Inktober Time!!! Going To Be Using My Children From The Comic I Will Likely Never Write.

Sorry I've been kinda dead here, school kicked my butt, but I've got a bunch of art and stuff from the last year or so that I've got queued up to post.

So I started this drawing like four years ago with the character on the left. Over the past few years I have lost, found, and lost this drawing over and over again. So I figured I might as well finish it. My best friends from elementary school and I made up these characters when we were like 8 and I still love drawing them, so you can expect lots of doodles of them in the future. Each character has an element that they are linked to, probably not hard to guess who is who, and for this particular set of drawings I started with the idea of drawing them as dragon riders, and then I ended up very far from there, but I’m extremely happy with the result.

Once you get this you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly, and send it to 10 of your favorite followers SPREAD POSITIVITY! (you don't actually HAVE to if you don't want, but can if you think it's fun) :3

Guess who finally figured out how to use the ask box!

Anywho, I like my hair that is the same color as my mom’s, my eyes the same color as my dad’s, the freckle on my face that looks like a cutie mark, the fact that I am tall, and lastly I love that my skin tone works well with yellow, red, and orange clothes. 

I am an awkward bean, who does not know how to social media. I am just going to tag @chronicallyawkwardandshameless because you are the only person on this website that I talk to and if I have to do it then so do you.

I made a king mask as a Christmas present for a small child. I started with a cheap mask then build on it with duck tape, paper, and floral wire. After a lot more duck tape, paper mâché, and paint the mask was done.

Chalk art day 2 13ish hrs

I can see it.

EDIT: OH MY GOSH I JUST REALIZED YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT YOUR BLOG NAME AND NOT MYTHICAL CREATURES!!!!!!!! regardless its to late to do anything about my mix up now and I hope you enjoy the drawing nontheless.

lorulian-minish ---> leafsheepseaslug

I'm so flipping happy with how this turned out! I actually managed to draw her magical sunflower eyes!!!!!

asdfghjkl!!! Look at the killer icon @shekorla drew for me! And yes I actually do look like that!!! Like people! That! Is! Me! And she drew it!

Concept design for my RWBY oc Midnight star. I love this show, and this was a fun project

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. 

The boys are off on a merry chase!

Split in half under the cut, because I have no idea what is going to happen with the resolution.