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I now have a Bluesky!

I don’t plan on abandoning Tumblr anytime soon. I wanted to not only secure the handle there but use it as something of a portfolio, without it being a full portfolio. If you have an account there and are willing to support an indie, human artist, give me a follow!

I’ll be trickling more art onto it eventually, as I’m not only being a perfectionist about what I intend to post, but I’m currently in a bit of a situation in regards to accessing certain pieces to upload. I’ll spare everyone the details, and with luck I’ll figure out a workaround.

See you there! And hopefully here too ❤️

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Can’t take @duke-daemon anywhere I swear

Been dragging some of my friends into the Bionicle fandom, figured I would share a doodle from the time me and the aforementioned Duke watched Mask of Light. More of these are to come, when I actually finish cleaning them up

Wish Duke luck, we’re off to a wonderful start :3

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July is slowly approaching, and with it comes artfight, so I figured I should upload her ref sheet to this blog a little in advance. I'm still pretty proud of how this turned out, even if it is approaching about a year old by this point lol Here's hoping I can actually find the time and energy to upload more here.

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Going to be joining artfight this year! Look for me under the username Nightly_Creations! I have never done artfight before, so I'm a little nervous, but I'm excited to see how this is all going to go!

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Kinda-sorta hatching practice I did on receipt paper a while back. Still pretty proud of this.

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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. 

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Full version of the (temporary, for now) header on the main blog. It turned out cuter than expected in my opinion so I'm immortalizing it

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Say hi to Night everybody She's a lot friendlier than she looks here, I promise

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A thing I did for Halloween this year. In lore context will appear here eventually, once I get all the other art I want to upload out of the way lol

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yeehaw

Might as well make my first post my pinned post Hi. I'm Nightly. I'm using this post as a reference for all of the 'important' stuff relevant to this blog and how it's organized, just to make things easy on myself and anybody who comes to visit. OC's are tagged with #nightlysocs Worldbuilding nonsense is tagged with #nightlyuniverse I'll be editing this post as needed in the future, but for now we're sticking with these bare bone tags.