Second Contest Entry For Minxs Current Cintiq Contest. Virtues Last Reward, Minx/Sigma And I Tried To

Dear Tumblr,

All those posts you see of young artists charging $3, $6, $10 for a drawing because they need help? That’s fucking exploitation, and fuck you if you think it’s reasonable or a “good deal" to pay nickels and dimes to squeeze a full-color original drawing out of some talented, hardworking kid because things are tight, and they can’t afford their textbooks. Or food. They sure as hell can’t afford to make you art for $6.

Instead, stop. And ask them where you can donate. If you can afford a $6 drawing, then you can afford to spend $6 simply to help someone. You don’t need internal organs as payment.

Don’t allow young artists to be exploited.

This one took the longest out of all of them to make, because of those cards for one, rendering so many rectangles really hurts the hands I gotta say....

I also will most likely post like process pics of these since I've learned to start doing that recently...after years..8'D (due to computer issues taking away hours of work to full images or just bad luck in general haha)

Submission 3 (I was barely able to upload due to tumblr errors, was stressing horribly. and am not sure if those errored submissions went through)

For Cards Against Humanity, this took around 30? hours, lost track but have been working on since I found out about the contest.

Cards annoy me now haha, it killed my hand. Still not as rendered as I wanted but I’m content.

Whenever I see these card games I always think of it in like some floaty dimension. :D

Also “Cards Against Humanity” sounds like the ability to destroy humanity with weaponized magic cards so that kept popping in my head.

I am highly interested in the paid position, 24 years old, US, Colorado, freelance artist.

Finally uploading *something*... I love Xenoblade X, it has everything I can possibly love in it. I have been working on this picture far too long. Few months? (started to actually save progress pics since I realized it may be beneficial for many reasons, such as files corrupting, haha.) I am way farther ahead than this but realized that It takes me so long to get noticeable progress so I will show things closer to when I am actually semi complete. (it looks nothing like these so far, if you seen all the wips it is such a weird mess) I will most definitely be drawing more of this game 83

ether undyne or muffet (tbh i want you to do them all but i know that would take atleast a year without doing anything else ;n;)

Yeah, it takes quite a long time to sculpt but hopefully in time while I'm still inspired by the game I can do 'em. I have a lot of Steven Universe stuff I'm working on still with more I wanna do in general.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The funny thing is the characters that keep popping in my head to sculpt are Undyne, Muffet and Sans, sure there are a ton more but my mind keeps wandering to them more than the rest. 8D~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~if anything I might just invest the time to make these three. c:

soo-da replied to your post: I feel so weird cause I have no clue w...

Join the lnc-69min challenge!! ;DDD this week’s theme is rpg and you have till the late night stream to complete ;DD I think it’s something causal and fun

It does seem fun for sure ;v; I just have never actually drawn anyone else besides cry from the lnc, I will see if I can come up with something though.

Wips

(This is making me sad, this post isnt showing up in any tags no matter how I search, so reuploading it in hopes it shows up)

I honestly really like Final Fantasy XV, Finished it about two weeks ago. I had to make some sorta fanart for it after Cry started playing it. :D

I have no clue the time taken, only I have drawn this during every stream video and then some.

I couldn’t think of which Regalia design to put so I put the one that was more memorable haha.

Also sup guy is a moogle type plushie.

Sorry for not uploading much in so long.

Bigger version on my DeviantArt (Krystami) as I think putting a link is messing it up.

Never blame your fans

I know many of you artists - whether you draw, write, or compose - are frustrated that your original work, especially your dream projects, aren’t getting the responses you were hoping for.

I feel the same way.

But some of you express your frustrations completely destructively and blame the world for not giving you the spotlight.

When you do that, you’re blaming your problems for existing rather than adjusting and compromising to solve them. You’re making excuses for your mistakes. You’re demanding the world to change but you are not willing to change with it.

This is the perfect mindset to NEVER succeed in anything, ever.

You need to accept some basic truths of art before you can go any further:

Your art should teach you as much as or more than it teaches others: If you claim your art opens horizons and widens minds, yours should be the first priority. You cannot speak without listening. You are not a righteous prophet enlightening the heathens with the true word. You are one humble person and your art is one humble person’s story.

There are no new stories, but there are always new storytellers. That amazing idea you have that nobody’s ever thought of before? Someone has. But nobody has told the story your way, or drawn the character your way, or sung the song your way. Art is not about being new. It is about being you.

Popular art is all about the beholder. All these shows and games with so much fan art? They got to that level because they command a personal investment from and serve the viewer - they have worlds their fans want to be part of, and your canon will be swept aside along the way. You the artist are not a god or a wise sage. You are a guide and a footman. To be an artist is to be humanity’s servant, not its lord - and there’s no shame in that.

Most of your fans are not artists or art critics. While there will be a good number of them in your fanbase, the vast majority are not going to be super-open-minded creative thinkers who value every single opinion, outlook, and story just because it’s done technically well. They will be ordinary people with ordinary, selfish interests, and they will care about your content more than your talent. You have to balance what you want to draw with what everyone wants to see.

But the most important part of being an artist or really a person at all is to understand this:

Nobody owes you success.

Nobody is under any obligation to pay anything you produce a second glance or support or promote it in any way.

Nobody is spiting or robbing you by not giving you a like or a reblog or a follow.

Every single gesture of appreciation you receive from someone is a courtesy - a gift that you earn, not a right you’re entitled to.

It is not the job of your audience to love your work. It is your job to make it lovable. And just because you are working really hard does not mean you are working in the right direction.

I know that thousands upon thousands of artists put hours or months or years into a project and feel like they get nothing in return. Sometimes it is not how hard you’re working but what you’re working for that is the problem. 

Sometimes you need to slow down and think, “Do I have to have this just so? What would the kind of person interested in my work be looking for, and where can I address it? Am I maybe taking myself and my work a little too seriously?” 

And a lot of artists don’t realize that as an amateur, you are the sole proprietor - you are your art. Whether people like you determines whether they like your art.

And that’s why when you blame everybody else and post ungrateful, catty garbage like this:

… you don’t subsequently become the next Toby Fox.

The simple fact is that people will pay you attention if they think your offering + your hassle are worth their attention.

You need to create a world that someone other than you will have fun in and you need to be a good host to everyone who visits. 

You need a world that will welcome your fans with open arms.

You need to build a world people can live & play in.

And you and your world need to appreciate your fans just for showing up.

Because this is exactly what the big fish do.

because they spread your work around to more people without shanking you on credit and who gets the likes

because they make your work show up sooner & more often on searches and are simply a nice gesture

because they take time out and pay good money to listen to your story and make you from a pauper into a prince

because if you appreciate no one, no one will appreciate you, nor should they

Oh hi 8'D

I haven't been on lately due to severe depression and life issues.

I am just on now to say that I forgot what my password to Tumblr is and the email I used for here..

I am only logged in on my phone and MUST reset it so I won't be logged in anymore.

If I can't get back on here for whatever reason, you can find me by the name Krystami on facebook or @krystame on twitter. (I have other sites I am on, just not as active.)

I am not planning on leaving and hope I can get back in T.T cause I used all my main names I like on here and would rather not have to start from a bare account again.

Sans progress.