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the suffering never ends

Fake Angel by Kevan Goy

Art by x tan.s

Forest Ecology by Lestoidea

Final Fantasy XVI “Eikons” artwork

SHIVA - FFXVI

FFXVI - Eikons Keyart

Random! | Clive Rosfield | Gifs

Shiva vs Titan FINAL FANTASY XVI

クライヴ・ロズフィールド

Beautiful library in Munich Bavaria

© Thomas

Seasonal Dragon: Fall

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. 

It’s my last day at the library and I’m resting this weekend, so I’m dropping these into the world early!

Five new mid-month brushes. Two thank-you-for-keeping-me-afloat brushes. These are Clip Studio brushes. Use them with the ellipse ruler or free-draw em. See you again at the end of the month. Links to past brushes are below:

Textured Ink Brushes (Photoshop) |  Easy Stylized Hair Brush | Miscellaneous Mix Set | Spilled Ink Brush Set | Super 90s Carpet Brushes | Even More Decoration Brushes | Some More Repeating Patterns | Ornate Decoration Brush Drop | Netting and Lines | Lip & Hair Gloss | Glitter & Sparkles | Destiny Brush Pack | Valentine’s Frame Set | Candy Coated Brush Drop | Bloody Throne Pack | Magic & Daggers Set | Tarot Pack Brushes (October Update) | Elfy Card Set | Big Ol’ Card Asset Drop | All Those Brushes

"He's here, guys."

Cleaning up my files and forgot that I had all these wing studies from circa. 2015 so thought, y’know what, I don’t need to hold onto these, so have this as a little gift from me to whomst ever needs some quick wings for their OC’s, AU’s, and Art.

It’s my last day at the library and I’m resting this weekend, so I’m dropping these into the world early!

Five new mid-month brushes. Two thank-you-for-keeping-me-afloat brushes. These are Clip Studio brushes. Use them with the ellipse ruler or free-draw em. See you again at the end of the month. Links to past brushes are below:

Textured Ink Brushes (Photoshop) |  Easy Stylized Hair Brush | Miscellaneous Mix Set | Spilled Ink Brush Set | Super 90s Carpet Brushes | Even More Decoration Brushes | Some More Repeating Patterns | Ornate Decoration Brush Drop | Netting and Lines | Lip & Hair Gloss | Glitter & Sparkles | Destiny Brush Pack | Valentine’s Frame Set | Candy Coated Brush Drop | Bloody Throne Pack | Magic & Daggers Set | Tarot Pack Brushes (October Update) | Elfy Card Set | Big Ol’ Card Asset Drop | All Those Brushes

this got Numbers on twitter so i’m posting here cause i literally have nothing else going on but working on my webcomic which you can read here and support here

gtkmffxiv: favorite characters (2/?)

alphinaud leveilleur

Super quick centaur/horse body tutorial!

You’ve asked me a lot for a centaur tutorial but I absolutely suck at doing stuff like that because I rely so much on my own eye measuring and I almost never do sketches like this, so bear with me. 1: The horse body!

I managed to break down the body into lots of triangles and lines and what have you, in a way that I find easy and accurate to use. This is the body of Dan, (an english full blood) but it’s really easy to alter between breeds! For example, I used this when doing the lineup, take two of the most altered ones:

2: Put some meat on it

Keep in mind that if you have no idea how to draw then you probably should just drop this because as you can see I’m skipping ahead assuming you know how to meat a stick figure, and also have a ground feeling of what a horse really should look like. But it’s starting to take shape, doesn’t it? The tip of the withers should be around the tip of the hip. 3: Legs and hooves

Make sure you don’t make the knees and hocks too defined (if you want to draw a full grown horse will say. It works on younger horses and foals though!) And also not like noodles. Watch out for making the hind legs too curved or too straight when standing properly.

You want your hooves to be balanced, keep that in mind! 4: Add the human body

You’ve got a nice red line there to keep track of the spine. Dan’s human part is slim and a bit smaller, which adds to his rather big but slender breed. Now of course I’m still assuming that you know how to draw humans as well. That’s what it’s about, draw loads of humans and loads of horses and mash them together in a way that you see fit!

I prefer to use colours that the actual breed can have, and to match their hair with their tail. A paint is a difference though, as it might have different pigments in skull and tail root. This has been a quick and confusing tutorial in which I also claim that I am in no way an expert on this, thank you good night

Art by Kuri Huang

‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony

This is good tip. TY!! Rebloging this.

50 WORDS TO USE INSTEAD OF “SAID”

Do you ever find yourself over-using the word “said” in your writing? Try using these words/phrases instead:

stated

commented

declared

spoke

responded

voiced

noted

uttered

iterated

explained

remarked

acknowledged

mentioned

announced

shouted

expressed

articulated

exclaimed

proclaimed

whispered

babbled

observed

deadpanned

joked

hinted

informed

coaxed

offered

cried

affirmed

vocalized

laughed

ordered

suggested

admitted

verbalized

indicated

confirmed

apologized

muttered

proposed

chatted

lied

rambled

talked

pointed out

blurted out

chimed in

brought up

wondered aloud

(NOTE: Keep in mind that all of these words have slightly different meanings and are associated with different emotions/scenarios.)

Art by binbin zhou

Uluru blackh●le rise, me, pixel art, 2022

Chinese Dragon & Terrace by Xision Wu

胡旋鸣沙 by Qi Sheng Luo

It’s a shiny rock, what’s not to like?

Elezen have very mobile ears that move with their emotions. Not as drastically as like Miqo'te maybe but they droop when they're sad and perk up when they're alert and flick when they're irritated. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.