☽︎ 𝔍𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔞 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔫 ☾

Hi! I'm Julia, an illustrator, concept artist and allround multimedia artist. I paint and draw whimsical, colourful stuff, mostly inspired by dreams and weird creatures. Welcome to my world of wonder!

[julialundgren]

My online presence, a list!

Hi, I'm Julia, a Swedish illustrator & multimedia creator (with a bachelor of fine arts degree in Illustration and Graphic design from Konstfack university of arts, crafts and design) who teaches art for videogames. In my spare time I paint dreamy, colourful and whimsical stuff, often including animals and magical creatures! My art can be found on a bunch of places, so I’ve made a little list or summary with the apps and sites I use the most, so you can check it out on any app/site you happen to prefer! 🌐   Portfolio website (in Swedish) 💎   Instagram / Facebook ✨  INPRNT Print Shop / Society6 Shop

[julialundgren]

Julia Lundgren (@julialundgren) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform

Illustrator and 2D/concept/game art teacher. Nature, animals and nostalgia are favourite themes in my art 🌱🌸🐱💕 From Sweden, working in Norw

[julialundgren]

Ok but is it acceptable to call it spooky season yet?

[julialundgren]

Julia Lundgren (@julialundgren) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform

Illustrator and 2D/concept/game art teacher. Nature, animals and nostalgia are favourite themes in my art 🌱🌸🐱💕 From Sweden, working in Norw

I'm moving from Tumblr to CARA (the more artist friendly app) so feel free to add me on there!

[julialundgren]

I'm on CARA! No longer active here on Tumblr, but you can, aside from on instagram, find my work on the artist friendly app Cara here: https://cara.app/julialundgren/portfolio

[catgirlhell]

its official: tumblr is selling our data to Midjourney

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

we'd been hearing rumors about this for a bit but now its open and out there. some details from this article

it goes without saying, but if @staff goes through with this its going to be an utter shitshow and im all but certain the website will not survive it.

[evilwizard]

everyone go enable this immediately. it can be a bit hard to find because “visibility” is under blog settings instead of general settings or privacy. you have to do this individually for each separate side-blog

if you can’t find it on the app then the update probably hasn’t rolled out to you, and you’ll have to go through the web browser. what a truly wild way/time to implement this

[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.

[julialundgren]

Uh so, anyone else keeping up with the news and concerned about Tumblr striking a deal with OpenAI and Midjourney (possibly opening for data scraping on the site? I mean it's all for the purpose of data gathering). Even if they "generously" added an opt-out option, opt-in should be the default on a site where people willingly share their work. If they cared about artists and content creators (the people who keeps the site alive and makes it what it is), that is.

Considering I know many besides myself who moved back here when the same things happened with Artstation and Twitter/X... 💀

Seriously considering leaving tumblr too </3

[julialundgren]

Plus/sidenote, one of the (many) issues with opt-out on Artstation still stands with a site as "old" as Tumblr (Tumblr is 17 years old!). Some artists, with a large following, people who were loyal to the site for years, are no longer alive and therefore cannot choose to opt-out.

[julialundgren]

Uh so, anyone else keeping up with the news and concerned about Tumblr striking a deal with OpenAI and Midjourney (possibly opening for data scraping on the site? I mean it's all for the purpose of data gathering). Even if they "generously" added an opt-out option, opt-in should be the default on a site where people willingly share their work. If they cared about artists and content creators (the people who keeps the site alive and makes it what it is), that is.

Considering I know many besides myself who moved back here when the same things happened with Artstation and Twitter/X... 💀

Seriously considering leaving tumblr too </3

[julialundgren]

Oh btw I was a sad mime/clown for halloween yesterday, but I added a bit of glam to it!

[julialundgren]

Did a stream today at work, on using "emoji kitchen" and mix emojis together for inspiration. Will continue on them in another stream, but I'll probably just go with the "scary" version...

[julialundgren]

The beeeeeast! Or… is it? Had this painting laying around unfinished for ages not knowing what to do with it, so here’s a silly little animation, inspired by “Over the garden wall” 🍂🎃 (Idk why it’s so slow/not snappy on here but :)))

[julialundgren]

Ok so remember my jello skull painting? Recently I've been playing around making jello & candy skull PINS! They're made out of wood and all hand painted, and there's a few more varieties in the making! Currently gluing the pin packside to them all and I'll be selling the first batch at a christmas market i Stockholm in december but I'm also working on a new webshop! Stay tuned tunas!

[julialundgren]

Did a little drawing during mylunch break because it's the day of the cinnamon bun! Kanelbulle in Swedish 🍪🥐🥨 (I wish there was a kanelbulle-emoji ☹️)

[julialundgren]

Ihihihi my new sparkly business cards arrived! The only difference from my "old" cards are that I added a touch of colour to the text + added my instagram handle/name on them! Still printed on a sort of sparkly glitter paper (which is really hard to capture on film) so that the whitest parts of the rabbit really shimmers <33

[julialundgren]

& while I pretend it’s still halloween, here’s a Jack-o-creature! Blinking slowly and pondering things, I presume!

[julialundgren]

So since Halloween is approaching... what should I be this year? I wanna try something more challening this time! Here are some makeups from the past few halloweens!

[julialundgren]

Julia’s guide to drawing dragons. Start with squirmy doodles and try adding 2 or 4 legs, wings/no wings, different horns or fins and such on silhouettes. Then add more and more details like eyes and scales and poof there you go basic dragon.