Made This As A Birthday Gift For My Friend!

Mermay piece two featuring the great mermaid himself Legend! Inspired by the story Mermaid’s Cenote by Salt00.

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Here we go round four!!!! Wow I must follow a lot of people that have gotten this ask.

My username is from a character that I made up when I was like 6, basically her appearance and name is all I remember about her original design. I am almost done with finals! I have a sonic the hedgehog wallet, which I love, but it is sadly falling apart.

Morning reblog with Morning light.

Final day! Total of about 17 hrs to get this done. This is the first chalk art we have done that I've properly designed from the ground up, and I am so extremely happy with how it turned out. The peice is a mix of elements form the games journey and sky: children of the light. Also shout out to the amazing @imorphemi who inspired this peice and helped me out with the design.

Here's the digital version too.

Inktober day 15-18!!!!

Got inspired by the gerudo from breath of the wild, and decided to try a armored vai look for my rwby oc midnight. I’ll probably color this later.

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. 

Drew a picture of my family for a Christmas present for my Grandma.

Day 10

Day 3 start! (We took yesterday off)

Day 13 dune