tennine:

Normally, I really don’t post things like this, but i’m gonna try anyway, and see what happens. 

So my boyfriend has been on workmans comp for a few months now, since he hurt his back pretty bad at work. And we’ve been (barely) making ends meet, but its cool. We’ll they stopped sending checks a couple weeks ago when he was hospitalized for a MRSA infection (which was beyond his control, and required emergency surgery, hes also diabetic, so healing is a pain in the ass). 

So we’re pretty much fucked until he goes back to work (in a week) but he will wont recieve a pay check until two weeks after that. 

So I’m asking you guys to commission me for some emergency money. Big full blown paintings, tiny sketches, all of it really helps out. Theres some info on my DA page regarding prices etc. http://kimberlyswan.deviantart.com/

Even a little signal boost would be much appreciated. 

sillysymphonic:

theorieen:

most of what i post will be tutorials, i hope that’s ok.

hands are cool!

AMAZING REFERENCE

uncreativeart:

I know, I’m doing text posts again and I can only apologize but this is starting to stress me out more than it really should.

Let me say first off:

Thank you. I am so happy you all like my work and follow my derp and reblog my things and put up with my existence. Thank you, truly, from the bottom of my heart.

I like it when my work is shared. I love it even. And I am overjoyed by the amount of people who watch my DA or follow this blog.

But please, please, PLEASE if you’re going to share my work I want you to credit me as the artist. If you are going to repost something, link back to my tumblr or my deviantart page. I try to make it so that my pictures are on both tumblr and DA so you can simply reblog or favorite it there. It saves you the trouble from downloading/copying a link to make a brand new post.

I beg you to realize that despite how “simple” my doodles and cartoons are, I put a lot of effort into them. When I call it “my work” it really means what it means. It’s work. It’s time, it’s practice, it’s a never ending passion and I am constantly seeking to better it.

And let me repeat that I am so glad you like it. I really, really am.

Just please. Credit me. Link back to me or kindly place a disclaimer. Because if you post my things, even if it’s just for the sake of archiving it for yourself, it gives your viewers the impression that you were the one behind the penning. Even if you didn’t mean any of it, it’s still considered theft.

If you don’t know my DA: http://xeora.deviantart.com

And of course I am always uncreativeart on tumblr.

Love always,

Effie

escargod:

OK, so, here’s the deal.

You draw, and what you draw is worthwhile. Even if there are people around to tell you it’s not (and at some point, there will be). Even if it goes largely ignored, or unseen, even if you seek approval from people who don’t acknowledge what you do. Even if it doesn’t tick the boxes you think it should. The real, true value of your work is only measured by two things— you yourself, and what I’m telling you right now.

It’s worthwhile. You are, too. Nobody can do what you’re doing right now. Nobody can wring out your potential energy for themselves. Everything you do is yours. Everything you conceive of? Is yours. And you stand up for it, and believe in it, and you immortalise it, no matter what. No matter how it looks or how much noise it makes. Take criticism because you want to feed your creature, not because you want to kill it. Seek out what you need to keep it alive. Bend it, change it, walk it often. It’s yours. It’s important.

That’s why it makes me so mad when folk try to tell you what to do with your stuff. Not because it makes me feel small, because that doesn’t change the fact that I’m big. Most of the time, I know I’m big. But not everybody knows they are, too. And because it’s basically someone saying, here’s what I want, but I’m too chicken to go get it, so you do it for me, and strangle yourself while you’re doing it.

And you have to be brave not to bend to that.

euclase:

escargod:

Basically, the guys who don’t do realism are all like, “that’s impossible! I can’t do that! Tell me how to do that! I tried to do that and it looked like this! You ought to teach me!”

And the guys who like people who do (better) realism are like, “This isn’t realism by the way! You should draw like these other people if you want to be any good! Look at this other drawing! You should draw like this!”

Meanwhile, the paradox created by all this crap means the stuff -I actually do- disappears through a crack in spacetime. And it’s a bitch getting space dust off your drawings, LET ME TELL YOU.

Anybody who tells you that you ought to draw more like someone else in order to be good can find the shortest pier and sprint right off that motherfucker.

icarusing:

where the fuck are you

you were just sitting right here

jesus not again

(Source: vagabondedlife)

ronulicny:

Famous Artist’s Palettes….

1. PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR 
2. VINCENT VAN GOGH  
3. PAUL GAUGUIN  
4. EDGAR DEGAS
5. GEORGES SEURAT

astroize:

you guys know all my secrets now

astroize:

crystallizedtwilight:

aw, astroize’s sweet little improvement post gave me the courage to post this here. (Thank you) I think it is important for people to know that practice will help you develop your skills and not to be discouraged if you don’t improve right away… art is a journey, don’t race to reach the end of it because there isn’t one :)

I am not talented, I am only determined.

A drawing of mine at age 14:

full size: here

A re-draw of it at age 19:

Full size: here

DEAR GOD

girl, you are an inspiration to us all be proud of yourself and your improvement cause it is MIND BLOWING

mazarin221b:

saathi1013:

euclase:

1. The assumption that digital artists are talentless button-pushing idiots who have to fall back on the software to do the work for them because they lack the skills to make traditional art.
2. Okay.
3. Basically?
4. Fuck you if you think this.
5. I’m not even going to demonstrate how wrong you are.
6. I’m not going to show you the badass shit I can draw with nothing but a pen and a ruler.
7. Because you’re obviously a lepton who can’t be reasoned with.
8. And you think traditional art is noble.
9. Or some shit.
10. I don’t even know.
11. The paint you’re using is synthetic.
12. Your pencils were made on a machine.
13. Your noble art is now a JPEG on the internet.
14. Whatever.
15. But I will say this.
16. If you can’t draw it with a pencil.
17. Ain’t no fucking magical software gonna draw it for you.

THIS THIS THIS^

Rebogging for Mr. Maz and his boundless, boundless talent, with computer and pencil (and litho press and silk screen and lead type and calligrapher’s pen).

tastefullyoffensive:

[jollyroger]

kihanna:

artist-confessions:

submitted by -kihanna

I don’t know if it’s improper to reblog my own confession, but this has been on my mind for a while and Artist Confessions seemed like the perfect place to throw my thoughts out there.

lauren-nichols-2:

my creative process in a nutshell.

foxboros:

i’ve come to realize that whenever i’m deathly close to passing out i get the best art out of it.

but when i’m like everything in the world is so beautiful and alive and i have the energy of A THOUSAND SUNS

my tablet pen is like STICK FIGURES YOU SAY???