#and someone asked about prints

[azuresins]

The Phantomhive Ring Nonofficial merchandise, fanmade, custom. ·3D modeled in SolidWorks by @noirserviteur ·3D printed using resin, then cast in sterling silver ·Fitted with blue sapphire (+ diamond chips, soon)

#Kuroshitsuji #Black butler #ciel phantomhive #Our!Ciel #Ring #I would be very remiss not to make a post about this #I did not believe that this would turn out as beautifully as it did #I also did not believe it could be modeled in the first place this well and even if it could be done #That it would not turn out once it came time to be printed and then cast #But I was wrong multiple times #I also hope someone takes a look at the amount of files and can comprehend the amount of time and effort that went into this #When it got here I just stared at it with my mouth open in disbelief for like 2 hours... #edit because tumblr messed up my post #The little diamond chips will see this to completion but I couldn't wait also I don't even think they're super necessary #They're on the way but international shipping is slow as molasses right now #and unpredictable #anyway- #edit 2 added two more pictures so ppl can see the custom knots and adjustment I asked for #💙

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Question from someone just starting with creating and then posting art to Tumblr, do you think I should be watermarking my pieces?

I’ve always disliked watermarks as they naturally tend to dissuade people from interacting with art in a natural manner; it depends very heavily on the size and placement of the mark, obviously. BUT, often times an artist will overzealously obscure their work with identification and it has a somewhat repulsive effect on the average viewer - a wall has been erected between the viewer and the art, in a sense. Watermarks, to me, exist to prevent very specific situations from unfolding with your work - almost all of those reasons seem to be financially motivated, like preventing strangers from printing your art out at home or reposting without attribution. Situations that could affect your ability to profit off of your work.

Admittedly, much of my perception about this issue was inspired by an article included in the book “Context” by Cory Doctorow, wherein he writes about how he’s benefitted from “thinking like a dandelion”, which is an idea that was inspired by conversation the author had with Neil Gaiman — I’ll try and summarize the parts of the point that are more relevant to visual arts; since portions of the allegory refer more specifically to certain qualities of written media.

He begins with, “Mammals worry about what happens to each and every one of their offspring, but dandelions only care that every crack in every sidewalk has dandelions growing out of it. The former is a good strategy for situations in which reproduction is expensive, but the latter works best when reproduction is practically free — as on the Internet.”

So how do you “think like a dandelion” then?

“Your work needs to be easily copied, to anywhere whence it might find its way into the right hands. That means that the nimble text-file, HTML file, and PDF (the preferred triumvirate of formats) should be distributed without formality — no logins, no e-mail address collections, and with a license that allows your fans to reproduce the work on their own in order to share it with more potential fans. Remember, copying is a cost-center — insisting that all copies must be downloaded from your site and only your site is insisting that you — and only you — will bear the cost of making those copies. Sure, having a single, central repository for your works makes it easier to count copies and figure out where they’re going, but remember: dandelions don’t keep track of their seeds. Once you get past the vanity of knowing exactly how many copies have been made, and find the zen of knowing that the copying will take care of itself, you’ll attain dandelionesque contentment.”

The rest of the allegory more specifically applies to written work, but I’ll link it here for the sake of posterity. Essentially: every wall or pre-requisite that you establish before allowing a fresh set of eyes to fall upon your work actually may deter people from engaging with the work and sharing it with others. Signatures, subtle watermarks that are “baked” into the work, or maybe like.. a well-placed QR code that links people back to you — all of those would be my suggestion for someone who wants to leave a lasting, linking thread between a given work and it’s artist. If the right person sees your art and connects with it, there SHOULD be a way for them to follow that thread back to you and discover more; but if you over-prioritize demonstrating ownership over your work, you’re likely to drive those coveted genuine connections away.

On the other hand, if your primary goal is to sell prints or other products, brazenly watermarking your work will protect your bottom line from the kind of low-level art-scraping that drives all those shady redbubble shops and etsy stores that sell stolen works on cheap t-shirts and hankies. For me, art is a primarily social interest in which I prioritize the sharing of culture and ideas. I don’t want financial factors to take precedence and alter how/why I created something; it feels like I’d have to take much of myself out of my art in order to make it palatable for consumer spaces.

You should determine your priorities and then strive to make art that fulfills those priorities without compromise. I think you’ll find that self-satisfaction manifests readily at different points in the midst of that process.

#my asks #hope this helps! I’m against watermarking my own stuff bc I’m not really concerned about someone trying to steal/sell my weirdo works #in spite of that: I’ve had several people ASK to buy stuff from me on occasion; I’m always glad to facilitate that personally #but yeah as a result I’m obviously not moving boxes of prints of anything #and this is what works for me right now - my mind may change on it later if my life and priorities change #it’s an everongoing process

[skunkes]

Your post about loving to study the beauty of the human body as well as wanting to love someone male while also be them is something I've been feeling for the past few years tbh but I've never heard someone put it in the exact words I use before. I think it's also because when it comes to topics like that I also feel embarrassed trying to explain a melded and complicated but beautiful emotion that doesn't have a word for it other than imagery in my mind

Sorry for the random soul post in your inbox but I get you! And that makes me happy

Also you're art is very cool and holds the very idea of human warmth and love within keep it up

responding to the compliment first, thank you!!!

as for the rest, yes! In the past I've definitely understood "love someone so much you want to crawl into them because hugging and physical intimacy isn't enough" as well as the usual "do i wanna fuck them or be them 🤪" sentiment floating around,

but it's not until very recently that I pieced together the, "well, what would I do if I literally got my hands on another [human being]. I'm not sure it would be enough to just Behold a [beautiful human being], I also want to be a beautiful [human being], but in the way this [person] is, which is. Unlike the way I am. Different from how I am. (In the many ways that can be interpreted)."

Which is adjacent to the "crawling into them", and adjacent to wishing I could be desired in the same way that I desire, and then directly connected to the way I am being genuine and casual when I say I love looking at and am in awe of the human form, but it's so very easy for that genuine love to slip into that intense and strange enthusiasm to map out, touch, explore, examine, open, crawl, meld, Be. Be!

#skunk mail #Anonymous #(all metaphorical of course; im not chopping anyone to pieces) #<- also actually saying this genuinely and not in a sneaky sarcastic way #im not chopping anyone to pieces AND i understand healthy boundaries. i obvs wouldnt actually just get weird with somebody #in such a vulnerable state. its meant more playful. you are human im human i dont feel human i want to be human #i want to touch you human i want to be you human. human like you. not human like me. #is it enough to admire you when i so badly want to be a human of your appearance...in some ways general and some ways specific... #...your usage of the word ''male'' also rings true. for some of this. augh. #long post #long ask #Another way to describe it is: I have made many posts about my feeling of isolation from my alleged hobbies... #it's never enough to just collect beautiful art from others or marvel at someone's skilled Print Making #How do you just admire? I want to do it too. I want to do it too. #and also i am looking back and forth from the dynamic with talon wrt these sentiments #scratching my neck and looking nervous #🌺

[isfjmel-phleg]

😐

#random personal stuff #personal whining ahead feel free to ignore #I have come to a conclusion #the next time I get another printed email with written instructions shoved at me #I am going to tell this man point-blank to forward me the original email with any additional information #and politely insist that these communications happen through email not paper #I don't think that's unreasonable #it is better for record-keeping that all of these communications take place through email #it's less wasteful of paper #I am not asking for complex monumental effort or even any extra effort at all #it is 2024 we have been using email at work for decades and surely emailing someone is not an impossible task #actually probably less time-consuming than printing emails and writing on them #if he can communicate through email with the professors making the requests and with our boss who is out this week he can email me too #and if he gets huffy about it and acts like I'm being unreasonable like he did last time I asked for a change #(i.e. please turn down your volume) #then that's on him #maybe I'm allowed to have reasonable expectations in this office too #(as I was typing this he shoved into my mailbox a printout of a record of a book he wants me to delete or something *sigh*) #(I'll build up to that but for now I'm starting with standing my ground on emails about book orders)

[savage-rhi]

Magggennnttaaaa!

#before the pandemic i sold a lot of original paintings and such at conventions and shows in my area #well some locals at a gathering today kindly informed me someone has been selling copies of my plague doctor piece #and some of my mini prints and presenting them as their own same with stickers #its not only ai we gotta worry about now even the damn locals are doing this shit #i got a show in may coming around the corner and I'm thinking i might not even sell paintings and stuff anymore if this is going to happen #im a creator that loves collaboration and thinks art should be free to enjoy #if this person approached and asked if they could sell my work i wouldn't give a fuck personally provided they give me credit and or a link #back to my stuff hell if people want to print my work if they cant afford it go for it #but fuck dude you don't just claim you did all that work as if it was yours #this was disheartening news #and several other local artists found out too at this venue that their work had been turned into stickers that vendors bought off amazon #ill hop off the soap box in a minute #still scrambling to get kofi stuff set and donation links prepared #thanks for your patience everyone #im getting out of a depressive funk too with what happened at my work place #and im gonna be speaking with a legal aid rep next week #magenta is my safe word for venting

[ilovedthestars]

things I have done in the last week:

Dug up my old cyanotype chemicals and tried cyanotype printing again

Spent a bunch of time in the fiber arts dye studio doing things the dye studio was not intended for (cyanotype) (don’t worry I had permission and training for this)

Made at least ten mock ups of small zine-sized books and other paper structures with at least three different kinds of paper

Maybe invented a new zine-like structure?? More on this at some point

Spent way too long refreshing images.nasa.gov to try to get it to actually show me space pictures

Yelled at adobe illustrator for being confusing

Written some hopefully decent poetry

and the best part of this is that it’s all for the same project

#stars rambles #art student things #someone is going to ask if they can see it and I’m very sorry but the answer is no #my rule for myself is that art that might go in my official portfolio does not go on tumblr #because I don’t want my future professional art to be associated with this tumblr #I want to keep those separate #and I’m hoping this piece will be something I am proud of enough to put in my portfolio #so alas. I cannot share it #it’s a zine-like book about stars tho. printed with cyanotype. you could probably figure out that much #living up to the spirit of my username

[arsonist-chicken]

Can I get a neurotypical brain? Can I PLEASE get a neurotypical brain?

#i have. three papers. two due monday and one tuesday. #i have only just now started on the most urgent one #i originally planned to take the 2h train ride to uni and deliver it there but. i think i'll just take it to the post office tomorrow for #express delivery and call it a day and have it be there a day late. she's nice anyway. #and ask a colleague there to print out and deliver the other one on tuesday and buy her a bunch of chocolate #but i want to cry. i've had weeks and months to do this shit so naturally. i didn't do shit. #the paper now is about my future as a translator/job future and it makes me want to cry #and i need so much and it's past midnight and i'm so tired but it needs to be at the post office before noon #okay i'll not start rambling now about my shite job perspectives and depression and non-functioning brain #but i am going to put in a lil paragraph about how i'd like to be self-employed maybe but never will actually do that cause yk. #untreated adhd. i'd be bankrupt before I'd even start #okay I'll get something for my headache and then I'll get back to it #okay bye good night whatever bye bye #mine #upset vent noises #don't mind me sometimes you just need to vent a lil because you're tired and overwhelmed and depressed #and for the paper due tuesday idek wtf that shit is about #i someone has tips or advice please lmk

[generic-internet-name]

i hate you recipe blogs i hate you advertisements i hate you videos that play automatically i hate you life stories before recipes i hate having to keep a device open while i cook. i love you physical recipes i love you cookbooks i love you handwritten recipes i love you printed out recipes i love you handwritten notes and conversions and doubling math i love you worn out books i love you recipes with smudges and tears from how often they’ve been used

#my 1 advice for cooking is to use physical cookbooks #or to print out or copy down recipes that you like to have a physical copy #you can make notes on it you're not being advertised at and it just feels better to me #and i love exchanging recipes with friends and even if it's just a picture it's so much more personal to give something real #with notes and stuff #than a link to a website #also it's really fun to look at cookbooks in bookstores #that's the end of my cooking rambling for today #unless someone wants to ask me about my favorite cookbooks cause i will go on about them

[antstarion]

oh stars save us. save us save us save us save us🙏🏻

#oh cosmic hourglass #GUYS #guys guys guys #do you ever feel like you’re out of time #its okay because this is the birth of something new #gripping the sink. knuckles white. THIS TOO SHALL PSS #PASS #WHATEVER #the protostar will become a star #it looks like time is running out but really the time is just beginning #thinking about gale talking about his last night alive #thw orb. what a great representation of always living in fight or flight mode #ive always said that at my worst i feel like i could just die at any moment and gale made me feel so seen because of that #anyways i will continue ranting in tags because someone has to listen to my philosophy space gale random bullshit #stars amaze me so i will ask them questions #I want to believe in the many worlds interpretation simply because i want to believe in the possiblity of there being somethig better #in the past and future and whatever #maybe it should be wave function save us #ANYWAYS #if you read to this point i am personally sending you a printed out picture of a star

[solradguy]

not to sound like hannibal lecter over here but having your own Outrage, lovingly handcrafting it over months, and not being able to use it beat the crap out of annoying people? I bet that just eats you up doesn't it. sorry this came off sounding really mean. truly though it breaks my heart because you deserve to beat up people that bother you with a flaming magic sword. -🐇

Oh, don't worry, it is VERY sturdy. I could definitely swing this thing at someone if I wanted. The handle segment might pop off again, but the rest of it? Impressively durable. There are two approximately half inch thick all-thread metal rods inside it bound with washers, epoxy, super glue, and heat that melted the plastic together; then a thick layer of Bondo on the outside with more super glue, epoxy, and green stuff (a type of epoxy putty). Its only weaknesses are temperatures over ~160f/71c and running it over with a car haha

#asks #I'm not actually sure if this thing is convention legal. It isn't sharp at all but it weighs 10lbs #It'd be like swinging a giant hammer at someone #160f won't melt it but it makes the PLA soft and pliable. It doesn't melt until 212c (413f) #The filament I printed this with is a PLA/TPU polymer so it has the rigidity of your standard plastic but- #-TPU is more like rubber. Combined it becomes a strong plastic that bends instead of snaps #Standard PLA is very brittle. If you bend it to a certain point it shatters. This PLA+ will just bend unless you REALLY force it #My only regret wrt this thing's construction is that I didn't install the one rod up into the handle the whole way #That made the 'body' segment heavy with a lot of pressure between the 4 handle pieces and it #It's not enough that I think it would be worth the effort taking it apart and installing a third rod though (which is why I didn't) #It just gives it a concentrated weak point that I need to be careful about but the epoxy made it solid as hell #I'm not very concerned about the handle popping off again unless I try to snap this thing over my knee or something #WHICH TBH WOULD HURT MY KNEE A HELL OF A LOT MORE THAN THE OUTRAGE LOLLL #Bringing up the construction of the Outrage activates me [positive]

[icehot13]

here to report that sexism is still alive and well on the jobsite despite the groundbreaking “men/women at work” sign out front!!!!

#my new foreman is incapable of addressing me????? #i asked him a question and he walks over to SOMEONE WHO ISN'T EVEN WORKING WITH US #AND DISCUSSES IT WITH HIM IN FRONT OF ME #WITHOUT EVER LOOKING AT ME????? #AND THEN WALKS AWAY #poor dude on the ladder is like 'uuuuuh... i can.... walk you through it?' #no ben if he wants me to do it he's gonna have to speak to me like at all #dude showing the other two journeymen the wiring and prints WITHOUT ME #LIKE???? #the first thing they did was COME ASK ME FOR HELP BRO #what the fuck???? what the fuck?????? #i cannot adequately explain how it feels to ask a question #and then have him walk over and speak to someone unrelated about it #why are you asking ben how it fits???? i am the one???? who saw this problem???????? #i am the one installing hte boxes??????? #you unlock a new emotion: rage confusion

[leviiackrman]

can you explain why you think people would wanna buy merch of your ocs

I’ve asked a question for that exact reason. I don’t know if people would want to!!

Asking never hurts and selling original art is the start of a business (which is what I am) so I’m genuinely just asking. It’s also not uncommon for people to sell merch of their ocs, hence again why I’m asking in the first place.

#misc: asks #misc: ​anonymous #I know my moots and I often talk about each others ocs like their our kids #so if someone sold prints of their oc I would totally wanna buy them!! but don’t know if that would apply in reverse #love how when I ask a general question tho I always get an anonymous ask lmaoooo

[tj-crochets]

I'm asking anonymously, but would you be willing to trade a plushie for a crocheted plushie? 👀

Maybe! Depends on what plushie you want and what plushie you want to trade for it

#ask away! #I did not think my 'art trade plushies' plan through #because I did not think about the fact that people who follow me on tumblr are generally people who also like plushies #and the ones that want to do art trades...might also make plushies #and I love art trades! but the net quantity of plushies in my house is not going down as much as I thought it would lol #this is not aimed at you nonny I am genuinely delighted by art trades I am more just laughing at myself for not thinking of this #Also! if someone out there binds fanfic I would 100% be willing to trade for printed copies of some of my fave fanfics #I'd have to do some research to find which ones are okay with that but honestly I have so many favorite fanfics that at least some of them #probably have approvals written in the author notes lol

[destinyandcoins]

when the professor was 5 minutes late to class for the midterm today and i joked he'd canceled the exam without telling any of us, i didn't actually expect that to be the case and yet here we are. apollo's dodgeball has never rebounded so quickly before

#i mean he showed up and said there were printing difficulties and he was postponing it until monday so not really canceled #and not like he forgot to tell us and just didn't show up #but STILL #you can tell he's just Done. #someone asked about the essay portion that was due tonight at midnight and he just said ''screw it just have it to me by sunday'' #syra's school adventures

[blobbei-art]

Last post about this but here’s some sketches I drew at comic con! Mostly shitty pictures cause I took them at the con and I don’t have the originals anymore haha

The last two were commissions!

#comic con #comic con stuttgart 2022 #comic con stuttgart #art #my art #sketch #professor sada #pokemon #luke triton #professor layton #so i drew the luke as a commission example #in hopes people would talk to me about professor layton bc i sold out of the clive print people had been talking to me about up until then #AND THEN SOMEONE ASKED TO BUY THE LUKE SKETCH #which is fine by me its just so funny it lasted like an hour #people are desperate for layton fanart huh #also i drew a genshin impact character for that one commission #i know nothing about genshin #and so we asked random genshin cosplayers who came by for advice and they told us all about the lore for scaramouche or whatever his name is #that was really wholesome actually

[theolddivorcedzukka]

⬇️ i drew us running away into the forest together btw

[ID: a simple cartoony digital drawing of two people in a forest. There are trees with flowers and bushes with berries, as well as flowers and butterflies all around. The people stand near a fallen log and smile. End ID.]

!!!! OMG SLAVA THIS IS SO CUTE I LOVE IT SO MUCH 🥺🥺🥺 i love your fit and also omg my eras movie outfit….bwuh……what if we made this image a reality? let’s go to the forest together 🫴

#asks #sup3rparas1te #one thing about me is that i always get excited when someone draws me which isn’t very frequent but it’s still like woh that’s me and u #fave #i might print this pic but then my mom will be like ‘huh?? what’s that’ and as always i won’t know what to say