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The Small Business Administration's venture capital program is growing even as conventional VCs are funding fewer deals.
SBA-licensed Small Business Investment Companies provided about $3 billion in funding to 1,094 small businesses in fiscal 2012, which ended Sept. 30. That's a 14 percent increase in financing compared with the previous year. The SBA provided $1.92 billion in loan guarantees to SBICs in 2012, and these 301 firms raised $1 billion in private capital. SBICs use this capital to invest in small businesses.
The SBA also issued 30 new SBIC licenses in 2012, up from 22 the previous year.
This increase in the SBIC program is good news for entrepreneurs, because there's less money available from other types of venture capital firms. Venture capitalists overall invested $6.5 billion in 890 deals during the third quarter of 2012, down 11 percent in terms of dollars from the previous quarter, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. VC investments for the year as a whole are projected to be below 2011's levels.
"We're seeing fewer new venture funds being raised, which means less capital is available for new investments," said Tracy Lefteroff, global managing partner of PwC's venture capital practice. "And, we're seeing venture capitalists be very cautious with the capital that is available due to the lack of a significant number of liquidity events."
SBICs are bucking this overall venture capital trend party because of the leverage provided by their SBA-guaranteed funds. Also, the agency's "efforts to streamline and simplify the process have made it possible to get capital into the hands of small businesses more quickly," said SBA Administrator Karen Mills.
The SBIC program was created in 1958 to fill gaps in the venture capital market for smaller VC investments, and to help businesses in industries and geographic areas often neglected by conventional VC firms. SBICs have hit some hit runs: Federal Express, Outback Steakhouse and Callaway Golf received SBIC investments in their early years.
But SBICs also struck out a lot, especially when the tech bubble burst. Large losses to the federal government from SBIC equity investments led the SBA to begin winding down one SBIC program, participating security investments, in 2004. As a result, total SBIC financings declined every year from 2005 until 2010.
That's when the SBIC debenture program picked up steam and began setting new financing records.
The SBA has added a new wrinkle to the program by licensing new SBICs that target early-stage businesses and companies located in low-income areas or in key industries.
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In the remote wilderness of northwest Washington, teenagers trekked to a glacier to learn about ice melt and snorkeled in a mountain reservoir to count threatened fish.
The National Park Service and two nonprofit groups sponsored the intensive, 30-day workshop to show 20 high school students from around the country how climate change is affecting parks and to encourage them to be involved in the efforts to combat it in the future.
The students traveled from metropolitan areas in Chicago, Washington D.C., Denver, Seattle and California's Napa Valley to North Cascades National Park, a vast, undeveloped wilderness of craggy mountain peaks and diverse wildlife, where they spent the past month. The goal is to inpire young people to embark on conservation projects back in their hometowns, then to travel to the other Washington to share what they've learned with federal officials and members of Congress.
"The idea was to try to recruit kids who have already been demonstrating in their communities that they make things happen," North Cascades National Park Superintendent Chip Jenkins said. "We're bringing them to one of their national parks to learn and engage them to take action."
In the debate over climate change, the nation's parks have been relatively quiet in recent years. But that's beginning to change as they, like all federal agencies, come under orders to reduce energy and gasoline use. Many have committed to measuring their carbon emissions and coming up with plans to curb them, as well as to educate the public on what they can do to help.
At North Cascades National Park, scientists have begun to monitor the effects of climate change on the ecosystems.
So when the nonprofit National Parks Foundation offered to sponsor a youth program dedicated strictly to climate change - with money from several corporate sponsors - North Cascades agreed to host the students. The park's biologists took turns stepping in as teachers and guides, while staff members of the nonprofit North Cascades Institute shepherded the kids through the trip.
The idea of educating the next generation about this issue isn't new: The European Union recently teamed up with music channel MTV to raise awareness among teens about climate change.
National parks may be nailing down the science for monitoring climate change, but they're still trying to figure out how to handle outreach, said Matt Ferris, the foundation's program director of youth engagement.
"How do they get visitors to understand climate change and what parks are doing?" he said. "That, coupled with their need to connect with youth audiences, particularly urban audiences of diverse ethnicity, makes this program really timely and new."
Ferris said he's most eager to hear more about the students' plans for conservation projects back home. Some have talked about starting recycling programs in their schools. Other ideas include creating an educational video, board game or elementary school curriculum about climate change and the national parks.
Jordan Bell, a lanky 15-year-old junior from Washington D.C., already envisions a future for himself as an activist. The issue he cares most about is homelessness, but he said he now can see ways he might serve the homeless and the environment at the same time.
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Teachers recommended the students, who had to apply. For many of them, like 15-year-old Donya Borham of Washington D.C., the trip presented the first opportunity to camp, canoe or hike in the woods.
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Heather McPherson's "outdoorsy" parents always encouraged her to recycle and not to litter. Her dad bought her a cake to celebrate when she got accepted for the program.
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Cronulla captain Paul Gallen says it is not too late to bring in a new coach for the rest of the season, arguing that players are not giving their all because of the impression that reluctant interim mentor Peter Sharp ''isn't putting 100 per cent in''.
In a wildly contrasting past five days Gallen revelled in the euphoria of leading the Blues to a first State of Origin series win in nine years before being involved as Cronulla etched themselves an unwanted place in premiership history 72 hours later by becoming the first team to be held scoreless in three successive matches.
A 26-0 defeat by Manly on Saturday night elevated their danger of collecting the NRL wooden spoon and Gallen indicated the coach's attitude was not helping the chances of the Sharks, who have won only two of 13 matches.
Sharp, bumped up from an assistant to cover for the suspended Shane Flanagan, made no secret of his reluctance to coach at first-grade level again when he stepped into the post and Cronulla's frustrated captain believes that has had a flow-on effect to the players.
Running second last on the NRL ladder, the Sharks also continue to try and cope with the shadow of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority inquiry, with anxiety lifted since 34 past and present players from AFL team Essendon were sent show-cause notices by the drugs-in-sport watchdog.
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"Now that, mentally, to everyone...to me players are like schoolkids. If you can get away with a little bit you're going to. If you know your team can turn up Monday and your coach isn't going to rouse on you for not having a good game, I don't think you're going to put 100 per cent in. And I think that's been the problem throughout the whole year. I don't think players have been putting 100 per cent in because they're under the impression that Sharpie isn't putting 100 per cent in."
Flanagan, stood down by the NRL over what were deemed failures in management associated with the club's controversial supplements program in 2011, is due to reclaim control at Cronulla in mid-September, by which time the Sharks' campaign will - barring a miracle - be over.
He has also signed on as head coach until the end of the 2017 season and Gallen said the Sharks might have been better served by having a rising coach with NRL ambitions running the team in Flanagan's absence instead of Sharp.
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Gallen said he and Sharp had spoken six weeks ago about the possibility of bringing Kimmorley to the club. ''It has been spoken about,'' Gallen said. ''I know one person I have spoken to and asked about is Brett Kimmorley. But he's still down in Canberra and the club have decided against it. I don't think it's too late because there's still I think 10 games to go in the season. I don't want to win the wooden spoon. I don't know if it's an option or not. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to win some games."
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Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for tax evasion.
The boss of the current European champions admitted defrauding the German tax authorities of millions of euros, keeping the funds in a secret Swiss bank account.
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Heyman: Tigers intend to pick up Peralta's $6 million option after his brilliant postseason
Hell, I thought the final 5 minutes of Turn-On! was brilliant…so I bought the overpriced second episode DVD!
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Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.1. Yastrzemski in left. Posted: October 25, 2012 at 04:53 PM (#4283334)
Amazing deal for a guy who didn't get a hit until August.2. TDF, situational idiot Posted: October 25, 2012 at 05:14 PM (#4283360)
While the premise is poor, he probably is a good deal for $6M next year.3. Tripon Posted: October 25, 2012 at 08:17 PM (#4283500)
The issue isn't whether Peralta's worth $6 million, its who would you replace him with. Unless you can get Elvis out of Texas, there's no clear upgrades in the trade or free agent market.4. RJ in TO Posted: October 25, 2012 at 08:29 PM (#4283524)
Based on Cots, the FA options at SS are as follows:5. Champions Table Posted: October 25, 2012 at 09:25 PM (#4283649)
Jason Bartlett, SD
Yuniesky Betancourt, KC
Ronny Cedeno, NYM
Stephen Drew, OAK *
Alex Gonzalez, MIL *
Cesar Izturis, WAS
Jhonny Peralta, DET *
Luis Rodriguez, SEA
Marco Scutaro, SF
With Drew, Peralta, and Gonzalez only being FAs if their teams decline the options.
Looking at that list, the Tigers almost certainly did the right thing.
I'm not a Jon Heyman guy.6. Cooper Nielson Posted: October 25, 2012 at 10:18 PM (#4283723)
Just about any starting major-league shortstop (let's say top 25 in the game) is worth $6 million.7. Walt Davis Posted: October 26, 2012 at 02:59 AM (#4283970)
A month ago, I was hoping for an upgrade for Jhonny P -- almost entirely for defensive reasons -- but I feel better about him after the past few weeks. And, really, there are no clearly better options unless you can somehow swing a trade for Andrus or Drew starts hitting again.
A no-brainer, worst case scenario he's one of the best backup IF.8. Crosseyed and Painless Posted: October 26, 2012 at 08:20 AM (#4283995)
Why does everyone on the web seem to completely ignore Jhonny's not-so-bad advanced fielding statistics? I doubt that he's an above-average shortstop defensively, but there are a lot of numbers out there saying he isn't the giant liability everyone claims him to be. I know he certainly doesn't look the part, but we aren't selling jeans here.9. snapper (history's 42nd greatest monster) Posted: October 26, 2012 at 10:12 AM (#4284056)
Why does everyone on the web seem to completely ignore Jhonny's not-so-bad advanced fielding statistics? I doubt that he's an above-average shortstop defensively, but there are a lot of numbers out there saying he isn't the giant liability everyone claims him to be. I know he certainly doesn't look the part, but we aren't selling jeans here.10. Heinie Mantush (Krusty) Posted: October 26, 2012 at 10:30 AM (#4284077)
Good point.
I don't watch Detroit much, but he looked pretty damn slick against the Yankees in the ALCS.
@5/Champions Table:11. Tom Nawrocki Posted: October 26, 2012 at 10:41 AM (#4284096)
Jhonny Peralta is not the best in the wooooorrlld.
Marco Scutaro, SF
Scutaro played a little bit of shortstop for the Rockies this year, and was horrible. He directly cost them this game, when the Rockies needed one more out to nail down the victory but Scutaro botched two consecutive routine grounders to short.
I know, he's a wonderful story, but he ain't a shortstop anymore.
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Notice that the quote, given to Right Wing News, was three weeks old. Since January, Democratic groups have calmed their nerves about a Chris Christie 2016 campaign and started paying more attention to GOP donor faves like Walker. So somebody stumbled across this interview on a popular site that isn't much read by the left or the mainstream media.
Somebody found fool's good. John Hawkins, who conducted the interview with Walker, realized yesterday that the quote had been poorly transcribed. Walker didn't say "I had just become a teenager and voted for Ronald Reagan." He said, "I had just become a teenager, and a vote for Ronald Reagan mean limited government," etc. That's boilerplate, and not surprising given how often Walker cites Reagan. (He mentioned him 11 times in his memoir last year, usually in the context of how Reagan would have behaved boldly in this or that situation.)
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One of the country's most respected financial journalists and commentators Hamish McRae is an associate editor of The Independent. He was named Business and Finance Journalist of the Year 2006 at the British Press Awards.
Tuesday 20 February 1996
There are therefore two games which anyone interested in markets ought to play. One is fun. It is to keep asking themselves where the next potential surprise might come from: a figure, a change of policy, maybe just a change of fashion. The other is (usually) less fun. It is to look back at one's own views and see where one has got things completely wrong. More of the former in a moment, focus first on the latter.
Up to now there has been very little ordered analysis of the performance of economic forecasters. People do rankings of individual forecasts for the UK economy - who got things right and who got them wrong. Expect the results of an interesting little exercise of this nature to be published in this paper on Wednesday. But they do not look at the generality of forecasts and plot where the consensus has been optimistic and where it has been pessimistic. So a new indicator developed by the investment bankers Kleinwort Benson deserves a welcome: the surprise activity indicator.
The idea is very simple. You take the consensus forecasts each month for several indicators of the UK economy and then compare these with what actually happens. You can then see whether forecasters as a whole have been over-optimistic or over-pessimistic about the UK economy. Kleinwort has drawn up a composite indicator based mainly on gross domestic product, retail sales, industrial output, unemployment and money supply, the results of which over the last two years are shown in the surprise activity indicator graph.
You can see that for the whole of 1994 things turned out better than expected: the economy grew faster, inflation was lower, unemployment declined more quickly. If you think back, everyone started the year wondering whether the recovery would be sustained and how long it would be before unemployment stopped rising. We ended up with growth of nearly 4 per cent.
Last year proved the reverse. Everyone thought that the low-inflation boom would continue, whereas growth faltered and the inflation numbers rose. When the Treasury came out with a 3 per cent growth forecast in the November Budget, it was dismissed as unduly rosy.
Now, once again, things are beginning to turn out better than expected: the three-month moving average has just blipped positive. This raises the intriguing possibility that the year as a whole might turn out better than expected, for there does seem to be some sort of "fit" between surprises and out-turn. Indeed, better than that: changes in the surprise indicator seem to be a lead indicator for changes in economic growth.
The period from 1988 onwards is plotted on the other graph. Anyone who is interested in statistics will notice that quite a bit of pushing around of the figures has gone on to make the two series fit as well as they do. It seems that you have to take a 12-month moving average for the surprise indicator rather than a three-month one; you use non-oil GDP, which is fair enough; you have to fiddle with the scales and you have to put the zero on the surprise indicator at just under 2 per cent on the growth side. But once you have done all that, hey presto, there is a nice three or four-month lead indicator of the turn of the recession in 1991 and a slightly less clear indicator of the slowdown in growth that took place last year.
Most interestingly there is a hint now that the growth pause of last year may soon be over. We will have to see whether the surprises continue to be on the positive side, but the much-derided Treasury forecast appears a wee bit more credible now than it did in November. Kleinwort will carry on monitoring this series and I will update people in the next few months if anything interesting emerges.
What about the second game noted above, the "where will the next one come from?" Here there is not much to be done by feeding numbers through computers and trying to spot relationships - you just have round up the potential suspects and nab the ones that appear promising. Kleinwort suggests that higher growth will surprise us on the upside by the middle of the year, but that inflation expectations will rise too on the back of this, which would presumably be bad for gilts.
My own list of candidates would certainly include higher growth this year, but I would be more concerned about the balance of payments than inflation, as British consumers always tend to want to buy imported goods when they become a bit richer. My worries for the bond market would come from political uncertainty rather than current inflation.
But the most interesting surprises, surely, go beyond the range of the Kleinwort Benson exercise, for they will be external ones. In the broad scheme of things the British economy is not very important. What matters are the grand global changes of mood which occur from time to time.
Some examples. A year ago only the brave predicted that EMU might have to be postponed or even abandoned. Now the former is seen as odds-on, while the latter is something close to an even bet. Few people saw the French riots coming, and the consequences of that are still unclear.
There are potential surprises in the energy market (the oil price falling off a cliff?), and more generally in commodities (ditto?). Forecasts for the German and French economies have been revised down so dramatically that I suppose the most surprising thing there would be for a year of adequate growth. That would at least be more surprising than actual recession on the Continent, which at the moment looks all too possible.
Finally, there remains the future of the long, long bull market in US securities. As each month of higher Wall Street prices passes the quietly whispered possibility of a speculative blow-off in US share prices, followed by a crash, becomes more likely: the surge running on and on until the music suddenly stops. Maybe the potential surprise there would be for the bull market to continue intact through 1996 and well into 1997.
But all this goes far beyond the scope of the Kleinwort exercise. The most useful conclusion that flows from that is that if the pattern of the last few years continues, we should expect several more months, perhaps a year, of better performance from the British economy than the markets at present expect.
Then, of course, just at the moment when the markets are convinced that all is well, there will be some disaster.
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The Wild and Rangers swapped negotiating rights on Sunday, as Minnesota traded Justin Falk to New York for Benn Ferriero and a sixth-rounder in 2014. Both players are restricted free agents in need of new contracts.
Falk, 24, has solidified himself as an everyday NHL player during the last two seasons. He played in most of the 2013 regular season (36 games), although his ice time plummeted from 2011-12's 19:30 minutes per game to just 13:13.
Ferriero, 26, played in just four games with the New York Rangers after spending parts of the previous three seasons at the NHL level with the San Jose Sharks. He spent most of this campaign in the AHL.
The two teams are familiar with trading depth players with each other, as they completed a trade involving Mike Rupp and Darroll Powe in 2012.
- ethanmacleod1685 - Jun 30, 2013 at 12:01 PM
Lol, the wild love ex-sharks/reject players
- sjawesome - Jun 30, 2013 at 12:04 PM
I was thinking the exact same thing
- nyrnashty - Jun 30, 2013 at 12:31 PM
I got excited for a second I thought I read Justin Faulk (Carolina) didn't even see the Wild in the headline. I'll just keep dreaming!
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How's james sheppard and martin havlat working for you?
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Shepard is actually playing pretty well. He was worth a 3rd round swap. Are you still butt hurt that he didn't pan out for the wild?
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guess that means Matt Dumba is playing in MIN next year
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She explained that the hospital began testing drivers' blood serum -- or plasma -- not whole blood, in June 2010. As a result, the blood-alcohol content has been overestimated by as much as 15 percent on DUI cases using hospital blood samples since then.
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Anonymous said: What is the etiquette for reblogging unsourced art from someone you know didn't draw it when you can't find the actual source yourself? Is it best to just not reblog it at all?
I think it's best to not reblog it at all. If you reblog an unsourced art, someone else will reblog the unsourced art from you, and so on until before you know it the unsourced art will have 100k notes while the artist's own art post only got 3k. In other words, it's better to not perpetuate the problem if you can't find the source.
in the tumblr tagging system, unsourced artwork is considered especially heinous. on this blogging platform, the users who source these felonies are part of an elite task force called the source your fucking artwork unit. these are their stories.
let me die
i just wanted to clarify some things
artists know the risk they are taking when they post their art online. people are inevitably going to take it apart, color edit it, flip it around or otherwise post it uncredited.
saying that an artist shouldn't post their work if they don't…
This is really fucking powerful.
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"During the battle for Fallujah in 2004, a wounded Iraqi prisoner was filmed being shot by a US marine. This cartoon was in response to the ensuing attack on the cameraman for filming the event and was a comment on the level of control of the media in the Iraq war.
This cartoon was drawn ten years ago but still has relevance today. Although control of the message is nearly impossible given the rise of social media and portable cameras, this won't, of course, stop people trying."
Okay, so many of my watchers on deviantART are already aware of this, but last month I was scammed for thousands of dollars by a user named Pixlett / ToxicMutagen. (They both use the same PayPal address) Pixlett has since deactivated her account.
My account of the fraud:
[ Part 1] [ Part 2 (Today) ]
Pixlett bought some artwork from me for very large sums of money. Then, a few months later, I notice that a couple grand went missing from my PayPal, because she filed a credit card chargeback against me, claiming that she never got the item. Obviously, it was digital artwork, so there was no physical item to ship. She did this for every single piece of artwork she bought from me, and even after backing myself up with a ton of evidence, PayPal ruled in her favor.
And now, today, it has happened AGAIN. Pixlett has filed MORE chargebacks against me, putting me into negative $2,000 in my PayPal account. I start school in a week and need money to pay for my new textbooks, supplies, and gas, but looks like that's not gonna happen thanks to this fraud.
I have set up a PayPal Donation button on my page, where you can help me out. Even just a dollar helps. Small amounts add up quickly, and I need to get out of the negatives as soon as possible.
I apologize, because I never ask for help, but this is just beyond my capacity of fixing in such a short amount of time. Several other people were also affected by this scammer, so please consider helping them out too.
Thank you! ;u; If you have any questions or concerns, you can message me on here or on my dA.
also - wow … WOW .. I´m fucking mad about this person and paypal - this is really fucked up. this is really a slap in the face for digital artists …
I'm glad this story had a happy ending.
Your idea of a happy ending is support of bullying? What an A+ person you are.
Not to mention stealing someone's art and changing it to support their disgusting hate-speech.
ORIGINAL ARTIST: flikkerlicht
And here's his original artwork:
So yeah, basically OP stole someone else's art, art that advocated equality for and kindness towards everyone, to add bigotry, faux edginess, and an overall sense of desperation and failure.
If you're so pathetic that you actually have to resort to stealing other people's things just so you can slap your shitty slogans on them, you're so far gone that not even Dr. Phil can help you.
(Source: hereandhellaqueer)
This is something that was bugging me a little bit so, as always, I've decided to make an infograph.
Maybe other artists disagree, but when I ask for a request, it's a fun game. You give me a suggestion and I build on it. It's a team project. You don't know what you're going to get.
If your request takes longer than 3 sentences to describe, it's not a request. It's a commission. It's something so specific, the artist will essentially be working for your specific scene for free.
And of course - DO NOT REQUEST THAT AN ARTIST DRAW YOU SOMETHING if you don't see that they are specifically accepting requests.
People have been requesting free art from us our whole lives. We've had plenty of that. If we want to draw you free stuff, we'll let ya know. Don't just assume we have free time - just like you wouldn't come up to a doctor at a grocery store and ask them to examine your twisted ankle.
Unless you're a person who does that… in which case… don't do that either.
I'd like to remind people that this goes for writing requests, too.
And if an artist or writer has a list of "what I do/don't do" then please respect that.
i'd also like to add that artists and writers have a right to deny requests they feel uncomfortable filling, for any reason. please don't get mad at them, especially if no money is involved.
YO do not buy any items from Cucumbershop on eBay. It looks like pretty much all of their shirt designs are ripped off from other artists, including a shirt I designed earlier this year. I understand this kind of thing happens all the time, but the fact is, they're making money off of creators who are getting screwed over.
bitches don't be so full of ourselves and be thankful for people reblogging ur art (and therefore liking it and promoting it) and of course people are entitled to delete the artist comment since it's their fucking blog and they'll do the fuck the want with them
LOL I can't believe how greedy and unthankful some people can be
so since this comment turns out to be real, I'll say this:
Under your logic, anyone would be "entitled" to punch you in your face if they wanted to and you shouldn't have a problem with it because it's their hand and they can do whatever the fuck they want with it. That's your screwy logic.
Also… Greedy??? Unthankful?????
Who the fuck would be thankful that some asshole decided that their input on their own artwork, that they worked hard on, wasn't good enough for their blog?????
I don't want anyone reblogging my art who can't even respect me enough to leave my commentary where I put it. We put our comments there for it to STAY THERE. REBLOGGING OUR ART DOES NOT MEAN IT NOW BELONGS TO YOU AND YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU PLEASE WITH IT.
What the actual fuck is wrong with you and everyone who reblogged your shitty comment????
Please also note that the length, subject, and relevancy of an artist's comment do not change this.
Even if you feel the comment is too long— even if you feel the piece can do without it— it is not your place to remove the artist's comment.
Removing a comment from a piece:
- takes away an artist's voice
- disembodies an artist from their work
- may abstract needed clarity
- may remove important notes, details, or text that adds to the piece (even if you feel it does not)
- removes an easy link that allows people to find the artist (their username over their comment, that is)
- is straight up disrespectful
Please stop removing comments artists leave on their work.
electricstalker said: I think that I should be able to ask most people to do a by step demonstration of how they draw things and have themshow us. A lot of artists say : "YOU CHEAP SWEARWORD IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR ART DRAW IT yourself YOU SWEARWORDHEAD. " If they don't show how they draw their style, how can one draw something themself?
Actually, I think artists are not obligated to do anything, especially for free.
Making art is a time-consuming and meticulous activity. It's not something you can be good at overnight unless you're some sort of art genius or something.
A lot of artist will usually say yes if you ask for tutorial, but you still have to respect them if they say no. Making a tutorial can be tedious and time consuming, so you're basically asking them for their time out of their busy schedule (remember artists are people too! They have school, work, friends and hobbies that occupy their time). Let's say it takes two hours to make a tutorial, assuming they're paid $20.22 an hour (the average rate for an illustrator in USA), that already costs them $40.44 of unpaid work. [source]
Not to mention, keep in mind a lot of artists are not comfortable when people copy their style. ^_^
My advice is to learn drawing from the already existing drawing tutorials. You can find a lot of them under tumblr tag drawing tutorial. If any of my followers have any reference tag in their blog, feel free to leave some link in this post.
By the way, I find it really hard to learn to draw when I'm following people's style. I feel like I'm just copying what they already have instead of making something :\ Like every drawing I made is a bad version of artist XYZ.
I think the best way to learn to draw is learn from the basics instead of striving to draw a certain style.
So basically, I'm not saying that you CAN'T ask people for a step-by-step process tutorial, only that they're not obligated to say yes when you do :)


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