This is artwork for chaosgenes second fic in Afttercamlann Big Bang 2022. It is a prequel to Servant of two kings. I really enjoyed working on both these fics with chaosgenes. She was a pleasure to work with and I loved the concept of the fics. enjoy!
Cover and Illustration I did for chaosgenes fic A Servant of two Kings. As part of the after camlann Big Bang fest.
Character study, and playing around with a different paint style.
So a while ago I participated in this art project called bait switch. Where an artist has to respond to another artists work without knowing anything about it. So it’s this chain of creative responses. It was a lot of fun.
Mine was inspired by a piece that reminded me of a cyclops so I ended up doing a whole picture about modern retellings of myths.
You can read more about it here.
Why do you say "do not repost" your art? Unless it's paysite material I mostly ignore that line. I mean, reblogs & re-tweets technically count as a art repost so that makes "do not repost" invalid. If you don't want your art out there don't post it to the internet. Not trying to come off as mean, that's just the mindset I have. Once you posts something to the internet... it's out there.
…… hm.
when i say “do not repost” i mean, do not:
reblogging/retweeting is not the same as reposting. those actually allow the artist to keep ownership of their own art as it gets spread around. they are different things.
it’s not that i don’t want my art to be on the internet. that’s why i post it. but i don’t want OTHER people taking credit for MY art and the hard work i put into it. i have a store where i sell my art. having people repost my art to their own sites literally takes money away from me. because people don’t know that I’M the artist who drew it, then they don’t know about my store, and instead consume my art mainly through websites that repost my art for their own amusement or profit.
do you know how many japanese artists have deleted their pixiv/twitter accounts because people kept reposting their art without permission, OR credit, and have even profited from stealing their work? so much art is floating out there without an owner because the japanese artists were harassed so much due to their art constantly being reposted without any credit to them, that they had to disappear from the internet just so they could keep ownership of the rest of their art.
do you know how many people found my art through pinterest? i’ve gotten so many messages from people saying they found my art there, and it took them anywhere from days to WEEKS to find me and my blog, because most, if not all of it was posted 1. without credit, or 2, without a link back to the original, because the pinterest user reuploaded it from their own computer.
do you know how many people try to apply for jobs with their art, but can’t seem to claim ownership of their own portfolio because it’s been so spread out and reposted everywhere on the internet, that companies can’t be sure that the person they’re interviewing is the actual artist themself?
i don’t think you understand just how detrimental reposting is to artists. and i don’t think you understand how important it is for people to respect artists’ wishes. my art is not yours to use for your own amusement. there is a reason why most websites have a dmca report option, to take down unauthorized use of their art. even the law recognizes it as a personal right.
i do want my art to be shown to the world, but under my own terms. i want my wishes in regards to my art to be respected. you are not doing me any favors by reposting my art onto other sites without permission or credit. just the opposite, in fact–your hurting me personally, financially, and possibly hurting my chances of earning a job with my art.
so in conclusion, here are the dangers of reposting:
etc.
reposting is detrimental. it’s not the same thing as reblogging/retweeting, it’s something that literally harms artists in the long run.
at the end of the day, the biggest way to prevent this from happening is by respecting the artist’s wishes with some basic human decency. that’s literally it.
i hope i’ve cleared some things up for you.
Here's a compilation of my favorite Persuasion (2022) reviews:
Okay im really curious because im not in the modern art fandom and i haven't heard any dissenting opinions on the subject, youre the first ive seen. Why are you team kapoor and why is vantablack exclusivity a good thing?
I mean, my predominant reason for being Team Kapoor is the fact that Anish Kapoor and I are both petty Indian Jews, and petty Indian Jews must stick together no matter what.
But I will say that people have also modified the narrative about the vantablack to make it seem like vantablack was being regularly produced for everyone until Kapoor bought the rights, and that’s not true. His partnership with the company that produces it is what allowed them to make it for art purposes at all, because it was incredibly expensive and difficult to make. He effectively commissioned it for use, and while I get that other artists are somewhat annoyed and disappointed by that, I also feel that the way people have made a Jewish artist of Colour out to be a Bond Villain thwarting a white British guy is kind of unsavoury.
As someone who started out strongly “team Semple” and has since done a 180 switch, I want to expand on this a bit:
1. Semple was not in any way struggling artist when his feud with Kapoor started. In 2007, he sold over $1mil of art in one show. He was featured on the BBC 3 times before he even released his pigments and he was awarded a medal from The House of Lords in 2013. It’s BS to pretend he’s some poor lowly artist fighting “The Man” (that is actually an Indian Jewish immigrant). He’s been a very successful artist in his own right for a long time. He isn’t an underdog here… like at all. Painting him as one is ridiculous, and yet that’s how he’s been made out this entire time.
2. To expand on that, characterizing Anish Kapoor, a brown Indian Jewish man living in Britain, as “The Man” is highly suspect, and the fact that anyone would use the word “elitist” about a Jewish person is a pretty loud dogwhistle in my Jewish opinion (this is in reference to multiple sources, but mainly another tumblr post, that calls Kapoor “the epitome of the art world’s elitsm problem” X).
3. Semple had been working on his pigments for years before Vantablack became a thing. The pigments would have been made and released anyway, this was just excellent publicity. So a white (not poor) British man leveraged the controversy made by a British-Indian Jewish man to sell more of his own product. He played up the feud for sales. That is what happened. And in the process he made said British-Indian Jewish man, who was previously little known outside the art world other than for his art like The Bean, one of the most hated figures in the world. So. That’s a lens we really need to be looking through I think.
4. As OP mentioned, Vantablack was prohibitively expensive and insanely difficult to work with (can only be used in very small sections, must be applied only to specific materials in a specific lab setting) when Kapoor bought the rights to it. Most artists wouldn’t have been able to use it anyway for either or both of those reasons. No one was even using it for art when he bought the rights, it was still considered experimental science. Everyone got their panties twisted up when he did anyway. Whether it was right or wrong can still be debated for sure, but it certainly isn’t like he took a highly usable substance away from other artists.
It’s just really interesting to me how we all - myself included - jumped right on the narrative of the evil rich exotic brown Asian Jewish artìst hoarding the artistic wealth while the poor white European underdog came to the art world’s rescue with his accessible pigments (which just happened to be ready for production at the exact same time as the purchase of the rights to Vantablack!) to save the blackest black creations of the world. Like. That is a really interesting and very convenient narrative, dontcha think? And who, ultimately, benefits from that narrative? Bc it’s not reality.
I am also struck by the fact that I have never seen any ire toward Surrey NanoSystems for agreeing to the contract. Curious how the corporation has received no blame for “allowing” the substance to become exclusive. If the license really was so evil, they could have said “No! We want our product to be available to all artists!*”
*…who can actually pay for how incredibly expensive it is, and whose work is fireproof enough to withstand the high-temperature application process, and, also, can pass the strict UK control regulations regarding the distribution of the substance. All artists!
Living for these additions.
An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.
Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)
hope you don’t mind me adding some more info :’D
Many websites have those complaint forms you need to fill out to submit DMCA notice. Here are some of them:
Usually links to those forms can be found on website’s Terms of Service pages. (search for copyright or DMCA)
Any content you’ve created, is copyrighted by you. You have full right to ask staff to delete repost. Your works deserve to be protected. ♥
Yo. This better be my most reblogged post. I want to see all my artists friends reblogging this for their artists friends.
^^^^^ for all the artists with uncredited work on pinterest and insta
Changeover🔊
First, you think the bird is a fool.
They you realize the bird is smarter than you and actually checked first.
Source: Mehdi Alibeygi
huh, the full video is almost two minutes long, and what got cut was entirely title and credits:
Reblog for the full length one… because you know heaven forbid people credit artists for their hard work that made us laugh or smile.
CAT by By 九米 / Zhaobangni (1631123)
unmute unmute unmute
for the love of EVERYTHING holy u GOTTA unmute
This was funny silent, but HILARIOUS with sound.
‘Tis the season to give thanks.
I am truly grateful that we as a species have evolved to the point we can create stuff like this.
One of the best things that ever happened to me was during my trip to Venice 5 years ago. I had bought an all-inclusive ticket for all museums and exhibitions in the Piazza, and I was going through an exhibition of statuettes when I entered the next wing with paintings. The styles seemed somewhat familiar, but I couldn’t work out what was happening. Thankfully this incredible lady working at the exhibition saw that I was a bit confused and approached me to ask if I knew what this exhibition was. I said no, just that it had seemed interesting.
She explained that the reason why I might be confused is that I had entered the exhibition of Wolfgang Beltracchi from the end rather than the beginning. She then took me to the start and started explaining about him and his history. He has art forgeries in every style from medieval paintings to modern art and his forgery is not copying existing paintings but creating “lost paintings” that the artist might have painted or talked about painting but never did. He perfectly matched the artist style, composition, ideas, colours and medium. His materials were historically accurate and experts couldn’t determine that they were fakes.
And his wife Helene Beltracchi was incredible. She helped “backdate” paintings and provide evidence of their age. One of the things that stuck with me the most is this black and white photo, created with an old-time camera and medium and the photo itself was aged so carbon-dating couldn’t discover that it was a modern photo. It was of Helene, with her features slightly altered, dressed in an old-time, era appropriate dress with the painting in the background. can you imagine the level of dedication and the immense attention to detail required to so convincingly fake a photo to provide a reliable history of this painting existing for centuries? She helped him create fake history for a lot of his paintings.
I’ll never forget that exhibition. There were so many paintings, all of them in the styles of different artists, most of them verified by experts as genuine until his mistake with the white paint which prompted a much, much deeper examination by experts. I think the lady mentioned that they could still not forensically confirm that some paintings were fakes, but it’s been a while, I might be misremembering. I was just struck with awe at the sheer knowledge they must have of multitude of painters, not just their styles, but their lives and the way their minds worked. He painted scenes “they might have painted” and when you look at them, you could definitely see it. It hits especially hard when you have more than passing familiarity with the artist, their lives and struggles, their choices of mediums and themes. You can look at this painting and think, this is definitely created by []. It makes so much sense, it has that distinct flair and works incredibly well as a parallel to [], their earlier painting. It was indescribable. Can you imagine the skill required to back that knowledge up? To be able to perfectly mimic the styles of so many artists and be able to so accurately forge paints, brushes and canvas that experts verified them as genuine?
And he had his own original paintings as well. One of them struck a chord with me especially. It was a painting of storage rooms, storing thousands and thousands of paintings that the public doesn’t know of, because they’re the unpopular paintings, the paintings that never get exhibited, the forgotten paintings. I thought it was very poignant.
I love these people. They really did do it because they loved art, they loved playing around with art forensics, and they just had a blast. Seeing his gallery brought be such incredible joy and so many interesting things to think about. 10/10, would definitely recommend
There is an EXCELLENT documentary on him called The Art of Forgery that I highly recommend if you can find it.
Playing around with style in clipstudio.
Playing around with a new set of what water colours on procreate
the idea that it’s ‘creepy’ to interact with things posted a long time ago is so terrible for artists and contributes to the pressure to be constantly creating new work, at an unhealthy and unsustainable rate. I hate it so much.
The idea that it’s “creepy” to interact with an artist’s old work from a while back is especially stupid since we have entire buildings filled with the old works of various artists for the explicit purpose of creating public interaction with them, and they’re called museums.
and libraries
and archives
me: oh wow, this is such an impressive work–
the ghost of michaelangelo, appearing at my side: avert your fucking eyes, creep
Look, artist here. I really dislike my old a artwork a lot of the time. There are 3 main reasons I keep it up; copyright proof, archive of past related work that makes current make sense and most importantly so people can still enjoy it.
The first two I don’t really need to keep it on a social media platform but I mainly do because I know people enjoy old work even if I don’t and I know people like to revisit it or will stumble on it later.
It’s not creepy for you to look through my archive, it’s why it’s there!
If I see someone like a whole lot of posts far back I’m pleased! It means they like my work enough to use my tag system (which took ages to set up) to look through my back catalogue and enjoy past works. It sends the message to me that keeping my artwork organized so it’s easy to search is worth the effort.
That back catalogue of artwork is there for other people. I have files on my computer I could use for reason 1 and 2 for personal use. don’t need it stored on social media personally. It’s there for others to see. So please use it and don’t feel guilty about it at all.
Lol my bad I forgot halfway through drawing the sketch that I planned to paint it all space themed for my friend who is such an amazing cheer leader and loves space themed stuff e . 😂. Turns out I’m the spacey one.
Still sketching a lot. I have produced like 20 new sketches over the last three days. I mean I probably won’t post most of them because I a lot of them reflect how rusty I am after not drawing regularly for 2 years but I can feel myself start to loosen up.
I am really on a roll with drawing now. But it’s been a while so I decide to use a reference to refresh drawing old characters, in preparation for participating in the aftercamlann Big Bang. Haven’t decided what style I will use for that, it’s usually hugely dependent on the vibe of the fic I end up drawing for.
