World's Okayest™ Self-taught fanartist

Nerdz's art sideblog. Mostly OC trash and fanart and all that glitters is gold. Asks and trades welcome. c:

[foxville-deactivated20210128]

there are only two modes

[forzamentis]

Fantastic hands references by the website Hong14cafe.

Hong14cafe: Facebook | Forum

[bionickiwi-tea-time]

great reference 

[singingwithoutwords]

I see a lot of positivity posts about 12-year-olds just learning to draw.  Posts cautioning us to be mindful of 11-year-olds with no grasp of anatomy and 13-year-olds whose characters are all the same person with different hair and clothes, and I love those posts.  Those are great posts.  Keep those posts coming, tumblr.

But can I ask, what about the 25-year-old who just bought their first ever sketchbook?  What about the 32-year-old who’s been drawing for a month and has just about got the hang of a human-looking face?  What about the 67-year-old who finally has time to sit down and learn how to paint like they’ve always wanted?

Not everyone starts drawing as a child.  Not everyone learned as a preteen.  Some people start in college.  Some people start when their career is going well and they feel like it’s time for a new hobby.  Some people start after they’ve retired.

Not all beginner artists are kids, and I just think the adults ones deserve some encouragement, too.

[arkilliandragon]

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[blujaisart]

emergency commissions

Hi guys. You know I don’t normally ask stuff of y’all but im feeling exasperated and desperate. T_T

i’m blu/jai/faline, a 19 y/o bi poc.

the story: so this Tuesday, June 12th, my family and I were in a pretty bad car accident. My mother and I, and my two little brothers were in the car. We were driving through an intersection when a young girl who hit us decided to turn during a yellow light. We crashed immediately and there wasn’t even time to respond before we hit. I was disoriented and stumbled/fell out of the car into the intersection. My brothers came out with only superficial injuries. I got the brunt of the hit and got the worst injuries; intense burn/bruising from the seatbelt. My head hit on something which made me disoriented and my knees had hit the dash. My whole right side is not doing too well which makes drawing difficult. My mother broke her right (dominant) hand. Everything on the front of the car was destroyed, the only thing preventing more intense injury was the airbags deploying. Heres the thing: less than a month ago, my mother and little brother were in another accident. They were driving home from dinner when a drunk driver hit them and totaled my moms Lexus. Nobody was badly injured in the accident, but the car was done for. Our new Lexus was purchased four days prior, on Friday, June 8th, my birthday. It still had temp tags when we were in the crash. And with my moms broken hand, she can’t work. I’m currently unemployed as I help take care of my brothers but I couldn’t work like this anyway. My dad has a low paying job and we have the insurance + $3,000 that was paid down on the car that is now lost and other stuff to pay for. The insurance said we aren’t at fault at first but is now trying to give us partial blame bc we have the same insurance company as the girl who hit us. with my moms broken hand she can’t work for a while and she is a clinical lead. And we need to keep a hold of as much money as we can for new car, rental, food, cats, bills etc. for the time my mom can’t work, so any extra money in my bank acct would help tremendously. 

I have proofs of crash my injuries and me in ER  if anyone needs or doesn’t believe me for whatever reason but there have also been pics posted on my Instagram.

im telling all this because I’m offering commissions for extra $ in my account. I know not many may bite but I need what I can get and any little bit helps. I have about $15 in my bank acct. my right side is hurting, but most likely I can still draw or force myself. I can still use my arms. it might take a bit of time to get commissions out but i will try to do them as quickly as I can given the circumstances. ;-; i sometimes take a while but i will try try to get them done as soon as i can. i promise to try my hardest!

i can take points, paypal, or venmo !!! i’ll give the info on each when you order from me!! if you’d like to help/support me, you could also buy me a ko-fi if you can’t buy, please share! if you’re interested, please:

message me on tumblr

message me on my DA, blujais, or comment on my journal there

email me at: [email protected]

will do:

girl x girl

boy x boy

girl x boy

most animals

oc x canon, canon x canon, oc x oc

anthros

nsfw (i have a few nsfw examples… i’m not very good at it, so do be patient with me lol)

pretty much anything! just ask <3

won’t do:

anything hateful

super detailed backgrounds

horses (mlp is okay)

super fetish-y or gross

gore (cuts/scrapes/bruising/bleeding are okay!)

super detailed robo stuff (just not good at it!)

ocs without references (unless you have a VERY detailed description!)

art examples and prices are under the cut! also available in equivalent points on DA! thank you!

Keep reading

[smolbeanstudios]

Please help my friend out! Thanks so much!

[nerdz-like-the-candy]

Ramona Badwolf from Ever After High. c:

Love her edginess and her character. And Just the series in general.

[bluexcanary-bex-deactivated2019]

Lyk omg can u draw my oc full color for 2 dollahs?! Wut u mean no, it's JUUUUUUST AAAAAARTTTTT /HEAVY SARCASM

[samdravvs]

*spends an hour on a drawing* 10 likes

*doodles something in class* 80 likes and 20 reblogs

[k-eke]

So there is the whole tutorial animated !!!

 With two examples and colors for each syllabes so you can visualize even more. Larger descripion on Patreon and more tutorials there as well! 

Patreon 

Hope it will help you ;) (Now you also know the sassy “Oh My God !!!)

[verovagdevi]

[susiephone]

*sweats nervously*

[digitalis-obscura]

[fuks]

[salty-red-mage]

[hanitje]

A lot of people already condemn and calling this teacher a bitch/monster on the comment/reblog, not knowing the whole story. It was actually the TEACHER who drew the beautiful art on the blackboard, and the teacher is a HE, he’s an accomplished artist who was trying to teach his students about the beauty of art and however changing it is. He will draw any arts by request from his students, the students will take some pictures, and then he erases it from the board, and make new ones. He’s not a monster. He’s actually trying to spark the students’ interest in art. Funny how a simple pic without context enrages people - and the people refusing to look beyond the story.

You can follow his artworks on Twitter @hamacream where he always posts/tweet his arts.

Here are some samples of his artwork:

[jessadamsdraws]

It’s awsome I wish I had a teacher like that

[helthehatter]

Thank you for the context I feel much better now.

[kyleehenke]

an ex art student’s lament

[wanda-jaxemoff]

Sonic and Titties

[thatblondeperson]

I dug through my likes because I really wanted to reblog this today

[roguepaladin]

Why the Mouse washing scene got cut

[dramarising]

Dear artists...

No, I’m not going to link back to your page. I edited out your ugly signature too. I paid for the art. It is mine.

Don’t worry, this does not mean I take credit for drawing it. When people ask if I drew it, I say “Nope.” When people ask who did, I say, “Sorry, I don’t remember.”

Just because I bought your art does not mean our profiles have to be linked forever. It’s the same if I buy an apple from the grocer. I don’t have to keep the sticker on it or tell people where it came from. I’m not a walking advertisement for your shop.

If you want credit so badly, then I should get a cut of your future profits for my part in the advertising.

I know I’m probably going to get the wrath of whiny, entitled artists for this, but I don’t care. I won’t be making a shrine around their art dedicated to them. I paid for a service, and now we should go our our separate ways!

[fiendcatfr]

alright so there’s a lot of fucked up parts in this post but?? right off the bat?? “I edited out your ugly signature too”??? I’m sorry but that’s really stupid?

if you bought a physical, painted-on-canvas drawing, would you still go through the trouble of trying to edit out the signature there too? Because literally the only difference between that scenario and this one is that the canvas can be physically held and displayed, where the digital painting stays in a digital venue.

Do not be a dick to artists. Fucking don’t edit out their signatures, credit them where they are due. Don’t be like the asshole OP. If you commission an artist, respect them enough to credit them.

[rage-puff]

Dear people who think like OP;

Please do not ever fucking commission me. My signature is an A, but I don’t care if an artist’s signature is a giant fucking watermark half as big as the piece. If you cut out their signature, you cut out their effort. Do you have to make a little URL tag that links back to my page or DA or tumblr or whatever? No. Would it be nice? Yeah. Is it a good habit to do anyway? Yeah.

But unless you’re paying me USD and we’ve made it part of the agreement that my signature will NOT be on the art- leave the fucking signature on the art. You purchased art that has the signature. Once you alter it, you’re violating our purchase agreement. The artist produced that art for your agreed upon purchase price with the understanding that what they were sending- signature fucking included- would remain on the piece.

If they knew that you were going to use their art independently without any sort of remaining credit like that, then the price very well may have been different or they might not have agreed to do the art at all.

[inquisitorhotpants]

Damn, OP Edgy McEdgerson is really proud of being a dickhead. No one’s saying you’re linked forever, and no, “I didn’t draw it and don’t remember who did” doesn’t absolve you, you chucklefuck.

[babybutta]

SIGNAL BOOOST

[netherstray]

…Although, as an artist, I have seen some completely horrible signatures on tumblr posts. Sometimes they’re so obnoxious that I hide the comments on a post and tag with something like “Artist’s comment/source in the original post.” Not because I hate artists, but because I acknowledge that artists aren’t always the best when it comes to brevity. 

When I show my stuff here on Tumblr, I keep whatever DA link came with the automatic sharing of the post. I include a comment about the work if I feel it needs actual context, but otherwise I just have the link to the original post on DA and to my profile on DA. That’s it. I don’t link Facebook, Twitter, Etsy, Flickr, Instagram, and whatever other god forsaken social media people can easily find me on. 

My advice to artists? If you want people to know your social media connections and other display sites for your art, keep a list of links available on your Tumblr and other websites. If the idea of someone removing all your links from your comment really bothers you so much, maybe you should do your fans a favor and keep the spam in your comment to a minimum. Have a contact list on your sites and keep it at that. And if you still want those links in your comment on your work, just link to “contact” and link that list of sites. 

[kittykatmaniac]

At the risk of stretching your dash. Let me tell a small story. the story is:

IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST.

IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST.

IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST. 

CHANCES ARE THEY ARE GOING TO WORK VERY HARD ON YOUR PIECE  

THEY MIGHT EVEN BE ANXIOUS BECAUSE THEY MIGHT TAKE A LITTLE LONGER THAN EXPECTED 

SOMETIMES THEY LOSE STEAM HALF WAY BECAUSE LIFE THROWS OBSTACLES IN THE WAY. 

IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST, THEY WILL HAVE SPENT TIME AND EFFORT ON YOUR PIECE. THEY MIGHT HAVE GONE THOUGH SOME TURMOIL IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING IT. BUT IN THE END YOU WILL HAVE WHAT YOU PAID FOR. 

IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST AND YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THEIR WORK AND WHAT THEY PROVIDED, THE ARTIST WILL BE VERY HAPPY AND PROUD. THEY WORKED VERY HARD ON IT! THEY PROBABLY WON’T MIND IF YOU SHOW IT TO OTHER PEOPLE, IT WOULD HELP THE ARTIST A LOT! (BUT IT’S OKAY IF YOU DECIDE TO KEEP IT TO YOURSELF TOO….)

BUT IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST… 

AND YOU SEE THE ONE SECTION THAT TIES SAID ARTIST TO THE PRODUCT THEY WORKED SO HARD ON….. 

….AND DECIDE TO TAKE IT OFF 

YOU HURT THE ARTIST EMOTIONALLY…..

IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST AND EDIT THEIR NAME OFF THE PIECE….

YOU ARE SAYING “FUCK YOU ARTIST, I COULD HONESTLY CARE LESS ABOUT HOW MUCH TIME AND EFFORT YOU PUT INTO THIS. I PAID FOR IT SO OBVIOUSLY I DESERVE TO TAKE THE CREDIT FOR SOMETHING I HAD NO HAND IN BESIDES PAYING FOR IT TO BE CREATED.”

IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST, DELETE THEIR SIGNATURE, AND SHOW IT OFF, YOUR FRIENDS WILL ENJOY IT AND SHOW IT TO OTHER FRIENDS. THOSE FRIENDS MIGHT WANT TO BUY SOMETHING SIMILAR! BUT THE ARTIST ISN’T GETTING CREDIT FOR IT BECAUSE YOU ESSENTIALLY TOOK THEIR WORK AND CLAIMED THE WORK, EFFORT, AND SKILL FOR YOURSELF, ALL BECAUSE YOU PAID FOR IT. (SOUNDS CRAPPY RIGHT?)

IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST

CHANCES ARE PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHO THEY ARE. CHANCES ARE THEY TOOK THE COMMISSION TO PAY SOME BILLS AND REALLY NEEDED THE MONEY.

IF YOU COMMISSION AN ARTIST AND DELETE THEIR SIGNATURE….

chances are you are not the first one to do that.

[paranormalbedlamite-deactivated]

Don’t delete signatures, guys. Its fucking rude

[thotwing-deactivated20190613]

You commission an artist to draw something for you, it doesn’t mean you bought the copyright

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Why artists and writers reblog their work multiple times:

They posted it late at night and want people to see it in the daytime

They want others to reblog it

They want more attention for it

THEY WANT OTHERS TO REBLOG IT

They have followers in different timezones and want everyone to get a chance to see it

THEY WANT OTHERS TO REBLOG IT

IF THEY REBLOG IT MULTIPLE TIMES, THEY’RE DOING IT BECAUSE THEY WANT ATTENTION FOR IT AND THEY’RE LIKELY NOT GETTING ENOUGH, SO THEY KEEP REBLOGGING IT IN THE HOPES THEY’LL GET SOME

BE A COOL BRO AND REBLOG

THEY’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER

[grifalinas]

“Bro why you keep reblogging your own work bro” “BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS”

[thresholdofzero-deactivated2018]

The same reason movies play in theaters for longer than one night.

The same reason art exhibits last for days.

The same reason music isn’t listened to only once.

[hakimo2015]

Reblogging for the last comment! 👍👍👍

[konekat]

100% this.

Quick note: Not reblogging this to say LOOK, YOU HAVEN’T REBLOGGED CREATORS’ CONTENT, YOU ARE GUILTY, LET ME GUILT TRIP YOU.

Everyone has their reasons to reblog/not reblog and no one should feel ashamed for that.

The reason I’m reblogging this is because it’s SO important for people to understand WHY creators reblog multiple times and to not get frustrated about it. They made something they’re proud of, and no one should be trying to make them feel ashamed of that.

[missrosiewolf]

Art trade with @smolbeanstudios

Her character La Petite Moufette

[33-ko]

- Oh no.