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melime-art

🌹 The Prince 🌹

#revolutionary girl utena #utena tenjou

copepods

guh

pdouwes

You got a lonesome road to walk, and it ain't along the railroad track. And it ain't along the black-top tar you've walked a hundred times before. I'll tell you where the real road lies: between your ears, behind your eyes, that is the path to Paradise, likewise, the road to ruin.

#hadestown

casinocircus

elianzis

without glowing flower

f8lfool

My first anatomy tutorial! How I connect arms to the torso. Simplified the muscles for better comprehension

PS. Pectoral is misspelled as “pectorial” in the picture! Don’t make that mistake haha

#Ref

konoko

cyancees

i have neither a good imagination or aphantasia, but a secret third thing

rileyav-moving

artist tips

don’t save as jpeg

suchirolle

as a former yearbook editor and designer, let me explain this further

if youre only planning on posting your art online, them please save it as .png ;this is also better for transparencies as well

BUT

please, if youre planning of printing your art, NEVER use png. it makes the quality of the image pretty shitty. use jpeg or pdf instead. and always set your work at 300dpi to get a better printing quality - this means, the images are crisper and sharper and theres no slight blurriness. i had a talk with my friend who is currently taking design, and pdf is much better to use when youre working with a bigger publishing company because it still has the layers intact, but if youre only planning on printing your stuff at staples or at some small publishing store, the jpeg is the way to go.

this has been a public service announcement

inactive-ironic-ken

Want a good picture to save as? PNG

Want a good printed picture? JPEG

renthony

I see a lot of people make posts along the lines of "why use AI when you can pay an artist," but nobody really provides an alternative for those who got into AI generators specifically because they're broke and don't know how to draw, but still want visual representations of their OCs.

The answer is dollmakers and avatar games. Hero Forge, Picrew, Doll Divine. Make a free account on Second Life or IMVU and use their character creators. Download the Sims 4 now that the base game is free. You have a lot of options, and they make great reference images if you save up to commission an artist later on. They may be limited, but are they any more limited than the AI generation process?

AI art is bad because it's art theft, not because it "has no soul" or whatever. People aren't trying to shit on your fun just for shits and giggles, or because they're trying to be elitist; people are upset because the AI is pulling from stolen art and stolen photos.

I am personally not interested in debating whether AI art is "real art," because that's secondary to the theft required to make the AI work in the first place.