Alex Ren Designs

They/he Illustration. DnD - FF14 Comission status: open on ko-fi

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Linktree - Ko-fi - twitter Art tag: my art

Terfs and bigots aren't welcome here

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My lemix baby. So good to be playing my fav xpac again

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Art dump of my current main who I’m a little obsessed with

[midwinterhunt]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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MapCrunch. Environment artists rejoice. Random locations, filter by indoor or outdoor, rural or urban, specific country. Great for realistic/authentic building ref.

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Painted a warm up sketch of my Paladin

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Finished this drawing of my warlock I doodled a couple months ago

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Just a few of my Draenei babes

[neilcicierega]

If someone beats you up for being "cishet white male" and nothing else, is this okay? Did you deserve it?

what if the world was made of pudding

[joyejoyu]

⛄HOLIDAY SALE ON JOYEJOYUSHOPPE❄️

From today, until Dec 1st at 12am EDT, I'm offering a 25% discount on orders over $25! ✨ If you're looking for some gifts, take a gander and see if anything tickles your fancy~ APPLY DISCOUNT CODE: ▶️HOLIDAYS2024◀️ 🔗 joyejoyushoppe.bigcartel.com/products Shares appreciated! ☺️

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Yesterday, my aunt/cousin's home was destroyed by IOF bombings. I'm trying to grab as much personal funds as possible to help my displaced family in Lebanon , so shares on this post would be appreciated! (ofc i will also link a donation post if my fam makes one)!

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Hey all! I recently designed some dawntrail charms! Pre-orders will be available until August 20th, 2024! Roma and Heirloom tiers can get the special sticker sheet included with these charms by using the discount code included with their tier. You can find the code HERE. You can order the charms via joyejoyushoppe:

DAWNTRIAL CHARM PRE-ORDERS

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5 more days until pre-orders close!

Rbs appreciated! Help so this artist can take a nice and deserved break next month 🥹❤️

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Commission slots for next month are open on my ko-fi

AlexRen's Ko-fi Commissions

Ko-fi Commissions Open! Click to see AlexRen's commission menu.

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Drew B’rhen because I missed him

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March commissions

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Coms from back in February

[joyejoyu]

MAGAZINE COVER SLOTS NOW OPEN!

Now until Tuesday, March 5th at 11:59pm EST

✎$400 USD per C0mm ✎This is NOT first-come-first-serve ✎5-7 slots will be accepted More info via form below⬇️ MAGAZINE COVER FORM

Shares appreciated! ^o^🔄✨

[boimann]

ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

[staff]

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

[toki-pona]

unfortunately, a lot of the userbase won't opt out. those who don't see this post, those who have posted to tumblr but don't anymore, users on older versions of the app who forget to opt out next time they're on desktop, etc. the point of making it opt-out is to take advantage of people who wouldn't have opted in but don't/can't opt out in time. automatically opting out people who have discouraged search crawling is a gesture that helps Tumblr look more kind, but from the fact that everyone else has to manually opt out, Tumblr is definitely not looking benevolent.

I wonder, will Tumblr/Automattic be selling images from deactivated blogs? I assume deactivated blogs can't opt out.

when will they start selling this data? Is it already too late to keep them from selling every image you've posted before you opted out?

and if they're especially malicious, I wonder if they could get away with saying "this image is from a blog that's opted out, but it was reblogged by a blog that hasn't opted out, so we're selling the image that's on that non-opted-out blog."

making users need to opt out to keep their images from being taken and sold is a shitty move that makes it clear Tumblr/Automattic don't respect our privacy, and @staff are really not giving us much info here to suggest otherwise.