This Seems Fun If Any Of You Is Interested Lol

This seems fun if any of you is interested lol

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

Chill day off-- An experimental piece with Mirage enjoying their day

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. 

8, 16, 25

Thanks for the questions, Sameth! 8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in Oh man, let's see... I don't really have any project I've completely lost interest in that's original. I have just a few and they're still near and dear to my heart. I have no idea if I'll actually get to them at some point or not though. One of them is a slice of life/horror VN. Another is a comic that's based mostly on a dream I had years ago and I still think about it sometimes. My main problem is not as much interest/motivation but feeling like I have to train/practice on something else before I can allow myself to work on the thing I actually want to do, even though I know it usually means that I never work on it because I'm not good enough yet. (oops)

In terms of fanart though, I was working during the height of the Undertale fandom on a Chara-centric sort of AU story that consisted of animated gifs like this one-- Looking back at all of them (I did like 13 or so), there are some English mistakes on top of the cringe art uh oh. I was way too shy about sharing my art at the time though so I put it on another account and I think I removed everything years ago.

Here's one as a treat

I don't have any interest in it anymore but it's pretty cute looking back at it now still, I can see the hard work I put into it.

I had also made the text animation in the most time-consuming way possible because... well I never claimed I was smart.

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

If it's art-related, I think... lineart? I hate doing lineart but I've learned along the years how to improve at it and I'm usually pretty happy with my result. Good lineart is really impressive to me though and can by itself make a cool piece without anything else. Having to Ctrl+Z 10 times before getting a correct line makes me want to perish, though. Between that and the risk of losing some appeal between the sketch and the line... 😔😞 Easily my least favorite step in a piece. 25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

Hmm... I can't really remember any instance of my art being compared to something in particular...When it comes to artstyle I tend to be pretty fluid/experimental. In one of my recent comics though, some people thought I was referencing SAO abridged which I had never seen before so I actually went and watched it lol

My favorite episode^^

Today is my wedding anniversary, so I wanted to make a painting to celebrate my husband & our love. It is special to have someone who you are excited to share every experience in life with. I feel lucky everyday knowing we will spend it together. To many more years ahead. 💖