I made some buttons for @monstersinthecosmos featuring Marius bein’ all smug. (AND THEN I WENT AND FORGOT TO TAKE PICTURES OF THE CARD THAT FEATURES ARMAND AND DANIEL…..) anyway, that means it is extra special hahahahhahah.
“Hey hiki why did you take shitty photos of these buttons with annoying highlights in the way”
good question, wish I had an answer for you, I really do.
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
ok guys. I’ve set up aRedbubble page. It sells prints, pillows, mugs, bags, phone cases and other stuff and now you can get some of that with my artworks on it, yay! 😉
The page is still a work in progress but I wanted to let you know that it’s happening. If you are interested in seeing any of my drawings from [#my fanart] or [#my art] tags – let me know, I will upload them and I will enable a product you want to get.
For now I uploaded a sample of my works, to show some topic range. I will proceed to upload more of them, but it takes ages so I will be doing it over the course of the next few weeks or by demand.
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