Hi everyone, I hope you’re all doing good and staying safe during these turbulent times!
I’m all good, slowly but surely finishing up university stuff from home. However, as some of you might know, for these past few years I’ve been funding myself with a weekend job hosting karaoke, doing bar competitions and trivia nights and DJ:ing. Which, under the current situation, will all be on hold at least for the rest of the spring. While I’m overjoyed about not having to hear another drunken and finnish accent interpretation of My Way in the near future, this will impact my wallet in the long run.
Luckily, however, this also means that I have more time on my hands to jump back into drawing again! I am also opening up sketch commissions, so please feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you’re interested.
You know what? I’m tired of having all my Jovier shit gather dust in a junk folder. Here ya go, three people checking the tags. Just don’t repost and we’re cool.
(Last pic was a collab with kawaiibooker‘s fic Through Fields of Green on AO3)
Glad to announce that until the fuckaroos who keep reposting and gaining an audience with my art learn some basic manners, I’ll add this professional watermark to every single stick figure I’ll post.
(Seriously though, don’t repost art. Even if there’s credit to the original artist and it might seem that reposting is giving them a bigger audience, don’t. Artists have no idea what is going on with the reposts, who sees them, re-shares them or who comments on them. I’ve had voice actors sharing my fanart with the signature cropped off while the reposter gets the credit, I’ve had a full blown “shipping is bad” thread with hundreds of messages and lord help me, voice actors again chiming in under reposts of my art. I wanted to hide under a rock, I was so embarrassed and pissed reading all that. I post my art with the intention of it reaching a specific audience, who in return are welcome to follow my stuff if they want to. Reposting takes all that control and traffic away from me. Contacting the reposter usually leads to rude replies and blocks, and a lot of sites are actively making it harder and harder to report reposts, especially if it’s cross-platform. It’s shitty, sucks a lot of energy out of artists, and tbh really discourages making new, free content or participating in fan or art communities at all. So please, just don’t.)