crimson-lullaby sent:
I don't see Anon's issue... a lot of people reference art. Look at Duchamp, a famous french-american artist. He took the Mona Lisa and popped a moustache on it and called it art, reusing someone elses art and just changing it slightly. Or Normal Rockwell who used staged photos another artist took for reference with his paintings. Picasso did 44 paintings based off his study and reference of Velasquez Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. Shall I go on? Mun said it was reference, end of story Anon.

Thank you! Someone who understands the truth behind art as well as I do! I really don’t see what some people’s problems are. Great art from the ages has been used through reference by someone else’s. Its not just artists now-a-days that do it. The issue with now-a-days is that people have the internet and have ‘freedom of speech’ to be able to voice an ‘opinion’ that isn’t really an opinion but just obvious hate with no real nice way of saying it.

Back then, no one would really be able to tell artists that their art was influenced by something else because no one really ‘cared’ much for art and didn’t have the sources to knowledge themselves about it, but just because these days people ‘care’ for art and ‘artist rights’ it makes it okay to give baseless, harsh opinions about what they think of someone else’s art? Criticism and giving ways of helping another artist is one thing, saying that their art shouldn’t be uploaded because it’s not 100% their’s and hating on it is another.

Reference for art is one thing. Stealing is another.

Get it right.

I appreciate your input to this. I really do.

Anonymous sent:
You're avoiding the issue; no one is faulting you for learning. What they are faulting you for is publicly posting obviously plagiarized art with no credit to the original artist. You're passing it off as 100% your own and no amount of excuses can change that. "All art has been done before," "you can use my art as a reference," none of this makes what you're doing acceptable. Yes, it's a pose. A pose someone took time and effort to draw and you are passing off as your own. Don't play the victim.

I’m sorry. Excuse me? Playing the victim? The victim, huh? Did I say that it was 100% mine? Did I? Did I not SPECIFICALLY say that I used reference? Oh my, goodness me. I am so sorry for owning up to the fact that I said that it was not 100% mine.

I am sure that you have not been taking an art course for 4 years of your life and have not learned the true things behind art.

I do apologize for your incompetence to understand what I have just wrote down. And you know what? Who’s to say that they did not use reference for that pose either?

You know, it’s people like you who put artists down. Who put good, honest, still learning artists into a state of ‘my art is not good enough’. I do not want to be the fucking victim here because I am not. I have talked to enough people who put themselves as the victim and it’s disgusting and time wasting.

Oh, and another thing. If you want to bash me down and call me things that I am not and say that my honesty isn’t good enough for your kingly ways, then fucking man up and get off anonymous. Anons make me sick. Not balls-y enough to get off this shit so they don’t get bashed down by others too.

And did I also not state that I get a lot of refs from places like Google and that I do not know the artist? A pose, is a pose. A full rip and taking ownership for the original art and uploading the original as my own and re-editing the original and literally showing that it’s the original image with just a few colour changes on a piece of the clothes, hair, or eyes, is theft.

I specifically said that I try to change my art from the original as much as I possibly can so that it isn’t art theft. So that it looks nothing like the original and so that I only used the original as REFERENCE.

So, don’t you dare try and make yourself all high and mighty. If the artist, THE ORIGINAL artist has a problem with what I have just wrote down, they can come and talk to me. Not some little shit like you who has no decency to even show your own face to me.

Anonymous sent:
Hey just putting it out there but it would probably be a good idea to add some text to the post of your Dave drawing. It bears a striking resemblance to a popular piece of ayapus's artwork. If it was used as a reference, it'd be smart to note it before people start accusing you of things.

Yes. I used a reference. It is nothing like the original. I am allowed to use references as an artist as long as I am not stealing the original art. Sure, it’s a DAVE drawing, but the only thing that’s the same, is the pose. Nothing else. I’m sorry for not being a perfect artist and that I cannot draw bodies right and that by using references I am learning. But, I am honestly tired of people putting me down for doing something that all artists do when learning. Be it with original drawings or with real life people. I know you were only being nice and letting me know so I don’t get in trouble with other people, but this is going out for everyone who views my art.

Just Be Trolls

A sorry for being away for so long. But I needed a break from this tumblr in particular.

So, have some Homestuck art (Which I will be uploading to my DA as well).

EDIT:

Also, just checked my messages. Just so you guys know. Yes. I use body references just like any other artist. No, I am not stealing the other person’s art because I try to change it as much as I possibly can so I don’t get in some shit fit trouble with the original artist because I absolutely hate art theft and would never want it to happen to me either so I do my best to change it to the best of my abilities. I’m sorry for being a learning artist and still not as perfect as the rest. I have no clue where I get most of my refs and I am sorry for that. I just look for refs on the internet so I can create some nice art for the community.

Nothing Is Original Anymore. Never Has Been In The Art Community. I learned this in COLLEGE. People like Picasso have used things from people like Da vinci.

So, before someone else starts harassing me. This is from a Just Be Friends image. Don’t know the original, just took the idea and made some really nice art.

And hey, if you guys want to use my art for refs. DO IT. Use body references. Upgrade your skills with it. ENJOY IT. But change it as much as possible and make it your own and not the same as the original.

Its OKAY to use references to LEARN. And just to learn.

xion-and-friends:

aminthea:

did you know faygo came in your blog flavour? (● o ●✿)

its transparent faygo hehe uwu

HONK-FLAVORED FAYGO WHAT

Here, have a piece I just finished of Dave Strider from Homestuck.

Enjoy.~

get-the-salt-sammy:

demon-in-the-time-vortex:

nuclearpiss:

I get a lot of people assuming I’m from America when they meet me on tumblr. I wanna see how many people here aren’t American!

*waves from England*

Ello chaps~ 

vaincreux:

“Greetings United States gov,

We are the Internet. Again, you are trying to pass this ridiculous CISPA law in order to control and censor the people. This will not stand. You already control the media, the economy, the criminal underworld, your national plots and our energy. YOU WILL NOT GET OUR INTERNET!

The U.S. law that would turn Google, Facebook, and Twitter into legally untouchable government spies just passed the House.

This bill affects everyone — not just U.S. citizens. Anyone with a Facebook account could now have their data shipped directly to the U.S. government. That’s why Internet users overwhelmingly oppose this bill. Over 1.5 million people signed petitions against it. But Congress didn’t listen. This law broadened the state terror and repression of the people. By allowing corporations to track our every action on the internet the state and corporations will be merged and that we have seen before: it is called fascism.

We are going dark on MONDAY April 22nd at 6 AM GMT for 24 hours to protest your illogical and terrorizing bill against the Internet itself. Even with the whole Internet crying out to stop this BILL, the US House of Representatives failed to do so blinded by lobbyist’s money and cum in your eyes. So we will take action ourselves and open your eyes. Every popular/mainstream websites will be black until you, Mr. DronObama promise us to use your VETO power to stop this bill at Senate. Take this as a protest or a warning, as you wish. One thing is for certain, neither you or anyone else in this world can control the Internet, so don’t even try. Stop wasting taxpayers’ money into doing these kind of shenanigans.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Expect us.”

Source

This blog may not be as important as Twitter, Facebook or Google, but I’m still joining the blackout. The Internet is our last source of freedom, don’t let them take it away from us. Spread the voice.

acca-wut:

I will message every single one of you beautiful people. No copy and paste just straight from my heart. You don’t have to reply but if you want to I will continue the conversation. I dont care if I get 1 hour sleep for the rest of my life I will do this. I honestly care and I don’t judge. I love each and every one of you and if the above is true for you, please don’t go through it alone, even if you just click reblog who knows what a difference it could make.

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Hey, new wig. Zange Natsume from Inu x Boku ss. Styled by my boyfriend sincehe’salittlefaggot so, thanks to him.

Yes, it does bring the bunny ears too. I just am being lazy and not wearing them, but if you guys want me to do a photo of them, sure.

Also, ignore my homemade Gamzee t-shirt from homestuck. Just. Don’t question it. At all. Ever.

Such a girly man I am. Tee hee. fuckinglittleshitIam

gl1tch3d-latios:

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monstergirlsinc:

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hammer-and-sicklekind:

queenmoirail:

I wanna see how many brave people there are!

iarekylew00t:

The goal is simple - we thank Hussie for everything he’s done for us. For all the updates, all the people he’s met, everything he’s had to deal with - for making Homestuck. He made something far bigger than he could have imagined. I think it’s time we thanked him.

Everyone who reblogs this will have their URL added to a text file. At the end of April it will be emailed to him along explaining that these are all the people who want to personally thank him for what he does.

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You know. I’ve been thinking that lately my Izaya hasn’t been getting as much love in this fandom as he used to get, and to be very honest, I find that a little.. Well.. Sad. He is slowly dying away as a muse and I just can’t be motivated enough to rp as him.

I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling this either with this fandom and their muse. And if I am.. Well, screw me for feeling this way.

I highly doubt I will leave this fandom full stop and I would never close my blog either, but I might change to a different fandom. One that makes me feel the same way that I used to feel. Excited and ready to rush onto my laptop everyday just to talk to you all.

I really miss those days and I just feel like those days have died and that all these new blogs that are quickly becoming popular are overtaking the old blogs that used to be popular and are what made me want to continue in this fandom. Even the non-popular ones that had some top quality muns and muses were beautiful (and they deserve love too. Seriously.)

I just don’t know guys. It doesn’t feel ‘fun’ anymore.

I’m sorry.