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[pluckieclover]

I recently hit just over 300 followers on here! I really do appreciate people who support me and share my work. I’ve been busy, but I would like to make time to do a small giveaway! :D

!!!PRIZES!!!

1st Place - a full color illustration! Can be bust or full body and have up to 2 characters. 

2nd Place - a fullbody sketch, bust or headshot of up to 2 characters!

3rd Place - also a sketch, but only a bust or headshot of one character.

RULES: 

ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE FOLLOWING MY BLOG MAY ENTER! It’s kind of the point.

To enter, reblog this post. Likes don’t count. 

No giveaway blogs may enter

Your ask box needs to be open, so I can contact you if you win. Once I message you, you have a week to respond.

If you win I will draw whatever your heart desires! UNLESS I am uncomfortable drawing it. That being said I have the right to decline any requests I don’t feel good about drawing.  

I absolutely WILL NOT draw any image that: bullies or harasses others, feral porn or child pornography. Also mechas. Mostly just because I suck at mechas. Also don’t ask me for a realistic self portrait I will shoot myself in the thigh

I WILL draw: Shippy stuff, fluffy shippy stuff, dirty shippy stuff, fandom stuff, fan service, your OCs…. PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING THAT’S LEGAL AND GOOD and not mechanical or reminds me of high school art classes

GIVEAWAY ENDS ON MAY 1st!

I will pick and announce winners within that week. And possibly post up the drawings once I finish them. 

GOOD LUCK! 

[renzouchan-archive]

Debating if I want to keep a personal tumblr anymore. I’ll probably lurk on Twitter more if you want to add me @laraethlock

[renzouchan-archive]

Debating if I want to keep a personal tumblr anymore. I'll probably lurk on Twitter more if you want to add me @laraethlock

[kyletwebster]

What is the true cost of piracy to an independent creator?

I just saw a torrent site that had more than a thousand illegal downloads of my Photoshop Megapack … in 24 hours. Seriously, how many people use Photoshop out there?! I mean, of course I’m upset, but I’m equally baffled by this number - I didn’t realize that many people had an interest in making digital art. It’s nuts.

Artists stealing from artists. I can’t understand it.

And I am always afraid to raise my already insultingly low prices BECAUSE I am afraid of more piracy. So, what am I supposed to do here? 

The sad truth is that I either DO need to raise prices to make up for the gross number of thefts and keep my income stream from diminishing (which would, of course, make them less affordable for students and young pros), or I need to completely change the business model somehow to somehow fight piracy. I don’t know how to change it, exactly, but since piracy of my products has been steadily increasing every year since I started, I need to figure something out.

Final thought: If just 5% of those people had bought legally, I’d have made $750 today. Okay, okay - that thought will definitely not improve my mood.

If you are a victim of piracy of your creative products, and you have some thoughts on this topic, I welcome them in comment form. Also, if you agree that this behavior is disgusting, and that we artists should be supporting one another, rather than acting like cannibals, then PLEASE REBLOG. Perhaps, if we make a little noise, it will at least make people reconsider using torrent sites when they realize that working artists are behind all of the creative products they love: music, art, film - all of it.

Thanks for reading. - Kyle

[shantisart]

$15 for a lifetime set of tools for your digital art is not much- support Kyle.

[mrockefeller]

Kyle’s tools are the best out there and have been invaluable to me- and they’re extremely affordable. Please support your fellow artists!

[renzouchan-archive]

15 dollars is such an amazing price for the quality of those brushes. As someone still sort of new in the art world they are giving me a huge boost of help. The fact that another creative artist would steal his hard work disgusts me.

Please boost this message! Also if you are an avid photoshop user look into his brush sets, they are WELL worth the one time payment

[gia-is-fangirlin]

Reading Ch 78 like...

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if i do ƽaү so my selｆ 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there 

(chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠＯOOＯOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌

Good shit

[memewhore]

[wolf-lily]

eating food with lipstick on

[renzouchan-archive]

sometimes i think i have high self esteem but most of the time i get really embarrassed/guilty/shy when people try to be nice to me and give me things

[veliseraptor]

okay but I did not know that there is a story about f. scott fitzgerald nervously showing ernest hemingway his penis because zelda said he couldn’t satisfy a woman with it and ernest hemingway was like “lol no dude you’re fine”

what are the modernists even

[seagodofmagic]

the best part of that story in context is that before they pull out their dicks, hemingway spends the better part of a chapter physically describing fitzgerald in great detail, claiming to be grossed out by him but obviously, obviously uncomfortably attracted

[veliseraptor]

oh my god, it got better. I just went to find an excerpt and

Scott was a man then who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty. He had very fair wavy hair, a high forehead, excited and friendly eyes and a delicate long-lipped Irish mouth that, on a girl, would have been the mouth of a beauty. His chin was well built and he had good ears and a handsome, almost beautiful, unmarked nose. This should not have added up to a pretty face, but that came from the coloring, the very fair hair and the mouth. The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.

ernest hemingway calm down and control your thirst a little

[flatluigi]

“The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more“ is a hell of a line 

[krxs10]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ATTENTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Protest Breaks out Against the Lack of Sanders Coverage Outside CNN Studio In Hollywood California, And Not One News Network Is Covering it

On Sunday, more than 1,000 protesters voiced their anger over CNN’s lack of Bernie Sanders coverage and the medias blatant bias towards Hilary Clinton, at the network’s Los Angeles headquarters.

And yet….not one Major or Local new station is covering it….

Protesters gathered together in a peaceful sit in, holding up bernie signs and chanting “Clinton News Network”. Since CNN’s first Democratic presidential debate program this election season, the network has put Clinton front and center and fawned over her performance, even when Sanders gained more followers.

This #BernieBlackout is no coincidence or accident.  it could have something to do with the fact that Time Warner Cable owns CNN. Time Warner, of course, has donated over $400,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaigns.

Despite his last six wins in a row, and the fact that Bernie’s managed to pack arenas with over 27 thousand people, Sanders has been largely ignored by the network. Ironically, CNN continued to run segments on an upcoming travel show even as the large mob chanted outside the building. 

DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON TV. REMEMBER: WE ARE HIS MEDIA

#StayWoke

[millennials4bernie]

We Are His Media

[eclecvtic]

[concatenationdream-deactivated2]

[renzouchan-archive]

i should have expected this from u

[renzouchan-archive]

seeing a panel of shima after like a month feels like running into a wall at 50mph

[renzouchan-archive]

incredible 

[renzouchan-archive]

that woman??

[renzouchan-archive]

bubububububu ;3;