The Sun Is Probably The Closest Thing We’ll Ever Have To A True Eldritch Abomination. Hear Me Out Here-

This is literally the most heart warming story I have read on Twitter so far. I think this is exactly what friends should do, and I feel everyone deserves people like this.

Here’s a 2016 look-back even though there’s a month left in the year, and I’ll probably have one or two more things to post before then. I was all over the place this year (compared to last year, when I focused mostly on backgrounds), but I’m proud of how much experimenting I did with color. <3

I love the guy who’s clearly a teacher who came over with the intent to tear two fucking idiot teenagers apart from each other only to find these fucking nerds it probably made his entire month

Father Tomas by Elicia Donze. Drawn in PS. Please do not remove caption.

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[Caption: A realistic digital painting of Father Tomas Ortega from The Exorcist. Portrait is from the waist up. Tomas is in profile, wearing a priest’s black cassock over a black shirt with a white clerical collar. He has short, wavy black hair and a soft, close beard. Golden sunlight shines at his back, casting much of him in shadow. The background is dark purple accented with a vertical band of glowing red.]

OF COURSE I’ve witnessed it.

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Greenland is farther east, west, north, and south than Iceland.

Attention ALL artists!

You sure have seen this post. It has spread like wildfire over the past few days so I doubt there is any artist out there who hasn’t seen it. But even if you didn’t, you should read on because I’m about to tell you a handy little thing that can help you to protect your art from such assholes as the anon who submitted this bullcrap, as well as art thieves in general.

The magic word is Metadata.

Metadata is like an invisible signature that is embeded into a file. It can contain all kinds of information, like Title, date, keywords for online seach engines, and copyright information. And the best thing is, since this information is “hidden” in the code of your picture, it’s hard to remove it.

There is a nice basic tutorial on how to add Metadata, or “additional file information” to your images in photoshop. It’s really, really easy so check it out!

“Adding Your Contact And Copyright Info To Your Photos With Photoshop” on PhotoshopEssentials.com

I’m not sure if you can do the same with any other art program. If you know how to do this in other programs / can confirm that it works the same way there, please tell me so I can add the information to this post.

Adding the Metadata will not stop idiots from taking and reposting your art. It also won’t make them stop editing out your signature. It WILL however, help you prove that you are the original artist whenever you have to. Always remember my friends. You, the artist, are protected by law. No one has the right to take your intellectual property and hard work and repost, use or edit it without your permission. Ever.