TEN TIPS TO BECOME A BETTER ARTIST

Posted on August 29, 2018 by C.A. Jacobs

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And I don’t mean better as in making prettier pictures. You can do all of this AT YOUR CURRENT LEVEL OF SKILL.

1- Go over all your drawings and stuff, may they be on paper or computer. Select the ones you like. Separate in piles: best work, cool work, good idea, need to be worked on. FINISH THEM.
2- Print them. With a good color printer, no margin (cut them yourself if necessary). Put your favorites in frames (dollar store has a lot, buy document and diploma frames for 8,5×11 pics). Go to Staples if you don’t have a printer. Don’t forget: with bleed margins, gloss paper.
3- Make a paper portfolio. Nothing big or complicated, just a binder and clear sheets. Travel with it. When people ask “Oh, you’re an artist? What do you draw?” You’ll have an example of your best work to show off.
3,5- If you need to make something professional, put it together on Photoshop and bind it, with cover page and everything.
4- Get an online portfolio. Yourname dot com. Go to sites like Wix.com to make it look professional, or get a friendly neighboorhood graphic designer to make it. Good art needs good presentation. Ask a professional.
5- Make calling cards. Your name, your dot com, your email. A detail of your best drawing. Leave them with people that seem interested.
6- Get a professional facebook page so people on there can follow you. With a catchy name (mine is Talhi Design). Very important if your family and school friends are there. Make them follow you. They’re proud of knowing an artist, never forget your first social circle. Keep them updated and interested in what you do.
7- Tumblr, twitter, facebook, etc are your friends. Get accounts in what you’re comfortable. All under the same name if possible.
8- Make accounts on sites like Redbubble or ArtofWhere or others like that. Upload your designs. Spend a couple of days doing that at first, and them upload once in a while. You’ll never know if a design will sell if you don’t put it up for sale. Even if you only make a couple of dollars a month from them, it’s always more money than nothing.
9- Your doodles, bring them all, take the best and make a doodlebook. Everything is good if you give it the right presentation.
10- FINISH YOUR STUFF. May it be drawings, comics, anything, THE BEST KIND OF WORK IS A FINISHED WORK.

tl:dr

THE BEST KIND OF WORK IS A FINISHED WORK.

THERE ARE TWO KIND OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. ARTISTS LIKE YOU, AND PEOPLE WITH MONEY. DON’T WORRY ABOUT IMPRESSING ARTISTS, IMPRESS THE PEOPLE WHO’LL BUY YOUR STUFF.

PRINT THEM. BIGGER THE BETTER. GOOD GLOSSY PAPER. NO MARGINS.

PUT THEM UP FOR SALE ON THE NET.

PRESENTATION IS EVERYTHING.

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Remember to take it slow with the frozen treats

Legitimately tried not to laugh and failed about 2 seconds in

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Posted on August 28, 2018 by C.A. Jacobs

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Hate it when something comes out that’s so close to the thing you’ve been writing it’s like why even bother?

Write yours anyway. Two things that are awesome is better than one. Yours will not be like theirs. 

Two cakes analogy.

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Posted on August 27, 2018 by C.A. Jacobs

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New trend or trope I would KILL to see in sci-fi novels:

Rich industrialists fund space travel and gain the means to leave the planet and colonize Mars to leave a ‘dying/depleted’ Earth behind. Only the 1% have the means to afford a ticket on board the ships and ‘start fresh’ on the red planet in domed cities or whatever.

And then with the people most responsible for destroying the planet and depleting its resources gone, the remaining 99% of people ‘left behind’ on Earth construct new socialist societies, implement clean energy and redistribute the existing resources while of restoring the planet’s renewable resources and healing the damage done by pollution and irresponsible waste management.

Cut to a few hundred years later where Earth has a thriving population on a thriving planet that is not at all the doomed and dying and ‘used up’ place the Mars colonists thought it was when they left for the planet they’re still attempting to terraform so they can step out of their scattered little bubble cities that don’t allow for any real growth, innovation or exploration.

Earthborn character to a Martian: “Guess the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, huh? Oh wait, you guys still don’t have grass over there yet, do you? Whoops, my bad.”

assuming Mars society hasn’t collapsed in on itself when a bunch of billionaire entrepreneurs discover they don’t have the skills to plump a toilet

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Posted on August 27, 2018 by C.A. Jacobs

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my hot take as someone who has experienced the lowest of lows in terms of severe depression and anxiety and executive dysfunction: the whole “not everyone is neurotypical karen” mindset is legitimately damaging and destructive and ultimately will make you feel worse and more isolated

eating well and exercising and etc absolutely helps with mental illness. obviously it’s irritating to hear that when those things feel like impossible tasks, i get that, and i’ve been there. but forcing yourself to eat better, to walk more, to get up out of bed and shower even when you don’t want to, those things help. they clear your head. they make you feel better. they absolutely do. getting there is hard, but once you do it, it does help

rejecting any kind of help, even the most benign suggestion, from someone who is trying their best to think positively for you and shoulder the emotional burden with you, is going to make you feel worse. it’s going to make you feel that much more cut off and lonely and frustrated. i have isolated myself and ruined friendships with people because i chose to close myself off from people who were just trying to help and i convinced myself that they didn’t understand me and no one would ever understand me. what did that get me in the end? genuinely nothing. it made me feel even more alone.

in 2018 i encourage people who suffer like i have to see where people are coming from with cheesy self-care advice. they’re coming from the heart. and sometimes, doing a face mask or taking a hot bath or eating a nutritious meal or getting up to watch the sunrise or even just one yoga class can make you feel that much closer to the person you want to be. a lot of recovery from mental illness is “fake it till you make it” type shit. so don’t reject even the corniest advice because you are convinced it won’t help you. sometimes it really does. and you shouldn’t keep denying yourself even the smallest of victories because you feel like it’s easier to wallow in how bad you feel. it is so difficult to do good things for yourself and your body, but it is so rewarding

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Millennial Sisyphus keeps entering all the information from his resume into the web form, only for it to delete everything when he tries to move to the next page. He just goes back and types it all up again, over and over again, forever, and he never gets a job.

Millennial Tantalus has been promised that his unpaid internship will become a paid position as soon as the company has space for him. Every week he sees their new job posting. Every week he asks his boss if he can have a real job. The boss shrugs apologetically and says he’ll just have to make do with being paid in experience a little longer. He goes back and keeps working, over and over again, forever, and he never reaches the fruits of his labors.

Millennial Persephone can’t get a job without a degree, but because she had to take out loans to pay for college, she must spend 1/3 of her life working just to pay them off.

Millennial Cassandra’s title is Social Media Coordinator, she was hired to be the expert, but every time she tries to explain the problems in her company’s social media decisionmaking, the managers don’t listen…and end up hiring expensive PR flacks to repair the damage to their reputation when things blow up exactly as she predicted.

Millennial Medusa uses multiple shades of primer and opaque foundation to cover the scars snaking across her face, hiding the bruises, aligning the asymmetry in her broken nose and jaw. Red matte on the lips, green shimmer on the lids. Flawless liner on the first try. She’s had lots and lots of practice. She films her transformation in secret for all to see and learn, and again, men are turned to anonymous stone faces screaming in horror. “Liar!” “Witch!” “Take her swimming on the first date!” These words do not discourage her. These words are a challenge. GlamGorgonXx posts another video.

Millennial Prometheus uploads another PDF to his site. He’s lost track of the printing and edition of this textbook. He knows they just rearranged some of chapters then charge 150 dollars per copy, and the professor wrote the book himself. the ZIP fills uploads successfully, and he starts uploading the next one. He isn’t afraid of the potential lawsuit. knowledge shouldn’t held out of reach like this. 

Millennial Circe screenshots all the lewd messages she gets from men on online dating sites and posts them on her very popular Instagram along with their pictures and usernames. When people accuse her of attempting to destroy their reputations, she insists she’s just revealing them for the pigs they truly are.

Millennial Odysseus is starting to suspect there’s something wrong with his GPS…

Millennial Arachne is competing for a raise/promotion with a Baby Boomer with mediocre skills but 35 years of seniority. She sinks her savings into night classes, running for weeks on four hours of sleep plus coffee, getting every damn certification they demand of her, and whips her coworker at the performance review…so the coworker pulls strings with the boss (her husband’s golfing buddy) and Arachne is exiled to a dead-end department will she will gather cobwebs for the rest of her miserable career.

millenial zeus fucks

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if thanos wanted to kill off half of the population because there weren’t enough resources……..but then snapped half of the vegetation and animals (according to the russos)……..then isn’t he back at square one……………and there aren’t enough resources for the population……………

what about……..all of the empty and abandoned planets……..he couldn’t have restributed populations there? or like………..what about endangered species they’re pretty much gone now thanks to T Hanos…………..he really didn’t think this through………….

this is deadass what part 4 is gonna be. like he’s gonna realize “huh…. maybe this wasn’t a good idea” and reverse time.

Or he literally could have just doubled the resources

Maybe I’m wrong but all he would need is the Space Stone to teleport and  redistribute resources + life. But I guess killing half of all life made more sense.

Or he could’ve just created more planets and teleported the halfs but a bitch is too dumb

He can throw a moon for a fight but teleporting some resources is too much work?

He can change reality but he uses it to fake his death and do a power point presentation?

He has the time stone, in which he could literally go back in time and save his home planet ….not by killing half of them …but by using these new powers?

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