For @kakashiweek 2022
Day 5: Free day
A halloween drawing of mine based on hori’s ne sketches!!!
Enamorada de Sakusa spidy
🫦🫦 hello tumblr
I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.
About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.
My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)
And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.
This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.
I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.
And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.
And I just wanted to document my suffering ⤵️
You can see how I changed things here and there (like the eye that I forgot it wasn’t supposed to be so open because of the scar)
At some point I was stuck and questioned all of my life choices but then I remembered that I draw for fun and it’s okay to NOT do everything okay. The point is to keep on learning and improving. I know it’s not perfect and I don’t care.
I don’t know if I’m gonna keep doing artworks like this. I just don’t know if this is the kind of art style that I want to do so I don’t know what my next art piece will be
It’s funny cause I always thought that my art style was going to be something more like a comic style but then I put my hand to draw and more and more I end up with this kind of art style
Sooo I’m trying new things and I’m scared lol let’s see how this turns out