The Cave

Pythosblaze, Beastofoblivion/crispyfishsticks, Black-Wing24, and Lynayru

Okay I’m done blogging about dragons now. You may return to your text posts.

I love finding new awesome artists.

Benwootten and Akeiron on deviantart

Aw yiss.

(Source: nebezial.deviantart.com)

I guess we’re gonna have a dragon appreciation post night.

Nambroth

Look at this shit.

It’s good shit.

Lhune

Art things I will never be able to do correctly: blind contour, typography, horse ears.

Never.

My paper topic sounds like the beginning of a bad pick up line

Let me tell you about my horned serpent.

It is literally rock hard.

amazinglyartisticadvice:

rampaigehalseyface:

sketchlock:

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eyecager:

Protect your art career by Stephen Silver

Stephen Silver (born August 30, 1972 in London, England, UK) is a British professional artist, cartoonist and character designer. He is best known as the lead character designer for animated series such as Kim Possible and Danny Phantom.

yup

Do not take this lightly. Get a contract and expect a deposit. I’ve made next to nothing my first two years out of college and a lot of that was due to the fact that a few companies and independent clients literally stole money and time from me.

Do not let companies or individuals take advantage of you. Do not take speculative jobs that will only pay you if the completed project does well. They are looking to get free art from someone who is talented but wasn’t taught the business of art. Do not agree to be paid less than minimum wage for your skills (and that’s for labor. don’t forget to factor in cost of materials as well). You are a professional with marketable skills and deserve to be treated as such. Do not sign away all your rights to an image because that $50 looks really good right now.

You have a responsibility, if you want to be a professional artist, to learn about copyright laws and publication rights. You have the right to demand a client respects your abilities and rights as an artist. If a client has a problem with that, that should be a red flag that they are not worth doing business with. Any client worth their salt will be happy to see a contract (it does protect you both) and will not have a problem with compensating you for your work.

Artists need a guild….

As an illustrator, I just want to let other illustrators to know that, freelance or not, your time is worth $45-$60 per hour. You’re a fucking specialist and one of the most common problems artists have is underselling their work because we live in a world where employers expect art students to work in fucking unpaid internships, which devalues the whole market and is absolute bullshit.

Why did I decide to become an artist and not something useful like a plumber or an arsonist?

I could win at arson.

40 minute landscape study…I could’ve done more but I got bored. Story of my art career.