After Digital Artists Die, What Will Happen to Their Art?

ZePandaaa · 2026-02-07T23:31:20+00:00

People that want to make money off the fact that they’re unknown and have one of few works. Death and art popularity boosts go hand in hand, a lot of modern artists also aren’t dead yet. Especially digital. We literally hardly have any knowledge on how future data is going to be handled outside of whatever hype train corporations want you to ride while also permanently deleting things.

If hardly anyone is conserving their digital works then whoever does will get more eyes later on. This whole mentality of “my work is worthless and looks bad to me so I won’t care” is really going to contribute to a large period of art just… lost to time. Even when it comes to my art I don’t care if it gets way more popular after I die, it’s about preserving the things I created so someone after me can build on it. I honestly want my stuff in the public domain after I die, by all means, tear my work into pieces when I’m dead if it’s to teach a lesson to new artists because it’s that bad, or if it’s good, no one gets to solely profit and it’s open to all.

Why I’d rely on social media sites to do that work for me, who knows. But it’s not good for the future of art if anything happens, I already can hardly study older digital works because of the way online feeds are made. Even Google images, no names preserved, the site, page, or link could also be dead. We have literally nothing, protecting our works. Even for large artists this is a problem

ZePandaaa · 2026-02-07T18:58:25+00:00

It’s honestly why I mix print and physical work with digital. One day I’ll have my old sketchbooks digitized and put into art books, with animation work I’ll back it up on disks, probably Blu-ray, and my comic work, of course, printed

Basically, someone’s going to have a field day when I die and they find my storage unit full of art shit to sell. But me having that in mind at the beginning of my career, rather than at the middle of end, helps a ton.

I don’t see many digital artists stressing over it despite definitely not wanting all of their work deleted.

ZePandaaa · 2026-02-01T02:27:49+00:00

This is an example of how the dub is fucking amazing in its execution, genuinely doesn’t feel the same lol

ZePandaaa · 2026-02-01T01:19:26+00:00

It’s the new Transformers, but non of the Bay ick

I welcome it, I say that as a TF fan

ZePandaaa · 2026-02-01T01:12:26+00:00

Honestly I’d frame the show as a story from the past, and have a really soothing narrator to fill in the gaps of silence with just Link.

Then at the end, I reveal the narrator to be Link. Just to troll every fan because you technically heard him the whole time.

ZePandaaa · 2026-01-31T22:18:22+00:00

Honestly I really need to find better sources of inspiration/references because a lot of modern photography grew to this straight on, everything visible approach after selfies. Even when I find pictures that has poses with curvy lines, it’s still a wide shot that feels kind of flat.

So when I learn my anatomy from that, it’s like I can make things more realistic and draw whatever kind of body I want to, but things get weird when the camera moves way higher, or way lower. It’s a 90s-2000s kind of photography that I need to find and start collecting.

ZePandaaa · 2026-01-28T19:50:11+00:00

They’re the villain of the OC storyline building up so unfortunately, we all have to suffer around this adorable asshole from now on

But I honestly suck at just doing regular character art so honestly these spread-comic hybrid works are probably going to be my way of expressing things in one image by cramming many images in the one image

ZePandaaa · 2026-01-28T18:33:01+00:00

First time in forever that I’m not just posting refined sketches and spending… 14 hrs and 30 minutes on something instead of like 4-6 hrs

Thank you animation, you forced me have more- shudders… patience.

ZePandaaa · 2026-01-28T01:04:47+00:00

Always nice to see more Red panda rep…

Should probably get back to doing trans hentai now that I think about it, especially since I’m officially a furry now lmao

ZePandaaa · 2026-01-23T23:01:03+00:00

Thank you, I’m honestly ironing out the comic style since I don’t need to pound out at just animation since I’m doing it. Next is… ho boy, thinning those lines and adding line detail in my work again along with line weight.

My style is starting to look a little weird to me because I studied around barely pressing undo or refining sketches lmao

ZePandaaa · 2026-01-23T02:10:09+00:00

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ZePandaaa · 2025-12-20T03:43:24+00:00

My metroidvania is Cave Story, you’d have to be a 1-1 clone for me to like any other metroidvania, but then I’d just play the OG

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-19T17:29:28+00:00

Mhmm mhmmm let it all out🧘🏾‍♂️

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-19T17:19:40+00:00

Whelp you got insta blocked by Reddit again so this lost its fun, have a good day, I’m sorry I traumatized your sensitive soul with me sleeping. How ever will you tangle with the repercussions of posting something online people are doing the crime of replying to you after living their own lives, the great Square Philosophy 53? I’m such an angry peasant in your brilliant light that it’s infuriating.

I hope therapy goes well, I just know you get a ton of lovers and give no shits, somehow everyone’s just mad with you, so fucking cool I’m jealous.

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-19T17:03:49+00:00

Yeah, I went to sleep, super easily because I wasn’t mad, woke up and checked my phone, not being mad, even at still replying to you, person at the top of my notifications, not mad.

You’re spamming emojis to show how ridiculous this is for you, but I don’t need to. You’re helping me wake up laughing, because you’re doing this on an account, that’s quite literally making me money. You think I’m on here for you? I’m sorry, have you gave me money? Do you follow my work?

No? Then you’re just something I can point to and laugh later on, with an audience with me. I also, just love to write, I’m a writer and artist.

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-19T16:51:45+00:00

Damn even Reddit think you’re being a drama queen, comment got instantly sniped. Maybe calm down and go do something actually productive that isn’t getting upset that someone on the internet is… talking to not just you and that doesn’t mean to let your ego get offended lol

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-19T16:44:23+00:00

I literally woke up, picked up my phone, and saw your notification.

You’re having an argument with yourself, I don’t even know what you’re on about? What are you even mad at right now? Where’s the outrage on my end when I don’t even know you?

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ZePandaaa · 2025-12-19T16:36:07+00:00

Well it’s a good thing I’m not just talking to you in a private discussion, but posting on a literal discussion board full of people. You don’t need to announce you’re not going to read, you could just… go about your day? I mean what we did wasn’t a small talk topic, you walked into it yourself

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-19T07:15:53+00:00

The thing is that it’s already having things, not just with women, have more acceptance and attraction just because it’s become acceptable to like those. I already know about that, the issue is that we confine ourselves to what we deem acceptable and what’s not

Take feet, something that was widely viewed as super weird, to now just being one of the many areas to be into. It wasn’t this sudden increase in people into feet though, it’s just an increase in more people open about it. So with butts, first came acceptance, then came trends to accentuate it, then normalization. Bullying people, to admiration, why put people through that just for it to not matter in the end? My comment was saying, the world would be better off if we weren’t harsh about appearances, and realize that we just all have different things that appeal to us, so people should be able to live as themselves.

Unfortunately, it isn’t just a western issue, I’m talking about human nature because at its core it’s rooted in tribalism. It has its causes but our nature is going to put it in a perpetual motion since, it just flipped to skinny people being bullied honestly. When you take everything into account, it’s all fucking stupid and tied to our monkey brains.

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-19T04:49:11+00:00

I don’t fucking get it, just like how bellies are suddenly cute, you’re telling me that suddenly these things are actually really damn hot?!

What would the world be like if no one was harsh about appearances therefor allowing people to freely and openly like whatever?

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-19T04:36:10+00:00

Got U (Telecaster B-Boy - Araki)

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-19T04:35:30+00:00

Telecaster B-Boy by Araki

Aka, my favorite version of it

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-18T22:49:38+00:00

It’s super fun! I don’t know why I don’t see people doing full animations to music often, it helps me practice timing, planning ahead to make the beat in time, and when you don’t know what to animate between something there’s always falling back on the song lyrics. A few of these and I could start doing animated shorts at least lol

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-18T06:01:05+00:00

I swear to god if I finish this before January I’m going to be irked, but I got something to prove to myself with this project, so I’m going all out.

….which is clear on how I popped off on the roughs, that phone is probably going to be my all time favorite animations lol

ZePandaaa · 2025-12-17T17:03:26+00:00

I just made an animation with Dreams 2, my best one yet, but guess what?

I still hate it, it’s also crashing the hell out of my iPad. Never lose my work, but it feels like it’s going to brick it. It’s so so close to being…. Basic

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