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Касочка!

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Sorry for the incoming wall of text. But you act as if people were attacking you, from the post I've seen most people had a calm response, the few that weren't as calm never really attacked you straight up. Simply disagreeing with someone isn't an attack. It's a way to start a conversation and talk.

With that out the way though, I will say, yes you can critique art to a degree without being an artist in the way you can taste if a dish is bad without being a chef. But you do understand there will be things you don't understand yet? And before you assume I'm saying "you're art is bad" or anything like that. I'm not. Plan and simple, I'm just saying it's obvious you're a fairly new artist, your style is cute and I can tell what you're going for, but it's evident you're not an artist who's done a lot of study on more complex anatomy. Your characters heads are usually front facing from what I've seen, and you don't draw hands. And AGAIN, that is not me saying it's a bad thing, that's a stylistic choice. But considering how you draw front facing heads I feel it's safe to assume you may not know the ins and out of how eye shape can change on a face at different angles, how the skull affects the face and it's contours, and so on and so forth. It can be easy to call something you don't understand weird looking because you don't know how it's supposed to look.

Your heart is in the right place keeping an eye out for AI art, but you should be wary of accusing hardworking artists who spend hours on their work, of using Ai simply because they made a few shortcuts in their artwork. We're humans, were imperfect, as such our art will be imperfect.

You started your post saying you THINK it might be AI, implying you'd be open to the idea that maybe it's not as well, but it seems obvious you're very steadfast in your theory considering you nuked the original post from your blog simply because people started disagreeing. I'll just leave it at that, I'd hope we'd be able to have a civil discussion but I'm assuming you're just gonna block me and see this as another attack.

*peeks out of my bomb shelter* Should I post this or will people beat me with hammers

Anyways this is your hourly reminder that just because someone has an art take that you Don't Personally Like that doesn't automatically mean they know nothing about art 👍

And also just because someone doesn't know things about art that doesn't automatically make their criticism invalid buttttt people don't like having that conversation apparently

(More info about this design under the cut!)

Okay, so my goal with this design was to change up Flower's base design a bit while still keeping her recognizable as Flower, something that CiFlower's official design tried to do and failed miserably.

First of all, Ci having longer hair isn't the thing that makes her a poorly-designed Flower! In fact, if you look at V3 and even TalkFlower, they both have longer hair. The issue with Ci's hair, in my opinion, is that it just looks too clean-cut. Every other Flower's hair is a bit more scruffy, so that's what I tried to go for here. I also kept the double purple streaks, because that's one of the few parts of Ci's design that I actually kinda like.

Anyways, onto the outfit. I did base this more on V4 than anything else, but I wanted to keep the design unique in its own right, kind of like what Talk did. Like Talk, I decided to make her design more casual than V3 and V4, but I also decided to give it almost a bit of a Japanese goth-punk influence, instead of the generic J-fashion streetwear the original Ci had (that I'm apparently racist for critiquing???). Like I said about the hair, the original outfit just looks too clean and generic for a character like Flower, so I made it more "edgy" (for lack of a better word) and asymmetrical. Listen, just because I don't appreciate the inconsistencies of Ci's original design, that doesn't mean I hate asymmetry. C'mon guys, my favorite Vocal Synth design is literally Fukase. Why would you think I hate asymmetry?

As for the colors, again, I based it mostly on V4, but I wanted to make it more unique. I love the light red highlights in that design, so I wanted to make that color a bit more prominent here. I added it to the hair since I liked the gradient in Ci's original design, I made her eyes that color since I liked the idea of a color other than purple to make her eyes stand out, but the icy-blue that Ci has just doesn't look right, and I put it in a few other places as well. The reason why there isn't a whole lot of that orchid color that's so prominent in V4's design is because I just don't think it looks that good with the other, more bluish purples. Hopefully the colors here are a bit more coherent.

Finally, one more thing: before anyone tries to clown on me by saying "Now I'M not SAYING Meme-Lorbius's CiFlower design was made by and AI BUTTTTT how do you explain THIS", here's proof that I drew this myself. I didn't think I'd ever have to do this, but I know that a bunch of CiFlower simps are gonna try to pull that shit. The program I use is Sony Sketch. Now please don't bother me.

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Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023

Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!

Sejda - Free online PDF editor.

Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and it’ll give you recipe ideas.

Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.

Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. I’d recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.

TOS/DR - Terms of service, didn’t read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.

OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but can’t for the life of you remember the actual word.

My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. You’ll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. It’s genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.

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legit why wont they make more la squadra merch? i get that there more money making stuff for the main jojos/jobros and not a group of guys who die in the episode they get introduced in. BUT PLLS we are starving. like even just prize machine figures pls. theres only one ghiaccio figure and its hard to find. risotto has a few thank god. prosciutto, tweo i think. but like i want a whole colelction of them all GOD. like people will buy them. it makes me a bit hopeful cuz they made little la squadra mini figures for gachapons in like 2020..and risottos SAS went on resale early this year...so mayube maybe godsmile will confirm a ghiaccio nendo. or sas will finally make the rest of la squadra

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I just know Risotto and Gelato would love IC3PEAK. I know ris would specifically like this song and Gelato would like them because their Russian.

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dear araki pls do more collabs with cool fashion brands but ones that dont cost 140 dollars for a tiny purse. am i still gonn a do my best to get the jolyne heart purse? yes? but pls araki sir mister 

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i just wanna buy a bag from the new jojo x samantha thavasa collection but they literally refuse to work with proxy services. i cryyy. pls  just let this dumb american buy their goofy jojo merch