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This is so real... blowing my mind to think of style as NOT ONLY something that happens because Only You Can Draw How You Draw, but it's something that evolves through exploring what techniques bring you joy, what highlights the things you're good at, and what helps you just straight up Get The Thing On The Page.

Art is not made purely from skill... It is also made from our human limitations and shortcomings. Ain't that COOOOOL

hi i love your ver of hua cheng very much!!! i was wondering if you could share how you developed your style, or how you practiced expressions? much love!!

Thank you so much!! What a thoughtful ask <33 Character expression and "acting" is probably my favorite thing to draw, and it's the thing I'm usually imagining first that motivates me to draw. So that has naturally become one of my strengths, because it's the thing I draw the most and spend the most mental energy on. Other things a drawing/comic needs come to me later as an afterthought, so that's what takes more discipline to actually make an effort to practice. Regarding style: I believe an enlightening way to look at "style" is to realize that style is mostly the result of how an artist navigates what they CAN'T do. There are probably a relatively small percentage of artists out there who have enough control to pick & choose a "style" or mimic a given way of drawing. (Animators, you are BEASTS.) Most people draw the way they draw, and when they come up against something they're "bad" at or feel unsatisfied with, they end up developing lil habits and cheats to camouflage what they don't know, side-step what they can't do, and showcase their strengths to drown out (what they feel are) their weaknesses. The artist you admire for their raw, sketchy, scribbly realness is not so much Choosing to draw that way because they are cooler and grungier and more of an artistic free spirit than you - they probably can't draw a polished illustration or an anatomically correct figure to their satisfaction, and so they have fled deeper into the woods of expressing themselves the way they CAN. The artist you admire for their incredible use of surreal, over-the-top colors might have started out feeling that their line drawings were awkward and mediocre, but after bedazzling them in this way made them happier with a finished image, they continued down that path. We are all basically evolving like weird animals to adapt to our natural strengths and weaknesses, some of us growing a long freaky proboscis and some of us ending up with a shiny protective shell. I have found this a helpful way of viewing style because it lets you look at others' work without rose-tinted glasses once in a while, and hopefully also lets you look at your own work more charitably. Of course it's always great to keep pushing yourself and improving, but in the meantime, those things you're doing while cringing and thinking "GOD I HOPE NO ONE CAN TELL THAT I'M BAD AT THIS! I HOPE THIS FOOLS EVERYBODY!" are all adding up to become part of your "style" organically, whether you know it or not. So in short, I developed my style by trying REALLY HARD to BAMBOOZLE people into THINKING I CAN DRAW!!! ;)

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TY for joining me on "Hannah uploads all the TGCF fanart they'd been posting to twitter" 🙏🏼

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Two soldiers, doing their best.

“wu ming” is the first time he ever had the opportunity to adjust his character creation sliders for dianxia… In my mind he took this opportunity to give himself the perfectest most efficient ponytail he couldn’t have in lyfe. Sleek af. weaponcore. not a baby hair out of place

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I LOVE HIM. ANGANGANGANGANG

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I now know the consensus for Quan Yizhen is that he is a beautiful bishie boy with a curly brown ponytail... but before I knew this, I definitely imagined him as a Fabio-esque caveman

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Everyone's favorite (or least favorite) martial god...

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ROMANCE

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It's Guoshi...

(from: )

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“What’s he telling you?

“You don’t want to know.”

(thought you were safe from my dnangel fanart onslaught? THINK AGAIN)

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Brief thoughts on AI writing/art data-scraping and subsequent content production, & the conclusion I've come to.

Thought #1: There has been a lot of discussion about how AI is or is not art theft (or writing theft); from my understanding every model works slightly differently. What isn't up for debate, though, is that all AI models require data to function, and that data has to come from somewhere. The companies developing AI have a strong incentive to get data by any means possible; the internet is the easiest place to start, but there's no way to get permission from every single person who has ever put something on the internet for the use of that thing to develop the AI, even if every single person were inclined to give it.

Conclusion #1: Doesn't matter if the AI's output is a copyright violation; instead, it was a violation of copyright to feed that data to the AI in the first place, making the AI itself inherently legally problematic.

("BRIEF" DO NOT @ ME OKAY. SEE BELOW FOR THE REST OF MY BIG ASS ESSAY. I WILL REBLOG WITH THE SHORTEST TL;DR I CAN MANAGE.)

Thoughts #2&3: Due to how easy it is to scrape data online, and the way technology is currently progressing (silicon valley motto of Never Ask "Should" I Do It, Just "Can" I Do It), there is almost no way to prevent these AI from being developed with stolen data, and there's enough out there to make these very, very good. They've gotten immeasurably better in just the past few years. Also, preventing them from scraping one thing (ie archive-locking fic) is probably not going to do anything about the problem as a whole, even if it stops that one thing from getting used (and if it even does prevent that thing from being used; I am not sure there's not ways to get around that kind of obstacle).

Conclusions #2&3: Can't stop the technology from developing, and trying to prevent your data from being accessed through technological barriers is at best small potatoes and at worst futile.

Thought #4: What is the incentive for people to do this? Money. These AI are being developed in hopes that they can be used to do things humans can currently do, for cheaper, so they can sell them to companies who will then use them to replace human labor. Will it produce results as good as human labor? No. Will that matter? Not enough, and not in all circumstances.

Conclusion #4: How to prevent this from happening in a way that loses people jobs (or loses the least jobs, or at least protects creative work, or does the whole thing slowly enough to save your job and my job)? Make it so companies cannot legally make money by using the output of these AIs.

WHICH... takes us back to Conclusion #1 -- due to the copyright violation inherent in these programs, it is important to make sure the output can't be copyrighted. Which, at the moment, legal precedent says it can't be. But that's something that companies which stand to make money off AI-generated work are going to try to change.

THEREFORE... we gotta fight those fuckers every step of the way to make sure that AI generated work can't be copyrighted. Which, IMO, means:

educating people about how these models are developed using data theft

make the connection between AI development and potential harms clear (both things like face recognition tech and hurting creatives by replacing them in jobs)

encourage people to fight legally instead of technologically; ie instead of archive-locking work on AO3, continue to throw a fit at the AI company, file legal copyright complaints, etc (any useful suggestions here would be great!)

And then, bonus, if your company is considering using this kind of technology to replace artists or writers, throw a giant fucking shit-fit. Bring up possible legal ramifications. Bring up possible public backlash ramifications. Bring up ramifications of you personally quitting and being a huge bitch about it the whole time. Whatever you can safely do!

I don't think we can prevent AIs, nor do I necessarily think they're inherently evil; I DO think they are being made by people who do not care if they are being used or made in an evil way or not. I'm not sure we can prevent their usage to replace creative jobs entirely, but I think we should try. And I am willing to put my money where my mouth is on that. Which is all I can say about it!

NOTE: I am not a technical expert or legal expert on AI; I am some guy online, but I have a vested interest in this both as someone who pays to have art made and who makes art themselves. I have recently done a fair amount of research into this, and this is what I came to personally. If you have more information from a legal or technical perspective that contradicts this, I'd love to hear it!

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Hot shadow CONFIRMED MY DUDES

I like to think he’s actually got a lot of admirers...

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Avril Art Week Day 2: refuse

one of my favorite scenes from the manga! (DNAngel)

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DNAngel Avril Art Week Day 1: Cage

special thanks to @keikotwins for putting together this themed art week for DNAngel! Let’s see if i can actually get them all done (and on time) 💪

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what if... he dyed it 👀

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I like to think he’s actually got a lot of admirers...

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Scene from @fugitivehues very good one-shot, “Bracelet”, from her Kosuke-themed series “Postcards”! Read it if you like DNAngel Dad Content 👀 (but be warned; spoilers for part 2 of the manga!)

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stillness