Omigosh. I Also Run Away From My Stress!

Omigosh. I also run away from my stress!

May we see what you've made out of clay?

Can I get uuuuuuuh

Number 24?

24: somethings I do to de-stress.

Short term? I chew gum, I throw on those try not to laugh compilations, I fiddle with blue tack or knead clay, I come up with names for my houseplants or browse for future house plant species, I buy myself a bunch of flowers and spend time cutting and arranging them, ones that smell nice.

Longer term? I whack out the sketch book and dooooodle, practice drawing my favourite characters over and over, I find one of those ‘how to draw x’ books and follow the steps. I go for runs, even if it’s like 10 minutes up and down the lane, I chop wood for the pile, I tighten paddock fences, physical stuff that makes me feel productive.

glad that im not popular enough to have an evil shadow version of my blog that exists just to make contradictions on my posts

This is someone dying while having an MRI scan. Before you die, your brain releases tons and tons of endorphins that make you feel a range of emotions. Tragically beautiful.

This is someone dying while having an MRI scan. Before you die, your brain releases tons and tons of endorphins that make you feel a range of emotions. Tragically beautiful.

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)