C.K. Burch's Blog, page 268
August 24, 2014
we-brake-for-heresy:
HE-EY
HE-EYNothin’s a matter with your...
HE-EY
HE-EY
Nothin’s a matter with your head, baby, find it
Come on and find it
Hell, with it, baby, ‘cause you’re fine and you’re mine
And you look so divine
Come and get your love
This is my brother, in whom I am well pleased.
August 23, 2014
we-brake-for-heresy:
okay but really i think zero gravity sex might be really hard
cables and...
okay but really i think zero gravity sex might be really hard
cables and hooks and hellraiser hurts
Swearing! Captions! Special guest appearance by Torgue Jesus!...
Swearing! Captions! Special guest appearance by Torgue Jesus! This one has it all and more!
August 22, 2014
"the gusting wind rose and took the man
who, burnt, was an ashen bust; the ash was
scattered into the..."
who, burnt, was an ashen bust; the ash was
scattered into the air, butterflies of dead burnt
flesh, featherlight human puzzle pieces. gone
in a moment, but gone already for a longer
time than any could imagine. his was
a slow, burning, fearful goodbye. he had
stood here longer than any had, and yet it
was a waiting that the sun had taken from his
body, all peeling burnt flecked skin. and
as the gusting wind rose, his body was
taken into the air like dead roses and somewhere
reformed as a pile of dust, powder that
became with the ground and mixed into
a fertilizer. from it rose a rose of white and red
and thorns, having learned from its past life
that there is a need for natural defenses, and only
those who understand them will be able to slip
by without pricking themselves.”
- "noon-light, a thought"—-ck burch, 2010 (via oddandbeautiful)
My mom always wanted to see this book come to life; I tried many...
My mom always wanted to see this book come to life; I tried many times over the past decade to get it written. As such, it’s free today and tomorrow for your Kindle reader if you download it through Amazon. She passed away a year ago yesterday, which is why I was a little quieter than normal. I keep trying to find things to do to honor her memory, and I’m not sure what I can do that will ever feel like I did the right thing, but sharing this with others the way I wanted to share it with my mom will have to do for now.
Anyways, I hope you’ll download it, and if you do, that you’ll find it entertaining. Until next time, here’s to you, mom.
August 21, 2014
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briannacherrygarcia:
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im not even an artist and these prices are hurting my feelings
This is what I have to dig through every time I look for new jobs to apply for.
For non-artists, let’s give you a little perspective.
For me, an illustration takes a bare minimum of 6 hours. Mind you, that’s JUST the drawing part. Not the research, or the communications, or gathering information. Just drawing.
That’s if it’s a simple illustration.
My art deco or more detailed stuff can take 20+ hours each.
Even simple, cartoony things still take at least 3 hours.
Let’s go with the second one. 2 illustrations for $25. Figuring 6 hours each. 12 hours total, for JUST the drawings. That’s approximately $2.08/hour.
Asking these prices is an insult. But what’s even more hurtful is there are people out there that will take these jobs. Which only encourages rates like this to be acceptable. And there are people who will try to say these are just what you have to do to get started.
I believed that. So my first coloring gigs were just $10/page. The day someone offered me $25/page for just flatting work, I realized just how wrong I’d been. I’m still not making the rates I’d like, but now I refuse anything below $25/page. Because there is value in my time.
In any standardized industry, even ones that pay piece rate over hourly, these numbers are criminal.
Do your fellow artists a favor. Never accept jobs like these. There are others that pay legitimate rates. Or at least closer to legitimate.
Such baby bullshit. Don’t even get out of bed for these rates.
If you are an artist who wants to make money off their art, I highly suggest you buy The Graphic Artist’s Guild Handbook. It goes in depth about copyright issues and even contains contract and model release templates. The 2013 book *I believe* states the average professional charges $72 an hour. This article calculated that to make a 40k annual salary you would need to charge about $60 per hour.
After graduating from Art Center in 2012, I think I asked for somewhere between $35-45 an hour and got laughed at by multiple big name clients, which was infuriating, sadly expected, and terrifying with over $100K worth of student loans staring me in the face. If they tell you it will be “great exposure” that’s a red flag. Ask yourself how their exposure can compare to your Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr and Facebook pages combined?
And when you do get a decent paying gig, PROTECT YOURSELF. You have the right to negotiate and revise a contract. Do not start a job until you have a contract signed. If they don’t provide you with one, MAKE ONE. And make sure you have your bases covered. You can specify in a contract that maybe two revisions are included in your cost, and if they ask you to revise the piece more than twice, they will have to pay extra. In terms of payment schedule, I usually do the 50/50 Method (50% before, 50% after) or the 3/3/3 Method (1/3 before, 1/3 in the middle, 1/3 after all work has been received). Both of those are pretty standard in the industry, as they guarantee you will get compensated for your time, even if the job goes bad.
Remember you have a skill, and you have spent time honing that skill and you deserve to be adequately paid for that time and effort. You will have clients dismiss you because, honest to God they think, “Well, I could do that if I wanted. Hell, my five year old does it now.” No they can’t, because they didn’t, they don’t, they won’t and they probably never will. And good luck hiring a five year old. They can’t keep a fucking deadline.
And in a last ditch effort they’ll say, “But that drawing only took you an hour!” Son, that drawing took me 20. fucking. years.
10 Dollars for 1 minute of animation. Oh my god my heart. It took my team 6 months and a team of 12 to make a 4 minute short.
The Graphic Artist’s Guild Handbook
I second this book! I’ve had it for several years now, and it’s been a HUGE help in my work as a freelance artist. It gives great advice on what to charge for different areas of art!
Please remember. Your art is worth a respectable payment! Accepting ridiculously low prices actually hurts the arts/illustration/animation communities because it makes employers believe they can employ people without offering decent pay.
Check the internet if you need help figuring out what you should be charging for your commissions. Invest in the books that will inform you professionally, and put your foot down if you think someone is trying to cheat you out of your time and hard work.
You have a right to refuse a job, and/or request decent payment. If your employer denies a you decent pay, well then they’re probably not a very good employer.
Do not undersell your skills. it is bad for the art community and you are worth more then that.
nowyoukno:
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Y’all...
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Y’all need to read up on your Popeye. If you think Eugene the Jeep is nuts, you need to read the storyline featuring the Whiffle Hen. The Whiffle Hen is a small bird that has three hairs on the top of its head, which if you rub them, you get instant good luck and success on whatever you do next. So everyone’s out to get this hen, Popeye is the only one saying that everyone needs to chill out and not abuse good luck, and the cast of the comic ends up on a ship trying to outrun this pirate who’s out for the hen. Popeye steps up, saying that no one needs the hen, and he gets his ass handed to him by the pirate. He gets his ass handed to him so hard that he’s close to death, and gets tossed overboard. However, Popeye manages to climb back on board and hides in the lower deck, dying, and the Whiffle Hen comes to him. Popeye finally decides to rub the hen for luck, and spends three days in the hold, rubbing the hen for luck, avoiding death through sheer luck. After three days, he climbs out of the hold, completely revitalized, and then beats the shit out of the pirate, who is completely caught off guard in disbelief. Everyone asks Popeye how he survived, and he points to the hen, which everyone has been looking for. Except, Popeye used so much of the hen’s luck that there isn’t any left. Popeye rubbed all the luck out of the Whiffle Hen. That’s how close to death he was, but then he came back and kicked the shit out of that pirate.
Popeye is the shit, yo.
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Tumblr needs more of this….whatever this is.
Is this the same artist who made the original for this
this lovely artist can be found here! http://emmyc.tumblr.com/
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