Gonna post this one on it’s own away from my other blog u v u Paprika Sinclair who is a assisant/secretary of a monster office business.
(Photography from marn-i-magery & Kylie Hope Photography)
(Text submitted by anon)
Problem 160: Nature II. This is the first time my bunnies, Nigel and Nora, have appeared in an Animal Problem!
UNUSUAL HOARD commission for rumpelstiltskinsgold - “nightmares” as in idea is really broad and abstract and theres a Little Somethin For Everyone in this mess
I just… I cant’t wait to see them togethER AGAIN– a very… quick… doodle…
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I just saw a torrent site that had more than a thousand illegal downloads of my Photoshop Megapack … in 24 hours. Seriously, how many people use Photoshop out there?! I mean, of course I’m upset, but I’m equally baffled by this number - I didn’t realize that many people had an interest in making digital art. It’s nuts.
Artists stealing from artists. I can’t understand it.
And I am always afraid to raise my already insultingly low prices BECAUSE I am afraid of more piracy. So, what am I supposed to do here?
The sad truth is that I either DO need to raise prices to make up for the gross number of thefts and keep my income stream from diminishing (which would, of course, make them less affordable for students and young pros), or I need to completely change the business model somehow to somehow fight piracy. I don’t know how to change it, exactly, but since piracy of my products has been steadily increasing every year since I started, I need to figure something out.
Final thought: If just 5% of those people had bought legally, I’d have made $750 today. Okay, okay - that thought will definitely not improve my mood.
If you are a victim of piracy of your creative products, and you have some thoughts on this topic, I welcome them in comment form. Also, if you agree that this behavior is disgusting, and that we artists should be supporting one another, rather than acting like cannibals, then PLEASE REBLOG. Perhaps, if we make a little noise, it will at least make people reconsider using torrent sites when they realize that working artists are behind all of the creative products they love: music, art, film - all of it.
Thanks for reading.
- KyleI own every one of Kyle’s brush packs and paid for every one of them.
If you consider yourself a creator, PAY FOR THE TOOLS that a fellow creator spent time and effort to make.If Kyle doubled or tripled his prices, I’d still pay for them because they’re WORTH IT, but that would sadly just make piracy worse, because apparently WAAAH I’M POOR or LAZY apparently means people feel entitled to something for nothing.
No. Pay up or cope without until you can.If you are, in addition, a PROFESSIONAL and have stolen Kyle brushes, then you are a disgrace and should know better.
I’ve also bought some of Kyle’s brushes and I love them. And I absolutely intend to purchase more. Please support fellow artists, folks. They work hard for the things they love, and they deserve to be paid for it.
Getting friends in to musicals is hard because when they ask what it’s about you have to be like “15 year olds having sex” or “a plant from outer space that takes over the world” or “teenagers killing people for fun” or “Alexander Hamilton”
“7 minorities deal with crushing poverty and the looming specter of death by being a dick to their landlord”
“Sesame Street, but like… for adults”
“This one time in the 1830s a bunch of college students decided to fight the entire French government and…it didn’t go very well.”
“A nun and a retired naval officer fight Nazis with cute kids and the power of song.“
“A couple of guys stage the first-ever musical, and William Shakespeare is kind of a dickwad.”
“A transwoman rock singer recounts her escape from East Berlin in a case of WORST TIMING EVER.”
“It’s based on a John Waters movie…no not Pink Flamingos.”
“It’s the Bible by the guy that did Cats. No, no, it’s like…really angry.”
“Even if you’re struggling with finding your place in the world, you shouldn’t let a group of actors convince you to set yourself on fire.”
“Have you ever wondered how many people have tried to kill the president?”
“How to get away with murder, the speakeasy AU.”
“A only marginally accurate recounting of the opening of Japan to the west, with experimental musical styles meant to imitate the consequent shifting of Japanese culture, told with as little recognizable plot as possible.”“It’s about how trains probably feel.”
“It’s a guy who’s, like, excessively single and all his friends are married and kind of invasive about it, tbh.”
“Fairytales. And it’s actually dark as fuck.”
“Cannibalism”