Literally Most Things That People Write Off As Justtextures To Use In Graphics Are Stolen & Unsourced

literally most things that people write off as just ‘textures’ to use in graphics are stolen & unsourced material created by artists or photographers NOT meant to be used as elements in projects without royalty payments. you can say ‘it’s just random tumblr posts they don’t care’ but you wouldn’t want someone to take your work and edit into their work so they can be praised for their beautiful style and creativity even if they just post it on social media w/o profit, would you?? so maybe if you browse pinterest or google images for pictures without finding the original source, you’re using images that you’re not allowed to use without realizing it.

you see it on here a lot especially in (i won’t link anything but i’m sure you know what i mean) those album track ‘aesthetics’ posts, au ‘aesthetic’ posts (you see these less in kpop, but where people use non-royalty free images to kinda craft a visual au), and even just rather typical graphics that have a lot of ‘texture’ elements. and texture packs too!! that’s often where the problem starts; people just collect images (often literal art), compile them in a folder w/o sources, then insist no one can repost those images w/o crediting the person who compiled them. what???

SO may i suggest some of my fave places you can get FREE, ROYALTY-FREE elements that are totally legal to use

creativemarket has 6 free high-quality resources (textures, brushes, fonts, etc), different every week! wow awesome i check it every week

search ‘freebie’ on behance. awesome stuff!!! lots of v nice templates textures and fonts

mockup zone freebies

unsplash: tons of very nice free photographs, not shitty stock photos

pexels: same idea. + they have an adobe plugin so you can get photos without closing your editor damn nice

pixelsquid is a super cool free program (again w a ps plugin that i love) with lottts of super cool hq 3d elements!

as to not make this too long: spoongraphics, lostandtaken (textures galore), pixeden, freebiesbug.

For those of you that like everything neatly organised, here’s links to EVERY ONE of my first 150 how to THINK when you draw TUTORIALS, in ALPHABETICAL ORDER for #SkillUpSunday! Enjoy, link, pin, share! Cheers! Lorenzo! How to draw ANGRY EXPRESSIONS How to draw BIRD HEADS How to draw BOOKS How to draw BOXES How to draw BREAKING GLASS How to draw BRICKWORK How to draw CABLES and WIRES How to draw CAR CHASES How to draw CATERPILLAR TRACKS How to draw CAVES How to draw CHARACTERS (3-SHAPES) How to draw CHARACTERS (FLIPPED-SHAPES) How to draw CHARACTER SHAPES How to draw COMIC COVERS How to draw COMPOSITION How to draw CROSS-CONTOURS How to draw EARS How to draw FABRIC How to draw FEET & SHOES How to draw FEMALE HANDS PART ONE How to draw FEMALE HANDS PART TWO How to draw FOREGROUND MIDGROUND BACKGROUND How to draw GAME BUILDINGS How to draw GEMS and CRYSTALS How to draw GIRL’S HAIR How to draw GRASS How to draw HAIR (1940s styles) How to draw HAPPY EXPRESSIONS How to draw HORNS How to draw HORSE HEADS How to draw IMPACT DEBRIS How to draw IN 3D How to draw INTEGRATING LOGOS How to draw INTERIOR BASICS How to draw IN-WORLD TYPOGRAPHY How to draw JUNGLE PLANT CLUSTERS How to draw JUNK HOUSES How to draw LAMP POSTS How to draw LAVA How to draw LIGHTNING and ELECTRICITY How to draw MECHANICAL DETAILS How to draw MUSHROOMS and FUNGUS How to draw MONSTER HEADS How to draw MONSTER TENTACLES How to draw MOUNTAINS How to draw NEGATIVE SPACE How to draw NEWSPAPERS How to draw NOSES How to draw PERSPECTIVE BOXES How to draw PIGS How to draw POD HOUSES How to draw POURING LIQUID How to draw ROBOT ARMS How to draw ROCK FORMATIONS How to draw RUNNING FIGURES How to draw SAUSAGE DOGS How to draw SEA WEED   How to draw SHADOW COMPOSITION How to draw SHOULDER ARMOUR How to draw SIEGE WEAPONS How to draw SILHOUETTE THUMBNAILS How to draw SMOKE EFFECTS How to draw SNOW How to draw SPACE BIKES How to draw SQUIRRELS How to draw STICK FIGURES How to draw THE HORIZON How to draw TIKI STATUES How to draw TREASURE CHESTS How to draw TREE BARK How to draw TREE ROOTS How to draw VEHICLES How to draw VINTAGE PLANES How to draw WATER How to draw WOODEN HOUSES

happy new years!

here are all the pokemon gijinka adopts ive drawn so far up until this point. cant wait to do more next year! thanks for all the support!

don’t let strangers emotionally manipulate you on the internet

(legitimate trigger warning for suicide threats and the like)

in a small departure from our usual content, we wanted to just give our followers a heads up in case any of you ever happen to deal with “autumn anon” – aka yellowninjaleopard. the only reason we found it relevant to do so is because we’ve noticed her targeting other blogs now, and we fear for what will come of the kindness of those bloggers (particularly if they happen to be young and ill equipped to deal with emotional blackmail).

this should go without saying, but don’t harass autumn anon. don’t be a dick. just ignore, or at the very least be wary. it seems that autumn anon is a girl in her teens, so please take that into consideration.

we’ve dubbed her “autumn anon” because she constantly spams us with asks about her oc, autumn (and occasionally, her oc, jasmine). as she was on anon, we made a public post asking her kindly to stop spamming our inbox, which you can see here. as a result, we received a disproportionate response, in which she tried to guilt trip us. we’ve tried blocking her over and over and over, but she finds a way to evade our blocks and continues her crusade on our inbox.

here’s a very small glimpse of some of the asks we’ve received from her since those previously linked posts:

beyond that, she keeps coming to my streams to harass me and anyone else just trying to watch in peace. she constantly makes new guest accounts to evade bans. we convinced her to make a tumblr account so that she could post to her blog instead of spamming us, but she just did both instead. 

we tried ignoring her for months, then we asked her to stop, then we started an open dialogue hoping to convince her to stop, and nothing worked. now we are back to trying to ignore her, and it’s at the point where we’re receiving stuff like this for not responding:

autumn anon (aka yellowninjaleopard aka leah) also does this thing where she rps having a twin sister called laura. laura is her excuse to be malicious and cruel to people while taking zero responsibility, saying everything is laura’s fault. also, she’s threatening to make a murder-suicide pact with her alter ego “laura.” i wish i was kidding.

so we thought if we just ignored her for long enough, she’d go away, but things are progressively getting worse and worse.

she told us about her youtube conversations, which proved she’s been harassing someone who hasn’t responded to her for at least eight months. eight months. she claimed she was this person’s best friend because they rp’d in youtube comments sometimes. that person has since vanished off youtube and no longer uploads videos.

it’s bad enough that autumn anon is still uploading videos asking about the “best friend” in the descriptions.

may 13, 2018. 

normally we wouldn’t care too much what a teenager does with her spare time, but to say autumn anon is persistent would be an understatement. she lies, she guilt trips, she manipulates. she threatens to kill herself if you don’t reply to her. if you refuse to accommodate her, she’ll accuse you of putting her in the hospital because of “stress fever.” if you ignore her for any length of time, she’ll repeatedly send messages which get progressively more distressing. what we’ve shown above barely scratches the surface.

we were going to keep this all to ourselves, until we noticed that she has started contacting other content creators. we’re concerned she will contact people who are susceptible to emotional manipulation or suicide mentions. nobody deserves to have this kind of stuff thrown in their face over and over.

what you choose to do with this information is ultimately up to you. just be wary, and don’t give in to her threats and the fact that she holds herself hostage. this is manipulation. this is cruel. this is completely without any justification.

Tiny Dangerous's Object Head Tutorial (With pictures!)

Hello all! I’ve gotten quite a few people askin how I went about putting together my head for a recent costume I did at Anime Iowa 2014, so I figured I’d make a tutorial for it! More under the cut!

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Please read this if you want to make a sick boy happy. Lorenzo Snippe is a 9-year-old boy from the Netherlands who is very sick. In 2016 he was diagnosed with leukemia and in 2017 with x-ald. On the third (3) of February is his tenth (10) birthday, and it will probably be his last. Because he can’t get any visitors due to being so sick, his parents have asked people in this news article to send him a happy birthday postcard as soon as possible. 

If you’re able to, please send him a postcard wishing him a happy birthday and tell him where you’re from! If you can’t, please reblog this post to make sure it will reach as many people as possible! His address is: 

Prinses Wilhelminastraat 22 

7753 TM Dalerpeel 

The Netherlands 

He really loves animals, so it would be great if you could send a postcard with an animal on it or something like that! 

Don’t send him or his family rude things and don’t use his address for other things than described in this post!