Well generally on tumblr where I live there's a fanart as default assumption and it would be extremely rare for someone in my general social spheres to have 100% non fandom posts all the time. But generally I'd be more adjacent to furries ofc
Line drawings of a harpy like monster with overlapping human teeth and bird beak. In one picture she is human shaped, very tall, in a cloche hat and flapper dress. A sphinx-like creature stands beside her, leaning on her leg like a cat.
i forgot another picture of her lol. she doesn't have wings and the time period is the 1920s
I put anti merch in my bio idk I'm sick of being followed by plastic shills. I don't like you I don't like fanart and I don't like copyright law
But I was coming into it with the existing opinion that I don't gaf if people copy/trace/be inspired me or any other artist so I was doubly frustrated. Our worldviews are fundamentally misaligned.
It's hard not to feel disillusioned with the art niche I'm associated with. I click through a post that complains about artists being unoriginal but the originality being copied is just how someone picked a specific type of merch manufacturer for their fanart. Twas never original in the first place
do itttttttt
it is impossible for me to become invested in characters which do not have a narrative story so i will be doing this as well, of course she is associated with twist (bsky.app/profile/inge...). i also hate consistency.
Screenshot of a procreate canvas showing a cropped drawing of a harpy-like monster with human teeth overlapped by an eagle's beak, screaming furiously.
Multiple sketches of the same harpy monster from various angles and with different expressions, showing how the human jaws and beak overlap and move independently.
Multiple sketches of the same harpy monster from various angles and with different expressions.
Coloured digital drawing of a harpy-like monster with a set of skinless human jaws behind her beak.
random character design spotlight: Fortune the harpy. She owns a magic casino and traps people in debt servitude. I wanted to try the beak and human teeth thing and she's fun to draw.
it's just an animal
Digital art of a black horse in a shiny black bridle held under tension by reins pulling its head down hard. Nettles are superimposed over the body of the horse.
Urtica
please be normal about me
i drew this with my hands like normal
Line drawing of a fat dragonborn character. He is standing plantigrade and has dense crocodile-like scales
Line drawing of the dragonborn character sitting and blowing smoke into the mouth of a devotee in priest robes.
tis himself
Tbh I agree with you. I was tired and distracted and annoyed and I don't like arguing with people or point-scoring online. You got me
So should I have just told em to fuck off. I don't think it's awesome I think it's all tiresome plastic junk but what am I gonna do to stop anyone
Nope & watch out for scammers reaching out to you pretending to be me and offering commissions, this has been an issue in the past
Digital art resembling a religious icon. A fat copper dragonborn in white priest robes is painted against a metallic gold background, with an embossed gold halo behind his head. He has crocodile-like scales and glasses and is exhaling a puff of smoke as he holds his rosary beads in his hands. In the background is a red border and the letters AMTR.
Iconography
That's really awesome and the first time someone's responded with answers. I appreciate it and I think more people should investigate their manufacturing partners thoroughly to pick a good one, if they absolutely 100% must sell merch.
I can say where SOME of them end up: in my benthic samples lads. Clogging my microscope field of view, in the guts of the animals I study. Think of the people who made your product and the people who will handle it after you. You have to consider this, too.
and 3. many of these products will outlast us. Seeing disposal instructions on a product causes people to consider where the product will be after they're done with it, and maybe where it was before they received it.
You can't behave like the kids selling shrinkydink charms they made in their ovens any more if what you're selling is basically a mass-produced factory made Product.
from a product I can buy in the shop here. That means disposal instructions, recyclable packaging, solid returns policy etc. If you want to be a brand then fine, be a brand, but do not complain when people start to treat you as one.
2. we are seeing levels of finish and polish on these things which simply wasn't there ten years ago when manufacturing was not so commonly outsourced. if you are going to sell products with these high standards of production, then you should be held to the same high standards i would expect
for these reasons:
1. this forces sellers to be transparent about the materials in their products. and if they do not know the materials the products contain, that is unacceptable.
(new thread so i don't ramble) as mentioned on tumblr also i would like to see merch distributors and these small fandom/furry/con circuit artist businesses start to include disposal instructions on their products.
anyway my new promise to myself & others: no manufacturer information given = no sale!
you'll go onto ppls websites and see entire pages about money donated to conservation purposes and carbon offsets and the artists' pets and personal lovey-dovey philosophies and /something/ is always conspicuously absent
this thread is going round again. it was inspired by a KS i saw for some very complex apparel (by which i mean, clothing with multiple different complex panels and embroidery and designs, hand-sewn) where they credited their photographer (fine) but not the manufacturers. bad taste in my mouth
A map of an ocean world, showing landmass and topography. Most of the land is beneath the equator, with the larger deeper sea being in the northern hemisphere.
>> AN OCEAN, (UN)CHARTED <<
The world of Across the Azure Eye, along it's major locations! There's more of course, but these are the ones that are story relevant. More info and lore below 👇
Please note: this is stylized, and not to scale! And also hand drawn :]
[ #art #cartography #acrosstheeye ]
