‘Nameless Creature’ By Illustrator Tatyana Kupriyanova

📜 king in yellow 📜 1/3

trying to figure out a design for my silly billy. might do a separate john + yellow/sunny design soon cause i love these horrible eldritch beings

Re-listening to some Juno Steele season 1 episodes so I can recover from the season 1 ending and continue the story. But I’m still way too mad bro HOW COULD YOU DO THAT JUNO. YOU COULDN’T EVEN THROW HIS LIL NOTE OUT THE WINDOW WITHOUT ALMOST DYING. YOU PATHETIC MAN. I SPIT WHEN I SAY YOUR NAME I CURSE YOU WITH A FELL VOICE ON THE WIND AND I HOPE YOU ARE HAUNTED BY THE IMAGE OF NUREYEV’S NEW LOVER FOR THE DURATION OF SEASON 2!!!11AKSJFH;HAHDJH

Thank you for reading. No spoilers please (maybe I’m still rooting for them)

Oooooookay, so I found this picture (unfortunately I don't know where does it come from, if anybody knows please tell me 🙃) and it whispered softly to my ear "I'm clearly a Nevermore reference: you kinda have to draw the characters in this context"... so I did! 🖤

(I hope we all agree that Duke doesn't have chest hair 😂)

(Also don't mind the writing in the back, I have the dangerous habit of drawing in my school notes...)

(Lastly: if anybody is asking, I used a pilot pen with a fine point, and a 1mm acrylic pen for the whites)

killing myself slowly

i know she was actually nice to them but this wouldn't leave my head until i made it

Just for a min

Using art without compensation/ permission for your own gain is theft, full stop.

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. 

tma sketches (and one for malevolent)