Give Core MembershipThere's a frustrating element I've noticed lately in regards to Art. "Art with a capital 'A'", as a friend of mine calls it. And I suppose this blog was triggered by the cancellation of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan game Fighting is Magic. The fandom lost its collective shit because Hasbro sent the developers a Cease and Desist letter. The entitlement was just amazing to watch, and even worse was the sheer ignorance. Some of it stupid, like "Technically, all fanworks are parodies, so it's not illegal!" and "Copyright laws are so stupid!" to cruel, like "They can just take their development overseas, then Hasbro can't stop them!"
I was baffled by this. Because Hasbro had the right to protect their intellectual property.
See, I've been a freelance artist for a while now. And it's hard. It is so freaking hard, and part of the reason it's hard is because the default attitude of most people you deal with is, "We're not, like, going to pay you a lot. Or give you i
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Basically, since moving to an appartment of my own and some of the compounding issues that came with that (no internet for a while, a computer that could play games I haven't played in nearly two years, no space for setting up my scanner as yet) my heart's not been into working on Second Draft. I've not really gotten anything done since I moved in, and so when a bit of a health scare (nothing serious, but detrimental to getting anything done) happened on Tuesday, I realized that I don't really have the motivation or stamina for finishing OCT pages, much less working late hours to try to make up for lost time. So I'm bowing out of the competition.
I apologize to my opponents that have been putting a lot of effort into their round and the tournament hosts for this.
I apologize to my opponents that have been putting a lot of effort into their round and the tournament hosts for this.
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Hey there, Lanky asked me to make a few modifications to Astis' character design. He said you'd be cool with it, so here's a peek:
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Thanks! But yeah, my recent foray into that Bill Nye/Ken Ham thread reminded me that I need to avoid it =I
