Yesterday I got spammed to hell with messages linking to different variants of this image:



They can have slightly different graphics or contain different links but the message is always basically the same - go to this page and you'll receive 20 000 .

I have to ask the question - how dim do you have to be to fall for it?
Ok let's see - we have an image hosted on a profile that is 1 day old and asks you to visit a website with a strange url with a promise of a financial reward on an another website. How do you even imagine  that would work? And now, of course, people start crying that their computers got infected with malware. Which is great - every genius who fell for this obvious phishing scam  deserved it. I hope your shitty computer burns and you along with it.

I know this is a no-duh for 90% of people reading it but for the sake of the rest lets revise what we all should know about online phishig. And before you go all:

No, no you can't.

Copypasta from pwww.comodo.com

  Be very careful about not replying to any such spam mails that ask you to confirm or update any information about your account.
    Do not follow any links that come with the spam mails, which will lead you to websites that ask for conformation of your account information.
   Never copy an unknown link from these kinds of spam mails and paste them on your web browsers. These links are made to look very humble by the phishers but they will actually land you to some scam and fraud sites.
   Be careful about opening or saving any document or attachment that come with spam mails. Do not trust these kinds of emails even if they appear to be sent by some authorized entity.
    Never ever send your confidential information about your account in an email.
   It is better to be protected from these scams by using firewall, anti-spyware and anti-virus software. Make sure to update this software regularly for security of your pc.
   Do not respond to those scam mails, which even seem to offer sound business or ask you to avail a refund. The fraudsters often send you phone numbers so that you call them up for business purpose. They use Voice over Internet Protocol technology. With this technology, their calls can never be traced.

You can help other Internet users by spreading the word about "phishing" scams.

   Do forward the spam mails to spam@uce.gov.
    Also send a copy of the mail to the bank or credit card company whose name is impersonated in the email.
    File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission that you have fallen prey to the phish net. If you fall a victim to phishing then there are high chances that you will also be a victim of ID theft.
    You can also send email to the Anti-Phishing Working Group to reportphishing@antiphishing.org. This organization helps to fight further phishing scams.

You're welcome and no more spamming akreon, k?

Thank you so much for the pages upon pages of Birthday wishes! All the comments were a really nice to read.

Also thank you for points and for fanarts!

Yo guys are awesome

Wohoo  now I'm quarter of a century old! Only 2/3rds life to left to live... at best. Oh joy.

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EDIT: 29.03.12
Thank you for points
And thank you gifts

I've decide to reopen sketch commissions
If you are interested please contact me by note.

INFO:
You get a traditional pencil drawing + a digitally enhanced version
Size: A4 format / 21 x 29,7 cm /  8.27 × 11.69 inches
Paper: Canson 250 g/m² --> nice and thick

PRICE: 22 € (+ 10€ for every additional character)
If you want the original to be shipped to you the additional fee is 3€

FORM OF PAYMENT:
only PayPal

EXAMPLES:








If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

I'm frequently asked how I  learned to draw and  the answer is very simple - a large part of my knowledge is self taught from books. That's why I thought it would be a good idea to share some titles I owned or came across and used them through the years. Hopefully someone will find this list useful :3


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Books that are awesome:

"Anatomy for the Artist" by Sarah Simblet

"The Artist's Guide to Animal Anatomy" by Bammes Gottfried

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Books that are good:
" Drawing the Head and Hands" by Andrew Loomis


"Figure Drawing for all it's Worth" also by Andrew Loomis

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Books that are ok but from the time perspective I do not recommend them:
"How to Draw Heads and Portraits" by Jose M. Parramon

"Human Figure" by Jose M. Parramon


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Books that are pure unrefined shit and should be burned on sight:
Anything from Christopher Hart

It's been a while since the last time I did one of those . Time to share some people who I've recently found and fell in love with their art













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PS.   is looking for people living in Frombork. If you happen to live there I would really appreciate if you read her journal --> czy ktos z Was mieszka we Fromborku?W tym semestrze, na studiach robię projekt konserwacji i modernizacji kościoła św. Mikołaja we Fromborku. Jeśli ktoś z Was tam mieszka, bardzo przydałyby mi się informacje z pierwszej ręki Thanks!

I had a lot of fun working on on my last Loki piece so I decided to try out a new type of commissions - a smaller and cheaper versions of my watercolour ones.

If you are interested please contact me by note .

INFO:
You get a traditional watercolour painting.
Size: A4 format / 21 x 29,7 cm /  8.27 × 11.69 inches
Paper: Canson 250 g/m² --> nice and thick

PRICE:
50€  (+ 20€ for every additional character)
Shipping price all around the world is included.

FORM OF PAYMENT:
only PayPal

EXAMPLE:


If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

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I have a lot of sketches and unfinished art lying around so I've started a tumblr to have a place to post it. I'm still learning how to use that site so it is a bit unpolished but yeah, check it out if you have a minute

akreon.tumblr.com

Does any of you have a tumblr account and is not to shy to share it? I need a training ground for liking and commenting

I've decide to reopen sketch commissions
If you are interested please contact me by note.

INFO:
You get a traditional pencil drawing + a digitally enhanced version
Size: A4 format / 21 x 29,7 cm /  8.27 × 11.69 inches
Paper: Canson 250 g/m² --> nice and thick

PRICE: 15€  (+ 8€ for every additional character)
If you want the original to be shipped to you the additional fee is 2€

FORM OF PAYMENT:
only PayPal

EXAMPLES:








If you are interested in other kind of commissions here is the info: [link]
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

I've been bumping into this more an more so I decided to share my RAEG.

So there is  this group of people on dA who take some already existing art and cut out the backgrounds. That's all. They find some artwork, usually anime fanart, cut the background out, add their own watermark and BAM post it to their galleries  as a free to use stocks without the permission of the original authors.
What's most infuriating there is almost always a disclaimer such as this one :


Oi, dumbfucks! Yes I'm talking to you. Why should anyone credit you for something that you did not create. You've contributed nothing. You've cut the background out, something that in most cases, can be done basically automatically by a computer program with a little to no human assistance.

The whole dA's category for stock renders is flooded with this shit --> [link]

I'm sorry but I was under the impression that a render is a 2d image generated from a 3d model.  That or shading and texturing an image.
I 've never associated the world "render" with papercutting on a  kindergarten level.


I just don't get why people do it. It's not creative, no new artwork is produced in the process. They are just bastardising already existing works.

I know that many people in the situation like this are up in arms against the site admins. This time I do not think admins are to blame. I think it is  a well known fact that to get a stolen art removed from dA for 100% , the original artist has to be the one reporting it. Unfortunately the "render community" is bypassing it simply by editing works of artists outside of dA. Admins have their arms tied when finding the original author is pretty much impossible.

I don't know, it's just pissing me off when I see how fast this cancerous render community is growing. There are so many groups centred around this bullshit, just to name a few:


On a final note I would like to stress that I'm not trying to shit over the photomanipulation community. I myself love  ambitious and elaborate photomanips. Let's remember though that there is a huge difference between a complicated piece that is skilfully blending dozens of proper stock photos into one harmonious artwork  and cutting a background out of a drawing without the permission of the original creator.

What do you think? Have you also noticed it?  Is it acceptable ? If not who should take care of it? Admins or maybe the general dA community should be less accepting?  Can anything be done? Maybe it's just a natural by-product  of a developing community? I'm just wondering what do you think.

PS. Just as a reminder :
FAQ #8: What are violations of the deviantART copyright policy?
FAQ #217: What are "Stock and Resources" and can I use them in my submissions?
FAQ #306: Does "Crediting" let me use whatever I want?
PPS. people using renders for manipulation without the consideration for the original artists are just as bad *coughpokeballscough*

This is a black Tuesday for dA. All my favourite accounts are getting banned one after another. First and a good chunk of it's members including the fabulous and . And now even

I will have to  completely  reorganise my breakfast schedule because of some overzealous admin. Usually I wake up,  prepare nomnoms, settle in front of the computer and search for some morning drama.  butthurtbrigade was one of my favourite places to acquire my morning dose of concentrated baawws. Now when it is gone  I will be forced to actively search for the dramas elsewhere and I don't like that.

My  breakfast should look like this:


And now for a few days will look like this. Which is mostly inconvenient and you should care because...umm...yes, because yes.

Thank you so much for all the wonderful birthday wishes guys!   I'll try to respond to all the notes and as many of the profile page comments as possible before the end of the week.

Special thanks for all the birthday drawings goes to

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And big thanks to who prolong my dA subscription

Some of you asked me how was my birthday. The answer is - pretty sucky. I had to spent the whole weekend working to meet the deadline of a contest. I went to sleep at 8 am but I made it. God bless coffee and being young. Hopefully I'll make up for it this weekend. I'll get drunk or something.

Recently I've run across many very young users on dA. I'm just curious how many of my watchers are 12 and younger? If you are please comments here. Come on, don't be shy. You'll get a cookie

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EDIT

We've handed out 6 !cookies so far if you know what I mean

I was going trough old binders and found some of my ancient "art". Some of it was hilariously bad so of course, being shameless as I am, now it's time to share.

This is how I was drawing when I was a teenager, something around 15-17.

Behold my weaboo phase! Yes, I was drawing animu. I never got a good grip on that style so it's all hideous.


kawaii desu ne?

That hand. That space between eyes. That fabric, hair, expression,  composition ...well everything.


The next few images I would call "look at me, imma ahrtis for realz" series.


Deep. Deep as a puddle.

Remember kids. If you fail at anatomy just add random lines. Random ass  lines make everything better. Yep.


Just look at this person's face. Don't you want to punch it? I do, so very very much.


Dear, sixteen years old akreon, you fucking suck.  Don't ever come back.

Streaming now! [link]

So there was this plushie that I really liked when I was a kid. It was my favourite plushie. I've nicknamed him Placek (Pancake in Polish). He got thrown away nearly 10 years ago by the evil beast also know as my mum. I still miss him tough. This is exactly how he looked like:


I'm offering 500 for finding a picture of this kind of toy and 1000   for information where they can still be bought.
It was produced in late 80's or early 90's. If there are still some of these in existence this is probably the only way to catch a trail of them.

I'm having a huge nostalgia trip here. I miss my Pancake!

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found it! Now I know where to search for Pancake


I would like to thank all of you who were so nice and tried to help. The response this journal got is simply amazing! Thank you once agian!

Just sharing some goodies

Pewno Ci z was którzy są bardziej oblatani widzieli co w ostatnich tygodniach i miesiącach działo się z PIPĄ i SOPĄ w starym dobrym USA? No więc właśnie teraz mamy podobnego smroda na własnym podwórku o wdzięcznej nazwie ACTA. Najogólniej rzecz ujmując straszny bubel prawny co przypełzł z zachodu i w będzie nam bruździł w internecie. Cenzura, inwigilacja, naruszanie prywatności, wolne media dostają po dupie i cała masa innych przyjemności. Tu macie filmiki żeby się wkręcić w temat:
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Ustawa będzie głosowana 26 stycznia (czwartek)
Chujostwo oprotestowywane będzie 24 we wtorek w godzinach 16:00 -19:00. Więcej szczegółów dla różnych miast:
www.facebook.com/events/231718760242341/  - Warszawa
www.facebook.com/events/215317315225357/ - Kraków
www.facebook.com/events/174048566035586/ - Lublin
www.facebook.com/events/174451399329583/ - Poznań
www.facebook.com/events/174724099301513/ - Katowice
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www.facebook.com/events/349441668418318/ - Olsztyn
www.facebook.com/events/327134550660857/ - Sosnowiec
www.facebook.com/events/136075406511048/ - Łódź
www.facebook.com/events/280653448656301/ - Szczecin
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www.facebook.com/events/135063449946747/ - Opole
www.facebook.com/events/277715198961253/ - Jastrzębie-Zdrój
www.facebook.com/events/180049205428002/ - Lubięcin
www.facebook.com/events/214278065333774/ - Radom

Ruchy kluchy leniwe! Ja się wybieram i zachęcam wszystkich którym leży na sercu przyszłość polskiego internetu.


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For the non polish speakers - this Thursday the lovely ACTA bill will be voted in Poland. We are rather not very keen to that idea. That's why I'm passing on the info about the protests.