Inktober Days 19-22.

Concept design for my RWBY oc Midnight star. I love this show, and this was a fun project

Day 5!

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. 

And so I make this Wish

Its done!!!! I am sore and tired but I had so much fun! More shots below cut.

Midterm assignment in my photoshop class. Made a movie poster for Bloodborne. All of the assets I used were screenshots from the game, except the font that is the flesh and blood font made by JoannaVu on fontspace.

Day 3 start! (We took yesterday off)

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.

Buir bal ad'ika, Aliit ori'shya tal'din

Buir bal ad'ika, Aliit ori'shya tal'din- Father and child (little one), Family is more than blood.

For chalk art last year my team and I did stained glass styled peice based on The Mandalorian. @chronicallyawkwardandshameless tagging you both because you helped make this and I need you to spell check the title.

Progress shots below the cut

Gonna be working on this live on YouTube. Link in bio.

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Alright round five!! Let's do this!

I'm in charge of the plants on my family's animal crossing island. I have yet to actually finish a zelda game. I want to mermay, but I haven't been able to find a prompt list that I like, so I think I'm just going to start choosing a fish each day. Feel free to suggest a fish for me to draw as a mermaid.