Happy V-day!!!!! Https://www.instagram.com/p/B8kfiqHJuC1/?igshid=3w31g3r2kvxu

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.

Streaming lego starwars Skywalker saga over on twitch at shlie_mae! Come say hi

Just completed the yiga clan hideout in one go. Honestly I was worried because I had heard how hard it was....... but that was really easy. I didnt get spotted a single time, and I didn't take any damage in the final fight. For how difficult I had heard it was I was expecting a full dungeon, not three rooms of distraction puzzles. All in all it was fun!

Inspired by a post by a friend on amino, heres a little doodle of my rwby oc team with their pride flags. Happy pride everyone!

Chalk art day 1 6hrs in.

Quick messy doodle about a head-canon that would not leave me alone. What if link had light blue eyes (or whatever color you headcanon him with). When he splits with the four sword each of the boys has one eye that matches their color, and the other matches links eye color. When they go back to one links eyes are the same color as before, but they catch the light and reflect the four colors. 

Doodled two of my rwby ocs this week.

Day 1 afternoon. It's so hot. Im taking a break to be flat.

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. 

Working with black is always scary because I'm always worried it will just spread and make everything muddy.