I Normally Don’t Post Wips, But I Am Really Excited About This Idea. The Drawing Won't Be Finished

So I made a Vroid model for my avatar, as well as some background screens for streaming. I've not actually streamed with all this yet, but I want to.

More images below the cut.

I've been binging a bunch of Danny Phantom and DC crossover fics so have some doodles. In order: Lady Gotham, Ghost King Danny, and a vigilante Danny design. I have so many thoughts about the last one, I'll type them up later.

Day 11. Prompt wasn't working for me, drew this instead.

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. 

Messing around with rwby OC’s again.

Mermay piece two featuring the great mermaid himself Legend! Inspired by the story Mermaid’s Cenote by Salt00.

Made some chibi birthday cards for my sister's coworkers.

I'm glad you liked it!!

Final mermay piece……….half a month late. This piece was inspired by the amazing fic Outset Island’s Mermaid by Snoodle Whumpus (TheNerdyPixel). I was super inspired by their writing this was also an excuse to try and draw a mermaid that was elegant and beautiful, but also could eat you.

So OctolingO on the linked universe amino (who I swore had a Tumblr, but I can’t find it) wrote up some awesome ideas for the boys+Malon as mermaids. I saw it and then I had to make a quick doodle because I freaking love mermaids.

You doing okay? Just wondering if life decided to jump on you.

Hey, ya, life definitely tackled me. But I'm doing ok.

September and the surrounding months are always really stressful and busy for me, also switching around meds is never fun. But now that I'm settled into a new job and comic con is over I'm hoping to have more free time to do fun things.

Thank you so much for your concern and kind thoughts, but genuinely I feel like I'm in a better place now than I have been for a few years now.

Ive gotten some notifications from you rewatching my old streams and I'd love to get back into doing that, but also I think I might swap to streaming on twitch. Its a lot nicer to creators than YouTube, especially new ones. I also think I may just bounce games for a bit because I love HW, but streaming from a switch is a pain and I'd like to be able to be a bit more casual about it.

So yes, life is crazy but I'm doing ok.