So I Read This, And I Absolutely Loved It, Then I Drew This.

New header based on the sanctuary isles from sky children of the light. time-lapse under cut.

yes took me two days to figure out how to start the time-lapse.

Here’s the links as dolls in color!

Please forgive me for my blatant tracing of Jojo’s Hyrule doll for the base.

Also, bonus!

Rough cool down sketch at the end of a long day. Black rock shooter from memory, might look up a reference and clean her up at some point.

A commission piece for my friend Ru Coal from the RWBY OC amino community of their OC Amber Heath, and some sketches of her weapon. They were really awesome to work with, and for one of my first commissions, they were really patient with me not having any clue what I was doing.

Got bored at work. Doodled the links as dolls. Some of them got multiple versions, then I spent far too much time editing them into a nice photo. Enjoy!

Drew this for a final in an art class almost a year ago. I decided recently to color it. I've never really done digital watercolors before so this was a fun experience. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Eal1Vpn3O/?igshid=jwyumtzy72a3

Version 2 of my OC that I made as a 3d model for class. Still needs a lot of polishing, BUT LOOK! Its my girl!

More shots and sketches below cut.

Doodled a fairy Hyrule today

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. 

Just realized I never posted these. Old assignments from a photoshop class. First is a custom album cover for the song Odds and Ends. Second is for the same class and its just a photo composition project. I am very proud of making her wings from a seagull though.