Rotten Apple Parade

Third of 8 sketch animation commissions. The Kirin character belongs to Khan. I tried to took commissions with characters that are radically different from each other. Love animating ferals and humanoids both.

I work in PaintTool Sai 2, as a heads up! There’s some custom textures here that I must have gotten a while ago, I think, so I unfortunately don’t remember what comes with the base sai 2, and what I’ve received separate. (I’ve been using these for a WHILE, now) - 8 times out of 10, I’ll use that first rough pencil-looking brush for pretty much everything. Even to digitally render most of my illustrations for added texture combined with the default airbrush tool to soften parts up. - The middle two get much less use, but are helpful when combined together! I fiddle with the settings of these two the most depending on what I’m using them for. - The basic brush is just that! I’ll sometimes switch out the form, but it’s essentially just the default brush tool, tweaked to my liking. I pair it with the smudge tool very often.

Current mood

mood. and alternatively: 

I raise you:

Azdaja speculation doodles, parts 1 and 2!

Wagner Moura as Big Bad Wolf in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

Gross girl

She obstructs everything…but I reckon she’s just trying to save me from myself.

(A comic I posted for Patrons a long while back.)

by  leirbs2s2

art republished with artist’s permission    

tea for two <3 

prints available on inprnt

La Belle et La Bête (1946, Jean Cocteau) | Beauty (Or the Taste for the Beast), Heroines, Claude Cahun | Beauty and the Beast: Fantasy in Two Acts, Fernand Noziere

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish by Jesús Alonso Iglesias #7

Grim I could not upload final GIF with a moving camera because the size of it would've excede 60MB. So if you want to see a video :3