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mm I’m gonna enjoy some nice christian homophobe tears on my popcorn when I go see this movie for the 8th time

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To all of you who have met me at SacAnime

THANK YOU ALL FOE YOUR FOLLOWS!!! I appreciate each and every single one of you so so much!! I want to thank you all for visiting me at SacAnime and following me on here, and i want to apologize in advance: I won't be super active for a while, I just moved into my new home and things are gonna be a little hectic for a time while we get settled in. Once that's done I might start taking requests cuz I need things to practice and things to draw lol. Thank you all so so SO MUCH For finding me on here!! I love you all!!

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Hey there, I'm not sure if you remember me but I was one of the last few scrambling around artists alley on Sunday, and I wanted to buy a print but I had card instead of cash? Anyway, I wanted to say your art is fab and I hope the con treated you well!

Oh my gosh I’m so sorry I didn’t respond sooner I have no idea how long this has been in my askbox Tumblr didnt notify me!! Thank you so much I really appreciate the message you are so sweet!! the con was kinda rough for my first time, but i kinda fed into my own self-doubt and that didnt help. But at the end of everything I realized I made a lot of new friends and I made a lot of progress as an artist. I’m hoping this next con to have a card swiper so you guys with cards only can purchase stuff too *u* gotta finda  good price for one.Thank you so so much for messaging me, It really lifts my spirits now! I’m trying to get things together for SacAnime Winter, hopefully if the universe behaves itself I’ll have 3 more new prints to bring along! I hope to see you again! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

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WHOOOAAA, SACANIME IS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!!

This September 2nd-4th, @pandasarus-rex and i will be sharing a table!!!!!! Our table number is b15!! IF YOU ARE GOING PLEASE STOP BY!!!! CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL!!! if you get  lost just follow the map up there^^^

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Robert E. Lee himself refused to wear his confederate uniform after the confederacy’s defeat in the American civil war. At his funeral he was not buried in it and no one in attendance was permitted to wear theirs either. He also declared that his confederate battle flag (what we now call “the confederate flag”) never be raised again and that it was a flag of treason.

So there’s your “southern heritage.”

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miniprint for SacAnime Fall 2016

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Reposting other people's art isn't okay! I noticed your post with the comment that "that's what their signature's for" and like no, dude. You still don't take other people's work and repost it without permission. That artist has a blog and it's just as easy if not easier to reblog from them, means that people can easily trace the work back to the original artist, and they still get full credit. Which, if you like the work, YOU SHOULD WANT THEM TO GET MORE ATTENTION. Don't repost.

Excuse me? If they have their URL in the picture, there is NOTHING wrong with that. Plus, I get most of them from Google, but I only get the ones with signatures. Google does not display their blog, so no. Just stop pls. K thx

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Don't be a tool, give the artist credit

This is an open letter to all the folks in various fan groups, fan blogs, fandoms anywhere (especially on Tumblr, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Instagram … hell, just about any social network out there): I think it’s wonderful that you value art, and the services that artists provide. But you are doing a disservice to the artist by sharing their art without including their name and a link to their online presence. It’s a sign that you don’t respect the artist or the effort they’ve made to create their art. You may not understand this, so let me explain.

Put yourself in their shoes: You spend 25-50 hours trying to be original, to create the best art you can to show off and promote your skills. You post it online, hoping that others: like it, buy it, commission you to create some art, or at least be interested enough to follow your work. You get some interest, and by a stroke of luck it becomes popular on Reddit or Facebook. But everyone is sharing your art without giving you any credit. I mean no credit AT ALL. I guarantee that you’d be pissed off beyond belief.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen posts that say:

“Look at this cool painting my friend made” (No mention of the friend’s name, of course.)

“Look at this cool poster I just bought. Isn’t this artist amazing?” (Again, no mention of the artist, or where they bought the art.)

“Hey this is cool. I think the artist does commissions.” (Really? I agree. How do I get one of those cool-ass commissions? Uh, that’s right. No name, no info, nothing.)

How are your readers/followers supposed to buy the art or support the artist if there’s no information? Uh, they can’t. You’ve provided no information whatsoever to facilitate any kind of transaction. With a little bit of work, using service’s like Google’s reverse image lookup, you can usually find the answer. But most people won’t make that effort. Human’s are lazy. I get it.

And this is how the mistake begins. You don’t want to take an extra 2-3 minutes to write the attribution, look up the artist on the web, and add a link. You just want some extra likes/follows because you found some cool art. What you’re trading that benefit for is actually harmful to the artist. 

What you have also done is given liberty to others to make the same mistake you have. Now we have thousands of reblogs, and InstaCool posts without any artist attribution.

Here’s a perfect example: Mr. White Makes Blue by Mike Handy. It’s a very clever mashup of Dr. Seuss and Breaking Bad. I’ve posted it several times with pretty good traction (500+ reblogs/likes each time). In this particular instance, I was posting it because the t-shirt was on sale, and I knew it was popular, so I thought my followers would like to take advantage of the sale price.

For some reason, and I can never quite figure out the factors that make this happen, this post caught fire on Tumblr and now has 35,000+ notes and growing. Somewhere around the 3,000 notes mark, folks began deleting the attribution I had included. It only takes one person doing this to create a massive problem downstream. Because of this, about 32,000 (more than 90%) of the notes contain no attribution of the artist. That’s a lot potential sales that this artist is going to miss out. Granted, this example is so popular, just typing the words in the art itself, “Mr. White Makes Blue,” into a Google search will give you the appropriate purchase links. But most art doesn’t have words, and most art isn’t that popular. I think you get the picture.

I’m grateful that I had created this post in a way that maintained the artist’s source. So thankfully all 35,000 of those notes include a “source” link to the t-shirt’s purchase page on Tee Public. But again, most Tumblr posts (and especially art that is cross-posted to other networks) rarely contains this connection. Reposting (as opposed to reblogging) is the enemy of the artist. 

Technical details aside, it’s a pretty simple premise: Show some respect, and give the artist credit. Adding a name and a link to any art, video, t-shirt, etc. that you post is how you can best support the artist and their struggle to make a living. And for many, it is a struggle.

// Shayne, Heisenberg Chronicles

Footnote 1: Even though I’ve tried my best (sometimes I spend 15-30 minutes trying to figure out the artist behind a piece I’ve found on the Internet), I’m not perfect. I make mistakes. My first week on Tumblr, I was having trouble reblogging a spoilerish illo about Mike. I couldn’t quite figure out what I was doing wrong, but I couldn’t make the reblog work. So I downloaded the art and reposted it. Right when I was about to write the artist’s credit line, I got interrupted and forgot to add it later. It was an honest oversight. The artist sent me a scathing message about what I had done wrong, and I learned a valuable lesson that I’ve never forgotten. The artist was so rude, I almost pulled the piece and forgot about it. But ultimately I decided he had a right to be upset. I added the attribution, apologized for the mistake and moved on with a clearer understanding of what my responsibility was when I posted someone else’s art on sites like Tumblr. My policy now is that if I can’t identify the artist and provide verified attribution, I don’t reblog it or post it. 

Footnote 2: Artists could help themselves by explicitly stating their attribution or by adding a small watermark or credit stamp on their work. It would make it easier for folks to give the appropriate attribution. I’m flummoxed by how many artists actually don’t do this. Sam Spratt and Chris Piascik do this well.

Footnote 3: Here are some good Tumblrs & posts on how to find the source artist if you encounter a piece of art that doesn’t have credit: Put a Source on that Shit, Source Cops, Source Police, You are a Tumblr Thief, Do Not Repost Art, How to Source Images Properly, Idiots, Credit to Whoever Drew This.

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DO NOT REPOST ART.

I’ve had to endure a wave of art reposting recently, and I feel like it needs to be said again.

DO. NOT. REPOST. ARTS. Mine or anyone else’s stuff. THIS IS NOT OK.

If you found art on tumblr, saved it on your disk, and make a new post on your own blog with it = WRONG.

Reblog from the source, respect the fact that the artist has a tumblr and reblog THEIR post, do NOT make a new one, this is CRAP. AND DISRESPECTFUL TOO.

If you found it somewhere else and don’t know who the artist is and post it anyway = WRONG.

Google reverse image search, investigate, try to find the name of the artist on tumblr, ask around. At the end of the day everyone CAN find the artist behind an art with a bit of google fu, reposting it is basically saying you were lazy and do not give a shit about the person who did the art. I know that sometimes it’s hard to find sources, but try harder, honestly. And if the art is not on the artist’s tumblr, then ask permission and be nice. And if the artist is not on tumblr at all, fairly good chance they will be on DA, maybe ask them before making a post. And source properly.

If you ARGUE with the artist when the artist contacts you about it and try to justify it?

Fuck off, this is not acceptable. Just because it’s the internet and everyone is free to do the fuck they want doesn’t mean it’s the RIGHT thing to do. Imagine for a minute someone sneakily going into an artist’s place, grabbing a painting on the wall, taking it back home, putting it on your wall, and telling everyone “oh it’s just a painting I found”. WOULD YOU DO THAT IN REAL LIFE. I wish many people on the interweb would assess their behavior if everything they did in an asshole way online would be applicable to RL. FUN FACT: MOST OF THEM WOULD NEVER DO IT FOR REAL. CHECK YOURSELF.

I try to stay polite and decent when I contact a reposter pointing out this is not nice and that I would appreciate if they could delete their post, then reblog from the source, but if that person comes back at me being all snarky and aggressive, I will virtually headbutt them. And I will always be nice to people who apologise and say they were not aware of the etiquette, making mistakes is completely a-ok. As for people who repeatedly repost everything, I have zero, absolutely zero amount of politeness for you guys.

This has been a rant.

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Some Sailor Scouts!! mini prints for the future because my old ideas were trash and I’ve improved a lot since I last posted. Enjoy!

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I want you to look at your latest piece of art. okay? got it up?

Now think back a few years. If you were to see that piece of art back then how would you have reacted?

Now think back many years, as many as you want. How would you have reacted then?

you are the artist you wanted to be, right now. 

Stop hating on yourself, and have fun.

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Reblog art guys. Seriously.

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truly

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a poster I’m gonna be selling at Sac Anime fall 2016!! It’ll be my first time at the artist Alley so come check out my other stuff, I’ll post more when I can!!

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Selling Fan Art is NOT ILLEGAL - A Rant by a Fan Artist who is also a Law Student

If you see posts on tumblr going around claiming that fan art sales are illegal, such as this one by eleanorappreciates, please check your facts before believing them. This claim is quite inaccurate to anyone with legal training. This is probably a surprise to my followers who believe I’m a full-time artist, but I’m actually a 4th year law student.  

Here’s the thing: In all my 4 years of study (with a focus in copyright law, no less), I have never been able to come to the conclusion that fan art sales are illegal. The legality of fan art is, in fact, a grey area.

My take is that fan art sale is more likely to be considered LEGAL than not. Evidence shows that fan art sale is often (but not always) mutually beneficial for both creator and fans. (This is also the conclusion I’ve reached based on personal observation, having been both a fan artist and copyright law enthusiast for some time.) The technicalities of this area of law are VERY COMPLEX and would take a whole final year thesis’ worth of space, so I’ll spare you. Just know that substantially creative fan art comes under the ‘fair use’ exception adopted by most respectable common law jurisdictions (if not, the ‘quotation’ exception of civil law jurisdictions which is basically the same thing), and it is generally ALLOWED. Do note that your work has to be sufficiently transformative - you have to add some sort of interpretive (commentary, satire, parody…etc) or artistic value to it in order to have your own copyright over your fan art. A direct copy in the style too close to the original may break your case because it isn’t different enough to be considered a fair derivative use. Different jurisdictions have different requirements of ‘difference’, and Asian jurisdictions tend to be more relaxed, surprisingly. In short, be as creative as you can and don’t copy the style of the original. It’ll make copyright owners less inclined to consider legal action, and your work will be better received. 

Why is transformative fan art probably legal? Ever heard that the dwarf standing on the shoulders of the giant can see further than the giant himself? Most original creators today were fan artists once, and they understand how important it is to be allowed to learn and profit from the creativity of people before them. Best innovations are always built upon the artist genius of earlier works, and fan-art creation is a critical phase in the emotional and financial journey of many of the most successful artists in the world today. Fan art also directs profit back to its original market (that of the creator), and most legislators and copyright-holders embrace this whole-heartedly. How else do you think anime/game conventions and fan artists are able to survive so well to this day? The combination of legal uncertainty in the sphere of fanart, plus the greater likelihood that it will be protected by transformative use exceptions, plus the willingness of most copyright owners to forgo suing make selling fan art safe for a vast majority of artists. Therefore, make high-quality, thoughtful fan art and you’ll be fine in the eyes of the law and doing a huge publicity favour for the original creator. It’s a wonderful way to thank them for making your life better with their amazing stories, and they’ll be more than glad to have inspired you. 

HOWEVER, if the original creator doesn’t want you to sell fanart for specific reasons, it’s another matter. Note that while they might not be able to take successful legal action against you, we should still respect their wishes as a matter of basic human decency. Not everything is a battle of legal rights - we shouldn’t wait for the law to force us to be considerate, supportive people. There are many factors influencing the sale of original works, and sometimes, it just happens that fan art will not fit well into the equation, causing the author to suffer instead. E.g, If Undertale creator Toby Fox suffers actual losses from fanart sales (and has clearly said so), stop selling Undertale fanart as a sign of support and appreciation for his hard work. This is not because selling fanart is illegal, but because you’re considerate of other people’s livelihoods. It doesn’t matter if they’re a big corporation, or an indie artist. If they don’t want you selling stuff with their characters, just don’t. (Note that selling and creating fan art are different matters) Respect their creative work and create something else. And by all means, continue to sell fanart only from other stories/productions that will be loved and encouraged by their creators. 

So artists, you aren’t doing yourselves a favour by being ignorant of copyright law and spreading non-factual claims. Read up on this fascinating gem that is copyright law, learn everything you can and form your own well-reasoned conclusions. Don’t simply believe everything you see, no matter how well-intentioned or passionately written. 

Thanks for sticking with me and happy transformative fan-art creating/selling!

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Okay reblog if you’re an artist who STRONGLY PREFERS reblogs with commentary

People are apparently under the impression that reblogging someone’s art and adding a comment is frowned upon and that can’t possibly be true, every artist I know of sees a reblog-comment as like the ultimate definitive reward for their hard work.

Obviously don’t feel bad for NOT adding a comment if you’re shy or just don’t know what to say, but if there’s something you would like to say about a drawing you’ve liked enough to reblog, I’m pretty sure most artists crave hearing it.