#how to create nft art and sell

[cryptonewspod]

How to Create NFT Art Without Coding: Beginner's Guide

How to Create NFT Art Without Coding Are you also an artist? Anyone who wants to showcase their creativity digitally in the form of NFT art. If yes! So now you don’t have to worry about learning coding.You can create stunning digital artwork without even learning coding and join the exciting world of NFT art. You don’t need to be any kind of coding expert to digitally convert your art…

[blujayonthewing]

the problem with AI is that it sucks shit but its benefits are actually tangible; every idiot on the block wanted a piece of NFTs and crypto but they still died quickly because they just didn't have legs to get anywhere beyond the immediate unspecific hype, but companies very much can lay off a bunch of artists and writers who take days or weeks or months to work and replace them with a guy who can shit out AI trash in five minutes

[azuremist]

Hey, do y’all remember how Tencent said they were developing faceID AI to identify people in riots, and then they suddenly created an AI art generator to turn your selfies into anime?

Do y’all remember that time that someone discovered facial recognition cameras couldn't see through Juggalo makeup, then Facebook had a fun “see what you'd look like with Juggalo makeup” thing, and then facial recognition cameras could suddenly see through Juggalo makeup?

Do y’all remember how, on Twitter, Elon started a tirade against artists who ask for credit when their art is reposted, and he suddenly he created one of the first big art AI programs?

Do y’all remember how AI destroyed the field of freelance translation, despite the inferiority of the machine translations, because companies didn’t care about the quality of the translations? They just wanted it done for free?

Do y’all know how companies will see a lot of money going into a New Tech Thing (like, say, AI art apps) and will jump to try and implement that New Tech Thing into their tech? For example, how it felt like every big company and celebrity had an NFT to sell?

Just wondering.

[jypsyvloggin]

NFTs: The Next Big Thing in the Crypto World?

NFTs: The Next Big Thing in the Crypto World? What is an NFT? NFT stands for non-fungible token. A non-fungible token is a unique digital asset that cannot be replaced by another asset. Each NFT has its own unique identifier and metadata, which makes it impossible to counterfeit or duplicate. NFTs are stored on a blockchain, which is a distributed ledger that records transactions in a secure…

[moonlanding09]

NFTs are digital assets that are unique and cannot be replaced. This makes them perfect for artists who want to sell their work as digital collectibles. If you want to use NFTs for your artwork, then you should take the help of an NFT marketing agency.

[thecatfight2023]

finals!!!

(art by mod orange :))

Jellie (GoodTimesWithScar): GoodTimesWithScar's (youtuber) cat, that got a minecraft cat skin after her.

Nyan Cat: "Nyan Cat, also rarely called "Pop Tart Cat", is an 8-bit animation depicting a gray cat with the body of a cherry Pop-Tart flying through outer space.... Though the gif was created by prguitarman, its popularity spike was due to a YouTube User named Saraj00n pairing it with Momo's "Nya Nya Nya!" song and uploading it, where it immediately became a hit."

a kitty owned by a minecraft youtuber who's been unexpectedly sweeping with her main propaganda being people saying "guys she's literally in minecraft how can you not vote for her" v. an internet icon who has been sweeping with the power old internet nostalgia (and whose creator has apparently been selling nfts of ://)

[bancaishi]

opening up commissions for the summer - check my bio to see how many slots are available. inquiries can be made through my google form, discord (ammonoideas), email (ammonoideas.xyx@gmail.com), or DMs.

terms of service & price transcriptions beneath the cut

if you have any questions about any of the following, my tumblr asks & dms are open!

will draw:

original characters

fan art (see information section below)

furries/anthro

simple machinery/robots

moderate gore

suggestive content / nudity

won't draw:

complex machinery / mecha

extreme gore

outright nsfw content

information:

in regards to fan art, i prefer to only take commissions for media i am familiar with, and i may refuse commissions for media that i don't know particularly well or with which i am uncomfortable. if you're unsure about the media you're looking to commission fan art of, you can inquire via tumblr asks or dms.

i will not take commissions in a different art style from my own. this includes commissions where i would be asked to replicate the style of another artist.

overall, i reserve the right to refuse any commission whose contents i am uncomfortable with.

procedure:

after contacting me via google forms, discord, email, or dms, i will respond to accept, confirm, and provide a price for the commission.

payment will be done upfront via paypal invoice (accepts credit/debit cards, paypal, and venmo). i will send confirmation once the payment has been received.

i will send the rough sketch once it's complete and provide additional details such as a rough color palette if needed or requested.

refunds are only possible before the sketch has been completed.

during the process of completing the commission, i will provide work-in-progress images of the artwork at the line art stage, as well as the flat color and fully shaded stages if applicable to check if there are any changes you want to make to the piece at those points.

additional work-in-progress images will be provided alongside any requested alterations made to the artwork. if you would like progress images at any other point in the process, please let me know.

please provide reference images for the subject of your commission. these can include references for the kind of pose, prop, clothing, etc. you would like, but at least one reference for a character or individual being drawn is necessary.

these can be as simple or as complex as you can provide, as long as they are clear. i will not design a character from a written description of them.

you may, however, supplement reference images with written descriptions if there are certain details for which you do not have images.

terms:

the final product of the commission is a digital artwork, and is provided in the form of a PNG or JPG/JPEG file. no physical/material copy is provided.

the artist retains copyright over the finished artwork, as well as any work-in-progress images provided to the commissioner.

the rights to all characters or individuals featured in a commission are retained by their respective owners.

the commissioner may upload or share the final commission artwork on any social media platform, and credit is appreciate but not required. (if you do wish to credit me, i can be found at @bancaishi on instagram and tumblr.)

commissions are for private, non-commercial purposes only. the commissioner may not make use of a commission from me to make a profit, be it through selling/redistributing digitally or physically (as prints, merchandise, etc.). this also applies to NFTs.

commissions may not be used for the purpose or in the process of creating AI/machine-generated images.

the commissioner may not alter the commission without the artist's permission.

prices:

style 1

bust/icon - lined: $10, colored $20

waist up - lined: $20, colored: $30

full body - lined: $30, colored $40

style 2

bust/icon - lined: $15, colored: $30

waist up - lined: $30, colored: $45

full body - lined: $45, colored: $60

additional/complex characters

additional characters: 75% price

additional fees may apply for more complex designs, such as characters with armor, wings, extra limbs, etc.

props & weapons

no additional charge for small or simple props (e.g. an apple, a ball of yarn, a small pencil) unless in high quantity

complex props (style 1): additional $5+

complex props (style 2): additional $8+

animals & monsters

tiny animals (up to the size of a human hand): 20% on their own, free as a companion

small animals (up to the size of a cat): 30%

medium animals (up to the size of a dog): 50%

large animals (human size or larger): 100%

backgrounds

simple background: no additional cost

complex background (style 1): $20+

complex background (style 2): $30+

detailed background (style 1): $80+

detailed background (style 2): $100+

illustrated frames & borders

style 1: $10+

style 2: $15+

rendered scenes

only one slot available

painted scenes starting from $120. price may increase to reflect added detail on characters or backgrounds or an additional illustrated border

[dokidokitsuna]

...I just remembered I wanted to make my own statement on the AI thing. ^^;

So you've probably heard, but in case you haven't: Tumblr just sold out everyone's data to the AI trash compactors, they probably did it long before they gave us the option to opt out, and even if you do opt out they're probably still taking and using your work anyway (telling people to opt out instead of actually asking for their permission is already scummy business practice, but when it comes to AI it's functionally meaningless. :/ It's always "well, we're telling them not to use these people's data and we're hoping they'll be nice and go along with it" with no regulations or consequences if they decide to just steal everything indiscriminately...)

Despite that, I am not leaving Tumblr anytime soon. I'm looking into other sites*, but at this moment in time, I have nowhere else to go. ^^; Besides, I still like it here. When I left DeviantArt I was already getting sick of the place, having my art stolen regularly by "fans" and paradoxically getting less and less interest in my work over time. By the time the devs turned the website into eye-blinding slop with Eclipse, I was more than ready to move on.

But I still enjoy using Tumblr. I like writing long text posts that no one would bother to read anywhere else, I like answering asks, and I like the unique sense of humor and style among the users here. ^^ It would take a lot to force me out.

Also, I can take a little solace in the fact that AI-bros do not value "low-quality" art like mine. ^^; If messy cel-shaded sketches with visible pixels ever become popular, then I'll worry, but for now I think it's highly unlikely that anyone will want to wholesale regurgitate my art. If anything, I think prioritizing it in their datasets would only make them worse...and on that note, if you do have "high quality" detailed/painterly/semi-realistic art that would be targeted, I'd recommend 'poisoning' it with Nightshade/Glaze. Although I heard a rumor a while back that AI is "building immunity" to Nightshade and already learning to work around it, but I'm really hoping that was just a wishful lie from the trash compactors themselves. I haven't heard it repeated since then, so I think it's still worth a shot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So anyway, like the post I reblogged said, I think the best thing we can do now is to make it clear that WE DON'T WANT AI ART. We don't care how easy it'll be to instantly generate thousands of hours of mindless 'content' to look at; we don't want it. Since regulation is lagging so far behind (wanna know why Disney's copyright hounds didn't shut this down on sight? Most likely, they're hoping to profit from it down the line) the only way to fight this right now is with individual litigation and consumer demand.

Don't support projects made with AI**; don't hate-watch them or spotlight them. Focus your energy on the millions of human artists who are still here, and need your support now more than ever.

*I've heard people mention moving to Twitter and/or Artstation: fam, you're jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. ^^;;; IIRC, Arstation was one of the FIRST art sites to start flirting with AI, and Twitter has been selling off its users' data for several months already. Go there if you must, but don't go under the impression that it's "safer".

**Please keep a cool head when discussing AI art, and keep in mind that it used to mean something other than "mass theft". Artists have and still do create AI tools that are built on limited data sets with permission/compensation, that are used to aid them in their work and encourage human artistry (Vocaloids and DAW's, for instance) rather than stamp it out. Until a specific word evolves into popular use for exploitative AI, we're kinda stuck with this confusion, so remember to get the facts before you speak out.

P.S. Praying every night that this is a dumb fad that will soon die and go to the same hell as NFTs. >_< Praying every morning that the influx of AI art into its own datasets will eventually corrupt itself and make it useless. >_< >_< Praying every afternoon for both at once! >_< >_< >_< Like to charge, reblog to cast, all that

[medusaspeach]

I think you're right that there's, unfortunately, not many safe places to post artwork. Maybe, if you're comfortable with it, you could create a YT channel for speed drawing and maybe doing a voiceover about the mythology or something. That'd be considerably more work, but it also has the chance of earning your revenue which could be nice.

Anyway, I'd stick around on Tumblr if you're not comfortable with Instagram. You could start gradually switching over; posting a little there, a little here, plugging your Insta on these posts, and eventually migrating over, but if I'm going to be honest, I don't know that it matters much, considering many places are unsafe for artists in the AI sense. At least Tumblr gives the option of not having your work scraped, but unfortunately, no system is perfect, and there will always be that asshole who does it anyway. I think we can really only hope that AI ends up being a phase, similar to how NFTs have mostly died out by now. I see a lot of AI opposition these days, so fingers are crossed as an artist myself. 🤞

I've actually been toying with the idea of doing some drawing videos for a while now... maybe I'll actually get to it. 🫠

I don't mind Instagram for certain things, it's got a nice gallery format for phones. I will most likely continue to post my work here (for now), but plan to start gradually posting over on Bsky at some point.

I get so annoyed when I see AI art, it's fast and cheap compared to hiring artists and so I imagine some people/companies will continue to use it. I just hope for more regulation. I see people selling "their" Ai artwork on stickers and prints on Etsy all the time, and it drives me nuts.

[kavaeric]

Y'know I think the reason why I hate the term "content creator" isn't necessarily the word choice of calling stuff posted online "content". Superficially I don't think it's a bad idea to have an intentionally vague catch-all term a la "queer" that ensures gatekeeping is difficult by definition.

I think the actual reason why I hate the term "content creator" is that it places overwhelming focus on the end product, not on creation as a process or skillset. "Artist" "writer" "documentarian" "musician" or even a vague catch-all term like "creative" is much nicer to me because it's a term that places the emphasis on the human being and their skills and craft, rather than the output. If anything defines me it's not the actual final pictures I post on the internet, but the skills and techniques and methods of thinking I've incorporated into my being over my lifetime. Even with clients, the point of a portfolio isn't so much us showing off what we've created in the past, but is rather simply a means to demonstrate what skills we have developed. At a broader scope, it's also why a resumé is a list of skills, degrees, and workplace experiences first and foremost, with specific final outputs and projects being secondary if mentioned at all.

Conversely, "content creator" reduces all of that to the end product. It's a phrase that suggests a disinterest in the how and almost exclusively on the what. Here you're defined not by what skills you have as a person, but rather on what your output is: you are a creator of content, and the content is what's actually important above all else. The "creator" in "content creator" is but a mere means to an end, and the thing about being viewed as a means-to-an-end is that the people in charge will want to replace you with something more efficient if it'll result in the same end, in their mind.

Over the years we've been seeing the ongoing trivialisation of creatives at large: not just the NFT and AI art drivel, but also the replacement of practical effects and sets with CG solely because those workers are cheaper, the abuse of video game developers, the erosion of selling music as a viable income stream, the normalisation of spec work from writers and graphic designers, the list goes on. All of these events and more, in my view, have the same undercurrent of viewing final products and results as the most important thing in the creative process; care for the human beings who actually make the things is secondary at best.

Hence I don't think that a lot of the observations people make about tech dudebros flip-flopping between "art is immutably valuable and unique" for NFTs and "art is basically all the same and interchangeable" with AI isn't necessarily hypocrisy, because when you understand that these people view the tangible but inanimate final product, an entity that demands nothing of you nor will invite any protest if reduced to a single number on a spreadsheet, as the most important thing? Of course they have no problem doing both. It's also why you can't actually engage with these people on good faith; at the end of the day trying to appeal to their sense of morality when it comes to the welfare of human beings is not really what they're interested in, frankly.

It's the mass acceptance of "so long as we get the results, I don't care how we go about achieving them" which honestly freaks me out the most.

[ak-illustrate]

Anthro Neopets Reference Sketch Bases

A big little project brought on by a very sudden Neopets kick! I wanted to make front and side sketch references for how neopets are (usually) drawn anthropomorphized in Neopet's canon. I tried to stick as close as I could to the official Neopets style, save some creative interpretation here and there due to a lack of available information. (Two words: Hoof Hands)

I hope this might be helpful to artists who want to do their own Neopets projects and pieces!

Feel free to use these for: - General art reference - Editing and drawing over the sketch base to make your own character references for both official and original neopets character designs. (You may edit the original as much as needed! These are meant to be base sketches after all!) - Making 3D Models.

Credit for using the sketch base in your project or piece is appreciated but not required.

That said, I ask that you do not use these sketch bases for selling prints, making NFTs, AI training, or for reselling the image files please.

Thank you. And that's all!

Happy creating!

[olderthannetfic]

1) I'm of the, probably unpopular, opinion that a lot of the shit from recent years, Ie NFT's, and AI, would have been perfect tools for actual artists and authors to use if they weren't used for bullshit. NFT? Imagine just being able to easily prove that you're the owner of your own art? Stop art thieves from claiming YOUR art, or even corporations stealing and selling your art. Nope, bullshit monkeys. AI? Imagine if you're an animator, and you don't have to crunch to get a scene done, you

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2) could instead use AI to do some in-between frames, and instead of having to draw 12, you do 8, and AI helps you do the 4 leftover ones. Maybe animation teams could use it to work more smoothly. What about AI helping disabled people? Some features to allow you to more easily realise your vision. How about AI when you create character costumes? You just wanna play around with one of your OC's? Maybe your personal-AI program could be used to dress up your OC, by using your previous designs.

[oldschoolfrp]

(Someone asked for my thoughts about the current OGL debacle, and compared it to how TSR handled its properties in its final years as a company; Tumblr twice ate my reply and deleted the original question)

From the earliest days of D&D a big part of its appeal has been the way it encourages players to create and share their own worlds. The initial appearance of the game sparked the rise of a host of amateur fanzines and third-party small press publishers whose efforts helped increase the popularity of TSR's core product. As TSR grew, it extended various licenses for official supplements, with an uneasy tolerance of ‘generic’ material that didn’t claim to be official.

As competition increased, Gygax seemed more irritated with others engaging with his game on their own terms.  Instead of writing as much about imagination and creativity he often focused on promoting the right way to play. He wasted pages of space in Dragon magazine railing against the small presses and accusing them of making inferior unauthorized products that deceived unsuspecting gamers in the marketplace.

After forcing Gygax out in the mid-80s, Lorraine Williams saved TSR through aggressive expansion, but an attempt at total market dominance helped cause its final financial crisis in the 90s.  The company produced too many of its own new games and official supplements split between too many different genres and campaign worlds, dividing its own customer base among an unsustainable number of products that competed with each other.

That was back then. As for now, I think:

As a consumer of some recent third-party content for 5e and B/X D&D I've been pretty happy with the thriving community of creators making free and commercial supplements, and I hope no one tries to place roadblocks in their way.

That’s about it.  I think I'm not the best person to comment on the details of the allegedly more restrictive leaked OGL 1.1 because:

I have no inside information or contacts with the legal representation of Hasbro, Inc, and

I myself am not a publisher of OGL-based material who would be directly threatened with financial loss by any of the changes that might occur.

It's understandable that independent authors and publishers would be worried about a possible threat to their businesses. It is especially concerning that the company at the center of all this has mostly remained silent for several weeks while anger and fear has been amplified. The last official statement was back on December 21, in which they insisted that independent creators would still be able to keep doing what they have been doing, and mentioned new threats like NFTs as an example of why they felt the old legal language needed an update:

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1410-ogls-srds-one-d-d

Unfortunately when I see this topic being promoted on Twitter and YouTube, many of the top suggestions are clearly bad-faith click-bait performance art by people selling anger as entertainment, which isn’t going to help anyone understand the actual issues.  I won’t engage with the worst of those.

There are some good takes on the topic here -- @mostlysignssomeportents explained some reasons why publishers probably never needed the OGL and could be better off without it, and @prokopetz has some observations on why the OGL made people more comfortable about quoting the official rules and where things might be headed.

[vholecekart]

Processing some things

Well the election happened, for what it was worth. I’m still processing the full ramifications of what it means for the future. I’m definitely processing it more than probably anyone who voted for it…the consequences of this election are already coming swift…especially to the chucklefucks who clearly did not understand how tariffs work and now its going to cost a lot of them their Christmas bonuses this year (I’m absolutely failing to muster sympathy for them, and audibly cackled to find that #TrumpRuinsChristmas was already a suggested hashtag on facebook.)

In the midst of all the dumbfucks who unwittingly voted against their own interests on multiple fronts because they had tunnel vision and were marks for misdirection, it feels like a very weird time to be making, marketing, and selling artwork.

I’m certainly not disappearing anywhere, unless things get really bad and I end up on some kind of hit list for D-list artists and political dissenters, but it definitely feels like fixing the drapes while the room is on fire.

This is fine.

Except that it isn’t. I’m not going to pretend like we’re not in dangerously uncharted waters right now. It seems like the impossible has become possible, and every safeguard along the way failed.

I’m not going to give anyone the benefit of a full public meltdown, however. I will simply keep making my silly little projects and my silly little posts, regardless of whether anyone buys them or not. Chet Zar has said before that “dark times call for dark art”, and I think in the coming years the cathartic and emotional value of such work will become increasingly necessary. Not just for the artists as a venting mechanism, but also for the viewers who need the emotional resonance of an image that encapsulates what they might be going through at the moment, and will invariably comment “mood” under.

I will keep creating, journaling, taking notes, and moving accordingly. I’ve begun quietly cutting people out of my circles whom I have found to be anathema to things that I value, and as of last night I have completely closed up my presence on Twitter. It was just time.

So I guess where we go from here is to go about life as best we can, resist where we are able, and try to help those close to us navigate these waters as safely as possible. I’m not going to waste time with those whose own stupidity have invited misfortune upon themselves. I’m already something of a misfit in my own family, so there were not many ties to sever there as it was.

For the moment, you can still find me posting on the usual outlets, minus Twitter now (I’ll never call it “X”), and I’ll keep posting my bullshit and publicly making fun of NFT scammers trying to slip into my DMs.

I hope to see all of you on the other side of this shitshow.

Stay safe.

[moonlanding09]

Real estate dealers and developers are increasingly using NFTs to streamline their operations, reduce costs, and enhance the customer experience. Real estate investments are often considered illiquid as they require a significant amount of capital and can take months or even years to sell.

Visit us here to know more about us: https://moonlanding.media/marketing/

[hapusheen]

Long-ass rant about artificial "intelligence"

"Capital A.I. is dead labour art, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour humans art, and lives the more, the more labour humans art it sucks." - Karl Marx, probably

I'm not afraid of A.I. stealing my job, I'm afraid of corporations and capitalism having another tool to exploit workers. I post my art and work on the internet for everyone to enjoy, NOT for tech companies to steal scrape them off for free then sell back to me for profit. Ofcourse businesses will choose A.I. over human to rip off workers and avoid responsibility. A.I. also doesn't go on strike or operate guillotines. Without the labour of real humans, those machine learning would not exist.

Even "A.I" is a misleading term, those machines are not intelligent. It is just a parrot repeating data fed to them without any understanding. But quality is not the priority of capitalism.

Like, everyone knows this right? Right??? Then why the fuck is my college teaching students to use A.I. image generator for their design course?

"But the A.I. generated-images look good and realistic." Those images remind me of how cyberpunk is used in mainstream media: just surface-level aesthetic without the original philosophy and politics (also incredibly white-washed). Just look at them. On the surface, those images appear "real", but the more you look at it, there's no detail, no intention, no meaning, nothing interesting to talk about. Human art (especially abstract art) is the opposite. Those images only look realistic to us, because our human brain is very good at finding patterns out of meaningless shapes, the A.I. doesn't understand or even know those patterns exist.

I bet A.I. can't create anything remotely resemble my Viet Futurism project.

Remember other fictitious capitals like crypto and NFTs? Yeah, me neither, because they crashed and are now worthless. Money doesn't have value, labour does.