{"id":15075,"date":"2012-11-05T02:48:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/11\/05\/beesmygod-ipgd-artist-confessions-9\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T03:01:09","slug":"beesmygod-ipgd-artist-confessions-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/11\/05\/beesmygod-ipgd-artist-confessions-9\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-15075 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/11\/05\/beesmygod-ipgd-artist-confessions-9\/attachment\/15076\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mby5dwmnoF1r7ogo4o1_400-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mby5dwmnoF1r7ogo4o1_400-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mby5dwmnoF1r7ogo4o1_400-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/beesmygod.tumblr.com\/post\/35001154120\/ipgd-artist-confessions-9-because-the\">beesmygod<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ipgd.tumblr.com\/post\/34999189762\/artist-confessions-9-because-the-texture\">ipgd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/artist-confessions.tumblr.com\/post\/34994728579\/9-because-the-texture-abuse-raises-the-price-by\">artist-confessions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>*$9 because the texture abuse raises the price by two dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t you rather spend your money on art that you\u2019d like to look at?<\/p>\n<p>Art by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/saccharinescorpion.tumblr.com\/\">http:\/\/saccharinescorpion.tumblr.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>submitted by &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/orangeaipom.tumblr.com\/\"><strong>orangeaipom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mcz96tcDX71qjz70b.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mcz9bosA101qjz70b.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>if this picture took less than an hour to draw, $7 is about the bare minimum level of \u00a0reasonable compensation. if it took the artist any longer than that, they are being <em>underpaid<\/em> for the amount of time they spent.<\/p>\n<p>why are people constantly fucking bitching and crying about artists getting paid \u201ctoo much\u201d for their\u00a0<em>skilled labor<\/em>, while nobody ever pitches a fit about the fact you can make $8.81 an hour standing in front of a door and saying hello to people<\/p>\n<p>do people even have any concept of how little minimum wage actually is? even a <em>full time<\/em> minimum wage job is going to get you 1200-1500 dollars a month tops, and most positions that hire at minimum wage are going to be part time to avoid having to actually give you any benefits like health insurance (and freelance artists still have to pay for their own health insurance even when they\u2019re working well over 40 hours a week, which is <em>exorbitantly fucking expensive<\/em>\u00a0to buy individually). go look at craigslist for the prices of renting apartments in your area and see how comfortable a life you\u2019ll have working 8 dollars an hour when you factor in the prices of food, transportation, taxes, the out-of-pocket medical bills you\u2019ll have to pay, clothes, etc.. even if you cram yourself into apartment with a billion other people it can be hard<\/p>\n<p>nobody ever argues that walmart greeters don\u2019t deserve to make the bare minimum living wage for the work that they do because for some reason people believe training an ability for your whole fucking life and then spending countless hours creating individualized pieces to the specification of your commissioners is easier and of less value to society than\u00a0<em>saying hello to people who walk into a walmart<\/em><\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s fucking\u00a0ILLEGAL to pay a walmart greeter 7 dollars for an hour of work, and yet people will sneer at an artist who doesn\u2019t want to work at a $2\/hr wage<\/p>\n<p>i don\u2019t care if an artist is hawking terrible weeaboo pictures of his fucking shitty naruto OCs rubbing their massive inflated lactating jugs all over each other, he is entitled to set his price at the minimum wage. you don\u2019t have to buy art that you don\u2019t like, but getting indignant over an artist expecting the most basic grade of compensation for the time spent makes you the worst kind of garbage shit trash<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>reblogging orangeaipom being fucking styled on<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the post, because it&rsquo;s seriously terrible how poorly most artists are paid.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I think the drawing is really, really cute&hellip; and I&rsquo;m shocked that it&rsquo;s only $7. I&rsquo;d expect to pay more like $50, and that&rsquo;s only if they are doing some kind of a discount sale for fun. The lines are clean. The pose is cute. There&rsquo;s lots of movement and flow. \u00a0It&rsquo;s a lovely little illustration!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>beesmygod: ipgd: artist-confessions: *$9 because the texture abuse raises the price by two dollars. Wouldn\u2019t you rather spend your money on art that you\u2019d like to look at? Art by\u00a0http:\/\/saccharinescorpion.tumblr.com\/ submitted by &#8211;orangeaipom if this picture took less than an hour to draw, $7 is about the bare minimum level of \u00a0reasonable compensation. if it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/11\/05\/beesmygod-ipgd-artist-confessions-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[648,4578],"class_list":["post-15075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-submission","tag-this-is-important-to-meeee","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15077,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075\/revisions\/15077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}