doing a thing where you give new artists supplies for free is very cool as barrier of entry is one of the things that makes creative fields so hard to get into (looking at you adobe) so thanks for that
you'r cool and Gofbless 馃檹
Oh my gosh, thank you, anon! Accessibility to art supplies and how to use them successfully is one of my core values. I feel so dang strongly about it you have no ideaaaaa. And I am so terrible at self-promotion ahhhhh, so um
Yes! I am currently fundraising on ioby to buy art supplies --from small art supply stores as much as possible-- and make kits that don't suck for people who are new or returning to art as a form of creative expression! This means buying pencils, paper, paints, yarn, thread, mixing palettes, erasers, pens, air dry clay, and so on to make watercolor kits, crochet kits, clay modelling kits, etc. More details can be found on the ioby website:
Free Art Kits in the Park ioby fundraiser
Please check it out, and throw in a tax deductible donation if you can, as each of your dollars goes twice as far rn and until the matching donations run out, or when the fundraiser ends at the end of February 2023. If you can't donate, please reblog this ask with the link to the fundraiser! I appreciate it so dang much~
Note: This specific fundraiser will primarily benefit people in my local community of Sacramento, California. I look forward to expanding in a future version that will benefit a wider geographic audience! Hopefully in balance with the benefits and drawbacks of Internet in/accessibility >_>
Anon, you are so right: Adobe deserves every criticism for how it financially blocks artists from using its software! It and every other overly proprietary, for-profit business model makes me want to smash my head into a wall
It's Art Fight babeyyy
I am literally moving and about to go travel so like, I won't be able to do very many this year (or they will be very simple!) but I can't help myself~~
I'm ellgrimm on artfight.net and I love revenge :3
I drew a detailed ref of Kenzou's belt thingy. It's like... a leather obi with belts? I realized this would be useful for Art Fight character refs so I cleaned it up and typed notes~
I'm ellgrimm and I'm on Team Wither for this year's Art Fight. I love revenge! >:)