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[rotg-goc-events]

All righty everyone! It has been awhile, and I’m happy to present the ROTG Favorite Ship Week event~ As per the consensus, it will be in mid-June to give everyone ample time to prepare. So, how things will work will be each participant will pick their favorite ROTG ship, whether that is their OTP or just their current fave ship, and do as many prompts as you’d like!

Each prompt can be up to the participant’s interpretation. And for Monday’s prompt, you do not have to pull from existing mythology, it can just be supernatural/mythological creatures. Or you can make up your own myths if you’d like. Also, feel free to use characters from the books for the event as well.

And as usual, please be sure to tag your work as #faveshipweek (with an E!). If you tag it as favshipweek I may not see your work.  If you have any questions be sure to send them to this blog’s ask box.

Can’t wait to see everyone’s wonderful pieces!~

[peppermintmonster]

Friendly reminder to all working artists or (especially) aspiring artists.

If a client says they can’t afford to pay you but you’ll get good exposure, one of two things is happening:

1. They are lying. They can afford to pay you, but they are choosing not to. They will pay the printer to print the books, they will pay the mail service to deliver them, and you’d better believe they’re going to pay themselves for sending you an email explaining that they can’t afford to pay you. They think you are a sucker, and if you take the job you’ll be telling them they are right.

2. They are not lying. They have zero budget, no audience and no real distribution system. They’ll still be paying the printer and mail service because people who work in those professions don’t work for free just because someone promises them a recommendation. But they aren’t paying themselves, they’re running on an incredibly small margin, and there’s a good chance they won’t exist as a corporate entity in a few years. Publishing your work with them will give you less exposure than putting it on tumblr or Instagram for free would. It will never lead to a paying job. 

If a client starts ranting about the “short-sightedness” of artists, or otherwise complains about artists in general in their opening offer to you, run. Run as fast as you would run if a blind date spent the whole of dinner ranting about how horrible your entire gender is. Yes, there are doubtlessly clients who’ve been screwed over by artists in the past, but the ones who complain about artists in general will not respect you, they will not treat you well. 

Working for free does not prove that you are passionate about something. It proves that you do not need to be paid for your work. How many doctors went into medicine because they are passionate about saving lives? Do you think any of them are asked to perform heart surgery for free?

No one will ever pay $50 for something if they can get something similar for $5. When you charge next to nothing for art that you’ve worked for hours on, art that required years of training to create, you are telling your client that it is worth next to nothing. They will remember that the next time they want to hire an artist.

People who are looking to exploit artists know that artists are hard on themselves. They know that most artists don’t think their work is good enough to charge top dollar. They know that artists have been told from the first day they started taking their art seriously as a career that they’ll never make any money off it, that it’s not a real job, that it has no value to society. They know how to push artists’ insecurities about their profession in order to convince them that that demanding fair compensation is unrealistic and uncooperative.

If you’re just desperate for a job in the arts, any job in the arts, give yourself a job. Start a webcomic, or give yourself illustration assignments that you post on social media regularly, create work for a gallery show even if you don’t have one yet, or make a book. Give yourself a job. If you’re going to work for free, you may as well be working for yourself, setting your own hours and following your own interests. Having original art with original characters and ideas in your portfolio, and making sure your art is visible online will get the attention of publishers who are actually looking to hire people for good jobs. Drawing a shitty comic for a defunct publisher based on someone else’s shitty ideas will not.

Protect yourself, because no one else will. Protect yourself, because no one else will. There are people lining up around the block to exploit you. Protect yourself because no one else will.

[eviesketchy]

[positive-rotg]

Rise of the Guardians was released on November 21, 2012 by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Peter Ramsey, based on the books; The Guardians of Childhood by William Joyce. This MONTH is to celebrate our favorite movie that was inspired by the wonderful & youthful book series.  We hope you can join us in our celebration of this 4 year anniversary of ROTG for a whole MONTH. You can create artwork, fanfiction, music playlists, icons, graphics, cosplay, livestream the movie, buy the DVD, the books, ect. EVERYTHING IS ACCEPTED! This is after all–a celebration! You don’t have to do all of the prompts - Do what INSPIRES you to create~ PLEASE USE  #ROTGMONTH  as well as  #ROTG  when posting your creations to Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, ect.!  Please tag your NSFW and put it under a Read More.

[sheodraws]

Attention ALL artists!

You sure have seen this post. It has spread like wildfire over the past few days so I doubt there is any artist out there who hasn’t seen it. But even if you didn’t, you should read on because I’m about to tell you a handy little thing that can help you to protect your art from such assholes as the anon who submitted this bullcrap, as well as art thieves in general.

The magic word is Metadata.

Metadata is like an invisible signature that is embeded into a file. It can contain all kinds of information, like Title, date, keywords for online seach engines, and copyright information. And the best thing is, since this information is “hidden” in the code of your picture, it’s hard to remove it.

There is a nice basic tutorial on how to add Metadata, or “additional file information” to your images in photoshop. It’s really, really easy so check it out!

“Adding Your Contact And Copyright Info To Your Photos With Photoshop” on PhotoshopEssentials.com

I’m not sure if you can do the same with any other art program. If you know how to do this in other programs / can confirm that it works the same way there, please tell me so I can add the information to this post.

Adding the Metadata will not stop idiots from taking and reposting your art. It also won’t make them stop editing out your signature. It WILL however, help you prove that you are the original artist whenever you have to. Always remember my friends. You, the artist, are protected by law. No one has the right to take your intellectual property and hard work and repost, use or edit it without your permission. Ever.

[infinipede]

art thief: well how can you prove its yours??

me: /opens metadata

[positive-rotg]

Rise of the Guardians was released on November 21, 2012 by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Peter Ramsey, based on the books; The Guardians of Childhood by William Joyce. This MONTH is to celebrate our favorite movie that was inspired by the wonderful & youthful book series.  We hope you can join us in our celebration of this 4 year anniversary of ROTG for a whole MONTH. You can create artwork, fanfiction, music playlists, icons, graphics, cosplay, livestream the movie, buy the DVD, the books, ect. EVERYTHING IS ACCEPTED! This is after all–a celebration! You don’t have to do all of the prompts - Do what INSPIRES you to create~ PLEASE USE  #ROTGMONTH  as well as  #ROTG  when posting your creations to Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, ect.!  Please tag your NSFW and put it under a Read More.

[cameralight-deactivated20180725]

Gross porn blogs:

What is it about my page that entices you? I’m not interested! Get lost!

[bitter-trans-lesbian]

The bots are using tumblr to scam Google.

Let’s say someone is looking for porn and they put “wife caught her husband cheating,” into Google. There are a lot of porn sites (and some news sites) with that title. So Google has to decide which order to show them in, because most of the time, people pick something off the first few pages of Google.

Google wants to have the very best “wife caught her husband cheating” (or whatever else you search for) sites on the first page of the search. Google has several ways to try and decide which site are the best, but one of them is that it looks at how popular it is by seeing how many other websites link to it. If a lot of other sites are linking to it, it was probably useful to them, so Google will put it on the front page.

So if I’m a sleazy pornsite owner, I could create like a thousand websites and make them all link to my “wife caught her husband cheating” site, and act like a whole bunch of different websites thought it was pretty great. They’d be like “xdfgt .com”, “xdfgy .com”, “xdfgh .com,” just nonsense addresses nobody else was using, or whatever. I’d try to make Google think my site was awesome, because all these other websites are linking to it.

But Google has already caught on to that. Google would know “xdfgt .com” was a crappy fake website, because nobody else is linking to “xdfgt .com”. Any website that is only linked to by crap websites is also crap, as far as Google is concerned. Google won’t put it on the first pages of search results.

So instead let’s imagine the sleazy pornsite owner creates a thousand fake tumblrs instead, like “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and “xdfgy.tumblr .com” and “xdfgh.tumblr .com” and just puts one or two posts on them to add links to the “wife caught her husband cheating” porn site. Google can still tell those tumblrs are crap websites, because nobody else is linking to them. But the difference is … on tumblr, the sleazy pornsite owner can make your website link to him.

Let’s say your tumblr is “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com”. If “xdfgt.tumblr .com” likes one of your posts, there’s link on your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” Somewhere on “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” it will say “xdfgt liked this” with a link from your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.”

Google’s bot looks at “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” and it sees that your blog is a good website. People are linking to it (talking to you or reblogging from you), you write like an actual human being, you have nice pictures, you update sometimes, you aren’t a bot. So Google decides your blog isn’t a crappy scam website. Then it sees the link to “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it thinks “oh hey, a nice website with good stuff written by a real human linked to this “xdfgt.tumblr .com” I guess maybe “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a decent website too.”

Then it looks at “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it sees the link to the porn site with “wife caught her husband cheating”, and it says, “well, I guess that “wife caught her husband cheating” site is a good site. I know that because there’s a good site linking to it here at “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” I know “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a good site because “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” linked to it, and I know “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” is a good site because it is updated and writes like a real person and people talk to it and link to it.”

So basically the porn bots are using the fact that you have a good blog to make themselves look better and to try and trick Google’s bot into thinking they’re very popular and it should put them at the top of its list when people search Google for porn.

It’s really annoying! It would be really nice if the people running tumblr figured out a way to not be free advertising for every sleazy porn site on the internet

source.

[givemepoptarts]

I made a banner for my fan comic I’m doing on DeviantArt and Patreon! I’m gonna use this picture as a reference point for future updates and also as a table of contents for the series as a whole.

Hopefully, this will attract more people to my Patreon and DeviantArt pages.

[thejeweledspirit-blog]

Let those who stumble across my path

                                  Be noble of mind and pure in heart

For if I judge them less than so-

                                  They never shall depart…..

((Independent Spirit of the Forest from the Guardians of Childhood books. 10+ years rp experience. Multiverse. Multifandom/OC friendly. Mun/Muse 18+))

[xlikeidontevenexist-blog]

He tells everyone his story because he thinks his life is boring and he fights so you won’t ignore him

                           because that’s his   

                                                                           biggest fear

[ written by shadow ]

[joycethejoyspirit]

semi-selective, multi-fandom, multi-verse Rise Of The Guardians oc

[w-i-s-s-l-e-r]

Aayy I’m finally opening up commissions!!

I hope these prices are okay aaaaa

Will draw: OC’s, Fanart, You, Ships/Pairings, etc

Will not draw: NSFW, Certain ships/pairings, Things that makes me uncomfortable, illegal stuff, etc

Ask me for details if you’re uncertain!

Payment is done via paypal

Sketches will be paid upfront, for all other categories I will send a simple sketch as a preview to see if you want any changes before asking for payment!

I will have 5 slots open and they can be found [HERE]

If you’re interested or have any questions, message me here on tumblr or through my e-mail at [email protected]

(Make sure to put “Commission” in the title so I don’t miss it!)

[lophial]

Experimental commissions are a go!

[gruppetstudios]

“Come over for Guardians and chill!” - Peter Ramsey, 2016.

The newest episode of CvC with “Rise of the Guardians” director Peter Ramsey!

[frystgone]

                       ALPHARD is the brightest star in the constellation hydra.                         the name alphard is from the arabic الفرد, ❛   the solitary one   ❜                                      ———  there being no other bright stars near it.

                                                                 ( writ by tea. )

[natureunleashed]

                   ‟  Don’t worry my dear,                                                     you have the forest                                                                               running through your veins.  ”   

[funblixxard-blog]

               Neverland is home to Lost Boys like me                                                              And Lost Boys like me are                                              F R E E

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