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No. 1013825
Heya art nerds! It's time for the second thread dedicated to everyone's favorite jealous, self-absorbed con artist and her beautiful all-ages watercolor comic, 7" Kara.
Becca Hillburn is an artist and art supply reviewer currently living in Nashville, TN with her living ATM/fiancee. She's behind the blog Nattosoup as well as her very own YT channel. Her primary claim to 'fame' used to be art supply reviews and field tests, but now she's most known for her bitterness and mediocrity. Egotistical and whiny to a fault, she'd rather sit back and play pretend art teacher to her 2-3 student workshops and sell 2 dollar prints at 12 cons a year than use her Masters to get an actual day job. Her primary personality trait is her two-facedness, presenting as a pleasant and helpful teacher upfront while harboring whiny resentment and bitterness beneath. She's also the artist behind '7" Kara' - an all-ages webcomic about Becca's ADHD self-insert ripping of The Borrowers and Thumbelina, rendered in muddy watercolors that she could totally do digitally. Becca shills the fuck out of this comic, going so far as to get physical copies printed for her to sell at cons and donate to lending libraries.
Previously
>Has been on YT for several years but even with her 'popular' blog cannot manage to break 10k subs. The vast majority of her videos hardly make it over 300 views.>Nothing is ever her fault. Blames 'baby artists' and fans for depending on her too much without giving her anything in return (as in, not throwing money and love at her feet).>Considers herself a watercolor expert despite her muddy, poorly-mixed colors and weak grasp on composition. >SCAD alumni. Apparently didn't network enough to land an industry job out of school. >Allegedly used to spend 7k a month on video editing - even though her videos are meandering, rambling, poorly shot messes. >Obsessed art supply hoarder. Begs her fans to email art supply companies on her behalf to send her free shit then turns around to complain about having no room for any more. >Goes on about her ADHD so far as to make an entire vlog series about how it sux to be hur guise.>Actively resents her tiny pool of viewers and students, talking shit behind their back about how they don't support her enough.>Made her obviously uninterested fiance 'interview' her at a cons… Just so she go on rants about how underappreciated and overworked she is.>Has a hateboner for the online stationery retailer Jetpens.com (which she insists is an art supply store) because they refused to send her PR after she harassed them for it. Claims that she's single-handedly responsible for popularizing them, despite Jetpens being an established retailer before she started giving them 'free promo' at cons. She vagueblogs about them on a regular basis despite following their official social media accounts. Recent milk
>Former friend of Kasey Golden and is very jealous of her success.>Has made a name for herself on the con scene for her catty behavior and being the very portrait of Dunning-Kruger effect>Claims that her struggle comic would've been more successful if it were written by her now-husband>Launched 7" Kara vol. 2 Kickstarter>Committed objectophilia by marrying her long suffering ATM>Still can't paint worth a shitFirst thread
>>>/snow/1012086Social media links
https://nattosoup.artstation.com/https://twitter.com/Nattosouphttps://nattosoup.blogspot.com/Kickstarter for 7 Inch Kara vol. 2
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beccahillburn/7-inch-kara-volume-2 No. 1013857
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so i just read the kickstarter page and… is she kidding with this shit? ANY comic book can "teach" any of these things better than 7" kara. except maybe "expression decoding", since it takes a fucking detective to figure out what any of her characters' facial expressions are supposed to mean
No. 1013865
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>>1013857What are expressions?
No. 1014010
Thanks for picking my edit for the thread pic OP! lol!
>>1013857>perspective Sure Becca. You can’t draw in perspective let alone write anything with it.
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No. 1014113
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>>1013865Bcs the muddiness just realized the lowest Naomi panel supposedly have her arm reaching out to Kara.
Has Becca ever seen a black person before? This is like a basic mistake.
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>>1014113Oh my god it is literally this image I could not figure out what the fuck that was supposed to be why aren’t there fingers
No. 1014245
>>1014218This thread started cuz she tried to start a flame war with jetpens claiming SHE was the one who brought them all their traffic so she should be compensated as such, like it was super obvious she was trying to either scam them for more free products as she had done like one review before, and/or is incredibly delusional of the skills and influence she has. It was pretty much both and then more came out about her shitty teaching and actually being a contributor on the very popular “How to Be a Con Artist” tumblr which she had very little relevant info other than how to sell $3 sketches at podunk anime cons in the Midwest.
Honestly if she just stayed in her lane and did the work, even tho she clearly isn’t doing it correctly nor is learning from her peers, instead of whining about how entitled she is to attention and fame because SHE has contributed to others and she’s the ONLY watercolor comic artist with her super original story EVER, she wouldn’t have a thread. This is lolcow and she pretty much is just full of cow behavior but without the audience. She’s entitled and bratty and thinks she’s owed fame and money cuz she bought a masters from SVA and she’s delusional to think that kids comics are some kind of niche market. Heck, her Kickstarter isn’t doing well but the average amount of pledges is like 45$. But her weird entitled bitterness is just prime cow behavior imo
No. 1014508
>>1014218I've actually seen some of her viral resource posts end up on my twitter feed. I think she gets traction from things like how to be a con artist because she is so loud, insistent on self promoting everywhere and trying to insert herself into as many projects and discourse as possible to promote her comic, but it doesn't materialize in following or views.
It's surprising she got noticed for the wrong reasons being this small, but it only speaks volumes on how she comes across. Either way a lot of people that get posted here have or had when they were first noticed even less "fame" than her. PT herself is a good example, she got a hate following after posting a crying meltdown over not fitting into a dress but she had an average sized following on LJ at the time.
This is not a place to gossip about famous people, you only to be noticed by the wrong crowd and she tries too hard to draw attention to herself while acting like everyone owes it to her. Be careful what you wish for, I guess.
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>>1013825Its a pandemic and no one is wearing masks at her wedding
No. 1015059
>>1014855She's unmedicated for some reason. And severe ADHD does suck to deal with when you are untreated. But there's no reason why she can't afford some 5 dollar generics of Concerta or Adderall or some shit even without insurance - it's just that she would rather spend her husband's money on shitty art supplies to make youtube reviews that no one watches.
>>1014847How does this cause her to lose out on "promoting" her kickstarter? She can spam Facebook while waiting at the mechanic to get that shit buffed out.
No. 1015096
>>1014855It’s funny cuz there’s lots of comics about having adhd, it’s pretty prevalent in the creative field and I have no doubt she’s probably retweeted an ADHD alien comic or something. Some people can manage it without medication but she clearly can’t if it keeps affecting her like that, plus she’s from the south and I doubt she even has health insurance to get any treatment. But she’s made that her identity since she can’t be comics senpai anymore cuz people know more about manga now than she does.
>>1014984Nah I think it’s like baylee Jae and her husband: we don’t know much about him but like, he’s not a helpless child he’s a fucking grown ass man so he could be just as awful or just likes to get stepped on or something.
>>1014508She’s really the epitome of like, the opposite of “just be a nice person and do the work“. Like, indie comics is a small ass crowd of people and kids comics even more so, like people tend to work with the same agents and publishers so we all run in the same circles (especially now cuz a lot of traditional pub houses have started to get more GN titles onboard). Having a rep of being a bitter and entitled pill even as a no-name small fry artist is not good, especially since that’s what her personality comes across as in her publicly available videos. She’s already going to have a shitty time trying to shop her book to publishers since she knows nothing about kids comics so she’s digging her own hole by just being a shitty person
No. 1015403
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Begga retweeted this. I’m honestly really surprised that she’s openly advertising her ‘beautiful watercolor’ comic to a kink community. She’s always the first to criticize anything that’s 18+ content, I guess she’s really just that desperate at this point
No. 1015514
>>1015403It’s not her making the tweet though but it is really yikes, especially cuz it’s about a CHILD and aimed at CHILDREN. But she was the one actively tagging the fetish and kink community in her posts so that’s on her really. Like it’s way more
problematic than like say the furry community cuz there’s more of a spectrum to it, this is actively sexualizing extreme size kink
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I spotted this note on the door on the wedding dress picture - "Dear(?) - did you take your medicine?"
No. 1015867
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Wow. Extremely bold of Becca to give the winning prize to a piece of art that looks 50x better than everything. If 7" Kara looked like that it might actually be halfway endearing.
She mentions that she checked for contest entries via a single Twitter tag and ended up missing entries after she'd already announced the winner of the contest. She sent a consolation prize for the error, but I can't help but wonder why she didn't have an official email or somewhere contestants could submit without worrying about human error? Even Becca's contests are janky and half assed.
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1/2
Kinda surprised no one brought up that she has to commission other (better skilled) artists for guest art for her book. I know she’s not directly using this art to promote the comic but commissioning people as it coincides with the Kickstarter makes it seem like she is trying to indirectly. Maybe it just seems that way to me.
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2/2
I bet she was hoping for this kind of quality art for her contest to cram in the book. Wonder if her husband is footing the bill for these as well.
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>>1015403Well look likes Becca's day has come, shes so desperate that anyone acknowledge her medicore comic that she's covertly pandering to the size kink community
No. 1015918
>>1015867I think it looks very similar to Becca's in skill level and even technique. That blotchy watercolor on Naomi looks just like the actual comic. It almost makes me think someone else (like her husband) drew it and Becca colored it
Maybe I'm reaching
No. 1015937
>>1015867Not to whiteknight but… there were so few rules in regard to her contest that people beeing to dumb to use the right hashtag shouldn't be compensated imho. I'm seriously surprised that people really took part in her contest in the first place. I could've bet she would've had no entries. lol
>>1015918Maybe, maybe not. Everytime there's an dtiys on Instagram there are a dozen people skinwalking the og artist. (Which misses the point of an dtiys but that's another thing.) So it could be just a Becca skinwalker. Although the way the colours clash looks an awful lot like her.
But, whoever drew this, Naomi's face is still creepy af. lol
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>>1015918I guess this is the artist? The links on their profile don’t work and I don’t really see any other recent samples of art on their profile so, meh. The coloring is just as bad as Becca’s tbh
No. 1015946
>>1015893Then Naomi puts a plate over Kara's bowl to watch her drown.
>>1015940This isn't great but I stand by it being better than Becca's by a mile. The composition and anatomy are fine. It looks like she was imitating Becca's unharmonious oversaturated color palette. It also looks like she either overworked her (cheap) paper or shaded in with a colored pencil.
No. 1016004
>>1015403That's the craziest shit I've seen her do so far. She used to rant and rave about anyone selling 18+ art near her at coventions and adult art being in collaboration fanzines… she must think this is a tag for tiny people stuff. Many older milennials like her have no idea how big the fetish community is.
It's still creepy to peddle a comic for children with a child protagonist to that audience, even more when the child is clearly an insert of her own child self
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>>1015946Yeah it at least has proper perspective so everything looks like it’s laying on the table and a slightly more understanding of anatomy in that the black girl’s fingers look more referenced but jeezus Christ, have these two white women never seen a black person before like, they both draw her either like generic anime but I referenced dark skin(Becca) or like a scary white person with slightly brown skin (this person)
plus I also peeped her profile, her site leads to nowhere and she hasn’t posted any art except this after 2015 but also promotes “art reviews” so she’s probably an IRL friend of hers? Her IG has more watercolor and besides this, which obviously looks like she was trying to emulate becca’s bad use of colors, she’s a pretty decent watercolor artist. If she’s learning watercolor from Becca tho she needs to stop asking her for advice
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>>1016010Should have said
did not reference dark skin cuz becca’s painting of naomi’s skin nearly gets into being racist cuz it doesn’t look real and looks like blackface/Zwarte Piet.
anyway tho this Taylor girl has better digital art than emulating Becca so girl, run from whatever this friendship is. Taylor you’re a much better artist by leagues
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If Kara art was more like this I think it'd be better received.
No. 1017533
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nightmare fuel
No. 1017814
>>1017803>>1017533Isnt she tagging all of these #gianttiny which is a fetish tag? I mean she's probably just an idiot, but she draws this very specific subject so much it wouldn't surprise me if this was a weird thing for her.
>>1017782I'm sure Bert will put their meager life savings into the rest of the kickstarter the night before it ends to head off the impending chimpening that's brewing on the horizon. Seriously, if that stupid thing doesnt get funded she is going to LOSE it.
No. 1017863
>>1017814She’s stopped tagging them with the fetish tag either cuz she’s still lurking here, someone told her on her discord, or she finally went into the tag and realized the implications of putting media about a young girl into a fetish tag can be pedophillic. I think it’s mostly the discord thing.
>>1017782For someone who doesn’t really have that much engagement, 5k IS a lot and she has a chance since kickstarters tend to see a lot of their funding at the beginning and the end of the campaign. I’ll be surprised if she does and all those backers don’t drop out by the time the money clears. But I also have adhd and failing is gonna set off her rejection dysphoria so I’m expecting an entitled blowout that it’s everyone else’s fault if it does fail.
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>>1017782At 6.5k now, wouldn't actually be surprised if she managed to get that last 1k now. I'm honestly surprised she's even managed to get past a couple hundred. She has such shit engagement all the time, yet managed to get just over 100 people to pledge, even two of them pledged to her highest tier.
No. 1018486
>>1018285I agree, and she probably asks every family member to show it to five friends, like an uwu watercolor pyramid scheme
I'm assuming it's mostly older folks who think it's cute and want to support her dream
No. 1018882
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“i shun fine art because my work isn’t considered as fine art”
No. 1019066
>>1018882It remind me of weebs who only draw anime and then complain when they have to study from life or from other artists
Maybe that's why Becca's art is so mediocre
No. 1019147
>>1018882excuse the refocus, but wtf is the lee person even talking about? literally every museum has info about the materials and techniques used, and most also have the rest of the shit she's talking about. a lot of times it's just moved to digital tours instead of being placed on a small ass plaque that way you don't have a crowd of people all trying to squint and read the same thing.
also kek there are several museums that specifically focus on comics? and most museums have regular showcases of comic art.
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Sad. I was looking forward to her chimping out over it lol. But who knows, maybe her “ADHD” will cause fulfillment issues.
No. 1019831
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The ego she has to call it a masterpiece…
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>>1019831Also the comments are always so hilariously indifferent
No. 1020638
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Ghibli-esque? Don't flatter yourself, Begga.
No. 1020759
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>>1020638Jesus Christ this is awful
No. 1022623
>>1021075Lol Bert is so quiet and compliant, and Becca is so blathering and over the top it makes me uncomfortable
I imagine their relationship is just her talking all the time about her comic dreams while he nods silently
No. 1023403
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>>1023378What the fuck is happening with her nose
No. 1023525
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>>1023403this nose isn't great, but it took like 1 minute, how hard is it to draw a simple nose/mouth that doesn't look like goblin spawn?
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>>1023403Homegirl looking like she's starring in an episode of Botched
No. 1023930
>>1023525I thought this was the actual drawing and was amazed it looked decent but then I scrolled back up and saw your edits are leagues better. Like the fucked up nose and mouth like has she even seen a person, especially a black person, before? She has this weird, “I don’t wanna be anime I wanna be UNIQUE” style that’s super offputting cuz the faces are all putty and no structure
This would be an ok rendering of a white woman if she just stopped too but I didn’t see it was supposed to be a black woman, no wonder the skin looks overworked to death when she’s layering that much color on top of paper that can’t take it. Like for someone that has so many colors in their palette too, can’t just start up with brown layers?
No. 1024038
>>1023403Dark skin is harder to render in watercolours, especially on lower quality paper. Mostly because with darker skin you want to be able to add extra washes to add depth. You can get away with cheaper paper for pale characters, usually, but with dark skinned characters the paper often starts speckling and doing weird paper tearing as you get towards a nice skintone.
I didn't even realise she did this sort of 'underpainting' for her art, because it doesn't show through. She'd be much better off just going straight into the dark skintone and shading from there to avoid overworking the paper. I guess she thinks she's a bit like Morgan Beem and can use underpainting as shading but boy does it not show or work for her.
No. 1027962
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Naomi skin looks ugly as usual and what is perspective
No. 1034720
>>1033980Yeah like it’s strange to park a UHaul there for weeks to load when people do just that, rent it just to move on the last day. They probably do have a program when you can rent it out for a while especially if you move states, but it probably would have been easier to do a pod storage system. She stubbornly insists to do everything herself tho, so it’s not surprising.
Wasn’t she supposed to be teaching or running workshops in the state she was in? Did she never transition to online teaching or do you think she insisted on her shitty YouTube videos instead?
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She got married and had a successful kickstarter this year, why is she still so ungrateful.
No. 1044173
>>1021075Whaaaat?!? Her boyfriend is good looking and not overweight??
What could be wrong with him? What’s the catch?
No. 1044218
>>1044210Why do I have such a hard time picturing them attracted to each other?
She feels too masculine and he feels too feminine maybe
No. 1044219
>>1044210How do you guys know it’s a loveless marriage?
I tried to look at her YouTube for milk but literally it’s an unbelievable 1.7 thousand videos she uploaded.
1.7 thousand videos and she only has 11k followers. It’s time to stop Becca
No. 1044265
>>1044218Honestly they both look like siblings, but I think Joseph could look good if he grew his hair out a bit and gained about 5-8 kg more muscle
Would go from a 5 to a solid 7
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>>1021075Old but, how does one man look so broken?
No. 1065933
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She finally admits Joseph pays for her life and that she couldn’t even get a job in retail. Is she just really bad at interviews?
No. 1066206
>>1065935She is completely blind to the fact she comes across as a stuck up know it all, like I really think she does interview badly in that she’s probably open about not wanting to work at a non-art job for money and not tailoring her interview in getting a job. Like a retailer doesn’t need to know you’re gonna dip immediately once you “make it”, they want to know if you’re capable of selling and working at the job assigned for as long as possible. She has this complex where she thinks she knows everything and deserves to be rewarded for it when clearly, her art clearly is lacking and she refuses to learn from others, not really appealing to people hiring you.
It’s pretty normal tho from the responses to the tweet to have partners or parents that support you in the early stages in your career while also working, a lot of artists come from money as well as various other advantages, but it’s really funny she thinks her work is equal to that when she clearly doesn’t know her market both for kids comics and for YouTube. She’s “working”, but she’s working in her own closed circle and not expanding because she thinks she’s a master of her art and demands to be compensated for that when like her entitlement into being rewarded for putting in the work is exactly why she’s not getting work
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>>1067244She’s up from 1 pm to 12 am, so I highly doubt she’s working 18 hour days
No. 1132168
>>1127577Yeah it’s pretty common for artists in general to have some kind of support in like partners or parents providing for them or by having dayjobs or multiple jobs. But Becca thinks she’s children’s comics’ ONLY senpai, she’s so out of touch of what the industry really is and how dated and incorrect her own knowledge is. She’s the living embodiment of the Dunning Kruger effect.
>>1127059She keeps whining for attention on her YT videos but nobody knows who the fuck she is or cares cuz her videos are terrible, she can’t narrate for shit and her production and editing quality is like she filmed it and edited it all on an old potato phone. She doesn’t seem to even watch other art youtubers cuz she doesn’t also seem to learn from others, like a lot of art YT network and learn from each other and Becca believes she’s too good to learn, only teach
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I just got this ad on facebook. Jesus I wonder how much she spends on advertising.
Seriously though what the fuck does Mardi Gras have to do with 7 inch Kara???
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Saw this in Becca's latest video where she goes to the strawberry patch. That has to be The Holly Brown, right? Kek, birds of a feather.