Plant mutant
Higher-res: https://sta.sh/01gaf9j555ya
"When you push against nature it tends to push back. This is what happened with the Damnates decores plant which had been a nuisance in some areas. It never became a legitimate danger to any towns as it was mostly confined to its natural habitats, damp caves, ruins and old graveyards. In time, many uses were found for the plants flowers and sap in alchemy and medicine. Eventually a different strain of the plant began to appear, this strain wasn't usable in the same processes as the old strain and was therefore mostly left ignored. Eventually however more and more accounts of the Damnates Decores related deaths began to crop up. As the older strain was harvested to near extinction while this new strain was able to thrive make its more aggressive and opportunistic tendencies become apparent. Instead of passively waiting for prey this new strain instead actively seeks it out, making it a danger to towns that are nearby its natural habitat.
Description of the older strain can be found on the following page: https://www.deviantart.com/deviation/630066284
Love your art! When you have new art you should consider posting it here for a short exclusive period first before posting to deviant or other online sources - if you follow this advice, clearly label your post in the title and post body as original to Steem. Many folks here like to reward content that is original to Steem because it helps boost the relative search ranking strength of Steem if content is indexed here first on Google. Just my two cents :)
Absolutely love your art though. May be interested in a commission or two myself for a pen and paper RPG adventure I am working on. Do you have info on rates somewhere or should we discuss on chat or something? I am @carlgnash on steemit.chat and @gnashster on Discord chat. Cheers - Carl
That is good information to know. I didn't know that where it was indexed first was a factor
Yeah a lot of curators specifically look for original-to-Steem content, which is another level beyond just "original" content (which could have been posted elsewhere first). Myself I don't mind if someone crossposts elswhere if they are posting content here while it is still "fresh" but I typically don't upvote reposts of old content unless I think the poster is really promising and I want to give some encouragement to stay on platform and post new stuff here. But really, there is no reason NOT to post on Steem first and wait a few days before posting elsewhere - it is pretty unlikely that you will get paid (US dollar equivalent) $100s for art posted elsewhere, but it happens here all the time. Cheers - Carl
Many thanks! Glad to hear you dig my stuff and thanks for the info too! I really had no idea that people check up on things like that, ahah, but I guess that on a site where upvotes give you currency, people will be a bit more informed about what they will give upvotes to.
I am currently in the process of uploading some of my better works from my gallery here, so I will inevitably post some older works (I treat my blog here as kind of my gallery, not sure if that is frowned upon here though). With the newer pieces I try to upload them here as well when I upload them onto my deviantart page. Though giving my steemit page some timed exclusivity is something I could do, I would feel a bit iffy about it, as I feel I want to show appreciation to some of my oldest supporters on deviantart by posting art there first, as that is where I initially began posting art.
If ya are interested in a commission please do check out this info sheet which should give you a good idea how I work with commissions :) https://themefinland.deviantart.com/art/Commission-info-sheet-701536292
Awesome thanks! Going to check out the commission sheet now. Of course (re)posting your own older work is not a problem, but general best practice here would be to note in that case where it was posted first. You will find a lot of funny little unwritten rules and idiosyncrasies of Steem, many of them as you noted stemming from the fact that we are talking about actual money when it comes to upvotes and flags (downvotes). There is a TON of plagiarism here of all varieties, so always good to see an awesome original content creator like yourself come on board! Good luck here!
May be in touch soon RE commission :)
Good to know! And yeah, I have noticed the plagiarism aspect of the site, already had a few people asking me for proof that I am the person who I am claiming to be. I also found out about this site because I was told that someone was reposting my work here, haha!
Hey you should think about what your hourly rate would be in STEEM (if you would accept this form of c urrency) :)
Interesting proposition! Though, at the moment, I probably wont be able to accept STEEM as a form of payment as I can't really buy food or pay for rent with it, ahah. I have invested some of my money into cryptocurrencies, but right now I consider them more in the sense of stocks or funds, you know, things I really can't do anything with but which have some monetary value attached which will maybe rise. Also getting paid 100 bucks on Monday and have said 100 bucks be worth 50 bucks on Friday when rent is due kinda sucks too, haha!
For smaller scale projects, like speedpaints and sketches I could probably accept STEEM, as even if the value of STEEM falls I wouldn't be in financial trouble.
I am actually totally serious in my interest in some commissions but all the disposable "cash" I have is in the form of cryptocurrencies. You will also find LOTS of people on this platform with similar situation - basically flush with cash, but all in crypto. Look into the bitpay card - it costs $10 US equivalent in bitcoin and I would be perfectly happy to give you enough STEEM to turn into bitcoin to pay for the card, if it meant I could commission and pay in cryptos. Once you have a Bitpay card I could just pay in bitcoin by sending the bitcoin to your card's wallet address - when you load the Bitpay card with bitcoin, it loads it with the current market value of the coin. In other words, if the market drops, you wouldn't lose your payment (but also if the market gains, you don't get that gain - whatever the market value was at the time you load the bitcoin onto the card, is the amount of money you have to spend on your card). The Bitpay card is a Visa debit card that functions in every respect like a Visa debit card.
Huh, interesting! I haven't heard of that before, I'll have to look into that and see if it is something I could use. Thanks for the info!
No prob, I personally use the Bitpay card and it has worked great for me. You also might want to look into the TenX app, it does not work in the US so I do not have personal experience there but I am guessing from your user name here and on deviant that there is a strong chance you are not American :) If it works in your country TenX has a "digital card" option that basically turns your smartphone into a debit card that you can use similarly to the Bitpay card, but costs even less to set up. Please do let me know if and when you can accept cryptos as payment :)
I sent you a tip in SBD :) I believe the amount I sent would be enough to convert to BTC, pay the small fee to do that, and then still have enough to pay for a Bitpay card and the fee to send the BTC to Bitpay to get started. You are of course under no obligation to use the SBD I just sent in this manner and should think of it as a welcome gift :) I honestly hope to be able to commission you in the future with crypto and would pay for at least one larger detailed commission and a few smaller ones, and possibly more :) You rock!
Oh hey thanks a dozen! I appreciate it! I'll have to investigate if and how I could arrange this in the most sensible way possible when I got some spare time to spend!
This is wicked. Big fan of the energy you have in this composition. It looks like the Damnates Decores has graduated from nuisance to Overlord. Great job. I'm following for more.
Many thanks! Composition is one of those magical things that I enjoy exploring and is something I really want to try to push in some future experiments in art!
Best wishes in your compositional exploration.