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Early Jarida Drawing

This was an attempt for an unfinished fanfiction I made: "I Miss You" is its name.

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The one night I decide to check my tumblr again and I have a bunch of notes from art I made 10 years ago for a crack ship I forgot about 😅

Anyway, thanks for the love, here’s a new quick sketch from me 🥰

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hey! i’m an artist and i was wondering what about the httyd crossover art made it obviously AI. i’m trying to get better at recognizing AI versus real art and i totally would have just not clocked that.

Hey! This is TOTALLY okay to not have recognized it, because I DIDN'T AT FIRST, EITHER. Unfortunately there’s no real foolproof way to distinguish real art from the fake stuff. However I have noticed a general rule of thumb while browsing these last few months.

So this is the AI generated image I used as inspiration. I will not be tagging the account that posted it because I do not condone bullying of any type, but it’s important to mention that this was part of a set of images:

This is important because one of the BIGGEST things you can use to your advantage is context clues. This is the thing that clued me in: right off the bat we can see that there is NO consistency between these three images. The art style and outfits change with every generated image. They're vaguely related (I.E. characters that resemble the Big Four are on some sort of adventure?) and that's about it. Going to the account in question proved that all they posted were AI generated images. All of which have many red flags, but for clarity's sake we'll stick with the one that I used.

The first thing that caught my eye was this???? Amorphous Blob in the background. Which is obviously supposed to be knights or a dragon or something.

Again, context clues come into play here. Artists will draw everything With A Purpose. And if what they're drawing is fanart, you are going to recognize most of what you see in the image. Even if there are mistakes.

In the context of this image, it looks like the Four are supposed to be running from these people. The thing that drew my attention to it was the fact that I Didn't Recognize The Villains, and this is because there is nothing to recognize. These shapes aren't Drago, or Grimmel, or Pitch, or any other villain we usually associate with ROTBTD. They're just Amorphous Blobs that are vaguely villain shaped.

Which brings me to my second point:

Do you see the way they're standing? There is no purpose to this. It throws the entire image off. Your eye is drawn to the Amorphous Villain Blobs in the background, and these characters are not reacting to them one bit.

Now I'm not saying that all images have to have a story behind them, but if this were created by a person, it clearly would have had one. Our group here is not telling a story, they are posing.

This is because the AI does not see the image as a whole, but as two separate components: the setting, and the description of the characters that the prompter dictates. I.E. "Merida from Brave, Jack Frost from ROTG, Rapunzel from Tangled, and Hiccup from HTTYD standing next to each other"

Now obviously the most pressing part of this prompt are the characters themselves. So the AI prioritizes that and tries to spit out something that WE recognize as "Merida from Brave, Jack Frost from ROTG, Rapunzel from Tangled, and Hiccup from HTTYD standing next to each other".

This, more times than not, is going to end up with this stagnant posing. Because AI cannot create, it can only emulate. And even then, it still can't do it right. Case in point:

This is not Hiccup. The AI totally thinks this is Eugene Fitzherbert. Look at the pose. The facial structure. The goatee. The smirk. The outfits. He's always next to Raps. Why does he have a quiver? Where's Toothless? His braids? His scar??

HE HAS BOTH OF HIS LEGS.

The AI. Cannot even get the most important part of it's prompt correct.

And that's just the beginning. Here:

More amorphous shapes.

So these are obviously supposed to be utility belts, but I mean. Look at them. The perspective is all off. There are useless straps. I don't even know what that cluster behind Jack's left arm is supposed to be.

This is a prime example of AI emulating without understanding structure.

You can see this particularly in Jack, between his hands, the "tassels" of his tunic, and the odd wrinkles of his boots. There's just not any structure here whatsoever.

Lastly, AI CANNOT CREATE PATTERNS.

Here are the side-by-sides of the shit I had to deal with when redesigning their outfits. Please someone acknowledge this. This killed me inside. THIS is most recognizable to me, and usually what I look for first if I'm wary about an art piece. These clusterfuck bunches of color. I hate them. I hate them so. much.

Anyways here's some other miscellaneous things I've noticed:

Danny Phantom Eyes

???? Thumb? (and random sword sheath)

Collarbone Necklace (corset from hell)

No Staff :( No Bow :(

What is that.

So yeah. Truly the best thing to do is to just. study it. A lot of times you aren't gonna notice anything just looking at the big picture, you need to zoom in and focus on the little details. Obviously I'm not like an expert in AI or anything, but I do have a degree in animation practices and I'm. You know. A human being. So.

In conclusion:

(Y'all should totally reblog my redesign of this btw)

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when was anyone gonna tell me that the tags in the blog are broken?

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What’s your top 3 favorite AU for Jarida?

Hey there! Well if you must know.

I adore the AU where Merida is a spirit, I think it has to do with the whole RotBTD's era. Good times.

Oh! Pokemon AU! It's not widely seen but I did a couple of posts on it and I just-

I guess a special place in my heart goes to either Titanic or Anastasia AU's. Like, they are Jarida coded you know.

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🏹🍁~Es mi primer dibujo de estos ships~ ❄️🙃

¿Qúe dibujo quiseran que haga?

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Rewatched brave and you know what that means

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Characters: Jack Frost x Merida

Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians | Brave

Relationship: Romantic

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jack acting “natural” after pulling a prank

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🔆 ROTBTDoodles 2023 — DAY 8: JARIDA

Another AU thing I missed with old fandoms are the band AUs!! Those were so good UGHH

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10 years later, still love them

⭐️ My Twitter

⭐️ My Instagram

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The Jarida Discord Server is now open for its first members 🎉

Hey everyone, I (finally) made a Jarida-focused server!  The main goal of this server is to be a cozy community space where fellow Jarida enjoyers can connect with each other. Doesn’t matter whether you’re an old fan or a new one; a fan artist, a fic writer, or another type of creator; or simply someone who just likes the ship and wants to talk about it—everyone is welcome! 

➼ Join our Discord

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REPORT AND BLOCK PORNBOTS ON SHIP TAGS

Hey my lovelies. It has been a while, hasn’t it?

While the blog has been very dead, I still frequent the #jarida and #jerida tags for any new content. And we all know about the bot plague.

I encourage you to REPORT AND BLOCK any bot post you see. Let it be from out beloved Jarida ship tags or any other tag you frequent. I reported like 5 just now. The more reports the posts get hopefully staff will do something about it soon.

Unfortunately, you can only report posts for spam from desktop. Below the line I’ll show you how it’s done. it’s very easy but just in case nobody knew.

Happy shipping my Junicorns.

1) Visualize the target and click on the ••• :

2) Open the drop down menu and click Report:

3) Click for spam/bot option and also while you’re at it, block their asses so they don’t come for you personally:

The thing about not reporting for sexually explicit material is because that’s not the problem here. The problem is that this is a fake blog that’s trying to gain credit online so it can appear on search engines. If we report for 18+ material it will only be unfair for legit 18+ content out there and staff will only strengthen the rules for them

Have a good hunt!

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Hello Everyone!

Since many folks responded to a post I made, I'm gonna go ahead and host our very own 2022 RotBTD Gift Exchange! :D

What is a gift exchange? Basically it's a digital secret santa, near the beginning of the month everyone will receive an assignment to make a gift for someone else, then near the end of the month everyone will reveal their gifts from one another! It's a lot of fun and a wonderful way to get to know some folks in the fandom!

Here's a quick look at our schedule!

November 27th - December 3rd: applications to join the gift exchange will be open

December 4th: assignments will be sent out

December 24th - December 31st: Gifts will be sent out!

If you guys have any questions, feel free to reach out to me!

And if you'd like to join in our little festive gift exchange, just fill out this form! Happy Holidays everyone!

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Sketchbook Log: Merida has always had the unique ability to see spirits. When she goes to the lake for a hunting retreat she soon gets a visitor late one night she was warned about. The rumored ghost boy from the lake. Maybe she will decide to help him

Jack: You- you can see me…

Merida: … your that boy who drowned…

Jack: drowned?

Merida: is that not what happened?

Jack: I don’t know I can’t remember too much.

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inktober mini comic

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A day out

Totally didn’t just randomly forget to post this Jarida edit because I was procrastinating another post.