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Well shit, this'll be my final art post here. It's a bummer that this website has gone this far to alienate their audience. OH WELL!! I'm still setting up my bluesky, but you can always find me here! Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/vanillycake Art: https://twitter.com/Vanillycake NSFW: https://twitter.com/Vanillynsfw Discord: https://discord.gg/qfz9jVTqDb

its official: tumblr is selling our data to Midjourney

we'd been hearing rumors about this for a bit but now its open and out there. some details from this article

it goes without saying, but if @staff goes through with this its going to be an utter shitshow and im all but certain the website will not survive it.

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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. 

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birthday present for my good friend @vanillycake

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Mona!

#Art #Genshin Impact #Mona #bro I haven't posted here in forever #but when I do I guess it's my hyper fixation lmao #I miss tumblr so much guys

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Holofoil sticker design of a retro Maggie I collaborated on with Vanillycake, you can get it with physical books when you back the Kickstarter here<3

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Thanks, Barold. 

#acnh #animal crossing new horizons #Barold

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Lmao the other day I reblogged something to my main blog instead of my reblog blog and long story short I didn’t know people were still alive and lookin at this one.

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hey I'm a fan of the art you do for all your games. I was wondering, when producing lets say the lay out of that gnome guy that you did a while back, did you do that buy drawing him it on a tablet and then making it look pixel like after the sketch, you do you actually do pixel like art right from the beginning? (sorry if the question sounds stupid, or badly worded)

I don’t really remember much since it was a 2-3 day competition but with all designs it always starts with sketches and concepts and then redrawn into a final(ish) sprite afterwards!

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Happy Birthday “Ava’s demon”!

 Thank you so much, Michelle, for your amazing comics!

 And also thanks to the comic book colorists Nicole - @colorless-comic​ and Vanilla - @vanillycake .

 With love from  FoCh,  @derari, @arshamakesart and Nava!

#;_; this is so sweet what

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Some early concepts of Nevy’s wardrobe 🐟💦

#art #Ava's demon #Nevy Nervine #they came out so pretty ;_;

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😭 she’s so be-he-he-yootifullll

Full drawings of Nevy, from today’s update gif, initial designs for the first three were by @vanillycake~!

#Ava's Demon #nevy nervine

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I made some suggestions to the manager on how to improve the comic

#Art #Avas Demon #Avas demon edit

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For the past year and a half I completely lost my will and desire to draw. It tortured and consumed my every waking moment to the point where my only escape was sleeping. The one thing I’ve loved and felt completely as ease with only brought me frustration and dissatisfaction. It felt like there was a disconnection between my head and my hand that I couldn’t fix. If there’s one thing that frustrates me into an obsessive state, it’s something I can’t fix. I tried forcing the love back into me, I tried drawing until my hand cooperated, nothing was working. 

It wasn’t until a couple days ago when my best friend suggested I watch Kiki’s delivery service, as it had something in there I really needed to see. I’ve watched Kiki’s delivery service plenty of times, but I could never relate to or understand Kiki and Ursula’s plight. This time however, the movie’s themes hit me so hard I burst into feel city as mach speed.

 I love drawing. I could never hate it. 

I just needed to stop being so cruel to myself. I needed to stop pushing myself back down this ugly pit of self loathing. I spent yesterday doing my best to relax and not even think about drawing. I had no idea how long it would take to rekindle my passion but I was determined to wait until I felt ready.

 It’s not much but on a whim I decided to sketch out the thing above and, despite it not being something I’d like to post, it’s something I did without forcing myself. I feel really relieved.

#personal

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Anytime bro ;u;!!!!!!

@vanillycake collaborated with me on the portrait of Odin for my webcomic, which you can read here, thank you Vanilly!!! ;o;/

#GO READ HER COMIC I mean not like I have to tell u tho cause it's so amazing #Avas demon

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So I heard Yurnero and Lanaya dated ,’:^)

Parody of this IT crowd scene

#Art #dota 2 #juggernaut #templar assassin #yurnero #lanaya

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BEHOLD THE POWER OF MY STAND,

「BRIGHT LIGHTS BIGGER CITY」!

#Cee lo green #shitposting #jjba #for reference to those who don't get it I'm making fun of him

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Sup B^)

#Meet the artist #personal