Respect Artists - Tumblr Posts
Sometimes it’s very obvious when the person just wants free art of their ocs.
Let me make this clear, I don’t mind people making ocs for Space Riders, in fact I encourage it, however, what I don’t appreciate is people making it and think they’re ENTITLED to me drawing their ocs (that are sometimes obviously tracing my art work) into the comic. That is not how I function, the more you ask? The more I’ll ignore your request
I’m not an artist but I’ll reblog this so others can see because respect damnit
A note to all creatives:
Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.
No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.
We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.
Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.
And they especially are not scabs.
*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.
I used to hold this belief that the arts were worthless, until I actually grew up and realized that stories and art are as a part of humanity as breathing is. If anything, my degree in telling magic electricity filled rocks how to do math is kinda the extraneous one, since we lived for THOUSANDS of years before computers were a concept, and art has been practiced since before we started *farming*
People love consuming the arts, but many hate the training required to create the arts. Not every art degree is created equal, but the connections you make and the experience you gain can be invaluable.
I'm not saying every artist needs a college degree for every aspect of creating art, but art is not always created solely by performers.
Perhaps there is an actor who was self taught and got a lucky break, but the cinematographer capturing that actor needed years of training. They are literally camera scientists AND visual artists.
Maybe that punk band you love only knows four chords and just screams into a microphone, but the sound engineer recording their music probably has a college degree.
Here is a video of the sound engineer for a Hamilton production.
He uses an amazing blend of technical and artistic skills to make sure the show sounds perfect during every performance.
Check out his college degree...
“Author of 25+ best-selling Pride & Prejudice variations”
Yeah, no.
Wait till they hear about monthly manga
This out of touch entitled assholes doesn’t realize manga artists have fucking died because they were overworked
And you know what if I have wait a year for new chapter because I know the artist health wise needs to recover so fucking be it. Need artist to push their hitaus everytime some numbnuts complains about waiting.
Who the f u c k do I have to teach a lesson? Who the h e l l thought it was okay to mock an artist, someone providing them with unlimited and f r e e fucking content during these trying times? Which foul mouthed little s h i t do I gotta beat up behind the school so that they can grow up into a half decent attempt at a human being? Who?
Who?
You should never, ever, have to be ashamed to make something you like. Your art is yours. Its for nobody but you. If some prick doesn't like it? Or thinks that somehow they're ""better"", than they can taste that block button and the underside of your shoe.
They don't like it? That's okay. Everyone has opinions. They chose to be malicious about it? To you? For making something nice? That by all means and regards would be content for them? They don't deserve anything other than absolute banishment. You can make Kyman if you want. You can make ANY ship you want. If they can't respect that, then you shouldn't have to listen to them bitch. You deserve bettter.
….i found out someone reblogged my art to make fun of it…
… i dont think I’ll draw kyman again… some kyman fans are extremely… mean spirited…
…i feel horrible.. having someone openly mock my art is really…
…i’ll remove the kyman picture… im sorry… i wont draw anymore kyman… please don’t mock my art………