone anything Ever Everyone should have standards for themselves, and not feel like they need to lower them to please anyone Or be shamed for leading someone on when they know it would never work Because that happens too

“If you dress like that, boys will get the wrong idea” What idea might that be? That women might actually feel beautiful and confident in their own bodies? Heaven forbid Because obviously women’s bodies belong to everyone else except themselves

“Don’t frown - someone might be falling in love with your smile!” Why Is it my responsibility to always smile no matter how I feel I am a human being who is allowed to experience pain, or confusion, or sorrow, or boredom Men are never criticized for having “resting bitch face”

“Short hair makes you look like a boy!” This is assuming That there is one certain way for “boys” and “girls” to look Not so Some boys have long hair, some girls have short hair, some people who are both or neither also have hair Hair has no gender Humans are allowed to look different from each other and express themselves how they like Gender identity and gender expression are not the same

They aren’t “real” girls because they were born with a penis Anyone is a girl who says they are a girl Stop trying to undermine someone’s identity They know themselves better than you do Anatomy and identity are different, and sometimes separate Why are you so obsessed with other people’s genitals anyway

“You’re going to break a lot of hearts one day” Why would you ever Ever Say this to a girl A young, impressionable girl Breaking hearts is not a compliment, or a goal Coming from someone who has broken at least one From simply being honest and being myself It is a burden - a guilt that has been (mis)placed on my shoulders since childhood I never wanted to be labelled a heartbreaker simply for existing

“You don’t want kids? You’ll change your mind one day” No I won’t Even if I do, one day, that doesn’t make my opinion right now any less valid or deserving of respect Stop disbelieving people about their own life choices Also, having children is not a necessary milestone for a successful or fulfilling life

“Don’t have sex before marriage - boys really want a virginal girl” Sure they do And are boys ever held to that same expectation To stay virgins until marriage? Because as women are shamed for “impurity,” boys are applauded for “experience” I love the smell of double standards in the morning

“You shouldn’t wear so much makeup” The natural look is great The makeup look is great The anything you feel like doing or not doing to your own face look is great Let people do whatever they want to their own bodies Whatever makes them feel good Why do you care

“Selfies are just for attention” Maybe Maybe not What’s so wrong about liking attention What’s so wrong about feeling beautiful and confident in your own skin And wanting to share that feeling with others We were taught for so long to hate our bodies What is so threatening about finally loving them

“Cat-calling is flattering! Learn how to accept a compliment!” “I like your hair” is a compliment “You’re a really talented writer” is a compliment The gross, vulgar things that men shout at women they don’t know on the street Are not compliments They are harassment - meant to imply ownership and dominance and even violence Compliments should not make people fear for their lives walking home Compliments should not actually get people killed

- angelxhunter (x)