River Monsters

The Dinosaurs

I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to do art for Dinosaurs vs. Beasts early this year for Scholastic by way of Becker&Mayer! book producers. I was tasked with doing 22 different prehistoric critters, many of which I had never drawn before under a pretty tight deadline. It was extremely difficult to get everyone done in time and I had to paint up 11 of them in a week. It was such a satisfying project that I learned a ton from. I hope you guys get a kick out this, its one of the biggest projects I’ve taken on and I’m pretty proud of the result.

This has been a confortable place to me over the years. But sadly if the main community is gone, I don’t see a reason to stay.

Here’s some other places to find me!

Twitter!!!

Instagram 

Furaffinity (more active)

Inktober!

Day #1: To be hunted

And they are getting even more strict when it comes to not using invoices for charging for Digital Goods.

Whatever Invoices make you uncomfortable or not, you gotta start using them if you want to keep your PayPal and your money. Changes starting this October 19th.

Honestly I don’t get why so many artists are so overwhelmed by invoices, takes just a few clicks to set up. 

And is not only “oh you have to use invoices because PayPal says so” if you don’t use invoices you’re putting yourself at risk of being scammed by an user abusing the buyer’s protection. 

Since PayPal ain’t got no idea of what those $50 you received were for, but the buyer is saying they didn’t got anything for the money, PayPal will just side with the buyer.

I’m seriously begging ppl, start using invoices. I’m tired of seeing ppl complain their paypal was banned, or is under investigation, or worse, the $100 they got for a very complicated commission, 3 months later get a refund issue. 

just

start

using

invoices

for your own sake. 

Here is how you use invoices because I can’t keep playing devil’d advocate, yes I would love to help you get your PayPal restored but just this last month I had to help three persons, and they were MORE than aware of this issues. 

Just protect yourself. 

Step 1. You login and click here

Step 2. You click create new Invoice. YOU NEVER CLICK REQUEST MONEY, unless you want to risk yourself to get scamer by buyer’s protection exploit and not only lose your money but your paypal account, and any future paypal linked to your irl name. 

Step 3 You follow this steps

1. Invoice for amount only

2. Ask your client for their PayPal email and put in that field

3. Add a vague description of what you’re doing, something like “Character Coloured with Background” is good enough, and if you need more than 1 character you can type in “2″ where it says amount, or just say “2 characters”.

Warning: don’t type in “Naruto rawing Sasuke”. That will get you banned. 

4. Click send. 

Optional steps. Create a template, doesn’t take more than 10 minutes and it will save you a lot of time for future invoices, you can even click on “items” right next to “create invoice” and add a list of services you offer such as “character sketch” “character flats” along with a price, so next time you invoice you just add to the invoice from your list of items and you saved yourself some more time. 

More importantly, you protect yourself from buyer’s protection exploit because if PayPal knows you’re doing digital goods, then you will be allowed that you did in fact created a digital good. 

Keep PayPal happy, as for right now there are no alternatives to this service, and this is the only source of income for many freelancers. 

SO go to the invoice (i think this can be done BEFORE the buyer pays?? Didnt try myself tho, i did it after it was paid), and click on VIEW DETAILS in that first box 

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click ADD TRACKING INFO  (YES COUNTER-INTUITIVE AS BALLLLLS.)

of course HERE IS WHERE YOU'RE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS ON PROCESSING DIGITAL GOODS. HIDDEN BEHIND A BUTTON YOU WOULDNT PRESS IF YOU WERE, SAY, TRYING TO SELL DIGITAL GOODS. Select Order Processed/Service Rendered

My memory is wicked bad, so I’ve always been paranoid about forgetting that last step of invoicing or the ToS changing again without me noticing - so here’s a little extra level of redundancy you can do to cover your ass. Save a template invoice, that all future invoices are based on - and in the additional info field, put a clear as hell disclaimer of “This invoice is for digital goods/services only, and as such no shipping details apply”.

Finally made some new prints from my last show~ Really happy with the color quality and the textured fine art hahnemuhle paper. Also $5 off for all the new prints at my store through this weekend~ you can find the link under my profile ✌️

(FINALLY got the spino scanned!)

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