January 22, 2015 19:19
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I think it’s an easy trap to fall into when you’re starting out. I used to balk at the idea of charging people for my art because my art “wasn’t worth money.” It’s a ridiculous concept, really. I’m still not sure what to charge people sometimes.
When I think about it… For me, making digital art, I mean, when I’m charging you, it’s because it takes:
A) Time, which I don’t have tons of because I have lots of projects/deadlines
B) Supplies, like a laptop/tablet/pens/sketchbooks, which shockingly are NOT free
C) Experience, which for many people means art school and tuition is, also, not free
D) Skill, which you may not have or have in different ways, and in that way it’s the same as paying a plumber to fix a toilet because you don’t know how or don’t want to or want your toilet fixed extra special for someone’s birthday.
Also, when you DON’T charge for your work or undercharge drastically, it makes other people who are charging reasonable amounts and definitely deserve it look bad. “Why would I get a commission for $100 when x is doing them for $15?” I’m talking fully-rendered illustrations here, not sketches. For $15. Things that obviously take HOURS. That’s not good. That’s a bad cycle!
tl:dr; YOU’RE WORTH IT
Nobody should EVER make you feel bad about wanting to be compensated for your work.
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I have to draw a four panel comic every day for the rest of the semester. I’m only going to post this one, I think, and save the rest for a gumroad package.
This one is about first time I smoked and drank hot chocolate out of a comically oversized ladel for an hour while hitting my head against a cabinet and laughing at myself.
January 15, 2015 23:52
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Dear my great ” What It Is” class,
RE: Stories read out loud tonight: GOOOOOD!!!
Your homework:
Four Minute Diary every day (click here for video)
and
Seven and a Half Minutes Worth of Writing (click video above)
OK LET’S GO! STEP ONE:
First write ten nouns on ten little pieces of paper
Number a page from one to ten
Relax your whole body from top to bottom and say the alphabet to yourself or something else you have memorized and think back to early days in your life
turn over one of the pieces of paper and that’s your word.
Write down the first ten memories that come to you from that word
Read the list over
Circle one that seems vivid or has trouble in it and write it on a clean sheet of paper like it was a title to a story and then draw a big X on the page.
Then start the video.
Remember to skip a line as you go so your page is double spaced -that’s important- and if you get stuck to use the alphabet. It likes it!
Sincerely,
Professor Lynda (who looks forward to seeing you on Thursday)
PS: Even if you are not in our class these assignments are good to try just for fun.
P.P.S. Remember to monkey around
January 12, 2015 20:12
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My husband and I do kind of the same job — a little bit. Not long ago we both had one of those magical days which we call a junket, where we both attended these lovely events where people come in every four minutes and they ask the same questions over and over again, you know the drill. We got home at night and we compared notes.
And I told him every single person who interviewed me, I mean every single one, and this is true of the red carpet here tonight, Elle, asked me, ‘How do you balance work and family?’ and he said the only thing that people asked him repeatedly was about the tits on the ‘Blurred Lines’ girl [Emily Ratajkowski his co-star in Gone Girl].
As for work-life balance, he said no one asked him about it that day. As a matter of fact, no one had ever asked him about it. And we do share the same family. Isn’t it time to kinda change that conversation?
Jennifer Garner on Hollywood sexism (via lawn-of-del-rey)
“The men in Hollywood event is every day—it’s called Hollywood.”
I don’t know if people outside of the Entertainment industry know how true this is, but holy shit this is on point.
(via spytap)
January 12, 2015 20:03
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January 10, 2015 23:34
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Dreamwork’s Me And My Shadow (2018). Property of 20th Century Fox. Not to be duplicated.
Oh, thank goodness! I was afraid Dreamworks had completely scrapped this movie. I’m excited to know it’s still in the works!
Still really excited for this!
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This
banister crumblebench is a good person for saying this and a+ to her response too
In the first GIF her eyes shoot up like did this motherfucker just say what I think they said?
January 7, 2015 02:53
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Why do people act like being a vampire is so fucking great. You can’t eat garlic bread so what’s the point
Okay first of all fuck garlic bread
What the fuck. What thef. Uck. You come on here, you come into my house, you take a shit on my post you shit on garlic bread, you shit on everything I stand for, on this, the day of my daughter’s wedding… .
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Hi, I'm Tim Lai! I'm a cartoonist living in Ontario, Canada. I like drawing cute and colourful things. This blog is a hub where you can find all of my Tumblr, DeviantArt, Flickr, Blogspot, and other posts in one place.
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I write and draw Lemon Inc., a comic about a seven-year-old who wants to be a business tycoon when he grows up. Until then, he runs a lemonade stand. You can read it at www.lemon-inc.com.
I have done some professional web and graphic design work, including designing the website for the webcomic, Just Joel. I'm also a member of the webcomic collective, Ink Bomb Comics.
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dansfloor-blog: I won't hold not answering this against you haha- how did you become so confident with your art, I feel like I've overcharged people & sometimes just do pieces for free bc I feel guilty & people have a way of really making me feel like shit if I expect compensation, like my work isn't good enough for people to spend $ on? Obviously you're not amateur like I am, but were you always very confident artistically even when you were starting out?