I have never read a more excellent article

Ah, great article, and not just for Japanese (or other foreign fandoms)! It explains so well why it's backwards and how random these moral high ground claims are.

Unfortunately, it may have started in America, but it definitely spread too. I was harassed people by various nationalities. :')

Like Maromi said: block and don't interact with antis. (Antis should do the same: block and not interact so intensively and obsessively with content they despise. :/)

My favourite advice from it is that you should keep creating what you like freely and honestly. ;u; Avoid people who will shame you for it and let the people who like your creations find you =).

a belated birthday doodle for @anticiajk !! thank you for being the lovely creature that you are, i am very happy to know you!!!

sort of inspired by this one fic by @failedintsave that I'll link down here QwQ💕

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leone Abbacchio/Bruno Buccellati Characters: Leone Abbacchio, Bruno Buccellati Additional Tags: Language of Flowers, Pre-Relationship, Pining, Secret Crush, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Alternate Universe - Historical, Butler AU, DTIYSbutlerAU Summary:

With the gardens in bloom, Abbacchio recollects a secret means by which to express something he can’t bring himself to speak.

My submission for @anticiajk flower language DTIYS for their incredible butler AU 

This is so lovely, I'm impressed with how many little details there are in it so organically, and how well historical language is applied, and I love their banter to bits! >u<

As a reader, as a writer, and as a fan I can’t think of a single website that has given me more happiness than Archive of Our Own. Thank you so much to everyone who works so hard to make it such a wonderful place. 

Today is realy good day to reblog this.  

Yupp, there are times when I feel the need to go there and I ALWAYS find gems that sooth me, comfort me, cheer me up, excite and inspire me! I REALLY love that site and very grateful for its exsitence.

ATTENTION ARTISTS: Need help calculating your commission prices?

A tool that I’ve found is really handy is a called the Cash Clock. It’s a simple program that measures both the time that you’re working on a piece as well as how much money you should be earning. You can adjust the hourly wage to whatever you feel is right. Simply start the clock whenever you begin working on a project right up until you’re finished. It can give you a clear indication of what you should charge for commissions.

No artist should make below minimum wage for their artwork.

The Cash Clock is found as a download here. 

My art tumblr

My deviantart

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE THIS INSTEAD OF CHARGING PEANUTS FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK. 

Please, please, please at least make sure you’re making minimum wage.

Please stop lowering the pay floor for independent artists everywhere by thinking $5-10/commission is anywhere close to an acceptable rate for something you spent three hours on.

Officer Brady is getting tired of this sh*t.

AHH, it actually happened to me once. XD I was up on some rocks high up, in the middle of the city (where you are not really supposed to go but there was no fence or signs saying “don’t climb to the edge” or anything), reading a book to uplift my mood and it WORKED - I felt AWESOME! 8D Then came the militia and took me down, and because I was so relaxed with all the perspective I had earlier they thought I’m on drugs. XD; They eventually let me go and told me not to do that again. (I was kinda disappointed that they didn’t took me to the police station after all, at last something INTERESTING happened in my ever so boring life. My parents probably wouldn’t have found it as funny though. XD)

Hm, I see what you mean. I think the main problem with your struggle is that you aim for body parts in the first place.Let me elaborate this:

Whatever you need to draw, you need to think of proportions, and anatomy in the first place. In order to learn how to draw bodies, you need to in fact, start drawing bodies. (TA-DAAA)

Draw from life.Like.A LOT.Fast ,really fast sketches.Have a small sketchbook and draw people. Most of these will look like shit (yeeeiii). And then a little less.And less, until you reach to a point where you can be “satisfied” with what you are doing. 

Don’t be let down and don’t finish and polish your drawings when you are doing life drawing. You need to capture anatomy, gestures, motion etc(depends what you aim for).  It’s a phase that is difficult to stick to, but it rewards you in the end trust me.

And don’t think that when you get more experienced you change it.Basically loose drawings are crucial to start anything.Here the process of a frame from my webcomic (sorry for the gore image).

The first one is not even a drawing for crying out loud:P It just helps me set it up and work it from there. And it’s a close up, so you see no matter how zoomed the image is, the anatomy is there. I am awful at explaining stuff, so I am not sure whether this helps or not. But whatever you do, keep drawing. And show me your sketches as you go along, I’d love to see your progress. <3

Every now and then I need to remind myself of this. We all can be that other person.

Mediocore

the worst feeling about trying to draw is being a mediocre artist. You realize you’re not terrible and family and friends who can’t draw at all tell you all the time how amazing you are, but you, as the artist, have seen what amazing really is and you realize that it isn’t you.

Yet, one cannot give up the hope that one day, ONE DAY... they will be amazing eventually! By hard work, constant learning, practicing and being open-minded. :3

So true

people who criticise girls for their favourite characters being male in tv shows and films with predominantly male casts where the male characters are given significantly more depth and screen time than the female characters

Ah so true, kinda hard to find female characters in depth. Usually one has to fill in the gaps when they like women in movies/books/comics - they use their fantasy to improve, upgrade the shallow representation and see things into it. And yes, I'd pick anytime a well-developed male char over an underdeveloped female, I prefer personality over genders.

Awww YISSSS!!! I do believe this is the best way to do any fanstories (or originals as well) - for your own self! I feel the same. ^^

Btw I really love Navydream's stories and I also admire the way she deals with people, fans: she puts enormous amount of time to answer everything, with incredible patience and politeness but also very clear about her point: she does what she wants. I love that as well~ <3

☆ Love Me ☆

This Leonardo & Michelangelo Pairing Anthology has just been released!

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Oh gosh, I completely forgot about this one in the big rush and all, sorry~! Thank you, Momo for your hard work on these anthologies, this one is especially dear to me! ^^

Commissioned character redesign of PagodaComics's Enkou

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YAAAY you finished it! Thank you very much for taking on it! Haha you gave her boobs, now her dreams have come true! XD

And I really love this little extra animation, it makes me want to make the Enkou version of it! *o*

七転び八起き (nana korobi ya oki)

Yep, exactly how I feel when it comes to my works.

Pretty much.

Some quick commission sketches I did for the last couple of days. I offer them on DA for  200 points or 1€.

Quite fun! :)

WEEEE, I decided to celebrate in succeeding to get a nice job recently and commissioned Saniika for a Tatsu and an Enkou for a quick headshot sketch. It is the top 2, I love them soo much! X3333

And girl was that fast, woah, like a few hours later! *__* And it also came just in time to cheer me up, I was in a very aggravated, miserable mood yesterday (as the previous post might suggest XD;). So thank you very much a lot! ^w^

yo so i owe people some mail and  im thinking, hey why not make my trip to the post office more worthwhile and send other people things too

i made a post asking if people’d be interested and some were (bless) but since i only intended to send 10 for now, i decided the fair way to do this is giveaway style?? (first come, first served dont do nothin for the timezone problem i realize that now)

if you want a postcard of probably one of the things i’ve made here (or you can request a graphic) or just a random postcard it’s rly up to u, then i can mail ‘em to you with a little note and whatnot (maybe i’ll send one with a mix cd who knows)

i’m doing this when i pass my last ever requirement so the ~reaping~ will be on april 4, 2014 so yeahyeah see ya on snail mail? (because sending mail is rly fun u should try it. i’ll prob do this again if people still want it yeah)

Though I'm not the lucky type with "giveaways", I give it a go. We'll see. ^^