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a lil comfort zone portrait!
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Fingerpainting
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Human Shell, painting by Steven Russell Black
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Happiness Will Come To You.
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when tho
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When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March
reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!
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I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.
honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March
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controversial writing tip
open a document and start writing
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unrealistic. blocked,
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Some positivity in these turbulent AI times
*This does not minimize the crisis at hand, but is aimed at easing any anxieties.
With every social media selling our data to AI companies now, there is very little way to avoid being scraped. The sad thing is many of us still NEED social media to advertise ourselves and get seen by clients. I can't help but feeling that we as artists are not at risk of losing our livelihoods, here is why:
- Just because your data is available does not mean that AI companies will/want to use it. Your work may never end up being scraped at all.
- The possibility of someone who uses AI art prompts can replace you (if your work is scraped) is very unlikely. Art Directors and clients HAVE to work with people, the person using AI art cannot back up what a machine made. Their final product for a client will never be substantial since AI prompts cannot be consistent with use and edits requested will be impossible.
- AI creators will NEVER be able to make a move unless us artists make a move first. They will always be behind in the industry.
- AI creators lack the fundamental skills of art and therefore cannot detect when something looks off in a composition. Many professional artists like me get hired repeatedly for a reason! WE as artists know what we're doing.
- The art community is close-knit and can fund itself. Look at furry commissions, Patreon, art conventions, Hollywood. Real art will always be able to make money and find an audience because it's how we communicate as a species.
- AI creators lack the passion and ambition to make a career out of AI prompts. Not that they couldn't start drawing at any time, but these tend to be the people who don't enjoy creating art to begin with.
- There is no story or personal experience that can be shared about AI prompts so paying customers will lose interest quickly.
- Art is needed to help advance society along, history says so. To do that, companies will need to hire artists (music, architecture, photography, design, etc). The best way for us artists to keep fighting for our voice to be heard right now is staying visible. Do not hide or give in! That is what they want. Continue posting online and/or in person and sharing your art with the world. It takes a community and we need you!
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ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR
since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it
here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:
Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.
also use Nightshade and Glaze to protect your artwork and images!!!!
best combination is usin Nightshade then Glaze on your images. Glaze creates a protective layer and Nightshade poisons the A.I. software.
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They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.
PS-- the toggle is under your blog's settings (not account settings) under "visibility" on the bottom! If you can't find it on mobile, try locating it on desktop.
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Heartstrings is live! 💌
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"Blossom"
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my bg3 playtime
i'm so grateful for this game though it's inspired me to draw so muuuuch
here's everything i've drawn from bg3 so far:
my tav zaneer (a bard) -- my best friend's tav Siora (druid) and my tav Shay (sorcerer) (they're sisters)
a party with my friends, Hitsy the monk, Marlyvia the warlock and my Vaness the druid -- and a lil comic about a funny moment that happened in game!
a wip sketch of raphael -- and another wip colored sketch of zaneer again ♡
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hello everyone, here is my newest painting! i actually started this for halloween last year but then lost the files for it! :( i was so sad that after a few months i spent some time recovering the drawing and was able to continue it. this is also my first finished painting in Procreate , although i sketched it in photoshop 🙋🏻♀️ anyway, i'm pleased with it and it feels good to be posting again 🕯️hope you like it and are enjoying your weekend! 🖤
my current toxic trait:
start a new sketch to warm up before working on my current WIP
but i have too much fun with the new sketch so now that is my current WIP
and the cycle continues the next day
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She is brightness, she is luminance. She will hypnotize you and drag you into her world. Her name...
... is Light Mode.
This drawing turned out a little more serious than I had originally intended. I get so many comments about using light mode for my computer and phone that it became the inspiration for some new artwork!
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Eventide