Stelard's Miscellaneous Crap

There seems to be some confusion lately.

Blurred lines between a bad website and bad people running it.

Tumblr is not a bad website, it’s just run by idiots.

We have to consider the base foundations of this website and how miraculous they are for artists who want to get noticed.

If you draw something really good, someone with more followers than you can reblog it and get all their followers seeing it, and then their followers reblog it for even more followers, etc. etc. etc.

I spent 6 years on FurAffinity trying to establish a fanbase, and I was quickly coming to a realization that I wasted my entire middle and highschool education practicing drawing and getting F’s in everything but art, and I had no other skills than art, and couldn’t make a living off it.

Enter: Lil Miss Rarity, a blog I made as a silly joke to take out my frustrations with FurAffinity and my lack of ability to support myself financially as an artist.

4 days later, Lil Miss Rarity had triple the followers of my FurAffinity blog, thanks to reblogs, comments, asks, direct communication and input to my followers.

Tumblr is a place where it’s extremely easy to pass a post around, get notes, get seen, and of course, make a living.

Tumblr is a website that through its most basic functionality makes being an artist and getting by financially as well as interacting with your fanbase EXTREMELY easy.

So while people sit there day in and day out, especially today, talking about how much this website is a shit-hole with no redeeming qualities

I just want to say, no website has what Tumblr has

Let’s take a look at how you get noticed on FurAffinity

1) When you submit art, it falls into a pool of every other piece of art submitted that day, and if someone is browsing that they might find it

2) If you tag your stuff people might find it in the search (Which, reminder, the search feature is NEW and didn’t exist for like a decade)

3) If someone favorites your picture and someone else goes to their blog and looks in their favorites they’ll see it.

THAT’S IT.

Tumblr, you go to your dashboard, start scrolling down, and see “Dingus-fringus-fanblog reblogged hoobastooba’s pic” and you’re like “Whoa that’s good art” and you click follow.

Until Pillowfort finally happens, Tumblr is the only website that functions that way seamlessly without being clunky and hard to navigate.

Because let’s face it, reblogs and asks and comments are wonderful.

And you know what else is wonderful? Being able to make text posts bigger than 250 characters so I can actually be specific about what I’m trying to say rather than having to turn this whole thing into one little quip.

And let’s not forget that I can toss pictures or videos in here.

Anyway this is my long winded way of saying

If Tumblr staff changes their mind, I will be staying here

I’m not leaving

I followed a bunch of artists on tumblr. Many of them would frequently post text stuff, or reblog memes, or other things I don’t care about as well as posting the content I watch them for. However, since the only way to be notified of a creator’s art posts is to be notified of ALL their posts and reblogs, I would end up scrolling rapidly through walls of text and the same images being reshared in hopes of finding something new. And I had to do it every day or the task became untennable.

Whenever I bring this up, people would respond with something on the lines of ‘So unfollow those people!’. That’s... not really a helpful answer. Not when it would have been simplicity itself to add features to the site code to make the consumer side more pleasant. Being able to filter posts from a blog you follow by tag would have been a move in the right direction.

I can totally appreciate the benefit reblogs give to artists, but I feel that having to time your posts to the active hours in the US in order to not get lost in the swamp of someone’s dashboard undercuts that somewhat. People are so used to doing that and ‘evening reblogs’ that they don’t see it for the inconvenience it is.

All art gallery sites like DA/FA need to do is let people choose to follow the favourites of users they like. Or hell, make it so new submissions go into a scrolling dashboard for your followers AS WELL as into their persistent ‘submissions by your watches’ table. Give each user a browsable, tagged, searchable gallery with folder support. Replace journals with posts on the same dashboard, allow reposts, and presto: you have a better tumblr, one where the idle scrolling is an option rather than the only way to engage with the creators you want to follow.

I experimented with some character drawing techniques.

It upsets me how inconsistent my drawings of Amira are (I even think about deleting some of them, they’re so bad). I decided I need to make an effort to both maintain consistency and give her a distinctive look.

(COM) Shopping Tour

Commission for J-T-D with his OC “Lessien” and my “Alice” Well what will happen if Skie and a Cowgirl which produces constantly Milk, in this case Lessien, go out for a all day long shopping tour? Skie would have a lot of Milk to drink and quite surely she would turn into Alice quite fast. The only question you should now ask yourself is: It’s still day time…what will they do later?

Me: “Yeah.”

Scam Artist: “Lemmie tell you all about this package! *lists off details for twenty minutes while I think of a fun way to tell this scam artist off*”

Me: “I don’t have six-hundred dollars, I have no money, have you heard about the wildfire in California?”

Scam Artist: “Of course I have, it’s all over the news”

Me: “Yeah I’m evacuated I don’t have money for a vacation right now, maybe my mom does, lemmie ask her about this.”

Scam Artist: “Your mom? Why would your mom pay for it?”

Me: “Well because I don’t have money, first off, and I live with her, she has money, like at least 600 that’s ripe for the taking.”

Scam Artist: “You said you were over 28. It’s 2018 and you live with your mom?″

Me: “Yeah, funny story, my house burned down yesterday so I live with my mom now, crazy how the world works, eh?”

Scam Artist: “Your house burned down YESTERDAY?”

Me: “Siiiiiiiigh! In the wildfire in California, you said you were keepin’ up with the news, man, don’t lie to me”

Scam Artist: “Well then it sounds like you could really use a vacation”

Me: “Yeah, a vacation would totally get my mind off my dogs that I left behind, forgot to take them out of their cages now that I think about it, whoops, so whaddyou need, a credit card?”

Scam Artist: “Yyyyes, we just need a Visa or Mastercard so you can secure the travel package”

Me: “Sure, sure. You’ve heard about those new Mastercards with the letters mixed in with the numbers, right?”

Scam Artist: “… … Yeah”

Me: “Alright, so the name on the card is Jay Vandlebrook”

Scam Artist: “Okay, could you spell that?”

Me: “Yeah it’s J-A-Y… Vandlebrook.”

Scam Artist: “… And how do you spell the last name?”

Me: “Like, Candle with a V, and then brook.”

Scam Artist: “… Got it.”

Me: *note, I wrote this down so I could read it without any difficulty* “The numbers are 420… …69… Now here’s where the letters come in… U-O-Y-K… C-U-F… and then 420 again. Could you read that back to me backwards?”

Doodled Jessee’s mom! 

Boulders

Fat Perky Tits~ Special cameo appearance by Boulder himself. Maud wanted to give him a good view~ ❤

I also made a huge Horsecock Futa Version to be posted later

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Here’s the practice I was talking about in regards to comic stuff. I learned quite a bit, and I’ll go ahead and thank @icymasamune for assisting with such! There’s more I need to learn and get better with of course, so please be patient with me!

Liz crosses paths with Teresa, and enlists her (arm) for study, legitimately without one word edge-wise. What a nerd!

Super-Dimensioned Space Ranger Eri-chan

Design for my character in an upcoming D&D campaign! Hopefully. 

Liz is just enjoying a (surprisingly small) beverage at a tavern when JD’s Morgana pops up and suggests finding somewhere quieter to hang out at together. 

Those fangs and blood red eyes might suggest one reason, but I’m figuring Liz is mostly expecting the other more common one that involves grabbing at her rather generous figure. 

That sappy thing I posted last night was me getting very.. uhh, well, sappy about stuff 10+ years ago bout someone I cared about. Won’t name, or identify past just wanting to share the head shot I drew from memory. I think I got most details down well enough.. not used to doing this kinda stuff.