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So! In looking for more resources on Black hair, I found this amazing, simplified explanation for afros, locs, braids, and twists!! Everyone thank "Daisy E" for their contribution to diversity and inclusion within the art space!

It's far past time to draw our Black characters with our hairstyles and natural hair textures. Please take the time to look, and practice!

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As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

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please draw something bad. please make bad art. please do your worst sometimes. im serious. you might love it or you might laugh at how it came out. either outcome is good. enjoy yourself enjoy yourself love yourself

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A futuristic city!

Yes I know I forgot to set the building in the background to use smooth shading.

Happy New Year!! 🎉

Just one prompt today and maybe some tomorrow!

"Share the piece that you're most proud of from 2024 or create something new to start off 2025!"

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How people talk about character writing and exposition and worldbuilding in fantasy and sci fi can be frusterating, cause there is plenty of cases where characters are written poorly, or exposition is intrusive or clumsy or just kinda gibberish.

Other times when i hear people talk about books in these genres being focused on its world or ideas and not being focused on characters as a flaw it feels like someone saying a landscape painting is bad because the figures in it are small and fails at being a portrait

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If you’ve ever wondered how reposting hurts artists- yesterday I found a post from 2012ish featuring one of my Sherlock/Doctor Who pieces. That post had 17,604 notes. It wasn’t my post. My post of that art had 0 notes.

Apparently I saw the post once when it was at 6k because an artist I admired reblogged it, but at that stage I was very unwell & not experienced enough with Tumblr to realise what effect it might have.

Looking through the notes now I see that in the six years since then-

Several people got the design as a tattoo.

A number liked it enough to want custom designs but didn’t know how to contact me so that’s approximately £300 I didn’t get a chance to earn.

Someone used that art in the front cover of a comic by accident and while the company fixed it after I contacted them that’s exposure that it’s far too late to capitalise on now.

If you like an artwork that you find off tumblr, please, please I am begging you search for the artist’s name and see if they do actually have a Tumblr you could reblogged from instead. If you’re an artist search your username(s) every so often to see if your work has been taken.

A few hundred quid might not seem like a lot, but that’s a few months of income for me

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writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

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“but AI art lets me create my OCs!” YOU WILL USE PICREW AS GOD INTENDED

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She AO on my Texture 'til I Bake.

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Part 2!

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Anyway here's my "presets" for the Paint.NET plugin Quantdith.

Before the post starts, I guess I'll do a bit of preamble; firstly, I will be demonstrating each preset using the following image, which is the a screenshot I took of the city overlook part from Bulletstorm, with the saturation increased to 125 and the resolution set to 50%:

The reason for this is that the original image was too desaturated, but setting the saturation to 200 made it too garish and painful to look at, and 150 was still. That. This version has a wider range of saturation, while still keeping all the details. Also it was too big and took forever to apply the effect to.

These aren't actual presets, but instead images that I use as references to set the settings (specifically screenshots of the entire panel).

Anyway they're all below the "Keep Reading" thing for potential eyestrain reasons.

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Preset 5 (ignore the fact the "use Paint.NET palette file thing; I can't remember which I used, so instead I'm just using the top palette)

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And, as a bonus, the original unedited screenshot (which I have set as one of my desktop backgrounds because it's genuinely kinda nice):

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Me: [adjusts the colour of the "Edge Tint" section of a Metallic BSDF texture-node] Blender: Guess I'll crash ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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you, artist online. somebody has referenced you in conversation irl by your online handle and somebody else knew who you were talking about. somebody has kept up closely with your posts for a period of time like their morning paper. somebody found a music artist because of you, thinks of you when they hear them on the radio. somebody followed you years ago and remembers you randomly even though they can't find you. somebody has screenshotted and saved your posts and sent them in discord servers. somebody has made your drawings their lockscreen, added them to their favorites folder and looked at them when they're going through some shit, has sent them to their best friend and sparked conversation in private chats. your art in particular could be the source of a keen sense of nostalgia for someone. maybe they've even printed out your images using their home printer and taped them to their bedroom wall and they look at it every day and they never even told you. isn't that scary? isn't that awesome? remember this well.

submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known so that you may turn around and see the impact you leave and the light you cast on others.

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you, artist online. somebody has referenced you in conversation irl by your online handle and somebody else knew who you were talking about. somebody has kept up closely with your posts for a period of time like their morning paper. somebody found a music artist because of you, thinks of you when they hear them on the radio. somebody followed you years ago and remembers you randomly even though they can't find you. somebody has screenshotted and saved your posts and sent them in discord servers. somebody has made your drawings their lockscreen, added them to their favorites folder and looked at them when they're going through some shit, has sent them to their best friend and sparked conversation in private chats. your art in particular could be the source of a keen sense of nostalgia for someone. maybe they've even printed out your images using their home printer and taped them to their bedroom wall and they look at it every day and they never even told you. isn't that scary? isn't that awesome? remember this well.

submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known so that you may turn around and see the impact you leave and the light you cast on others.

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No, stop that. Stop drawing popular girl from new AAA slop game or the new shonen anime. You need to find a secondary character from a 10-25 year old jrpg and let it be your muse, like a real artist

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Alternatively they should do the opposite and make a renderer that's even better than Cycles.

Now that Blender Eevee is like. Actually fucking useful, they should add a new renderer that's between it and Workbench in terms of quality. Like it has proper materials and directional lighting and stuff, but reflections are all based around cubemaps and there is no translucency.

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Now that Blender Eevee is like. Actually fucking useful, they should add a new renderer that's between it and Workbench in terms of quality. Like it has proper materials and directional lighting and stuff, but reflections are all based around cubemaps and there is no translucency.

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