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A few resources to help, learn, and promote:

TO HELP AND DONATE:

Black Lives Matter carrd with info, petitions, donation sites they recommend, and readings they suggest

President Obama’s List of orgs to help, things to read, and ways to get engaged

Black-led LGBTQ+ Organizations posted by Alexis Michelle

TO LEARN AND UNLEARN:

5 Ways to Take Action for all non-black people by The Conscious Kid

10-Steps to Non-Optical Allyship by Mireille Cassandra Harper 

How to Be Actively Anti-Racist by Good Good Good Co

Victoria Alexander’s recommendations on Anti-Racist Literature

TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE:

Abelle Hayford’s #drawingwhileblack Directory of Black Creatives to hire

Author Oge Mora’s List of Children’s Books by Black Authors - also check out Oge Mora’s beautiful books!

A Twitter Thread from Melissa See on Black YA novels

Karina Yan Glasser’s 100 Must-Read Children’s Books by African-American Authors

10 Black-Owned Online Bookstores to buy all these lovely books from!

Bookshop.org’s List of Independent Black-Owned Bookstores 

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@Tumblr Support

Hi everyone! 

We have a bit of a crisis on our hands. Our lead contributor TURECEPCJA has had her blog improperly deleted due to DMCA takedowns. This would be acceptable if the takedowns were not addressed, but each time a DMCA takedown was received, it has been dealt with quickly and to the artist’s immense satisfaction. Each time a DMCA takedown notice was filed, it was successfully countered.

DMCA takedown notices can happen for a variety of reasons:

An artist decides they’d like all previous instances of a work deleted off the internet. Because of the way Tumblr is designed, the only way to have all traces of a post removed is through DMCA takedown. If Tumblr allowed curators to have all instances of a post deleted whenever the root post was deleted, this would solve this.

An artist signs a future exclusive deal with a gallery or collector. As per the agreement, featured works included in the deal are now exclusive to the owner. For curated blogs such as Cross Connect Mag, this can spell trouble for any of the 11,282 posts we’ve previously made.

We want TURECEPCJA back on Tumblr!!!

A curator should never be punished for something they can not control. We have exhausted all options to get this resolved. We followed the steps provided by Tumblr to take down all associated posts. The artist has written Tumblr directly to rescind the takedown notice. Their response: no

Tumblr has essentially turned their backs on us. Please help us by reblogging this post for maximum visibility!

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Trying to stay focused until Friday… 

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When you're first starting out and it's "please an art job, any art job" how do you decide what to focus on? Character design/figure studies/environments/illustration/concept/etc sure you could work on all of them, be a generalist, or you could narrow your focus but also your job prospects? I've got analysis paralysis because I like doing everything but "no one hires generalists" is what I've been told/experienced.

This is a question that I see a LOT of confusion out in the art world, so let’s break it down:

There are 2 kinds of artists: Specialists & Generalists. Specialists have 2 types: Style vs. Expertise. 

Style Specialists have a really unique style, and they are hired to apply that style over and over again to many different types of work. These folks tend to be freelancers, because they work for very different clients project to project. A really example of this is Victo Ngai. She does books, she does ads, she does editorial, she does packaging…she can do anything. Clients are hiring her to apply her style to their project.

Expertise Specialists often do have a style, but they are hired more for their expertise in a field. This is where you find a lot of your concept artists. You’d hire Karla Ortiz for her ability to design characters, Thom Tenery for his environments, Brynn Metheny for her creatures. You wouldn’t ask Thom to design a creature or Brynn to paint an environment. These kinds of artists are hired for their thinking process more than for their style. You come to them with problems to solve visually.

Generalists are hired for flexibility and technical skills. They are hired for their work volume and speed. These are the artists that tend to work in-house or are brought in as temps, or if they work from home, just for a few steady clients. Most designers fall into this category. Illustrators can too, but they tend to work on many different projects in different styles. A lot of work in advertising falls into this category, as well as film. Storyboard artists and pre-vis (pre-visualization) artists usually fall into this category. A lot of animation artists fall into this category. People that work in-house for video games often do as well. Your style has to match the style needed for the project, and you’re more the hired hands to get the work done. 

Make sense? 

So yes, there are jobs for both kinds of artists, but think very hard about the kind of career you want. Generalists have a very hard time being noticed and remembered because their work doesn’t look like it’s coming from the same person, so they have a very hard time freelancing — they rely on in-house work and/or agencies who hire them out to companies as needed. Style Specialists have a very hard time finding in-house work because their style is often great for one project, but not adaptable to many different projects. Expertise Generalists kind of split the difference, but they work in one field and one field only.

How you decide is thinking about these things:—Do I want to work in-house or freelance?

—Do I like working in the same style all the time and keep honing it and honing it until it’s uniquely mine?

—Do I have a love or expertise I want to nerd out on for the rest of my life and be known as the expert on that?

—Do I like the spotlight and want fame, or hate the idea of worrying about fans and promoting myself on social media?

—Do you love practicing and honing your skills and your speeds more than you care about whatever in particular you are drawing/painting?

Those kinds of questions will steer you toward the kind of artist you want to be. But I will also remind you that you have to do what you genuinely love doing or you will hate your career and end of giving up and/or course correcting a few years in anyway. Don’t just think about what you think is easier to find a job in, because doing the work just to get the job is always visible. You also have to enjoy what you are doing.

—Agent KillFee

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Paintings by Pang Jun  龎均

Pang Jiun born in Shanghai in 1936 to an artistic family and grew up under the influence of both European and Eastern cultural experience, from which he developed an interest in painting and received formal training. In 1987 Pang settled in Taiwan where he began teaching at the National Taiwan University of Arts and held over 30 exhibitions internationally. Oil painting is the media of Pang’s art, of which he has a distinctive understanding of colors. With the artistic foundation and spirit inherited from his family, he further cultivates the possibility of oil painting to seek the equilibrium between Classicism and Modernism. via   

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Figurative Sculpture by Nick Bibby

Nick Bibby lives and sculpts in Devon, a county he loves, and one which provides constant inspiration, from it`s rolling green fields, it`s many rivers and woodlands, to it`s stunning coastline and high moors via 

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So I found this cool website for learning ancient languages

go wild

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I was recently contacted by an art book publisher asking to put my work in their new publication. However, I would have to pay to put my art in, and a google search did not give me much more info. This seemed sketchy, so I declined, but I know that ADs look through art books for artists. Is paying for exposure the norm among the books you peruse, or was I right to turn down their "offer"? And if it IS normal, how much do they usually charge?Thanks!

Pay-to-get-in books are relics of pre-internet days, when the only ways ADs knew you existed was to have a physical piece of your art in their hands. These books were pretty much just a bound pile of advertisements — it didn’t matter if you were good or not, just that you could pay to get in. Now these books have been pretty much replaced by the internet.

Don’t confuse these with juried contests & annuals. These are still very much in use. You can tell the difference because you can’t pay to get published — there may be an entry fee for the contest, but you have to be chosen to get in. And the jury will be announced and should be a big draw from pros and ADs. Books like AI-AP, Spectrum, Society of Illustrators, Print Regional Design annual, ADC, TDC, etc are all juried contests and still used as sourcebooks. For every genre/industry there are professional contests in high regard, so ask around. They should have a good reputation.

If someone asks you to pay for publication, does not have a jury, and none of your peers has heard of them, then it’s probably not worth your time.

—Agent KillFee

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I’m glad to finally unveil the frame realised for my piece “The Rise”. This frame is the result of a collaboration between many talented french craftsmen.

“The Rise” will be included in the upcoming 13th International ARC Salon Exhibition, which will consist of 89 Contemporary Realist works selected from over an original 3,750 entries from 69 countries and is the most prestigious realist art competition in the Americas and perhaps the world. The ARC Salon Exhibition will be on view at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., New York, NY from September 21st—October 2nd, 2018 with the public opening event on Saturday, September 22nd from 11am to 3pm. Entry is free. The exhibition will then travel to Sotheby’s, Los Angeles where it will be on view from December 4th—December 13th, 2018 with the opening reception on December 4th from 6pm to 8pm. The show will then travel to the MEAM Museum, Barcelona, Spain from February 8th—March 31st, 2019, with the opening event and award ceremony starting at 7pm on February 8th. To learn more : https://www.artrenewal.org/13thARCSal…

Artist : Yoann LOSSEL Model : Psyché OPHIUCHUS Frame : coordinator / coordonnateur : Mickaël OURGHANLIAN Cabinet Maker / Ebeniste : Jean-Claude LEGLISE Turner / Tourneur : Jean-Renaud SCORDIA Design, patina and gilding / Design, patines et dorures : Yoann LOSSEL Leather Plate / Plaque de cuir : Belfea ARCHERIE

MUSIC : Liszt’s Paganini Etude S.161 No.3 “La Campanella” : Yundi Li, 2003

➔ Website : https://www.yoannlossel.com/ ➔ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/yoann.lossel/ ➔ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/LosselYoann ➔ Twitter : https://twitter.com/YLossel

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Letter K for the long forgotten #endangeredanimalalphabet #series : The Kashmir musk deer The Kashmir musk deer is an endangered species of small fanged deer native to the Afghanistan, india, and pakistan regions. This deer is one of 7 similar types of musk deer that are endangered due to habitat loss and because of poachers hunting them to death for their scent glands that are used in perfumes and rumored to be an aphrodisiac . 😥 While looking up photos of endangered animal it's not uncommon for me to find photos of dead animals for whatever I'm researching but for this one... I found hundreds of ebay listings for parts of this endangered animal. It was awful. If you have time I would encourage you to go on ebay to report any and all endangered animal parts being sold. 😤☠👎 #endangered #art #illustration #illustrator #animals #wildlife #deer #muskdeer #kashmir #musk #animallovers #painting #gouache #drawing #animalfacts #conservation #nature #arte #education #wwf #wildlifeconservation #endangeredspecies

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In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously bad house for Vox. 

Update: I’ve gotten a lot of nasty emails about how I’m lazy and entitled for…(looks at smudged ink on hand)…working hard at my job to pay off my debts.

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by  Abbie Paulhus                  

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Freddie Mercury's cats

Unknown Cat

Miko

Tiffany

Oscar

Oscar & Tiffany

Dorothy

Goliath

Lily

Romeo

and his favourite cat who has a Queen song named after her…

Delilah

And here is Freddie wearing a waist coat with all of his cats painted on it

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In the Italian city of Verona, local street artist Cibo paints colorful wall art full of appetizing food over neo-nazi graffiti (x)

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A little snippet of how I spend my breaks. 🌱🌷🌿 #art #digital #flowers #summer #nature #illustrator #digital #procreate #pretty #butterfly #floral #arte #sketch #artist #process #video #drawing #purple #IMurderFlowers

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Yo! I’m Mona, I’m from Chiapas Mexico and I’m and indie artist who makes Monsters inspired in Classic Maya glyphs, aesthetic and mythology.

I’m into creature design, animation and comics, support me on Patreon to help me make Maya Monsters full time!

patreon.com/monarobot

(If you can signal boost this, that would be GREAT!)