Get Weird With It

I am finally done designing the crew. Now I can actually draw them doing stuff.

Introducing Tristan, cousin, roommate, and co-worker to Camry (and also housemates with Joan). I tried giving him a Y2K look. You’d think with him being a hedgehog, frosted spiky tips would be the best but I could never get them to look right.

A set of quick colored sketches of Matonne again. Really helped me to get my creative juices flowing again and experimenting with poses and expressions.

[Image Description: Seven drawings of a brown anthropomorphic character with the ears of a rabbit, tail of a lion, and legs of a horse. She is in a different pose and outfit in each drawing.

[In the first drawing, she is slowly walking and wearing a turquoise tank top with the letters SD on it, colorful floral leggings, flower earrings, a flower bracelet, and a flower on her tail.

[In the second drawing, she is running and wearing a pink and white t-shirt, a pink triangle patterned headscarf, and pink triangle patterned leggings.

[In the third drawing, she is walking with her eyes closed and wearing a black dress with sunset-colored stars on it, a sunset-colored bow on her tail, sunset-colored eye makeup, and gold jewelry.

[In the fourth drawing, she is laying on her belly, reading a book titled Duck Fails. She is wearing an orange plaid button up and brown pants

[In the fifth drawing, she is standing and looks angry. She is wearing a blue sports bra with the word “Boi” on it, blue shorts, a yellow, pink, and purple skirt over the shorts, and a rainbow scarf on her tail

[In the sixth drawing, she is sitting down and looking at her hands. She is wearing a red sweater with a silver heart on it and silver pants with a red stripe on the side

[In the seventh drawing, she is sitting and laughing. She is wearing a pink and blue vest over a spotted pink, yellow, and blue blouse, pink and blue pants, round gold earrings, pink, yellow, and blue eye makeup, and a spotted bow on her tail. End of Description]

Exit Strategy - Murderbot

Alt version with a different quote and blood under the cut

Network Effect - Bharadwaj

My Society6 store for those of you who prefer it over Redbubble.

I highly doubt that I'm going to be or have been impersonated, but just in case, I am not taking commissions at the moment.

Scammer Targeting Tumblr Artists

The title says it all really. So if nothing else, please share and reblog this post to raise awareness for those that might be caught out - both artists and followers. For a TL:DR, please look at the bottom of the post

What is happening?

Right now, there is at least one person actively impersonating multiple artists across tumblr in an effort to scam their followers into paying for fake ‘cheap commissions’. The scammer will clone a tumblr, usually using a slight change to the url/account name to look like the real deal. They will then message people directly through Tumblr with messages along the lines of “Hey, i’m doing cheap commissions right now. DM me to get one”. Naturally, this is ends up just being a way to take their money without giving anything back in return.

Who does this affect?

Everyone. Simple as that. As long as the scammer in question works unopposed, they are free to spread their influence and continue to scam more people. Even if you haven’t been targeted yet, it does not mean you are safe or immune. Several artists have already fallen victim to this scammer, and I encourage any artists that have to reblog this post with the details of their affected account(s) and the ones the scammer has set up.

How can we stop this?

Tumblr, like many other social media platforms, seems to care very little about ‘minor’ occurences like this one, and despite reaching out directly to them over a week ago through multiple avenues of contact - they have refused to comment on the situation, provide a recommended response for users, or take action on behalf of those already affected. Despite this, there are still tools at our disposal that we can use to make this scam more difficult, and to increase its visibility to those within Tumblr staff that are required by policy to take action. Tumblr has the following to say on the topic of impersonation: Confusion or Impersonation. Don’t do things that would cause confusion between you or your blog and a person or company, like registering a deliberately confusing URL. Don’t impersonate anyone. While you’re free to ridicule, parody, or marvel at the alien beauty of Benedict Cumberbatch, you can’t pretend to actually be Benedict Cumberbatch. They then provide a link to this online form that you can fill out if you suspect someone’s identity is being confused. Unfortunately, this can only be filled out if you are the victim of impersonation. In other words, only the artists can fill this out legitimately. So, what about the followers and users of tumblr whom aren’t being impersonated? Our most valuable tool in this online platform is the platform itself. It enables us to spread our word near-virally across all the many sub-communities on Tumblr with remarkable efficiency for a user-driven system. We can take advantage of that effect to increase awareness of the situation. Even if you - the one reading this right now - aren’t an artist or don’t know an artist, the act of reblogging this post or sharing it directly with friends improves it’s ‘ranking’ in popularity increasing its chances to be seen by more people. We don’t need everyone on Tumblr to see the post for it to be effective, just like we don’t need the entirety of the human population of the world to be immune to a disease for that disease to be rendered ineffective or eradicated. If enough people are aware, the likelihood of pulling off a successful scam increases dramatically reducing efficiency to a point that it no longer becomes profitable to continue.

Why should I care?

It disheartens me to say this, but of the many artists I contacted directly over the past week to warn about this issue many of them refused to listen or dodged the responsibility with lines like;

“I’m not being impersonated, so it doesn’t affect me”

“I’m just one person. I can’t make an impact”

“I need to take care of my community. Other people can look after theirs”

This is honestly disappointing that so many artists or art-rebloggers care so little as to intentionally wave the responsibility of keeping their followers and fellow artists safe from this, that they cannot spare 10 seconds of their time to share an informative post. I’m not here to bash artists, but it is time that everyone takes responsibility for their own communities, and of those around them. Artists: You have a responsibility to ensure that your followers and fans aren’t being abused by someone who may impersonate you. If they succeed, your reputation will be damaged, and your followers will resent you. Your followers are also almost guaranteed to be following other artists meaning your efforts can spread beyond your own circle of influence, so don’t be naive when you think you have little effect. Followers: You have just as much responsibility to be aware of those that might try to scam you or your fellow followers. Don’t just sit in silence when you see something wrong: Ignoring the issue only makes it more resilient to our efforts to stop it. You are the vocal majority if you just use your voices to be heard!

TL:DR

A scammer is impersonating artists and scamming money from their followers under the guise of ‘cheap commissions’. If we ignore the issue, it will get worse. Every single person that reads this can afford to spend just 10 seconds to reblog and share this post. Those 10 seconds can save others from being scammed for hundreds of dollars. Reblog & Share

Gonna be posting some old drawings over the course of the next few days. Wanted to draw Alex in a crop top, but couldn’t decide on whether to put them in jorts or a suspender skirt.

First time drawing one of my pal @nerdwingarts‘s characters for ArtFight. The outfit was probably the most challenging to come up with (you can tell my expertise lies mostly with modern Western fashion) but I had a lot of fun just drawing those giant wings.

[Image Description: A colored sketch of an anthropomorphic brown cat with fluffy pink hair and wearing clothes. On the left is a full-body image of the cat from the side. On the right is a close-up image of the cat’s upper body from the front. End of Description.]

A little feline character I drew up to exercise my creativity muscles. Don’t have any ideas for him, other than his gender and appearance, but it was fun just getting to design a character with no set goal.

The PreservationAux team in All Systems Red, dressed in their casual attire.

One of the things I love about TMBD is how certain things are described with far less detail than you would expect, including the appearance of several major characters, leaving a lot of wiggle room for interpretation.

I did, to varying degrees, pull from the Subterranean cover for Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (Book 4.5) for the characters that appear in the illustration, but the information in the text was the only strict limit I put on myself.

Well that, and the colors assigned to each character. There’s no way I wasn’t going to give each of them a specific hue.

Just joined art fight with my bundle of furries.

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