Hello and welcome to my very random blog of inspiration. I'm a 23 year old freelance artist so feel free to send an ask or check out my art at www.ericabottger.com or ericabottger.tumblr.com.
Nick Bibby lives and sculpts in Devon, a county he loves, and one which provides constant inspiration, from it`s rolling green fields, it`s many rivers and woodlands, to it`s stunning coastline and high moors via
I just did a quick perusal of the Coptic resources on this site, and it has all the resources I’ve personally found worthwhile and then some. These are resources that took me months, if not years, to discover and compile. I am thoroughly impressed. The other languages featured on the site are:
Akkadian
Arabic
Aramaic
Church Slavonic
Egyptian (hieroglyphics and Demotic)
Elamite
Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
Etruscan
Gaulish
Georgian
Gothic
Greek
Hebrew
Hittite
Latin
Mayan (various related languages/dialects)
Old Chinese
Old English
Old French
Old Frisian
Old High German
Old Irish
Old Norse
Old Persian
Old Turkic
Sanskrit
Sumerian
Syriac
Ugaritic
For the love of all the gods, if you ever wanted to learn any of these languages, use this site.
Likely helpful for various recon-oriented polytheists.
redgryphon asked: I was recently contacted by an art book publisher asking to put my work in their new publication. However, I would have to pay to put my art in, and a google search did not give me much more info. This seemed sketchy, so I declined, but I know that ADs look through art books for artists. Is paying for exposure the norm among the books you peruse, or was I right to turn down their "offer"? And if it IS normal, how much do they usually charge?Thanks!
Pay-to-get-in books are relics of pre-internet days, when the only ways ADs knew you existed was to have a physical piece of your art in their hands. These books were pretty much just a bound pile of advertisements — it didn’t matter if you were good or not, just that you could pay to get in. Now these books have been pretty much replaced by the internet.
Don’t confuse these with juried contests & annuals. These are still very much in use. You can tell the difference because you can’t pay to get published — there may be an entry fee for the contest, but you have to be chosen to get in. And the jury will be announced and should be a big draw from pros and ADs. Books like AI-AP, Spectrum, Society of Illustrators, Print Regional Design annual, ADC, TDC, etc are all juried contests and still used as sourcebooks. For every genre/industry there are professional contests in high regard, so ask around. They should have a good reputation.
If someone asks you to pay for publication, does not have a jury, and none of your peers has heard of them, then it’s probably not worth your time.
I’m glad to finally unveil the frame realised for my piece “The Rise”. This frame is the result of a collaboration between many talented french craftsmen.
“The Rise” will be included in the upcoming 13th International ARC Salon Exhibition, which will consist of 89 Contemporary Realist works selected from over an original 3,750 entries from 69 countries and is the most prestigious realist art competition in the Americas and perhaps the world. The ARC Salon Exhibition will be on view at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., New York, NY from September 21st—October 2nd, 2018 with the public opening event on Saturday, September 22nd from 11am to 3pm. Entry is free. The exhibition will then travel to Sotheby’s, Los Angeles where it will be on view from December 4th—December 13th, 2018 with the opening reception on December 4th from 6pm to 8pm. The show will then travel to the MEAM Museum, Barcelona, Spain from February 8th—March 31st, 2019, with the opening event and award ceremony starting at 7pm on February 8th. To learn more : https://www.artrenewal.org/13thARCSal…
Artist : Yoann LOSSEL Model : Psyché OPHIUCHUS Frame : coordinator / coordonnateur : Mickaël OURGHANLIAN Cabinet Maker / Ebeniste : Jean-Claude LEGLISE Turner / Tourneur : Jean-Renaud SCORDIA Design, patina and gilding / Design, patines et dorures : Yoann LOSSEL Leather Plate / Plaque de cuir : Belfea ARCHERIE
Letter K for the long forgotten #endangeredanimalalphabet #series : The Kashmir musk deer
The Kashmir musk deer is an endangered species of small fanged deer native to the Afghanistan, india, and pakistan regions. This deer is one of 7 similar types of musk deer that are endangered due to habitat loss and because of poachers hunting them to death for their scent glands that are used in perfumes and rumored to be an aphrodisiac .
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While looking up photos of endangered animal it’s not uncommon for me to find photos of dead animals for whatever I’m researching but for this one… I found hundreds of ebay listings for parts of this endangered animal. It was awful. If you have time I would encourage you to go on ebay to report any and all endangered animal parts being sold.
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In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously bad house for Vox.
Update: I’ve gotten a lot of nasty emails about how I’m lazy and entitled for…(looks at smudged ink on hand)…working hard at my job to pay off my debts.
In the Italian city of Verona, local street artist Cibo paints colorful wall art full of appetizing food over neo-nazi graffiti (x)
“It’s my civic duty, and my right … honestly I feel like have a right to cover [erase] these kinds of things. Since I’m doing a public form of art, I have to take care of my city and … it’s like my own art gallery. How do you explain a swastika to a child? How do you do it? It’s impossible. It’s a racist message. And it’s not okay .”
A little snippet of how I spend my breaks. 🌱🌷🌿 #art #digital #flowers #summer #nature #illustrator #digital #procreate #pretty #butterfly #floral #arte #sketch #artist #process #video #drawing #purple #IMurderFlowers
Michał Sawtyruk is a freelance digital artist from Warsaw, Poland.
My main field is illustration but I also like making my still images move from time to time. Involved in productions for companies such as:Dream Works Animation, BMW, Roof Studio, Platige Image, Ars Thanea, Axis Animation, The Sequence Group, Quartz, Aggressive, 3d Total.
Came across a little blue fool in #Alabama while collecting fossils in January.
Also found some mississippian #fossils from the Bangor foundation: bryozoans , #blastoids #brachiopods #coral and some sweet #hash in stone form.
#painting #gouache #fossil #fossilhunter #paleontology #whyYesIAmANerd #nerdy #blue #crawfish
Anonymous said: Dear DADs. Do you have any good resources about cultural appropriation vs appreciation when it comes to illustration? I'm becoming more and more obsessed with this notion of how a white guy can respectfully paint a black woman/ young girl in a fantastical Han Dynasty China etc. I'm not looking for answers, and obs don't know yall's backgrounds/ethnicities, so much as other places you might suggest I turn to to tackle to topic. Thanks, -Drawing Stick Figures
Great question! This has been a hot topic and the point is not to make artists and authors scared to depict cultures (and genders and sexual...
Anonymous said: Hi, ADs. This time of year there always seems to be a ton of big, serious art challenges going on for fantasy art. I've also been doing smaller weekly challenges, run by artists working in the industry I want to work for, as a means of practice for real deadlines and "real" work. Thoughts on these types of things? Do AD's actually pay attention to these? Would it be held against me if my portfolio update for winter consists of mostly/all pieces done for these challenges(tailored of course)?Thnx!
#MerMay, #JuneFae, #Inktober, #MonthOfFear, #MonthOfLove, WE LOVE THAT SHIT. ADs are constantly checking in on those tags. I think there’s even a...
