kerravonsen | Entries tagged with art

I heard back from Zazzle, and they said that the BBC had complained - though as someone said in my previous post on this, it seems strange that they would target me, and perhaps someone ratted on me. Whatever.
I pointed out their inconsistent policy application, and they thanked me for pointing out TOS violations. The products in question haven't been taken down (yet) but they might still be. If they aren't, that would be blatently unfair, rather than negligently unfair. We shall see.

Since I went to all the trouble of setting up my Zazzle store, I decided to put up some non-fannish stuff. Only one t-shirt so far, based on a lovely fractal I made using Evolvotron (a fractal-exploration program). Not sure what else I'll do; maybe some more fractals.

Current Mood: okay
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/708752.html

This is part of the letter I got in response to my first query (but not my second, they haven't responded to that yet)

Generally speaking, we cannot fulfill any orders containing a copyright or trademark protected title, name, or image. Examples of infringing material include:

--pictures or names of celebrities
--names of characters from books, films, or television shows
--titles of books, feature films, television shows, or magazines
--images from films, television shows, video games, or the internet

So it seems that they are applying their TOS - "pictures or names of celebrities" and "names of characters from books, films or television shows" and "titles of books, feature films, television shows or magazines" - but they are still applying it unfairly and inconsistently.

Current Mood: aggravated
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/707410.html

Zazzle, in their "wisdom" have removed every single one of my designs for "content violation". Even my "I'll explain later" shirt, which doesn't even contain illos. Apparently (according to their form letter) "Design contains an image or text that infringes on intellectual property rights. We have been contacted by the intellectual property right holder and at their request we will be removing your product from Zazzle???s Marketplace due to intellectual property claims"

WHAT?

Someone can have multiple designs which say "BOB is a sacred name" and I can't have one that says "I'll explain later"?

I suspect it's because I tagged it with the phrase "doctor who". Colour me confused, considering that redbubble has a completely different attitude to things like that - they even have a Doctor Who themed "community" on their site.

So, sorry everyone, you can't buy t-shirts from me, because they've removed them all.

Sh*t.

ETA: What is so completely unfair is that there are other people on zazzle who have Doctor-Who themed things, which are tagged as "doctor who" and they haven't been attacked. The "BOB is a sacred name" is tagged with "doctor who", and "This is a detonator" is tagged with "doctor who", and I think I even saw one with a Dalek on it (but I can't find it now). NOT FAIR!

Current Mood: distressed
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/707309.html

Many years ago, I got myself an account on DeviantArt so that I could make comments. Today (after much renaming and zipping) I uploaded my first "works" to my account. I put "works" in quotes because they aren't works per se; they're Gimp brushes designed for LJ user-icons, fancy borders. I figured more people would find my brushes that way.

I am at http://kerravonsen.deviantart.com/ if any of you want to take a look.

As for putting anything else up there, I'm unsure, as I keep on getting mixed messages about whether DeviantArt is evil or okay. Any advice, folks?

Current Mood: tired
Crossposts: http://kerravonsen.livejournal.com/705157.html

tardis_bigbang is live! Lots of juicy Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane stories! With art!
Go, read, comment!

I did one of the pieces of cover art for the story "The Centre of the Universe" by Azar.

Current Mood: excited

Well, I've spent most of today battling with the RedBubble upload system, but with the (yay) result that I have added ~~two~~ three more Doctor Who t-shirts, and also ten Blake's 7 t-shirts (one for each main humanoid character except for Travis II). All of these are simply portraits, no words, because I thought that would be generally more appealing, but if anyone has a special request for a caption, I might be able to make versions with captions. Not every t-shirt has enough room left over for a caption, hence the "might" in the previous sentence.

Oh, the URL? Is http://kerravonsen.redbubble.com/

ETA: I've just finished doing a design based on my "Storm Crows" digital art. Added a very fancy border to it, like water ripples (yes, okay, so I'm on a water ripples streak...)

Current Mood: cold

My page on RedBubble now has two vaguely Doctor-Who-ish T-shirt designs! Well, I'm quoting the Doctor, anyway.

Current Mood: artistic

Following the example of

lizbee, I have joined RedBubble (http://www.redbubble.com/people/kerravonsen) but I haven't made any designs for it yet.

Current Mood: cold

Yesterday I went shopping, and wandered into a shop which I knew would be a temptation -- Riot Art & Craft -- and I bought things I didn't even know existed. Such as plain, undecorated present-bags (that is, heavy paper bags intended to put presents into, so that one doesn't have to wrap them, just put them in the bag). Anyway, the idea is to decorate the bags yourself, with fun things like stickers and glitter... so I bought them for fun (and some stickers and glitter too, of course). And this afternoon I decorated a few.
( the best two )

I have decided not to participate in

naarmamo this year, when I realized it was probably going to be more stressful than joyful -- not because of other people's expectations, but my own. And it's supposed to be fun. But I do want to do something arty, and I do want to stop giving myself excuses for not doing arty/crafty stuff... and I think I'd like to do a longer project, perhaps some crazy-patchwork, now that I have my sewing table cleared enough that I can see its surface. But a longer project will need some continuing encouragement to help keep me going until it's finished. Can you help me, oh flist?

Current Mood: tired

Instead of writing Buffy crossover drabbles like I should be doing, or other stuff, I took it into my head the past several days to create an Xfce window manager theme -- from scratch.
( Read more... )
I should probably go do something else.

Current Mood: creative

This is what I intend to do in the creative line next year (and maybe in the remainder of this year, depending on time):
( Read more... )
There are other things I would like to do, but I probably won't find the time for them.

Current Mood: thoughtful

I haven't been working on my finish-a-thon story. (sigh) Over the past few days I've been distracted and consumingly inspired to do wallpaper related to the story instead. And today I've gone to the hairdresser, had lunch at parents', and been trying to figure out what to pack.

This one is directly inspired:

And this one arose because my earlier versions of the Rose one, I was trying to do something with this symbol of Rassilon, and I decided to just do one with the symbol itself, instead.

Current Mood: rushed

I have not writted, but I have arted for my finish-a-thon. I'm hoping it will be inspirational. So here, mez amies, is wallpaper for my story:

Edited to add:
I couldn't resist doing another version:

Current Mood: artistic

I started working on one of my request icons, but ended up doing this instead:

Current Mood: artistic

And

naarmamo is almost over. This one has whizzed past, and I did cool stuff! Here's today's, which is an emendation of yesterday's.

Current Mood: tired

naarmamo Day 26: the first of the icon requests.

Yay
A happy icon made for

jthijsen

Current Mood: tired

naarmamo continues; here be Day 21. This one is really cool, I think, made from scratch, digital stuff; a combination of a few techniques, so I made a tutorial too.

I actually did this yesterday, though I finished up the tutorial today.

Current Mood: tired

naarmamo. This time another green bookmark, of a slightly different design, which I finished last night. I'm pleased because I managed to colour-correct the scan so that it was the proper colour.