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the great krad art dump
I don't usually post art things here buuuuut y'all may enjoy this one:
enjoy a free gift of a whoppin' 1.29 GB file collection of nine years / 2440+ pieces of my artwork. :') Including ~all~ old works that were paywalled on patreon, many i'll never post online, and a whole ass comic pitch.
zip link on mediafire // ( contains nsfw art )
man i feel really good?? it feels strangely momentous in the sense i'm putting my whole ass out there, like, sheesh, nine years of art with some pretty private doodles added in there was something I slept on for a few days to really make sure I wanted to do this. came back from the mountain trip thinking about abstract-isms like "legacy" and "now that i've completed promotion goals, what do i want to be known as, art wise" n' that kind of long term thinky-thoughts. how can i truly put my money where my mouth is, and after framing it like that, it kinda became a "why haven't I done this before?" no-brainer.
i just hope i don't end up regretting it (went though it several times to make sure NDA/private info was scrubbed). :v there's a handful of potentially controversial doodles (eg the usuals and the shota comic i was drawing once lol) but i kind of highly doubt an anti would take the effort to download ... shit .... and y'know look through it.
between moving to linux (hopefully! soon! found a IRL acquaintance who has the technical chops to help) and this, i'm starting to really sound like one of those old cranky 'open source all the things / information wants to be free!!' bros xD
enjoy a free gift of a whoppin' 1.29 GB file collection of nine years / 2440+ pieces of my artwork. :') Including ~all~ old works that were paywalled on patreon, many i'll never post online, and a whole ass comic pitch.
zip link on mediafire // ( contains nsfw art )
I made this dump publicly available for several reasons:
(1) I believe strongly in the old "information wants to be free" internet where monetization was a cancer. Posting *all* of my work publically (and therefore rendering it unmonetizable) is the finest and most incisive "fuck you" to every corporation and corrosive grifter I can imagine as of now. (Let me know if you find of a finer one.)
(2) I wish for this to be a profound and more abstract encouragement to artists who are just starting in their drawing lives -- whether out of passion, career, defiance, in service to a cause or something alltogether different. You do not have to fit a "brand" to be an artist, and I encourage you to actively strive away from one. I started my creative life drawing random ass game characters as a middle school student. I am now a design manager for a brand you've heard of, been published, invited to a gallery show, had my work torrented, and still drawing random ass game characters. Live your dreams. :)
(3) I imagine my site (kradeelav.com) to be a stable home for my art during my lifespan; but in the unforseen event of censorship or the site going down for unforseen events, may this dump be a living, practical, -- and honest --legacy.
(4) Seeing other artist's dumps -- particularly ones that don't shy away from shitty teenage doodles, erotics, or earnestness -- is always fun, and I'd like to pay forward.
(1) I believe strongly in the old "information wants to be free" internet where monetization was a cancer. Posting *all* of my work publically (and therefore rendering it unmonetizable) is the finest and most incisive "fuck you" to every corporation and corrosive grifter I can imagine as of now. (Let me know if you find of a finer one.)
(2) I wish for this to be a profound and more abstract encouragement to artists who are just starting in their drawing lives -- whether out of passion, career, defiance, in service to a cause or something alltogether different. You do not have to fit a "brand" to be an artist, and I encourage you to actively strive away from one. I started my creative life drawing random ass game characters as a middle school student. I am now a design manager for a brand you've heard of, been published, invited to a gallery show, had my work torrented, and still drawing random ass game characters. Live your dreams. :)
(3) I imagine my site (kradeelav.com) to be a stable home for my art during my lifespan; but in the unforseen event of censorship or the site going down for unforseen events, may this dump be a living, practical, -- and honest --legacy.
(4) Seeing other artist's dumps -- particularly ones that don't shy away from shitty teenage doodles, erotics, or earnestness -- is always fun, and I'd like to pay forward.
man i feel really good?? it feels strangely momentous in the sense i'm putting my whole ass out there, like, sheesh, nine years of art with some pretty private doodles added in there was something I slept on for a few days to really make sure I wanted to do this. came back from the mountain trip thinking about abstract-isms like "legacy" and "now that i've completed promotion goals, what do i want to be known as, art wise" n' that kind of long term thinky-thoughts. how can i truly put my money where my mouth is, and after framing it like that, it kinda became a "why haven't I done this before?" no-brainer.
i just hope i don't end up regretting it (went though it several times to make sure NDA/private info was scrubbed). :v there's a handful of potentially controversial doodles (eg the usuals and the shota comic i was drawing once lol) but i kind of highly doubt an anti would take the effort to download ... shit .... and y'know look through it.
between moving to linux (hopefully! soon! found a IRL acquaintance who has the technical chops to help) and this, i'm starting to really sound like one of those old cranky 'open source all the things / information wants to be free!!' bros xD
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Good luck with the Linux move! I use Linux mint on my laptop and haven’t had any problems with it, as a complete non-tech-person who only uses it for “ew, why would I pay for an operating system when Linux exists and is both libre/gratuit” reasons. But I also don’t use my laptop for anything particularly demanding, haha.
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that's reassuring to hear with your experience for linux mint! :D yeah, taking a stab at kubuntu, as I know there's a way to get paint tool sai + wacom pen pressure to work on it, which is the only other big worry for me aside from the usuals of like, having internet, having winamp, that kind of basic user experience. would be lovely if there was more of a concerted movement with people moving off of win/mac to free platforms given the sheer nuttery going on in those companies.
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Goddamn I love everything about this dude, I love the style of your announcement graphic, I love all your reasons behind making this public dump, and I goddamn love your art and haven't had the pleasure of seeing any of your earlier stuff pre-tumblr era so this will be a huge treat!
I'm gearing up to do an art dump of my own later tonight, I've been wanting to do art dumps again for years and this just really reminded me of -why- I wanted to do that, both because it was fun, and because there's something both vulnerable but also authentic about sharing a lot of art that isn't your newest, or your best and most curated, or that is in fact rather personal or even older! I think it's especially important for younger artists to stumble across the progress made by artists they may like online or look up to, especially.
Zarla's art dumps in particular have been a huge influence on my early internet art sharing and style of blogging too, she regularly posts giant round ups of scans from her sketchbooks and hosted pages upon pages of simple text links to hundreds of individually cropped images scanned in from middle, high school and college sketchbooks on her fan sites that I used to spend hours going through and looking at after in my free time.
This is a damn good legacy dude, kudos!
That was just how art was shared back in the day, nothing was cleaned up, people had their asses hanging out in a different way back then.
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100% yes to what you were also saying about art dumps - the whole ... not-curated part of it is so true. i tried getting to that point with the logs (and i think it's working up to a point), but there's nothing like just throwing it all out there including the half-finished stuff, and in some ways the years of distance between me and the pre 2016 stuff helps a lot to not be attached.
Can't wait for your own, as mentioned on discord!!! :D
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