Part 3 of 3 of my weird stream of consciousness comic. Please try and ignore the strangely telescoping octopus arms in panel 4 and the vanished vest stripes.
I saw someone on Youtube doing a realistic drawing challenge for a character that is usually cartoon-y. So I gathered a bunch of body part references and assembled Clementine like Frankenstein’s monster. I tried again and again to give her some real pigment in her skin and this was the best I could do. She just doesn’t get much sun.
support content creators. this isn’t instagram or twitter. simply liking is not enough and isn’t seen by anyone but you. it’s just not enough. not when no one sees it. stop letting peoples hard work go unnoticed. stop contributing to art dying on the creators blogs. this also goes for writing and basically any other art on this platform.
if you liked it, please share it. it takes about the same amount of time and i assure you, seeing a reblog makes a creator much happier than a like.
OKAY THIS POST WENT OFF IN A VERY UNEXPECTED MANNER AND I WANT TO CLEAR UP A COUPLE OF THINGS:
- a reblog is when you hit that little arrow button and share something to your own blog from your dashboard. - it is then seen by your followers and anyone who sees your blog thus enabling it to be reblogged more and seen by a wider audience which is good for the creator, keeping a source link to the creators blog in tact. - a reblog is NOT the same thing as a repost - reposting is bad bad bad and you should never do it - reposting is when you screenshot, save and re-upload the content on your own blog and is not given the proper credit so the person who spent their time and effort on it will not be recognized for their work. this is gross and anyone who does it needs to learn how to fucking stop.
i did not make this post as a callout or an invitation for arguments. i was merely venting my own frustration and others added on just as they should have because i am not alone in this. i implore anyone calling us entitled to actually read the thread, look how many talented creators are discouraged by this behavior and genuinely hurt by their work going unnoticed. i’d like to reference another post on this hell-site that puts it into basic terms for those of you who still don’t understand and want to apply your shitty two cents anyway.
“’Your art isn’t valued by the number of notes you get’ okay but. If you spent 6 hours baking a cake for a party, but no one at the party eats your cake, it’s still disappointing.” [credit]
And for the people saying it was always like this? No, it wasn’t. People used to actually reblog original content.
These are notes on my gifs from 2012 - 2013:
These are notes on my gifs made in 2018-2019:
And, of course, making original content isn’t purely about notes - and ANY recognition toward original content is always appreciated - but when you’ve been on this website long enough to see how people used to treat and cherish content creators as opposed to how content creators are treated today, it can be very disappointing and discouraging. I don’t know what changed but something visibly changed. People are not reblogging posts anymore.
Meanwhile, so many people today have no problem skipping posts entirely but save the gifs to repost over to Twitter or Instagram with zero credit to the Tumblr user who actually made them so that they can gain followers on other platforms for somebody else’s work.
I’d like to agree… I mean, I do think it’s nice to encourage artists and share what you think others will enjoy… but if someone doesn’t want to reblog my art, as long as they aren’t stealing or reposting it, I guess that’s really their business. If I bake a cake, I dunno that I want people to eat it just to humor me. So yeah, I guess if you’re actively looking for ways to promote artists you like, reblog by all means. But if you just wanna skim through and like a few things it’s really your business. Your blog should have on it what you feel like having on it. I don’t see that you need to beat yourself up over that.
Hey just a reminder that it’s NOT okay to put my stuff on Pinterest or any other site and to please not do that with any of my artwork, thanks!
Pinterest is a site that benefits from stolen content and makes it particularly hard to get stuff removed. I gave up trying because I spent hours reporting hundreds of posts there and it took them weeks to remove them, and then people just uploaded them again and were still uploading while I was waiting for results. Pinterest also fucks with google’s algorithms so when something is placed there, it will actually REPLACE the original source in search results. Many of my works that were stolen for products/sale happened because someone put it on Pinterest with no or little credit and someone found it that way.
If you find my work on Pinterest, please just tell the poster that they’re being a shithead (politely) but don’t tell me about it anymore because it just makes me depressed and tired.
Tl;dr I do not want my things on Pinterest or anywhere else and if I link someone posting my stuff on pinterest to a tumblr account then I will block them.
Don’t put artwork on Pinterest.
Don’t download artwork and then upload it anywhere else.If you want it on another site, ask the artist to put it there, or suck it up and live with not having it on absolutely every platform– why do you even need that? What’s the benefit? All you do is hurt the artist for whatever weird momentary convenience it gives you to have the art elsewhere. Link to it where it is.
I despise Pinterest for this exact reason. I’ve gone searching enough times for the source of art I’ve found reposted without credit and Pinterest has proven itself to be nothing short of a virus infecting the internet, especially when it comes to creative works.
This just reminds me of that art blog that I found years ago that almost never credited art. Tumblr couldn’t be bothered to do anything about it, each image had a link that only led back to the blog, they never so much as commented on any of them, and you couldn’t send messages. I dunno whether it changed owners or whether someone finally got their attention, but I just checked and every piece of art they share is credited now, with links. So there’s one little bright spot.
