frontierre's fanart

　 ✯ ☆ ✯ 　motivational miyu monday !　 ✯ ☆ ✯

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Pinterest is a site that benefits from stolen content and makes it particularly hard to get stuff removed. I gave up trying because I spent hours reporting hundreds of posts there and it took them weeks to remove them, and then people just uploaded them again and were still uploading while I was waiting for results. Pinterest also fucks with google’s algorithms so when something is placed there, it will actually REPLACE the original source in search results. Many of my works that were stolen for products/sale happened because someone put it on Pinterest with no or little credit and someone found it that way. 

If you find my work on Pinterest, please just tell the poster that they’re being a shithead (politely) but don’t tell me about it anymore because it just makes me depressed and tired.

All those posts you see of young artists charging $3, $6, $10 for a drawing because they need help? That’s fucking exploitation, and fuck you if you think it’s reasonable or a “good deal" to pay nickels and dimes to squeeze a full-color original drawing out of some talented, hardworking kid because things are tight, and they can’t afford their textbooks. Or food. They sure as hell can’t afford to make you art for $6.

Instead, stop. And ask them where you can donate. If you can afford a $6 drawing, then you can afford to spend $6 simply to help someone. You don’t need internal organs as payment.

And if someone claims something that took you an hour to draw isn’t worth at least around $10 per hour of work, dont listen to their bullying. To the non-artist, its hard to see the worth in art especially if they didn’t put 10, 5, 2 or even 1 years of solid effort to get to the level of artistic ability there are today.

If the person complaining is still unhappy with the price despite that reasoning? Well let THEM make their own drawing themselves and spend the $10 elsewhere. GL to them getting the level of artistry you have without those years of experience they put behind them!