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mushrooms #4:

draw

paint (gouache)

outline

shade

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The one comment I’ve gotten was about… I think offering their services to animate or promote it or whatever. I responded to it and it got deleted. Sad.

I’ve gotten several comments like these over on Wattpad as well. Pretty sure it’s a scam.

reblog if you’re a writer who’s very terrible at responding to comments from your readers, but has read them all and loves and appreciates each and every single one of them very dearly

weird sunset

working with Onyx’s expressions

exploring different concepts for Onyx’s backstory

Decided to draw her in the most recent idea I had.

Reblogging because I’ve gotten comments like this on my blog before. I’ve gone through and blocked all comments like this already.

It’s good to stay aware of these types of things.

Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams

I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.

About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.

My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)

And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.

This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.

I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.

And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.

When you see it, REBLOG IT.

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Redrew my new design of Onyx.

Still working on getting my style down.

I decided to redesign Onyx after I made this ⬇️ and redrew her.

I was struggling to make the purple and black (or purple and really dark purple) work… and white (or really light purple) just seems to go a lot better with her.

…and I wanted to make them two sides of the same coin anyway: opposite, yet the same.

Eyes still look a little odd, but I’m getting better. And I’m so glad I figured out the shape of the quills (I was watching the Snapcube fandubs last night and got a good look at the shape of Shadow’s quills… soo… that helped).

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HOW DID I NOT KNOW THAT INTERNATIONAL ASEXUALITY DAY WAS TODAY?!?

Drew this last year. Here you go. This was supposed to be a profile pic for one of my accounts. I’ll try to draw something better to add to this, but this was all I had right now.