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Preview of my first page (/2) for the Seijou Fanzine, Sundance

Pre-orders are opening on Nov. 20th, please visit the zines tumblr @hqseijouzine for more info!

Okay, this mentality is hugely fucking problematic. I put my stuff on the internet to share with people who like the stuff I like, in a space that I’m in control of. People taking it and putting it elsewhere against my wishes is not “just how the internet works”, it’s a disrespectful practice perpetuated by assholes who just want to take stuff that’s not theirs and use it to get notes or earn money or what the fuck ever. If people really liked my work and had respect for me as an artist and A PERSON they would allow me to control where my own work is displayed, and stop assuming just because you CAN download it and put it somewhere else, means you SHOULD. I don’t even understand how people could NOT understand the artists’ desire to maintain control of their work?? I’M the one who spent hours making it, just because I let people see it and have access to a digital copy doesn’t mean I suddenly wave all rights to it or should not give a shit what people do with it. If there were a way to share without allowing people to save it, believe me, I would do that.

Also, it doesn’t matter how respectfully the work is taken. Consider a scenario here: the image is taken once, and put on instagram with credit. Then three other people see it from instagram. One puts it on pinterest with the tumblr source. The second puts it on weheartit with credit to the instagram, because hey, that links back to the source, that’s good enough, right? The third person forgets to link back at all, oh well. More people take it from all of those places, crediting any of those places in between. All of the different sources of this image mess with search engine algorithms and override the actual image source, making it harder to find. Someone from etsy looking for copyright free images to use on products finds one of these unsourced images and takes it and makes a bunch of money off it, hurting the artist financially and wasting their time as they struggle to get the products removed. Some idiot who wants to print out a bunch of johnlock porn to shock the actors on a talk show finds some reposted nsfw easily on google and suddenly an artist who just wanted to share their art with a few like-minded people is being mocked in front of millions of viewers. Eventually, the image comes full circle and is reposted on Tumblr with no credit, when it could have easily just been reblogged from the artist.

This is ignoring all of the people who lie about the source and claim they made it, which DOES HAPPEN despite your claim that it does not. People claim ownership, people trace, people copy the style, people do all kinds of things when they think they’ll get away with it.

This fucking happens. To almost all of the images I post. Multiple times. A day.

How hard is it for people to just decide NOT TO BE AN ASSHOLE AND STEAL IT? Why do people always come back to the artist with this bullshit “well if you didn’t want it stolen why did you put it up??” victim blaming garbage? How does that make any sense except to people who want an excuse to steal??

I’m going to publish this in case other people had this question burning on their mind and because I’m honestly so incensed that people even still ask this question after pretty much every internet artist has had to explain it a dozen times. However I hid their name because even though I’m really pissed off by messages worded this way I have nothing against them personally and don’t want to get them flooded with hate mail or whatever. I’d like to think you are honestly asking, but considering your message is worded like the millions of other messages artists get constantly questioning their rights to control how people share their work, with the standard assumption of my ignorance when it comes to “how things work” and undertone of judgement for thinking I would ever dare try to change “how things work”, forgive me if I’m skeptical.

People who ask questions like this, YOU just don’t want to accept that you have done something the artist dislikes, so you throw the blame back on the artist. YOU don’t want to change the comfortable little way you’re spending your time online taking others’ works, so you try to convince the artist it’s their fault and it won’t change. This is YOUR problem. Ask yourself if you really want artists to stop sharing their work with you and then decide whether that’s a viable solution to this issue.

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I saw a dude at the store wearing that ‘boy troubles’ shirt, ripped-off sleeves and all, and… that’s the entire story behind this picture

Companion piece to my friend’s wonderful fic, about cute teenage superheroes experiencing Imposter Syndrome and the horrors of PE. Part 5 in my series of Paris landscapes with hints of fanart.

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He doubles as a yoga instructor on the weekends

welp

Hello Hello Hello! I’m open for thigh-up commissions again! There are limited slots in all three categories (as seen above). Please check to see availability by visiting my tumblr as I’ll be editing this post accordingly! Thank you! If interested, please email me at appleeyed@live.com with the following information:  -Your Tumblr -Which commission type you’re interested in -Your paypal email -References of your character -A short description of your character (optional) -Include “commission” in your subject-line IMPORTANT: I only draw women characters! The prices listed above are the flat-default prices but additions may be made depending on the complexity of the design. Not all applications will be accepted due to artistic limitations or slots being full, apologies. The Air Brush option is not fully rendered but instead simplistically shaded. Find other examples here: X X X X B&W Lineart:   2 slots left Flat Colour:     2 slots left Air Brush:        CLOSED - those accepted will receive an email soon!

HEY GUYS! My bestie still has Lineart and Flat Colour commission slots open so you better get to snatching those up!!!

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⭐Starlit Kids⭐ Original Illustration book Full color. 24 pg. Saddle stitch. 10 USD

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Guess who finally started watching Voltron!!

SO I haven’t said much about me trying out a submission to Hiveworks with my buddy @mitaarts We got our results a few days ago and we didn’t make it. (I’m happy enough to mention that I did make it to the final selections meeting, maybe next time!)

These drawings are for @mitaarts ! We’ve been helping each other out with our ideas, SURPRISE Kelly & Mita’s OC Noel are cousins! They might be mentioned from time to time in each of our separate stories.

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a Hanzo Tiddy™ print for Tracon : )