i know i shouldnt talk about stuff that isnt close to finished yet but i might be working on a portrait mod for stardew. cause. i hate everyone elses portrait mods >.>
i know i shouldnt talk about stuff that isnt close to finished yet but i might be working on a portrait mod for stardew. cause. i hate everyone elses portrait mods >.>
Critique is literally the life blood of art for the love of god, listen to me!!!!!
If I poured hours of my life into writing a book and all the people who like it can say in defense of it is “It’s never that deep, let people enjoy things!” I’d throw up in my fuckin mouth!!!!!!!
Uncritically consuming my art? Tell me its bad! Lambaste it! Tear it apart! Tell me what you hate about it but for the love of GOD, engage with it!!!!!!! Don’t just let it wash over you!
too many sparkle dogs, needed people to draw or i’d go crazy SO UH. oops. i’ve always loved Suzu’s look and i’ve been meaning to draw some of Lily’s characters for YEARS
The internet is flooded with AI-generated photos and they’re getting harder to spot.
Most of the time AI is used for click-farming, but lately images have been used in fake news stories and product scams.
Most important: THINK CRITICALLY. AI will eventually get too good to make obvious mistakes. Being media literate means checking not just if an image is real, but if the source is trustworthy.
If you’re not sure, don’t share! You might be spreading misinformation.
GUMROAD IS BANNING NSFW CONTENT IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS
I haven’t seen anyone talk about this yet, so I might as well.
They’ve updated their content policy to comply with payment processor Stripe and Paypal’s censorhip. They gave 24 hours. On March 16th 2024, Gumroad TOS will no longer allows sales of any written or drawn nsfw content.
This is going to hurt for so many creators. Giving that little time leaves people’s source of income wildly unstable, especially with such a huge overhaul of what content is allowed.
I hate this. I hate what censorship is turning the internet into. I hate that nsfw content creators keeo getting pushed to the fringes, that they need to digitally migrate so often, because nowhere can be trusted to allow their art for long.
I don’t know what to do next, there isn’t some sort of “here’s what you can do to help!” People just deserve to know.
Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*
Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.
Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.
Like majority of digital artists doesnt actually have a high end gaming pc setup. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to be able to run such a heavy program just so we can feel somewhat ok with sharing our drawings online. It’s ridiculous. I CAN NOT nightshade or glaze my artworks even if i wanted to.
I have a pretty decent gaming PC, and despite this I had to close ALL the running programs I had running in the background (aka Discord and Opera) to let it shade my art, and the result was honestly quite awful even on the lowest setting.
I have already shared it around, but if you can’t run it try Artshield.
It will add a big watermark all over your piece (there’s also a check button to be sure it worked). It works best on pieces with a colored background, with white backgrounds or B/W piece it won’t always work, but it’s worth trying it.
Also, post at the lowest resolution possible (I go with 72dpi, keeping the highest one for clients and Ko-Fi rewards only), maybe add a noise effect too. I always did it but I read a while ago it makes a bit difficult for the A/I to scrape the piece. Not sure if it’s still true, but still, worth a shot.
Glaze and Nightshade are great tool, but they’re sadly unusable for a lot of people, and I hope they’ll find a solution.
