“Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”

Adobe fresco

I sketched this during my first listen through of the album(s). I have been enjoying the new music!

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Meet the Artist: @chaaistheanswer

Hi everyone! I am Clara, but you can also call me chaa! I am a digital artist based in Auckland, New Zealand with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Media Production. After graduating from uni, I moved out to pursue my art career and I’ve been a freelance digital artist ever since. I love concept art, especially character design! Creating characters influenced by my love for fantasy is what I live for. Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you enjoyed my art! And thank you, Tumblr, for this opportunity!

Nice to meet you, Clara! She has shared some pieces below for you all to check out.

For more of Clara’s work, be sure to go to her Tumblr, @chaaistheanswer, and give it a follow!

I closed my store back when they announced this change and it was a nice relief not to care about it anymore.

What happened to your Society6 store? It seems like there's a lot less designs available than there used to be. I was hoping to get some tapestries but everything is gone...

Wow! This ask made me go check out my Society6 shop — and you’re right, it’s pretty much all gone! So, here’s the story on that for anyone who hasn’t heard:

Society6 decided that their outsized profit from artists wasn’t cutting it — they now require artists to pay a monthly subscription for the privilege of Society6 profiting off of them, while foisting additional shipping fees onto the artist and reducing their payments on top of that. I had heard some months back that they were planning to switch to a subscription model, and it looks like since I didn’t pay up, they permanently deleted everything except 10 random pieces of art from my shop. They did this without notifying me at all (classy!), after years of making tens of thousands of dollars off of my work — but weirdly, this is kind of a relief for me?

My cut of Society6 sales were already a laugh even before the proposed changes (I make more money from someone dropping like $20 at my personal print shop than I do from someone buying $100 of my stuff from Society6) but the tapestries and blankets were so cool and I loved how much people enjoyed them, so I kept my art available there. They've deleted nearly all of my work now, so I'll go finish the job and close out my account for good.

Anyway, it’s disappointing, but Society6 has chosen to suck profoundly at this point in time. Totally scummy treatment of the artists whose work is the foundation of their entire business model. I’m lucky enough to have a supportive audience and never relied on Society6, but I feel badly for artists whose livelihoods have been impacted by this. (If you’re one of those artists, know this: you deserve better compensation for your hard work than what S6 is giving you!)

OK, with all that said — I’m bringin’ tapestries back, baby! They can’t keep this cowboy off the range! Right now I’ve ordered samples from some different places to compare quality, and once I’ve settled on a manufacturer I‘ll be making them available at my print shop. I’ll post on my socials when I’ve sorted it out!

Hello friends, I have new artwork! I am clearly in the mood for an early spring.

Dreams of Spring: The Thaw

Adobe Fresco and Photoshop

Halo by Artem Chebokha

Another classic. Can’t wait for the Halloween IG posts.

The Secret of NIMH (1982) dir. Don Bluth

it's Paree

I tried to figure out the motion effects in Adobe Fresco and whooboy that got complicated fast. Need to keep trying but it was hard to make it look decent.

Alicia Austin, “Science Fiction Review”, #39, Aug. 1970 Source

This design just got featured on Behance under the Fresco tag! Whoohoo!

Witchy flash pattern

I have this pattern printed on a rug in my office. It really pulls the room together.

Dream of spring.

Ink on paper

This post on the r/COPYRIGHT is giving me life. One of the most frustrating aspects of the AI Image debate is the lack of understanding about fair use, transformation, and copyright. Also the recent discourse they had on the copyright case of the Zarya comic has been refreshingly objective compared to what I have perused from the AI forums.

So pretty 🤩

Fall to pieces

Hi; I think I spammed you with a bunch of likes and reblogs, sorry about that, I just really love your work!!

Haha, you are good, spam away. 🦊