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[dragonwolf360]

You're mutuals with somebody who genuinely wants to murder and cannibalize people and has stated so on multiple occasions. You disgust me.

yeah i know we have plans to meet up and eat a whole bunch of people together. im so excited

#LTmafic #LTdraco

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as always i think gay cannibalism is the answer

#OOOOOOOWAAUGHHGHGHHH #LTmafic #LTdraco

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My fourth piece for art fight, this time for @dragonwolf360 of his oc Draco in dragon form!

Hopefully my wiggly art style doesn’t besmirch this characters honestly radical design, also here is the sketch as well coz I rly liked how it looked!

#WAGH HELLO!!? #THIS IS FANTASTIC #SO ZOOMIE #SO CRUNCHY #BRB IM BITING #BITING BITING BITING #GOT MY 👁 ON U #JUST WAIT TILL IM BACK FROM VACAY #LOOK AT HIM EVERYONE #MY VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY 👀 #BFNFN #LTdraco #Lorus Tales #others art

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Quick boards with mine and Astra's characters, for homework, but for fun... exposing people to srmthfg, you know how it goes

kofi: ko-fi.com/dragonwolf360 reuploaded cause I posted the wrong one v_v

#srmthfg #artists on tumblr #animation #animatic #art #super robot monkey team hyperforce go #drako's art #draco!srmt #rodger!srmt #donnie!srmt #leo!srmt #andro!srmt #Youtube

[dragonwolf360]

Watch me rise and reclaim

#digimon #Digimon ghost game #gammamon #gulusgammamon #artists on tumblr #digital art #art #drako's art

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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. 

[dragonwolf360]

Studio Ghibli’s animation software will be made available via open source this month. 

That’s right…💯% free.

Read more on CartoonBrew.com

[dragonwolf360]

i just wanted to clarify some things

artists know the risk they are taking when they post their art online. people are inevitably going to take it apart, color edit it, flip it around or otherwise post it uncredited.

saying that an artist shouldn’t post their work if they don’t want it bastardized is probably the stupidest stance on this subject you could take. if all artists followed this line of reasoning, there would be no art on the internet. 

when an artist posts their work, they are trusting you to enjoy it respectfully. and when you betray that trust either knowingly or unknowingly, it’s like saying the artist’s time, skills and thoughts aren’t worth anything.

you are NOT entitled to an artists work just because they decided to trust you enough to share it with you.

an artist is within their right to feel upset that someone has used their work in a way they never intended it to be used. they are within their right to ask for it to stop and not happen again.

just because it’s “bound to happen” doesn’t mean it’s any less deplorable.

[dragonwolf360]

...that your audience won't hate.

This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.

I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.

I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.

Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.

Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.

Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:

All selected?

Good.

Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.

You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.

Either way, let's add some color to the text.

Once that's finished,

You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect

You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.

Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.

This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.

Hooray, you've finished your watermark!

Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.

You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.

From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.

If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.

And for lots of black, you have Linear Light

Either way, you're in business!

As a note, I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still being effective.

There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!

[dragonwolf360]

Clip Studio Paint is Incorporating Stable Diffusion

***THE BUILD GOES LIVE DECEMBER 6TH***

Here's the bullet points you need to know about Clip Studio Paint joining deviantArt as today's 'villain for no good reason' de jour.

They are adding Stable Diffusion as a function of the program.

It is using the same stolen dataset we're all very familiar with.

This, in lieu of the millions of other features artists have actually been asking for.

This should be enough to make anyone angry. Really. The SD dataset is still a tirefire of stolen material. Nothing has changed that, and Celsys has made no steps to create their own AI database. Which is ironic, because they could've managed to bring in a lot of good will by seeking volunteers and buying up stock, but they did not.

As with dA, this is a case of 'do the thing, then apologize later, and hope people just kind of go along with it.'

What the new changes do not currently do:

Celsys is allegedly not scraping content from their users.

Celsys is allegedly not going to scrape content from their users without the users' express permission.

Celsys has not explained how they aim to do this, or what formal steps users must take to opt in or out.

I personally don't trust that it will stay like this. So:

What I'd recommend is freezing auto-updates on iPad (you have to do it through Settings -> App Store -> App Updates toggle) and just not updating CSP at all on any other platforms until this gets sorted out.

#FOR GOODNESS SAKE #AGAIN

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Finished version of that sketch I posted :] Ignore the shrunken foreground, that gets cut out in my final project jfdkhjs

#animation #Lorustales #artists on tumblr #art #digital animation #digital art #LTrodger #LTgalus #LTfelicity #LTcatra #drako's art

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Hellooo, got a few of these keychains up for sale! They are $14.98, including the price for shipping Only for people who live in the US, shipping’s a monster internationally for such a little thing :[ You can buy them here

#toh #the owl house #lumity #amity #luz #keychain #kofi #art #artists on tumblr #drako's crafts

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Oh yea it’s all coming together

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I finally finished these family trees for the main characters of Lorus Tales :0 There’s also side character familys to make, but here’s the most important ones.

Some little connections I didn’t put down, Lora and Valcar are siblings, hence why he names his daughter Elora. (Lora is dead by the time the story starts) Archer and Tasi are also related, which means Andro and Catra are cousins to Astra jkgkfld.

#HELLLOOOO FAMILY TREE #LOOK AT IT #lorus tales

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Preview wip of something Im working on :]

#animation #digital art #storyboard #art #rough animation #digital animation #artists on tumblr #Lorustales #drako's art #LTgalus #LTrodger #LTcatra #LTfelicity

[dragonwolf360]

mom said it’s my turn to be ached for, to have someone feel a stab of hunger for me, to feel nourishment at the sight of me. give it now

#Lorus tales #LTgalus #ahehehehe

[dragonwolf360]

Hey, can y’all rb this if it’s okay to send you messages asking about your ocs, cause on god I wanna interact with y’all but I am terrified of being annoying lol

#yes yes yes blease