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joey-wheeler-official: joey-wheeler-official: i genuinely appreciate every single piece of fan art...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:21:56 -0400

joey-wheeler-official:

i genuinely appreciate every single piece of fan art i get so much, like just the idea that the something i design can resonate with someone on a level that causes them to take time and effort to draw it themselves despite my honestly pretty mediocre drawing skills is just such a good feeling.

this applies to ALL fanart regardless of how “good” it is bt fuckin way. if you’re an artist reading this your art is GREAT Y'HEAR ME!? GREAT AND BEAUTIFUL

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:19:04 -0400

How to put “wrote fan-fiction” on your résumé:

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:06:05 -0400

fivewrites:

fivewrites:

xeno-lalia:

resumespeak:

Leveraged an inventory of established fictional character and setting elements to generate a disruptive custom-curated narrative entertainment asset.

I worked in HR, handling applications and interviews, and if someone turned in that string of techno babble nonsense, I would have rejected them out of hand.

A resume doesn’t need to sound fancy or overly technical, it needs to tell us why we should hire you.

“Independent novelist/writer” is more than sufficient here. If you want to express the skills that fan fiction taught you, something like, “creative writing, editing, and publication,” will get you a lot further than… Whatever that just was.

A resume should be tailored to the position, if you can afford the time and energy for that. But if not, then just think about what writing got fandom taught you. How to respond to criticism, how to present a professional pubic face, how to correct punished mistakes, creative thinking, project planning, persuasion via emotional leverage, html formatting, office suite fluency.

There are a lot of actual, marketable skills that go into fan fiction.

How to put “I was in a zine” on your resume

Writer:

Published short fiction stories for anthology collection

Able to write short fiction within a designated word count for layout purposes (900-1500 words, 1500-2000, 3000-5000)
Wrote short articles for independent publication

Assisted with editing short stories for publication

Able to reduce or expand written content based on layout needs

Able to check for basic spelling, grammar and syntax

Familiar with Microsoft Office and Google docs

Artist:

Produced full-colour digital illustration for independent magazine

Able to produce digital illustrations optimized for both online and print display
Produced full-colour 2-page spread for art anthology

Published 4-page short comic in anthology collection for charity

Able to transfer traditional art to digital illustration
Illustrated the cover (always brag if you’re on the cover) of an independent art publication

Familiar with professional illustration tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint and stylus tablet

Merch artist / graphic designer:

Designed 2″ clear decorative double-sided keychain charm as bonus sale item

Designed 5″ x 6″ sheet of graphic stickers included in art anthology

Able to design bold graphics that are measured for laser cutting production
Designed layouts for 65-page art and writing magazine, focusing on (art placement, text layout, etc)

Able to keep layout design simple and in accordance with the project director’s chosen theme
Created promotional art, icons and banners tailored for social media sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc

Familiar with professional layout and design software such as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign

Running a zine

Produced an independent art and writing collection for sale / for charity

Managed (10, 20, 30) independent artists and writers out of over 500 applicants to create a short-run independent magazine

Worked in online sales and social media promotion selling an independent comics anthology

If it’s really spectacular you can brag about specific numbers

Our book raised over $4,000 for charity in under six months of production

We sold over 750 copies in two weeks of online sales

Produced a digital PDF and printed version of anthology, mailing to recipients all over the world

Communicated with printers and manufacturers of plastic accessories and paper goods, assembling professional packages of our merchandise for mailing.

Built a custom digital storefront and navigated professional market and payment systems including Paypal and Tictail / Bigcartel / Wix etc

Created promotional events to boost sales, including raffles and giveaways over social media

Organized participants through mass emails and use of social media posts on tumblr and twitter

Familiar with organizational software such as Microsoft Excel, Google spreadsheets and Trello

Added some more

yung-rage: ze-pie: dreriart: Professional commission work: 400-550 bucks Tumblr commission work:...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:42:32 -0400

yung-rage:

ze-pie:

dreriart:

Professional commission work: 400-550 bucks
Tumblr commission work: 70 bucks

some of you: OMG UR COMMISSIONS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE WTF it’s almost like you value your time >:( not cool dude

yall this is the saddest day of my life

Art! 👏 Is! 👏 A! 👏 Luxury! 👏 Service! 👏

shirosrighthandman: “this ship/work of fiction could hypothetically hurt someone” is not an...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:46:57 -0400

shirosrighthandman:

“this ship/work of fiction could hypothetically hurt someone” is not an argument.

We don’t prohibit alcohol just because some people can hurt themselves/other people with it. People who can drink responsibly aren’t at fault for people who can’t.

You either believe in people to be personally responsible for themselves or you believe in a dystopia where all fiction is subject to censorship due to any possible cultural impact.

oneyearchallenge: Wip Isaline #1 p.33 (Bamboo Publishing) Panel...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:34:51 -0400

oneyearchallenge:

Wip Isaline #1 p.33 (Bamboo Publishing)
Panel from storyboard to final line :)

mwg-7: commissions open for the summer guysim broke as shit so im drawing for cashblack and white:...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:59:20 -0400

mwg-7:

commissions open for the summer guys
im broke as shit so im drawing for cash
black and white:
$2 (sticky note drawing)
$8 (traditional)
$14 (digital)
colored:
$5 (sticky note drawing)
$19 (traditional drawing)
$26 (digital drawing)
$35 (digital painting)
$45 (traditional painting)
DM me for more info/ commission questions.

I have the need to say this about creators on tumblr...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:59:06 -0400

xmoonyxbunnyx:

Tumblr is a horrible platform for artists/creators of any kind. It’s been like that for as long as I was on here, and long before that from what I’ve heard. But it’s gotten so much worse recently.

At first it was mostly unfair to new people who aren’t known yet, as the tag searches favour popularity over “freshness” of posts, and ‘newest’ area has always been neglected quite a bit. But that was something you learn to deal with relatively quickly. It’s a basic part of the struggle to climb through and get noticed by any community you decide to join. It’s rather fair compared to what is happening now.

Now, you can’t reach people anymore, no matter how many followers you have. If you have a decent number, that makes things a bit more bearable because you already have an established audience. But if you’re new, or relatively unknown, you have only people who accidentally find you to rely on. The tags - main means to reach the audience - don’t work well. Dashboard - the only way to be seen - has a very bad algorithm, and no matter how much people tweak their settings, somehow still works against artists/creators. We are unseen. Suddenly you get maybe a third of notes you used to get. New people get none whatsoever.

And you might say ‘you shouldn’t be posting to get notes’ but who re you kidding, we create to share our interests and show people what we made and are proud of! The notes tell us we indeed did good, and we maybe made someone’s day a little better with our work, and we get a positive response in return, making us happy. Everybody wins! But without being seen? Well, be it new, or just seeing a drop in notes, we feel discouraged.

“Have I gotten worse?”
“Am I really a bad artist/creator?”
“Should I even bother?”
All of these doubts start arising, and we stop wanting to create. But here’s the thing.

It’s not that we’re bad, nor do people ignore us.

It’s the shitty algorithm that hides us from everyone. And I doubt they’ll care to fix this.

So, share each other’s work. Reblog your favourite creators. Reblog NEW creators. Check their blogs for new content every now and then. Leave a positive message in each other’s ask boxes every once in a while.

You’ll make their day. You’ll give them a reason to keep creating.

Because if tumblr won’t help, we only have each other to look out for.

alvadee: tilthat: TIL when Monty Python started uploading their comedy skits to YouTube so they...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:45:44 -0400

alvadee:

tilthat:

TIL when Monty Python started uploading their comedy skits to YouTube so they could be watched legally for free, their DVD sales went up by 16,000%

via reddit.com

me @ musical producers: YOU SEE THAT?!!

miyajimosachi: And that’s that on that.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:36:59 -0400

miyajimosachi:

And that’s that on that.

garashirs:shipping a rarepair with little to no content is torture, i totally agree, but there’s a...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:36:01 -0400

garashirs:

shipping a rarepair with little to no content is torture, i totally agree, but there’s a special kind of hell called “popular pairing with thousands of fics on ao3 but 90% of them are A/B/O mpreg dubcon slave/master harry potter!au that i wouldn’t read if you put a gun to my head” and i’m living in it

drawingden: Stylized Face Anatomy by smilinweaponBuy the artist...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 07:16:01 -0400

drawingden:

Stylized Face Anatomy by smilinweapon
Buy the artist a coffee!

kelseyeng: “You are the Protector of the Small. You see real...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 07:12:03 -0400

kelseyeng:

“You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.“—The Chamber of the Ordeal to Kel

Keladry of Mindelan from Tamora Pierce’s Tortall series. Finished this one up a month ago but have been slow to post. I think my favorite part of this one was painting the birds and the rough thumbs, she was fun to pose out. The patterns in the bg were influenced by Japanse patterns since Kel is from the Yamani Islands. Next one on my list is Daine, hopefully will get that done soon!

boothewriter: mcubed35: ARE YOU LAZY LIKE ME AND FORGET TO TAG...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:05:58 -0400

boothewriter:

mcubed35:

ARE YOU LAZY LIKE ME AND FORGET TO TAG THINGS WHEN REBLOGGING POSTS FOR REFERENCE/LATER VIEWING?
…Then I may have just found your magic solution.
And it’s in Trello. (Basically, think of Trello like a Pinterest board–it makes cards, but you can put the cards into lists that you can scroll through. Plus, it stores GIFs! That second card under the “Fandom” list is actually moving on my Trello board.)

First, you’ll need a Trello account.

Read more of the magic process under the cut!

Keep reading

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lizardummy: matthewpatels: lizardummy: locustpoof: devilishs...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 02:22:59 -0400

lizardummy:

matthewpatels:

lizardummy:

locustpoof:

devilishschokokeks:

locustpoof:

DO NOT COMMISSION HAUNTED-MARMALADE, AKA FLYING-SHARK-REACTIVATED, AKA ABIGAIL CAMPBELL

This person has scammed me and countless others by taking their money for commissions, disappearing for months, and then finally blocking everyone she promised commissions to and changing her URL (now haunted-marmalade but this is subject to change). I am not the only one she’s done this to.

It started back in December of 2017 when she opened commissions under the URL flying-shark-reactivated. And she probably got a lot of people to ask for them due to her unique art style and low prices, but a red-flag that I should have seen in hindsight was the fact that she asked for money up front, and also sent through paypal as a gift through her request as seen below.

For anyone who doesn’t know, when a commissioner asks you to send them payment as a gift to avoid fees, it also makes the payer unable to claim a refund if the commissioner decides to just run off with their money without giving the buyer anything.

But as an artist, I am always looking to support other artists when they open commissions and usually tip them if their art prices are low (lbr, so many artists on tumblr price their art way too low) And I thought our relationship was pretty professional, I even told her there was no rush and allowed her to take as much time as she needed due to her schoolwork. But as the months went on she stopped responding to my messages all together until she finally ended up blocking me with no word.

But this time I knew something was fishy, so I’ve even tried to e-mail her, and decided that hey if it was too much pressure for her to do my commission I would just ask for my money back, which is the first image you see in this post along with my note. I gave her plenty of chances to back out of a commitment she couldn’t hold up to. But no response, only a cancellation, a block, and a few days later she changed her URL and opened commissions again! All without fulfilling the commissions she already promised many others months before! Any attempt to contact her with other accounts asking for our money back results in an instant block. So BE WARNED if you see her taking commissions, IT IS A SCAM!

I’ll show you examples of her commission sheets (old and new) and artwork down below so you know what to look out for. She draws a lot of GTA V, furry art, and a series herself and her boyfriend as fursonas named Boo and Jam.

On her new account she is already receiving anons (btw, sending a death threat anon is just as shitty for an awful thing to do so don’t ever do that :I) which I am assuming is because people are VERY angry about having their money stolen, but she claims innocence and uses her age as an excuse. SHE IS 21, SHE IS AN ADULT and she is FLAT OUT STEALING FROM PEOPLE.

She says she wants to support herself with her art, but as someone who she took money from without getting any art in return, I find it hard to believe that’s really what she wants to do. She has gotten away with stealing from so many people for so long because 20-40 dollars is a low price for a commission, and it isn’t a huge loss for maybe one person but the fact that she scammed small amounts of money from a massive amount of people AND is PLANNING ON DOING IT AGAIN to a whole new wave of commissioners is what I can’t stand.

DO NOT COMMISSION ABIGAIL CAMPBELL OR HAUNTED-MARMALADE! YOU WILL HAVE YOUR MONEY STOLEN FROM YOU! PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS SO OTHERS DON’T FALL VICTIM!

IMPORTANT please read:

I’m reblogging this bc at this point, this post has a few hundred notes and most people seem to just reblog this post, or reblogging it and calling the artist a bitch. Now I have no idea weather these alligations are true or not, but I would like to call attention to the fact that the artist has tried to refute these alligations on their blog and posted screens of their PayPal to prove it. I admitably don’t understand those, but the artist also has some commissions posted on their blog that they seem to have done for people.

At this point I want to make it clear that I am not saying that I belive they’re innocent. Because I really don’t know either of these people and have never comissioned this artist. But keeping in mind that these kind of callout posts have been wrong and incredibly harmful in the past, and that these things are incredibly easy to manipulate, I want to encourage people to please not blindly reblog this, but do some research on it and come to your own conclusion.

And if that conclusion is that haunted Marmelade is probably a scammer because you have more expertise than me in finding this stuff out you can still just omit this addition to the post and reblog the version without it.

Hello! Locustpoof here, and I understand these kind of posts can be harmful, but I’ve tried to make any kind of contact with Haunted-Maramalade for several months (through paypal, email, and tumblr) and the last thing I was left to do was to just warn others not to fall into the same trap. I can’t even respond to her last response since she has me blocked, any any contact with other blogs just results in another block. (Here’s another person who it happened to, posting a link to their tweet with permission https://twitter.com/chubbytail/status/1006251783482740736 )

I saw her response to my post, and I honestly do not understand it either because I have never met her IRL unless she’s responding to whoever that anon was (because that wasn’t me). I’ve never spoken to her aggressively, not even when I requested my money back and I would have no reason to photoshop anything. And yeah, it’s confusing because she’s showing prices that are different than the amount of money I sent/requested back so I do think she is responding to someone else entirely.

But anyway, the whole point was just that other’s wouldn’t get scammed too. The commissions she reblogged were from two years ago, so the most recent ones I’ve seen her do were back in December just before she started opening them again in 2017.

She stole money from me and honestly I feel awful I even have to call an artist out like this… my last actual interaction with her was pleasant!

Those first few messages were in January (after commissioning her in December), and the last message was from last month (May). She didn’t respond and when I checked my messages a week ago I noticed I was inexplicably blocked by her!

I was confused, so I logged onto an old account and tried messaging her. She had opened for commissions so I tried starting a conversation under the pretense I wanted a commission. After a day of waiting I got impatient and admited I was lizardummy and asked for an explanation.

I tried to be as fair as possible, I know shit happens! But she blocked me AGAIN without comment and I was getting angry and desperate so I tried one last time to contact her on an older account I don’t use anymore.

I didn’t want to have my money just stolen, I wanted to give her an out she could use to explain herself and I would have taken even a half-assed excuse and let it go and even let her keep the money! She immediately blocked me…

I’m asking you to please be cautious with this artist, she’s stolen from me and others, and I do NOT want this to happen to anyone else anymore.

EDIT: I was able to recover Tumblr message screenshots

Abigail Campbell/flying-shark-reactivated/haunted-marmalade scammed $52 out of me and I’m furious. I don’t exactly make a ton of money super quickly, and I try to support so may great artists i see, but honestly this has just made me so much more paranoid. I can’t recover screenshots of messages I’ve sent on Tumblr messenger in attempt to contact her because she blocked me like the coward she is and I can’t get to the message chain. However, I do have the emails of what I’ve sent to her. My first one was what I wanted for my commissions, the second was me contacting her IN MARCH, after commissioning her in January and her lying to me saying it would be 3-4 weeks at most.

Here is a screenshot of the PayPal transaction when I sent her the money

Given I sent it as a gift , which was exactly what she wanted so she could get away with scamming me, I can’t get my money back, which is honestly all I want at this point. Sure, i can make more money, but the situation is so frustrating. Why does she feel the need to do this, when she has artistic ability,and seems to be relatively productive with it? Unacceptable. To those who commission and those possibly looking into commissioning her don’t fall for this. I’m super upset and I wish I could go back in time to stop myself. In the future, I will never send money as a gift again, I will only send if invoiced.

Are we even surprised she’s also transphobic as all fuck? We need to get her OFF the internet because she’s just a vile piece of shit thief…

groundergirlfriends: beetlegarden: we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 16:01:42 -0400

groundergirlfriends:

beetlegarden:

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!! we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

2018 mood

gnashing-of-teeth: gnossienne: This Must Be the Place: A series...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:34:46 -0400

gnashing-of-teeth:

gnossienne:

This Must Be the Place: A series on forgotten places around the world

these open an emotion in me that I don’t have words for??

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Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:18:30 -0400

liongirlart: A tip for blending when painting digitally: use a...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:17:00 -0400

liongirlart:

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).

emkaniff: itsnobbie: i see your Friends to Lovers trope and raise you Lovers Back to Friends....

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:56:07 -0400

emkaniff:

itsnobbie:

i see your Friends to Lovers trope and raise you Lovers Back to Friends. because healthy, amicable breakups are good and sometimes your ex can still be your good buddy

you wild for thinking anyone on this website has ever broken up without also destroying no less than three friend groups and generating six callout posts in the process

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joey-wheeler-official: joey-wheeler-official: i genuinely appreciate every single piece of fan art...

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How to put “wrote fan-fiction” on your résumé:

How to put “I was in a zine” on your resume

yung-rage: ze-pie: dreriart: Professional commission work: 400-550 bucks Tumblr commission work:...

shirosrighthandman: “this ship/work of fiction could hypothetically hurt someone” is not an...

oneyearchallenge: Wip Isaline #1 p.33 (Bamboo Publishing) Panel...

mwg-7: commissions open for the summer guysim broke as shit so im drawing for cashblack and white:...

commissions open for the summer guys

black and white:

colored:

$5 (sticky note drawing)

$19 (traditional drawing)

$26 (digital drawing)

$35 (digital painting)

$45 (traditional painting)

I have the need to say this about creators on tumblr...

It’s not that we’re bad, nor do people ignore us.

alvadee: tilthat: TIL when Monty Python started uploading their comedy skits to YouTube so they...

miyajimosachi: And that’s that on that.

garashirs:shipping a rarepair with little to no content is torture, i totally agree, but there’s a...

drawingden: Stylized Face Anatomy by smilinweaponBuy the artist...

kelseyeng: “You are the Protector of the Small. You see real...

boothewriter: mcubed35: ARE YOU LAZY LIKE ME AND FORGET TO TAG...

ARE YOU LAZY LIKE ME AND FORGET TO TAG THINGS WHEN REBLOGGING POSTS FOR REFERENCE/LATER VIEWING?

lizardummy: matthewpatels: lizardummy: locustpoof: devilishs...

groundergirlfriends: beetlegarden: we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you...

gnashing-of-teeth: gnossienne: This Must Be the Place: A series...

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liongirlart: A tip for blending when painting digitally: use a...

emkaniff: itsnobbie: i see your Friends to Lovers trope and raise you Lovers Back to Friends....