ask-son-of-oryx:

zferolie:

busket:

thereallightsabovearbys:

starexorcist:

Dont ask artists for free art you scrubs

How to waste your talent while losing your friends all at once because all you care about is money: A tumblr guide on how to be a cunt to those who admire you.

Imagine if the Mona Lisa was a commission and s/he had no money.

the mona lisa was a commission you shitshill, that’s how artists make a fucking living. it’s how we get the money to pay for things we need, because we don’t want to spend all our time working in a shitty job instead of doing things that are important to us, like working on personal projects or spending time with people we like. by thinking that you deserve free art is basically telling them “your time and skill isn’t worth anything but my personal enjoyment!” and if someone only wanted to be friends with me for free art, i don’t want that friendship because that sounds like an awful friend. artists are people with lives and often art is our only source of income and if you really admired us you would understand and support that.

i still laugh at how someone thought the mona lisa was a free painting. my god.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure that 90% of the historical art was all made because it was commissioned??

Yeah and the other 10% was Van Gogh who tried to sell his paintings but only managed to sell one to his friend. Of course he still painted whatever he wanted.