I Feel Like I Want To Cry From How Many Beautiful Things I Can Discover On Tumblr.

...as a copyright minimalist, it really pisses me off that so few people in my corner bother to try and come up with very good solutions to "How do artists make a living."

Like… so many of them just fucking default to "use donation models supported by true fans uwu" and while that can work, even most of the top fucking eschelon of creators on Patreon are basically making poverty wages, and most people who make a living have to treat it as one of many income streams, because again, it's not fucking enough.

Not at the scale artists need, and the way some people in "my" corner ignore that to moralize while failing to come up with better solutions infuriates me.

Like, you'd be surprised that I could be called relatively conservative on my current demands wrt copyright reduction, specifically for reduction back to 56 years in the US (Life + 50 in the countries where applicable) and massive expansion of fair use.

This is because these are things that are doable now without fucking over artists.

I want more, but I am painfully aware that'd be a much bigger project because you'd need to overhaul so much about how we economically handle art as a society, and it pisses me off how nobody's looking for those solutions beyond platitudes!

I've seen a few decent ideas. A "Mario Kart" version of copyright, where the larger in scale a works' rightsholder is the less protection it gets, was suggested by one person, I'd say mutually-supporting collectives based around Creative Commons works (Think akin to the SCP Foundation) would be a good start, as would long-term income-y government art grants that require the stuff produced under them to go into the Public Domain.

Even beyond that, the Peer Production License is also a great way to open up your ideas as well without making them vulnerable to corporate exploitation, that's worth looking into.

But like, we need more of those, and it does piss me off that people supposedly in "my" corner call artists entitled babies for pointing out the problem here!

It's the big obstacle to actually getting shit done, stop calling artists fascist for wanting moral rights Patricia and come up with something that actually works!

Don’t forget to study hard and drink lots of wafers

🌱Different versions! ✨

Always remember with comics: STORYBOARDS AREN’T SUPPOSED TO BE PRETTY. THEY JUST NEED TO FLOW! Spend time on the final art, not the sketches!! If too much time is spent on making things pretty early on in the sketch/layout process, the final art will come out stiff. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvzke4IgPyi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=77j5n8u7vdp3

as promised, the transplanting tutorial

most sources make transplanting sound incredibly difficult, but transplanting young seedlings from areas with sparse dirt, like a driveway or roadside, is actually incredibly easy and can get you some great stuff. Once I worked out the method, i've had a very high survival rate

it took me like a month of trial and error to figure this out so you don't have to.

Feel free to repost, no need for credit

Here’s the full comic called “生き甲斐” (ikigai) I made for my senior project in high school art class. You can view it in 300 DPI high res. by clicking the link in my bio! IG shits on all of the effort I put into details by butchering the image quality lol. Side note: Idk why but my art teacher Ms. Money was rly cool and just let me draw whatever I want 🤷‍♂️ P sure she said “Just make a comic about what art means to you”. I still feel this way btw except now I have more health problems : ) Thank you for reading 😣💙 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv_OQC1g-cG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vo1cbam6xi9z

mid 2016 colors and some of the illustration by @Kiuipoot on Instagram and Twitter

WIP comic stuff