@TimeLime That advice sucks.

@libreoffice Not bad, that's only two years or so of implicitly supporting a fascist. Better late than never.

Triple bonus points for removing the X link from your website though. Well done!

@tantramar @Emmacox @astronomerritt me too. If they're really irritating my response is "yeah, as a visitor."

@tantramar @Emmacox @astronomerritt True dat. But then again, the photo is evidence of your process, which will be of great interest when you're a world-famous artist featured at the Louvre, so a copy of that photo is available for the low-low discount price of $2000.

@tantramar @Emmacox @astronomerritt Ah but he did want it.

And yeah I've done that:
A: How much?
Me: $200
A: Will you take $150?
Me: No, but I will take $250.
A: Huh? How about $175?
Me: $300 sounds good.
A: How come your price keeps going up, that's not how this works!
Me: it reflects the cost of dealing with people like you, wasting my valuable time. Now $400.
A: Fuck you!
Me: have the day you so richly deserve.

@tantramar @Emmacox @astronomerritt This is where salesmanship comes in. If he had a stately house, it wasn't about the money, it was about perceived value, not of the art so much, but of you as an artist. I'd be "I know it might seem like a lot now, but just think of how many times you'll appreciate this work over the years. $200 probably comes out to less than a cent every time it gives you a good feeling." This puts the value back on the work itself.

Another one I tell painters to use when someone says "how long did it take you to paint this?" is to respond with their current age in years. One's art is the sum of their experiences, not the time it takes to put them to canvas.

@Emmacox @tantramar @astronomerritt I had someone say "your watermark makes the image ugly." I responded "not so ugly that you can't figure it out. Don't like the watermark? Buy the fucking image."

Seriously, the "hey, make it easier for me to steal your work" approach does not get a kind response.

@tantramar @Emmacox @astronomerritt Yeah, I checked with my landlord. He doesn't take exposure as a form of payment. Can I add your name to the lease instead?

@tantramar @astronomerritt @Emmacox Oh the number of people who genuinely believe that anything on the internet is effectively public domain is truly absurd.

I put stuff that's 1024px or less up with an obvious watermark and explicitly make it CC-SA-NC licensed. Anything bigger than that does not get uploaded to a public site (and very few "private" sites as well, just suppliers).

@tantramar @astronomerritt @Emmacox The idiot probably thought he was helping! Sure, stuff on the net gets redistributed but FFS at least credit the creator.