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Hi! Here's a post about something that may seem silly and low-stakes but is important to me and is actually a pretty major problem in the art community broadly.

When you go to a life drawing class, please never take a photo of the model unless you are absolutely certain they are being paid extra for their likeness and have signed a release form. In the Victorian life modelling community, where the minimum hourly rate for a life model is $50, we recommend $85 an hour at least for work that will be photographed for private reference use. If those photos are going to be shared outside the studio/classroom, the model should be paid at least 3x more than that. Their image is their livelihood.

You might think it's okay as long as you ask the model first, but please consider the pressure that arises in a situation where:

You are working alone, naked, among a group of clothed people who don't know you;

You haven't yet been paid for the labour you have performed/are performing;

This is an unregulated industry and a job that may be under-the-table in cash;

Your livelihood may depend on positive impressions of artists and session convenors.

There are a ton of reasons why in this situation a model may say yes while feeling strange about the request. To be honest, many models may have no compunction about having their image used freely online, but that doesn't take away from the reality that many more will be pressured, and that every time you participate in this behaviour you are contributing to a community-wide culture that is categorically unsafe for life models.

Please don't post or reblog these images unless you are 100% certain that the model was freely consenting and adequately compensated, which, frankly, you're not. Life models are workers. They are entitled to basic workplace health and safety standards. They work an underpaid, vulnerable, physically taxing and very precarious job, and it is a real and really underappreciated gift they are giving you as an artist.

For further info please see the working conditions and code of conduct of the Victorian Life Models' Society

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coloured an old sketch

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copied this idea from @ghibli :> lmk your total!!

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My friend Marlo told me the other day that my old comic essay, Phantom Wings, isn't readily available online anywhere anymore. I haven't taken down the Gumroad page, but it seems to be difficult to find and I don't wanna make people search for it lol, so I'm putting it here. I made this in 2017, long before I came out as trans. I think it reads exactly like something written in the 2010s by someone in deep denial, but Marlo still likes it, so here it is for posterity :-)

Edit: if you would like to download the comic at a higher res, you can do so here!

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I haven't posted here since October... I'm sorry... I've been numbing myself every work day with more Game Grumps. All of these drawings are Game Grumps. I'm in a mental state where the only drawings I can finish are low stakes sketches of cute girls floating in space.

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have been watching the game grumps dangan ronpa playthrough recently, very nostalgic. sayaka's mario voice gets me every time

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Hi Melbourne friends, I'm looking to move house in the next few months. I work full time from home and have two nice indoor cats. I'm looking to stay in the northern suburbs, anywhere between Brunswick and Reservoir. Let me know if you have any leads, rooms open, know anyone who might be looking for a housemate, etc!

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I would like to post here more just for the sake of participating and being visible, out of loneliness I guess, but I don’t really have anything I feel ok about posting. Getting older is so weird, ten years ago it would be unthinkable for me to go a whole week without drawing something I was proud of enough to put my name to publicly. Months would feel like an eternity. Now days slip by so fast. The fucked up part is I probably enjoy drawing more now than I did 10 years ago! I do it now intentionally and for fun, not just because it’s the thing I feel like I should do. I guess that sense of obligation must have been what drove me to stay so engaged back then.

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Baiken commission for my friend Henry :-)

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A May

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And another that didn’t fit with the modern characters in the other post 👻 this is Chalkidike, she is the daughter of a noble Athenian family sent to Crete for the Minotaur, and unexpectedly becomes a celebrity there for her athletic skills.

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I was thinking about doing artfight, decided not to, but I have these quick character reference sheets anyway now hehe

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uni work - branding illustrations for a fake souvlaki restaurant chain lol

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my latest BG3 character, a deep gnome draconic bloodline sorcerer called yseut. they're a dyed-in-the-wool do-gooder and dating lae'zel. I've discovered I love gnomes

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OC sketch commissions for my friend @puppypawpads <3 thank you so much! Commissions are open!

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Hello, I'm nearing the end of my current contract so spruiking my commissions again, 2D animation work is a little hard to come by lately so I could really really use the support <3

I'm moving house in a month and really scrambling to pay for bills and food in the face of moving expenses so I'm advertising quick commissions! Prices are negotiable depending on the level of detail you want. A quicker bust drawing like the 3 girls below will be 50% cheaper. Email in the picture, or message me here! <3