archived.

fare thee well.

[spoiled-truth]

Someone draw Huey but Dippy Fresh ASAP

[helpingg]

[pre-party]

[kiwi]

HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

[kiwi]

so far we’ve got

senshi stock

croquis cafe

line-of-action.com

quickposes.com

posemaniacs

clip studio paint models

pexels.com

sketchdaily

eggazyoutatsu atarichan drawer

designdoll

if you have any more please reply!

[nohara]

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[gamersapphic-deactivated2022121]

for Clothing refs,

Yesstyle.com

they have flattering and elegant clothing

[graveweaverold]

Hope this can help you guys :) 

[kiaraincolor]

A tip for blending when painting digitally: use a transition color! I quickly made this when my brother asked for art advice while I was working on a painting for my best friend. (I was watching a lot of makeup videos to pick out her gifts). 

[shitfly-deactivated20181216]

Do you any tips about using ms paint?

I think I have few tips

#1Use 500x500 px or bigger canvas size. Any smaller size will make a brush look messy and shit.Here look:

Can you see the difference?? Lineart in 600x600 px is so much smoother

#2

#3

#4 RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON YOU NEED IT

#5

*:・ﾟ✧it’s like manga : *✧・ﾟ

that’s all tbh

i hope this was somewhat helpful 

[sketchcomplex]

I stumbled upon a website that allows you to blend any colors evenly no matter how opposite on the spectrum they are.

sharing the knowledge

very helpful art resource

[b09875654321-deactivated2020062]

WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE???

[brittascribbles]

Man, where was this when i was taking Color Theory?! All of those complimentary gradients we did…

[rubye402]

REBLOGGING TO SAVE A FUCK'N LIFE.

[pigeon666]

Work at academy

[xstonehill-deactivated20220219]

can you please fill me in on the article 13 thing? i am sorry if i am late :/

Dear anon! 

Thank you for the question!

You are not too late! The vote is on the 4th of July 2018!!

I can’t really fill you in on what is going to happen, because there’s so much information out there.

But I can link you to a lot of different resources on this directive!

First of all, some petitions against it:

Here’s an international petition. They are currently attempting to reach 1 million signatures!!

Here’s one for EU citizens, information on how to email or call. I recommend you email them even if you’re not an EU citizen, since there’s a template anyway!

Second, here are some basic rundowns of consequences from different people;

Two different comments from the Organization of transformative works, who have been in contact while the directive was taking shape.

One from EFF, a letter from some of the people who helped shape the internet as we know it.

And in-depth analysis of what it might do to fanfic writers and readers, which probably applies to fanart a lot as well.

For Americans by an American.

And lastly @daisy-oreilly-fti has done an in-depth analysis of the legislation and other information on it: Part 1; Part 2

I hope this helps! Thank you for taking an interest and please add your voice to this by sharing and signing the petitions!

[hntrgurl13]

8,000 FOLLOWER RAFFLE!

OH MY GOD GUYS! I have now reached a huge milestone of 8,000 followers! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! To celebrate, I decided to do a raffle! 

1st Place : 1 Full Color/ BG Commish + 1 3in Dipper and Mabel Charm

2nd Place : 1 Flat Color Commish + 1 1.5in  Dipper and Mabel Charm

3rd Place : 1 Sketch Commish

*rules for commissions are the same as my regular rules seen here*

RULES FOR THE RAFFLE!

1. MUST BE FOLLOWING ME! 

2. Must REBLOG or LIKE

3. You can only do 1 reblog a day! (I don’t want you to blow up people in one setting)

4. I WILL NOT pick favorites. As in don’t message me or send me an ask saying that you really want to win. This will result in you being IMMEDIATELY taken out of the raffle.

5. Be a good sport about it.

THE RAFFLE WILL END JUNE 30th! 

MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR!!!

[vaor]

I don’t want to disappear without a forewarning.

As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good. 

The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive.  Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down. 

Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement. 

Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites. 

(x)

This doesn’t just affect Europe. The content creators you love are going to be in hot water for sharing their art and writing with you online. Any and all content that doesn’t belong to us will be filtered. Even memes are at risk, as the person who took the original photo may want to file complaints against any platform that allows it to be used without permission. But it goes even further than that.

Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf, Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:

“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.

But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”

Here is the original Article 13. It’s even scarier. / Link 2 

Here is how to contact your MEPs. 

Here is a full list of everything that will be affected.

Europe is facing a huge problem, and unlike with Net Neutrality, the world doesn’t seem to care. 

[sapphoesie]

Writing Tip

because I see this everywhere and most people don’t know about it. The hyphen(-), the en-dash(–) and the em-dash(—) are three completely different things with completely different uses. If you write fanfiction, it’s likely that your readers won’t care, but if you want to submit a manuscript for publishing, you need to know the difference. 

The hyphen (-) is the basic symbol you find on your keyboard, and it’s meant to only be used for hyphenated words (well-being, two-thirds). 

The en-dash (–) is a slightly longer dash. It’s usually the width of an uppercase N, hence the name. You can find it by looking through the ‘insert symbol’ option in MS word or many word processors, and it is meant to be used to show a particular distance, or for intervals (May–August, 1900–1916, pages 12–22)

The em-dash (—) is what people most commonly use, but they refer to it as a hyphen. It’s the longest dash, about the size of an uppercase letter M, and you can either find it through the list of symbols in your word processor, or some word processors actually automatically transform two hyphens (–) into an em-dash  (—). It is meant to be used as a break in the sentence, in a place where a comma, semicolon or colon would normally be used or as a break in dialogue. (Her niece—the daughter of her oldest sister—is the one over there.) 

*All three types of dashes are normally meant to be used without any spaces on either side of the dash. 

[nom-the-skel]

Pet peeve: fonts in which the em-dash is indistinguishable from the hyphen. WHY

[maya-tl]

This… is incredibly useful. And not available on mobile.

[filthygum]

so, i gathered just a handful testimonials from replies and messages revealing just how unprofessional they are with their commission work by leaving their commissioners in silence for months. do not commission ghost-oakes unless you want to wait for months, watching them pump out other commissions and art while you twiddle your thumbs 

i have my own testimonial too: i had tried to order a holiday icon back when they were offering them. weeks went by and i heard nothing, no updates. all the while, they were creating gift icons for friends for free and other such art. when i finally did hear back, the holidays were over and i still got no visual progress (but i was told it was being worked on). they said they would finish it in a week - nothing. i asked them about it again, another week - still nothing. it wasn’t until i threatened to backdraft them (which in most cases i would NEVER do, but i felt it was my only option) that i got my money back.

[psshaw]

God, the amount of people who have mentioned getting no or rushed work from him after needling him for months. He’s apparently now blocking some people he owes.

On top of that— I dunno if he still has this policy, but his TOS on FA at one point said that if you filed a chargeback, he got to keep your character to sell off as an adoptable.

That’s. Insane. Especially considering his work ethic.

Dude was fully ambulatory and able to work when I knew him in 2014 (despite claiming things like cancer, kidney problems and sepsis THE WHOLE TIME… SEPSIS, which shoulda had him hospitalized or dead) and combined with a history of lying about being a victim of other events and people, I’m very skeptical of his ever-evolving health claims.

In my experience, under stress he will basically read half a sentence and decide what the second half means on his own. Fact-checking isn’t his thing when threatened. My theory is that once he has a worry or concern, it becomes reality to him, and he defends the lie because he finds comfort in having a confirmation that the world is out to get him with minimal responsibility on his part.

[goolfriend-moving]

HOLY SHIT HE SAID WHAT IN HIS TOS???? He was literally out there setting things up so that he could steal characters??? Because of COURSE people are gonna try to chargeback after waiting MONTHS to receive what they paid for. Wow. WOW! Jesus christ I’ve known about this dude for years, its amazing how I can /still/ learn about vile shit he tries to pull.

[goolfriend-moving]

So I dug around and apparently this is STILL in his TOS

Ghost-Oakes will take your commissions that he has no intention of fulfilling, and if you charge him back because He Is Not Doing His Job

He has set up his TOS to have the right to take your character(s) for himself to use and sell for his own profit

Ghost-Oakes will take your money, not do your commission, and then will steal your character if you attempt to get your money back

[vvarhound]

The screencap’s kinda hard to read since tumblr likes to mysteriously resize things so I archived the page.

[filthygum]

WHAT THE FUCK

[spartanlocke]

He’s a con-artist and a thief, and not even a subtle one. 

Even if it doesn’t fit your blog, please consider boosting this. Tell everyone you know. If you hear someone supporting him, shut them down. If someone’s talking about commissioning him, warn them of this. Petitions don’t do shit, the only way to stop people like this is to stop their income. Drag his reputation through the dirt until no one would even consider speaking to him. That’s the only way to end this. 

[hopelesslyshippingthem]

What. In the. ACTUAL FUCK. 

[imagineyouricon]

Imagine your icon with your voice and you with their voice

[launch-me-into-the-void-deactiv]

I’m chill with that

[communalbong-deactivated2022101]

Oh my GOD

[themoonandaddiction-deactivated]

I’d just bark all the time.

[notsocuddlefish]

Uh……

[localtransdude]

*ungodly scrEECHING*

[notsocuddlefish]

Nah man, you’ve got the voice of ‘Murica.

[sarcasticcatinatacoshell]

I would be scared

[the-rice-cat-deactivated2021070]

swedens voice? sure

MY VOICE IS TRASH THO

[theeggshavelegs-deactivated2019]

NOOO

[byrdybyrd02]

OH BOY

[tremendouslybluefangirl]

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY

[thundercluck-blog]

Hello friends!

It’s Meg, with another TUTOR TUESDAY! Today we take a look at some exercises on how to come up with interesting, useful poses! If you are struggling with anything you can recommend a tutorial on this blog or my personal one. Keep practicing, have fun, and I’ll see you next week!

[hntrgurl13]

8,000 FOLLOWER RAFFLE!

OH MY GOD GUYS! I have now reached a huge milestone of 8,000 followers! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! To celebrate, I decided to do a raffle! 

1st Place : 1 Full Color/ BG Commish + 1 3in Dipper and Mabel Charm

2nd Place : 1 Flat Color Commish + 1 1.5in  Dipper and Mabel Charm

3rd Place : 1 Sketch Commish

*rules for commissions are the same as my regular rules seen here*

RULES FOR THE RAFFLE!

1. MUST BE FOLLOWING ME! 

2. Must REBLOG or LIKE

3. You can only do 1 reblog a day! (I don’t want you to blow up people in one setting)

4. I WILL NOT pick favorites. As in don’t message me or send me an ask saying that you really want to win. This will result in you being IMMEDIATELY taken out of the raffle.

5. Be a good sport about it.

THE RAFFLE WILL END JUNE 30th! 

MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR!!!