Sharing my ko-fi again! I have a new sketch commission available on there y’all can check out, which I’ll be trying to post a separate link to if it’s possible.
My prices are cheap, but does become expensive the more complex the add-ons are for my current skills.
literally. when i joined tumblr when i was like, 14, i had no goddamn clue how this site worked. i didn't understand reblogs, and i couldn't figure out how to tag my posts correctly so all my tags got jumbled together "kindalikethis".
but i saw that i could leave replies on people's posts. so, i'd search the name of my fave show/things i liked, and when i saw a post that was neat, i liked and replied to it. and, usually, got replies back (usually from the op). i had whole conversations in the replies of posts. i'd usually follow the poster soon afterwards, and after i noticed the ask box, began to send asks as well.
within a month, despite initially not knowing how to reblog or how the site really worked, i'd made about 10 friends, and had a dash constantly covered in new posts that i enjoyed. around this point i really figured out how reblogs and tags worked, and i was off to the races, dragging in more followers and friends.
all of this, without an algorithm. i never needed one. and neither does any new user.
it might feel disheartening to get not as many responses at first, or for your dash to feel quiet, but you just got to keep trying + learning. don't just give up immediately when your post only gets one note or you go 30 minutes without seeing anything new on your dash. if you wanna have a good time on this site, you gotta make an effort to adapt to it.
When I made my account last year I felt pretty intimidated by the layout but I learned relatively quickly what every button does and the options it gave me, and let me tell you:
Tumblr is so easy to use, like, actually easy, at least at basics.
I first learned what the buttons were for, made a few posts just testing, went on the search tag to see how people here interacted with the posts and just did the same.
I totally get people getting intimidated the first time entering Tumblr, I don't get giving up so fast
You learn with time, if you don't give it time and a bit of dedication/interest then you are not going to learn anything
Alright, so I think I’m starting to understand where I’m able to spend what little artistic energy I have. It’s just tweaking older projects like this one here.
Looks like Oceaneye is getting her whiskers back and getting Lynx proportions for her paws. I took out Blackhide because I want to not only redraw her, but also draw her as an adult so we can see how big she is compared to Oceaneye.
Still using Monster X for scale.
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I run out of spoons for my usual art. End up doing just fine updating an animation that’s been in the back burner since the week of the Nimona movie’s release.
I don’t know why I’m like this. I just know I feel exhausted and somehow I still manage to do animations even it’s like normal drawing. But with way more drawing involved.
Just got back to this today to add some frames for the hair, mouth, and eyebrows. Hoping to eventually get to line art.
To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:
A post in 2023:
A post in 2014:
A zoom out of the same post:
See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.
It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.
Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.
If you want more of something, reblog it.
Something I see mentioned often is "I don't have many followers, my reblog won't matter" which is untrue.
First of all, reblogging, commenting and interacting is how you start gathering your own micro community, second of all— you literally do not know how far a single reblog from you could go in the long run.
For instance, let's say you only have one person reblog from you, and that person only have one person who reblogged from them also, and so on, and somewhere ten reblogs down the line a very large blog reblogs it and boom, the post is getting more and more exposure!
You see, it does not matter if you don't have a large following so long as you cultivate a micro community with the people you do enjoy interacting daily with.
As you can see in the second picture I added, most of the reblogs were between very small groups of people, and occasionally it'll lapse into a large blog that would create a bigger reblog pool. BUT STILL. Saying that you don't have many followers and so it doesn't matter if you don't reblog is UNTRUE.
Even if someone just randomly wanders into your blog one day, it's beneficial for both sides because A. Seeing you reblog content they like might be enough for them to follow you B. They would be exposed to new content creators they didn't know previously and might also follow / reblog from them!
So yes, do not underestimate what your reblogs and words mean, just because you're not 'big' or whatever. It is not how tumblr works!!
P.S IT IS NOT CRINGE TO REBLOG 10 YEARS OLD CONTENT ON TUMBLR. YOU SEE IT. YOU LIKE IT? REBLOG IT. DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU DIG IT FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL ITSELF. XOXO :'D <3
Id love to see y'alls takes on what your fun band outfit would be! :) The stuff I described is only a guideline, go as nuts as you want! Your dream self indulgent funky band costume!!
this design was ai-generated and posted on deviantart with the purpose of sale, but ai-generated images aren't intellectual property, so now it's yours! free-to-use.
using tumblr mobile and seeing people talk about a desktop layout change is like hearing a timer suddenly start ticking down. I am safe for now but I hear the danger
You have no idea how many people lurk on your work. No idea how many times people go back to revisit your work. How big they smile when they simply think about your work. How fast their heart beats, how excited they get when they see that you posted something.
People are shy with their feedback. Sometimes it’s because they’re simply shy. Other times it’s because they assume you already know how great and talented you are. Could be both.
My point is, even if you barely have any likes or reblogs, don’t get discouraged. You have a lot of silent fans, but they are still your fans. Keep on creating. Because there is always someone out there who will love what you have made.
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Something's been bugging me, and I assume you've thought this through, I just want to put my own mind at ease: The whole reason for this blog is because ai art is theft (which it is), but in that case, wouldn't anyone who uses these designs be stealing from the same artists the ai are?
my take is, you can't unring a bell. we can't unsteal the art that was scraped to create these designs, and we can't get it removed because dA has already decided that it's fine to host ai content.
the whole point of an adoptable is that it's a design which is sold so that whoever purchases it has sole rights. i think if ai art has to exist (since it's not just something we can push back into the ocean), it should be something that is free for everyone, due to its inherently derivative nature. you shouldn't be able to make money off of it.
the goal is to be a little mischievous and make it annoying/difficult for these people to make money, because it's immoral as fuck to make money off of something that's not yours by rights (due to being built off stolen art). the best way to do that right now, in my opinion, is to take these designs that are being sold, and draw it, and lay claim to it. this makes it clear that the designs can't be sold, because whoever is buying it can't get sole rights (as it's not intellectual property), and also any prospective buyers should just take it instead of giving money to these people.
i don't think us doing this hurts the original artists any more than they've already been hurt. the offense has been made, the original art has been stolen (scraped by ai), it's being sold, and the platform it's hosted on sees no issue with that. i would hope that us trying to make something of these designs & make it annoying to sell them by making them a free resource would help the original artists more than it would hurt them further.
this is more or less just us doing what we can to try and make it annoying or difficult to make money off ai adoptables, and point out how shitty it is to buy these designs when you could just take them. i've already seen some "artists" on dA say that reposts are annoying to them, offering to remake designs for people who bought them, so i figure we should compound that annoyance by making it something that more people can do.
on a brighter note, i believe that there's something inherently transformative when a human sets out to create something. so, the real stars of this process are the ai rehabers-- they're making something entirely new out of all of this in a way that ai can't.
ultimately, i don't know if this blog is the best possible solution, but i do think it's the one we can do right now, to annoy people who are doing something shitty, while hopefully not annoying the injured parties too much more in the process.
this design was ai-generated and posted on deviantart with the purpose of sale, but ai-generated images aren't intellectual property, so now it's yours! free-to-use.
A little shocked I have to say this but please don't feed my work, my writing or my art, to any AI for generative purposes or otherwise. Generative AI is theft, and innocent intentions are not an excuse. I'm not going to explain why generative AI is bad, many artists and writers have already done that much more eloquently than I ever could. Do your own research. I work professionally in art and have been deeply personally impacted by AI, and seeing AI versions of my characters is deeply upsetting.
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Already knew I could Frankenstein my way into making a new posible model in Poseit, but it’s only now I figured out how to use them for posing.
Tfw your new furry OC is both a dog and a fox, but the design isn’t complete, so you just draw over a picture of screaming foxes to also remind yourself.
yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll 😔
Reblog if a mutual who's never spoken to you can randomly send you memes that made them think of you.
