#and will be more about my business stuff

[artist-ellen]

Housekeeping Updates!

So just in case you don't know Meta has made the decision to start scraping everything anyone posts to their new AI. There isn't really a way to opt out either. In some countries you can lodge a formal complaint, but even that doesn't mean your photos or art won't be used despite your wishes.

In a twist no one could have seen coming (sarcasm)... people are leaving or deleting their work. Many artists are going to Cara, an app that is still in Beta mode. I opened an account there as well but am unsure yet if I will post regularly to. I will most likely post my 'official portfolio' there but I don't know if there will be people who aren't artists on the site. So as an art venture it would be great... but on the hopes of connecting with my existing audience? To be seen or shared to people who might commission me? The odds aren't so good.

Lots of decisions to make I'm afraid. At the moment I will be posting my regular content here on Tumblr and to my Patreon (I've had it for years but wasn't using it actively, shout out to the two people who stayed following me over there, you're the coolest). But I won't be posting regularly to Instagram like I was. In fact I've decided to actively delete most of my art from Instagram. And since I can't count on Tumblr to house and categorize and find all that work from over the past four years I've decided to effectively use Patreon as my Archive.

All day I've been copying over my old posts to Patreon, and setting them up in a schedule so they will post once a day for... a very long time. I've barely moved a 100 redesign posts over and I'm into February next year... it's a slow and slightly monotonous process but I think it will be worth it! So if you want to relive my original redesigns on a daily basis they are over at my Patreon. I've set nearly all of them to "all members" so you don't have to be on the paid tier to see them. Only some the oldest/first draft redesigns and some behind the scene screenshots will be for my 'Support System' <3

I am looking into glazing and what not but they have to reply to a DM? or something odd like that so I'm looking at various options while I figure things out. Will this crush my tiny art business? Maybe. Will I do this in protest anyway? Yeah. F Meta. (Holds in tirade about the state of megacorporations owning our data)

TLDR: Meta wants everybody to feed their ai for free, I'm removing posts from IG and archiving them onto my Patreon for all members. I'm still going to be posting on tumblr.

xoxoxo

[lilybug-02]

Possession PSA.

Thank you @ferronickel for giving me this crack head idea.

[hinamie]

i'm exactly as normal about him as I thought I'd be

[vaguely-concerned]

the strength it must have taken for illario to not immediately go full 'lmao since when have you even had a kiss hello lucanis' sibling violence mode during the café talk. inspirational. rook and lucanis really were doing all that right in front of his salad huh

[bunnieswithknives]

Do you think Dale develops (pun not intended) an aversion to bright colors after the attack?

Don’t mind me just hitting the man with my Trauma Hammer

Oh absolutely. Its a good thing he lives in white room

[daily-odile]

AUGH I’d love to see more time looping odile if possible,,,,, how do you think she’d like; “devolve” over each of the acts as compared to Siffrin over time :O

ok im gonna be honest i did like portrait edits months ago and just never finished them. so here you go

act 3:

act 5:

[bettercallthebird]

The Gabriel hyperfix is NOT leaving so I’m dumping a lot of my pieces of him here, him in his rage form I drew yesterday. I was testing out a new brush and really liked it lol 💫

[skeletoninthemelonland]

Hello! Do you have a Fanfiction or story planned for your Springdad AU?

Also have a nice day :D

I'm planning to work on... something, but it won't be in the fanfiction format since I'm not very experienced with the English language

(clears throat)

(CLEARS THROAT HARDER)

have a nice day as well :]

[mossy-paws]

Coroika Splatoon but it’s PHIGHTING! Roblox

Hi to my Coroika and phighting fans so how are we feeling about this one

cooked these up in a few hours! These honestly didn’t really take that long at all and were really fun to do since I got to play around with some charcoal brushes (I love doing everything in my power to NOT use midtones lmfao).

I tired to mimic the style of the manga a bit and I think i did relatively okay! I have a lot more of these planned so yeah >:3! Really excited to get to do them sometime

Og Panels:

[turtleblogatlast]

Things I make for myself when insomnia kicks in

Just a chart about what I wanna change up and keep consistent in my art - I mainly wanna draw Raph with a tail because he deserves one, it fits too well. Donnie gets a long tail too because I didn’t realize how dino-like he looks until I gave him one, and now it’s a must for me haha.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I have a love/hate relationship with having nothing to do. One one hand, for once my to-do list is relatively simple or empty, and I get to be free to do my own stuff. On the other hand, why do i have nothing to do? I never have 'nothing to do'- I need to find something to do right NOW, or I will combust from sheer paranoia of having forgotten a Big Thing To Do and actually it turns out I I am very busy even though I literally have nothing to do.

[palskippah]

Hi!

It's almost September (WOOO) (very important month in Chile), so I was listening to cueca AND if I like a character, I will make them chilean, so now Ambrosius is chilean and speaks Spanish when I don't write them all in spanish (where suddenly they're all chilean sjsdk)

SO anyways, HC that he's a güerito (fair-skinned/blond latino asjdka) in the same way I make Princess Peach be one too asjdkd

Translation (sorta, more like adaptation?) of the song he sings under the cut!

1 - Oohhh, darling... if only you kne~w...

2 - That I can't exist without seeing you

3 - I miss you so muuuch

4 - That there's no spri~ng

5 - When you're not pr- (Ballister interrupts him)

7 - --present, I miss you so muuUUch (voice crack ajskda)

There's another part in the song where the woman sings 'how can I forget those (your) eyes, that captivate me so much' but I didn't want to extend the thingy too much askjdas but I like to think that Ballister's eyes are the prettiest Ambrosius' has ever seen and he'll always state his point.

(Same with Movie Ambrosius, Ballister's eyes are to him like a night sky, and he says so, a night sky when it's full of stars - nevermind that the kingdom is probably very light-contamined ajskda imagine they got starry nights too)

By the way I don't know about the context, so feel free to imagine whatever you'd like ;;

[temeyes]

new phone, struggling to use it (i hate setting it up)

[creativesplat]

I would also like to see some miphlink, if that's okay!

I was really struggling with what to draw, and then I remembered your ask from ages ago (dang ADHD brain...) anyway, sorry its such a late answer, but Miphlink inspired by Dicksee's La Belle Dame

[sysig]

Growing closer than expected (Patreon)

[danishphoner]

one thing that really fascinates me about alex is his devotion to art – and more specifically, how he chooses to get some inspiration from scientific works of what he aims to implement in his art. every time one gets to examine some of his lyrics, or even how he explains these lyrics in an interview, they can be greeted by some bits of actual scientific information. an example is how he named his taquería on the moon with the term “information-action ratio”, coined by the critic neil postman, and referenced it in the song four out of five, something that might also indicate an interesting articulation with postman's concept. the line “cute new places keep on popping up”, for example, can express his well-known sardonic discontent regarding the flood of information being generated and transmitted over and over and, as much as it seems visually appealing and does give the idea of benefiting from advanced technologies, it doesn't really add anything substantial to the receiver's critical thinking – and worse, it distances the information receiver from the sender in a communication channel, according to postman.

what i'm saying with this interpretation is, it's known that alex is enamoured with the idea of gathering a bunch of references and condensing them into a mixture of metaphors in his writing, but it's so thrilling how, at times, we can find some bits of science inside of it – and it's even more exciting, just like playing a puzzle game, to find these references and analyse them by doing a similar research to what he did to create his works.