literally most things that people write off as just ‘textures’ to use in graphics are stolen & unsourced material created by artists or photographers NOT meant to be used as elements in projects without royalty payments. you can say ‘it’s just random tumblr posts they don’t care’ but you wouldn’t want someone to take your work and edit into their work so they can be praised for their beautiful style and creativity even if they just post it on social media w/o profit, would you?? so maybe if you browse pinterest or google images for pictures without finding the original source, you’re using images that you’re not allowed to use without realizing it.
you see it on here a lot especially in (i won’t link anything but i’m sure you know what i mean) those album track ‘aesthetics’ posts, au ‘aesthetic’ posts (ie where people use ‘pinterest-y’ images to kinda craft a visual au), and even just rather typical graphics that have a lot of ‘texture’ elements. and texture packs too!! that’s often where the problem starts; people just collect images (often literal art), compile them in a folder w/o sources, then insist no one can repost those images w/o crediting the person who compiled them. what???
SO may i suggest some of my fave places you can get FREE, ROYALTY-FREE elements that are totally legal to use
creativemarket has 6 free high-quality resources (textures, brushes, fonts, etc), different every week! wow awesome i check it every week
search ‘freebie’ on behance. awesome stuff!!! lots of v nice templates textures and fonts
mockup zone freebies
unsplash: tons of very nice free photographs, not shitty stock photos
pexels: same idea. + they have an adobe plugin so you can get photos without closing your editor damn nice
as to not make this too long: spoongraphics, lostandtaken (textures galore), pixeden, freebiesbug.
Fittingly enough, the Pacer Test was the epitome of “bad time”.
Composition by Muffet,1932. Recorded Circa 1933 in Underground Studios®.
Mandolin: Papyrus
Melodica: Sans
Guitar: Asriel
Knife: Chara
Bass: Undyne
Drums: Muffet
since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"
I worked a job in a kindergarten for a year under a full-time volunteering programme after finishing school. It's marketed as a good way to get experience and social brownie points. While I don't regret doing it and meeting some nice people along the way, I was expected to do almost the same work as the teachers there for 2-3€ per hour, which kinda feels unfair. My superiors would also rub it in my face that I'm only a volunteer and don't deserve to get a half-decent wage because I'm not educated for the job. I don't want the same salary a qualified teacher gets, but maybe enough to sustain myself, at least? I was forced to live with my parents because I couldn't even afford social housing and the programme doesn't offer accommodation.
I get it, it's volunteering, but it seemed a little weird for me to do it full-time with no time for an actual paying job. It just kinda felt like another way of getting cheap labour for the social sector, which doesn't have nearly enough workers, instead of employing more qualified people. If I had to stay home because of sickness, the whole day would need to be restructured because we didn't have nearly enough people. Guess it's all fair because I'm a volunteer.
Maybe I'm too nihilistic, but the future doesn't seem very bright when it comes to jobs. I don't know.
Todays doodles are Myras personal Horse Acting Guide! 🐴
DISCLAIMER: im not a horse expert, but i’ve been hobby riding for 13 years and read some books through the years, so it’s just my personal experience. I dont know everything and people have different ways!
when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest
Finch || they/them or ae/aer || amateur artist and hot mess
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