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[kays-kg-works]

Updated Commissions Sheet

Updated my commissions sheet for this year, changed my prices around, and have now five new options available to expand the choices you can make if you choose to commission me, including three digital painting options!

Terms, conditions, and methods of contacting me listed below the read-more~

Terms and Conditions

DO NOT PRINT, DUPLICATE, REDISTRIBUTE, REFERENCE, OR ALTER MY WORK TO USE AS BASES OR SOURCE MATERIALS FOR YOUR OWN WORK. When you commission me, you own the piece, not the rights to use it as you wish. If you would like to use my work for commercial purposes, please email me at [email protected] and credit me whenever it’s used. My watermark is required for the use of my artwork, please do not remove it.

Will draw

- NSFW (excluding: incest, non consensual, underage, certain fetishes, please specify in your request.)

- Anthropomorphic and animalistic characters

- Gore/Violent Content (excluding: hate crimes or oppressive themes.)

Won’t draw

- Non humanoid mechs or robots (This depends on the complexity of the design as well)

- Racist/Queerphobic/Fatphobic or anything dehumanizing a marginalized group of people

- Copyrighted characters, social media influencers, or characters that belong to others without their written consent. (By this I mean that I won’t draw anything that might get me into legal trouble. I’ll draw fanart of a character from a manga/anime, cartoon, etc, but I’m not looking to get hit with any sort of cease and desist order)

If you don’t have a visual reference for your original character, please try making one in a dress up game instead of referencing someone else’s artwork - if need be, I can suggest some nice dress up games for you to use. Please do not send references of someone’s else’s character and ask me to change certain aspects of them to suit your own character. Your request will be declined.

Additional Characters

An additional character or two in the same request is discounted, and I don’t charge more for coloring them alongside the first character, though I ask that you please refrain from requesting more than four characters in the same piece unless you don’t care how long it takes for it to be done and don’t mind them each being smaller on the canvas than if they were on their own.

Sketch Portrait - $15 per extra character Lineart Portrait - $25 per extra character Painted Portrait - $40 per extra character Sketch Waist-Up - $20 per extra character Lineart Waist-Up - $30 per extra character Painted Waist-Up - $50 per extra character Sketch Full Body - $25 per extra character Lineart Full Body - $35 per extra character Painted Full Body - $60 per extra character

If you need your commission by a specific date I require a month’s notice and for you to pay up front. Otherwise you would pay upon approval of a rough watermarked sketch.

Please email [email protected] with any questions or details or just DM me on here through either of the accounts listed at the bottom of the sheet - after smoothing out the details, you’d email me the photos you’d like used for reference on your commission with the subject titled TYPEFORM COMMISSION REQUEST so I can easily see it in my inbox! Also, please include any additional details, story elements or whatever else you’d like included in your commission request. Have a pleasant day, and if you have any further questions my inbox is always open~

[rennelelorren]

My intrusive thoughts win again

Hear me out cake but with team Minato

[birdenjoyer]

I put every bird I could think of into this wheel. Spin the wheel. You're that bird now.

Thoughts?

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK

Hell yeah brother

Could be worse

I mean I'd rather not be a bird but I like how I look

I'd rather not be a bird but at least I can fly

My bird can't even fucking fly.

I hate you. I hate you and all that you stand for

Voting ended onFeb 20, 2025

[itsbenedict]

[depressedhatakekakashi]

‘Kakashi should have raised Naruto’

I present you, house husband Kakashi who reyire Age 14 cuz he realizes quickly naruto isn’t being taken care of and even if he’s in a shit mental situation he feels responsible

But he can’t fo that while being anbu so he just retires, much to Hiruzen’s ‘disappointment’ (read: annoyance at losing a top shinobi of konoha)

[kays-kg-works]

Love the idea of Kakashi posing this as an ultimatum to Hiruzen like "Okay either I can keep being in Anbu but Naruto keeps having to switch caretakers because none of them are competent and this kid ends up having a terrible childhood because y'all suck at your jobs, or I retire and take the best care of this innocent child who did no wrong and you find someone else to take my place in your little assassins guild you've got going on."

And Hiruzen's like "Um... option A..?"

Kakashi just grins behind his mask, having already made up his mind before coming in but just wanted to see if the old man would take the bait.

"AHT! WRONG! That was half trick question, half test - you failed on both accounts and showed me where your backwards-ass priorities lie. I already left my resignation with your secretary five minutes ago. Later!" and disappears in a puff of smoke to appear outside with Naruto already cozied up in a BabyBjörn, cup of coffee in one hand, book in the other

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Hdhxhxhd

He knew what he was going to do he just needed to see how bad Hiruzen would be about it

And then Danzo sets Tenzo on watching iver Kakashi and the jinchuriki and Kakashi’s like ‘friend? Friend!’

[kays-kg-works]

Danzo assures Tenzo this is an incredibly important mission, life or death stakes, and if he sees any sign that the little jinchuriki is not being properly managed then he is to report it immediately. Tenzo takes this job very seriously, as he does every task he is given and sets off right away to begin his reconnaissance.

Then he is sitting on a neighboring rooftop, watching through the window as 14-year-old Kakashi sits on the verge of tears because he is having Naruto try a 12th flavor of baby food today, only for this infant to stubbornly stick his nose up at it once again. Tenzo's still taking the mission as seriously as he can but... life or death, huh??

He gets slowly, almost without realizing it, roped into helping out here and there (because even though Kakashi's retired his senses are still insanely good so of course he picks up on his presence) and suddenly finds himself a middle child against his will.

[depressedhatakekakashi]

‘Kakashi should have raised Naruto’

I present you, house husband Kakashi who reyire Age 14 cuz he realizes quickly naruto isn’t being taken care of and even if he’s in a shit mental situation he feels responsible

But he can’t fo that while being anbu so he just retires, much to Hiruzen’s ‘disappointment’ (read: annoyance at losing a top shinobi of konoha)

[kays-kg-works]

Love the idea of Kakashi posing this as an ultimatum to Hiruzen like "Okay either I can keep being in Anbu but Naruto keeps having to switch caretakers because none of them are competent and this kid ends up having a terrible childhood because y'all suck at your jobs, or I retire and take the best care of this innocent child who did no wrong and you find someone else to take my place in your little assassins guild you've got going on."

And Hiruzen's like "Um... option A..?"

Kakashi just grins behind his mask, having already made up his mind before coming in but just wanted to see if the old man would take the bait.

"AHT! WRONG! That was half trick question, half test - you failed on both accounts and showed me where your backwards-ass priorities lie. I already left my resignation with your secretary five minutes ago. Later!" and disappears in a puff of smoke to appear outside with Naruto already cozied up in a BabyBjörn, cup of coffee in one hand, book in the other

[seerofmike]

too lazy to retype this but . insane interaction w coworker last night

[seerofmike]

tell me you have never worked in customer service without telling me you've never worked in customer service

[kays-kg-works]

I haven't worked customer service but I apparently have the 'voice swap' when I'm interacting with customer service people? I can be having a regular conversation in a store with a friend then when I need help finding something apparently my voice jumps like a full octave as I'm like "Hi~ Do you know where I could possibly find _?" My brother used to hate it with a passion. The first time he saw me do it in a Hot Topic of all places, I finished getting the information and thanked the worker, then turned to him to finish our conversation while returning to my normal voice, and he was sitting there like

[kays-kg-works]

A headcanon that I've been holding onto for a long time while planning to make some art or fic for it is that Kushina is the one who got Kakashi into photography (which he uses as his alter ego of Sukea), trying to get him to pick up a hobby during those Anbu days where he was on guard duty for her.

I just think it would be cute if she was into photography back in Uzushio, using an old kind of battered camera she found or was gifted by someone who ended up dying in the war. When she had to leave to come to Konoha, I feel like she probably didn't have a lot to bring with her in the first place, but it also could have been a situation of 'what you need will be provided to you when you arrive, don't bring anything you don't need', so she left the camera (which didn't work well anymore, anyway) and just brought a few pictures with her that were her favorites.

And she could have bonded with Kakashi a bit (or attempted to, at least) about going through tough times and needing to have something that's just yours to hold onto sometimes. Something that helps take your mind off of everything that's going on around you and lets you just focus on the moment. She could have given him one of the cameras she got (maybe from Mito before the Nine-Tails was transferred) after being in Konoha for a bit - a little simple to start with, but still got the job done.

Kakashi would probably hem and haw a bit, but Kushina was persistent and told him that if nothing else, it could be good for surveillance purposes, which might've been the thing that ultimately got him to give in. He probably used it pretty sparingly at first, if at all, thinking it was just a distraction from his work for the most part.

But eventually, after Kushina was gone, and Minato, and numerous others, he wished he would have used it more often.

[wingdingle]

[c-130jsuperhercules]

[viralfrog]

[tomgirlhysteria-deactivated2023]

this post altered my brain so now whenever i have a bowl of any food i think Oh fuck yes it’s a little bowl of seeds for me

[ijustwannaasksomething]

me on ao3 after the season 24 cinematic waiting for Ashe/Tryn fanfics

[animentality]

[nianeyna]

my second grade teacher tried to gently break the news to my mom that I couldn't read at a parent-teacher conference lol. she's all like "I know this is hard to hear but she's very behind I'm sorry" mom comes home and is like NIA! EXPLAIN THIS!! I'm like mooooooom those baby books at school are so bo-RING! 😂

[shadowsong26x]

image description: a tweet from  ر ت  ت  ت   (@ raniawrites), timestamped 7:38 AM on 19 Feb 23

many years ago, I had a meeting with my God son’s teacher, she was worried about his speech development bc according to her “he NEVER speaks”, I asked him - “Gabo, what’s going on?” he looked up from his book & calmly said “ Oh I just don’t have anything to say to that woman”

[gay-jesus-probably]

I had the exact same thing happen when I was a kid; my kindergarten teacher swore up and down that I was completely illiterate, cause I'd take the baby books in the classroom, flip through them, then never touch any of them again. My parents kept informing her that no, seriously, the kid can read, the kid is reading full chapter books on their own, of course they don't give a shit about See Spot Run

Teacher continued to insist they were wrong and in denial about their kid being illiterate. She throws such a shit fit over the matter that the principal has to get involved, and I am brought to his office for a specific literacy test in front of him, my teacher, and a parent. they expected my mother to show up, on account of it being 2004. Mom has a full time job doing something sciency at the pulp mill, and no time for this nonsense. Dad runs a small construction company, and absolutely has time for this nonsense. We're off to a good start already.

Teacher is very smug about this, fully expecting me to once again prove my complete dumbassery. My daycare was attached to the school, and that's allowed me to build a reputation in advance. I'm that one kid that slammed their own head into a windowsill for unclear reasons, then failed to understand why adults were concerned about the blood pouring down my face. I've accidentally wounded myself so many times that my incident folder needed to be expanded. There is significant evidence for me being a dumbass of epic proportions.

Unfortunately for my teacher, I'm also a dumbass who can read.

I am handed a book. It is a picture book about an elephant. I refuse the book, because I find it boring and patronizing. I have no idea what we're all doing here, and nobody has made any real effort to explain the situation to me. The teacher looks triumphant. The principal winces.

Dad persuades me to just read the dumb book out loud. I begrudgingly comply.

I tear through the entire thing in about a minute, then throw it aside in disgust.

Dad was prepared for this moment. He is here to produce maximum chaos. The principal and teacher are still trying to understand what the fuck just happened, when Dad produces a different book and hands it me. He suggests I read a chapter of that to everyone.

I take the book, and happily begin reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

The principal is giving the teacher an unimpressed Look. The teacher is torn between wanting to strangle me, and wanting to strangle my dad. My dad is 6'3, which means neither option is very appealing. Neither staff member was emotionally prepared for a five year old to break out a novel. Dad has been arguing about this for weeks now. He is enjoying the vindication. He helpfully informs the principal that I've already finished the first two books, and am eagerly awaiting my older sibling being done with book three so I can start reading it.

The principal, now looking very tired, suggests that maybe I should go back to class now.

The teacher hates me with a passion and vengeance for the rest of the year. I am an autistic five year old, and therefor completely oblivious to it. I remain unaware of this entire story until my parents explain it to me as a teenager.

[kays-kg-works]

I was thinking about this sort of thing just the other day - I had so many experiences (particularly in elementary and early middle school) like, not where someone insisted I was illiterate or couldn't talk, but just in general where a teacher or other school faculty member either refused to believe I was capable of certain tasks without checking, or upon seeing I could do something I 'shouldn't be able to do yet' they kind of told me off or I was essentially told to hold myself back for their/other kids' benefit.

When I was in kindergarten I was already able to read at a 5th grade reading level and the school's librarian tried to refuse to let me check out a Harry Potter book because it 'didn't have any pictures in it :)'. This was after my grandfather had come into the classroom toward the start of the year to check things out and straight up asked my teacher "Where are the books?" after seeing an empty or almost empty bookshelf in the room.

I also knew how to at least write my name in cursive in kindergarten, and by second grade I'd learned the full alphabet and started doing my assignments in cursive. The first one I turned in, one of my teachers took me aside and told me I couldn't do that because we weren't supposed to be learning cursive until the following year, so I was told to return to writing in print.

In third grade, my science teacher tried to give me an F on an assignment because she claimed that the handwriting on it was too neat to possibly be mine and that I must've had my mother do my homework for me. It took one of my parents or grandparents complaining to the school to get her to take it back because she wouldn't even let me write something in front of her to show her I was telling the truth.

Fourth grade I was, according to my 'homeroom' teacher at parent teacher conferences, 'the first kid I've ever had to take a book away from' because she caught me multiple times reading outside of silent reading time when a lesson she was giving was stuff I already knew and I'd rather be finishing a book I was working on than just sit and be at risk of nodding off.

And in sixth grade when we got into long division, I could do it in my head but couldn't figure out how to show my work so the teacher, instead of finding another way of teaching me or being wowed by it, just told me the same thing she'd been saying to everyone and told me that if I didn't show my work she'd mark each question as wrong.

I also had to switch back from writing cursive in 7th grade because in one of my classes (science) our teacher made us trade papers with others at our table and peer-grade stuff and the person who always got my paper straight up didn't know how to read cursive. So I went back to print again.

Growing up as a 'gifted kid' or just being ahead of the curve in certain areas is wild because you sometimes end up with whole grown-ass adults being fully adamant about 'No that's like, a baby. They couldn't do that and no I don't want proof, I know what kids are like at this age."

[kays-kg-works]

Me, required to practice 2D animation (which is also one of my interests) in a course going toward my 3D animation degree? Couldn't be.

[narudoodles]

Logging in after a busy weekend irl, and seeing no further responses from @skykashi presumably they've blocked me after I asked to see the layers of the artwork. I was anticipating it, but it's really funny nonetheless.

The easiest and simplest way to disprove my theory would've been to post a screenshot of all the layers in the art file, or better, in a video like here, but instead they went off on a lengthy 30 min video about irrelevant topics.

At the end of the day, they know what they have done, and no amount of defensive posts or deflection will take away from the truth. AI art obtained by a few clicks of the mouse for social media validation may feel nice temporarily, but I hope one day they truly improve their skills to match those of the artist they entered as prompt on mid\journey or the likes.

Going forwards, they will either have to use AI for all their future arts to maintain style consistency (or rather, inconsistency, since they said in their explanation vid that their style actually varies dramatically as per their wishes, which is. Cool?)

Or, the more desirable, but less likely route - they'll revert to their original art style, in which case, AI won't be used, which was the original point of the conflict.

[kays-kg-works]

Okay this got longer than I thought, but... no.

They probably blocked you because no artist owes you proof of their process or any explanation whatsoever to defend themselves from that shit. You claim you’re trying to keep these spaces safe from art theft but really it just comes off as this holier-than-thou witch hunt situation that can have really harsh consequences for some artists who’d rather back down and leave a fandom space they’ve been in for years than sit through all that negativity.

This isn’t the Ol’ Wild West where you can just go around vigilante-style making up whatever rules and regulations you like to try and ‘round up them there criminals’ because in the end you have... no proof. And just because you tried to demand the artist provide you with proof to get you to retract your statements, they aren’t obligated to respond to you in any way whatsoever. Choosing not to interact with someone who’s determined to make you look bad isn’t an admission of guilt.

It’s protecting your peace.

I get wanting to have your voice heard on matters like these - AI is a problem, and we all know it. But instead of just making your opinion known by say, creating a post openly denouncing it and the people who utilize it as a mass entity, you’ve taken it upon yourself to set out on some sort of crusade to target individuals. You’re going after real people, directly, and using whatever sort of platform you’ve made for yourself here on this site and particularly in the Naruto fandom-space on here to hold a single person up into the spotlight and go “This person is bad because obviously they did something that we all hate and no I don’t have solid proof but it’s their fault if you all think it’s true because if they just gave in to my demands then maybe they could clear their name :)”

Don’t do that, maybe.

You could just vibe, like the rest of us, and if you don’t want to follow them or even want to block them so you don’t see any more of their content, then that’s fine? But it’s really not cool, I think, to directly call someone out like this just because you want people to think you’re ‘protecting this space.’ You’re not. You’re part of the reason people leave spaces like this and never come back.

If you really felt that strongly that this was a situation that needed to be investigated, you easily could have phrased it as a question like, “Hey, genuinely curious, but did you use AI for any step of this process?” It still might come off a little rude or like an assumption, but I feel like it’s much less likely to come off as a direct, “I know what you did~” sort of thing and the artist might even volunteer to show some proof of their process to show what they did, even though again, they are not required to do so at all.

Even if I found out at some point in the future that, for whatever reason, they were lying about not using AI? That’s not gonna be some kind of ‘GOTCHA’ moment for you. I would still not be on your side in this scenario.

People’s styles do change, and can literally do so on a day-to-day basis. People might do more research on new rendering techniques to try out, go lineless to see if they like the feel or see to what degree they feel most comfortable with, try out a new program, download or create new brushes, study another artist’s style they like to try and see if they can use a few steps from that process to change something up. People are... people.

Wild, huh?

Tl;dr - Just... don’t go accusing random people of using AI art and claiming you’re trying to protect a fandom space when your true motivation is to feel morally superior. It’s not a good look, whether you turn out to be right or wrong in the end, and can alienate people from the space you claim to be ‘protecting for other artists.’ Also, look up the legal definition of slander if you’re feeling brave, fool.

[narudoodles]

Thank you for explaining your POV on this, I appreciate it! However I do have objections to some of the things you tried accusing me of! I wasn't trying to embark on a "crusade to target individuals", I simply came across an AI art piece, and since I am against the use of AI, in fandom or otherwise, I called them out. You'll notice I didn't use any fandom tags, nor did I @ anyone else, there's no way this post would even show up in the broader tumblr space unless someone isn't already looking for it on my blog. There's no "Whatever sort of platform I've built for myself", I've been pretty much inactive here for over a year.

Also, I'm not doing this to feel morally superior, I have valid reasons for why I think that art was AI (and I've talked to a number of art mutuals, just to have different POVs, who all agreed, without prior context, btw, that the art was AI) but just like you're saying I don't have "solid proof", similarly, you don't have any solid proof that it *isn't* AI, hence, the common solution for both of these issues would've been to post the layers/time-lapse!

Also, this is a strange dichotomy in your statements - you either support AI art or you don't, there's no in between situation of "I'll support it as long as my friend / acquaintance / mutual" is using it.

It's cute that you think ppl who use AI have the decency to own up to what they're doing and maybe stop doing it lmao. Here's a reply on this post from the resident fandom AI "artist" @madasama who I called out here. I genuinely want to see you try and convince this person that AI is "a problem and we all know it"

Fyi, AI isn't a "tool" like photoshop.

The simplest analogy I can give : say if you're to bake a cake, "tools" would be the raw ingredients, the oven, the utensils you're using (aka, art programs like photoshop, procreate, csp, or pen, paper, watercolors, etc)

AI art is like, you buy a cake from a bakery, come out and advertise to ppl "hey, look, I made this cake all by myself!" vs someone who actually put in the effort to make a different cake all by themselves using those "tools".

[kays-kg-works]

Lmao cool arguments, thanks for taking zero accountability during like any of that for yes - going after individuals. The crusade bit? The definition of ‘crusade’ is ‘a vigorous campaign for political, social, or religious change.’

If I see people on here making direct accusations and getting called out about it, even if it’s against someone I don’t follow and have never directly interacted with before to my knowledge where the accused seems nice enough and is trying to provide proof of their innocence while you’re out here literally demanding further proof because you claim their initial one was insufficient for you to stop being a dick about it?

Yeah, I take issue with that.

Also, I don’t care if you’ve been ‘mostly inactive for over a year’ - if you have followers who are gonna see that and YOU are their acquaintance, friend, mutual, or fave and/or they don’t have critical thinking skills? Then yeah it is kinda your fault if one or more of those people wanders off and harasses that person based on your potentially flawed testimony.

Also, I never said I supported Madasama, anywhere in my reblog or mentioned them at all, even though I did see their reply to your post - I just said I didn’t support you going and accusing individuals without proof. Though it is funny to me that you used them as an example of ‘You think people who use AI have the decency to own up to what they’re doing???’ when Madasama... literally in that reply to your post openly said ‘Yeah I use AI for my work, what about it’.

Seeing everything in black and white kinda... sucks, historically speaking, and while you seem to think that it’s impossible, I’m here to tell you that... you can dislike something without taking it upon yourself to shame, call out, demonize, or otherwise rail against individuals that you see engaging in that behavior. Or in this case, people you think you see engaging in that behavior. You are not some divine authority on what human-driven art should look like and have already admitted that the tools you used later to try and prove that image was AI-generated aren’t always right so the fact remains that neither of us has true proof on our stances.

In my personal experience, it super duper sucks to be accused of what essentially amounts to art theft after putting time and effort into a piece - someone I considered my best friend at one time accused me of tracing a piece of their art when I did a sketch of their character for them because the nose looked too similar to the one they’d drawn, and on another sketch where I’d had a photo reference up to the side while drawing which is something I don’t usually do so surprise surprise - the image turned out looking different than my usual sketching style.

They only backed down after I literally laid the photo-referenced sketch over the original image to show them how off some of the proportions were in comparison - one eye right on but the other lower and slightly tilted, head shorter and a bit wider, etc. Initially, I brushed it off as “Oh, they’re just protective of their art and their reputation and it’s for their webcomic so they don’t want us to get in trouble and wanted to make sure I wasn’t up to no good :)” But the more I thought about it, the more it was like...

“Huh... this person really thought I would do that to them...”

Obviously the situation is different here in that you’re two strangers on the internet, but my point is that if you’re wrong?? You are directly harming someone who’s just taken a bunch of time and energy to make something and put it out into the universe only to be told essentially “Oh I know you didn’t make that because you aren’t that good and it looks too different from your normal stuff, why don’t you stay in your box if you don’t want people to think you’re a liar and a fake?” and no amount of apologizing afterwards if they DID provide you proof would put you back in their/my good graces.

For the sake of protecting my peace? I will no longer continue to interact with you, because you seem far more determined to maintain your stance on the issue that you are good and right and should definitely be doing this than I have the patience to dispute. I’ve got too many things to be doing with my time that are more important than sitting here arguing with you about whether it’s good to potentially bully someone off a platform in the name of ‘justice’.

And in case you take my future silence as proof that I’m wrong and you’re right like you tried to do with Skykashi?

Good job, you defeated me 🙄 Enjoy the view from your high horse, Grand Inquisitor

[kays-kg-works]

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I loved your reblog comment. It's wonderful to see bullies get their comeuppance.

Thank you! I know I kinda went off in a big long way, but sometimes you see something that makes you go, "Ummm... that's a nah for me? Here's 95 reasons why."

For anyone reading, just in case it wasn't already abundantly clear? This blog's a bully-free zone. I have such a low threshold for that kind of foolishment both because of personal experience and because... kindness is free :) The block button is also free if you feel the need to keep from seeing content you don't want to :)

[narudoodles]

Logging in after a busy weekend irl, and seeing no further responses from @skykashi presumably they've blocked me after I asked to see the layers of the artwork. I was anticipating it, but it's really funny nonetheless.

The easiest and simplest way to disprove my theory would've been to post a screenshot of all the layers in the art file, or better, in a video like here, but instead they went off on a lengthy 30 min video about irrelevant topics.

At the end of the day, they know what they have done, and no amount of defensive posts or deflection will take away from the truth. AI art obtained by a few clicks of the mouse for social media validation may feel nice temporarily, but I hope one day they truly improve their skills to match those of the artist they entered as prompt on mid\journey or the likes.

Going forwards, they will either have to use AI for all their future arts to maintain style consistency (or rather, inconsistency, since they said in their explanation vid that their style actually varies dramatically as per their wishes, which is. Cool?)

Or, the more desirable, but less likely route - they'll revert to their original art style, in which case, AI won't be used, which was the original point of the conflict.

[kays-kg-works]

Okay this got longer than I thought, but... no.

They probably blocked you because no artist owes you proof of their process or any explanation whatsoever to defend themselves from that shit. You claim you’re trying to keep these spaces safe from art theft but really it just comes off as this holier-than-thou witch hunt situation that can have really harsh consequences for some artists who’d rather back down and leave a fandom space they’ve been in for years than sit through all that negativity.

This isn’t the Ol’ Wild West where you can just go around vigilante-style making up whatever rules and regulations you like to try and ‘round up them there criminals’ because in the end you have... no proof. And just because you tried to demand the artist provide you with proof to get you to retract your statements, they aren’t obligated to respond to you in any way whatsoever. Choosing not to interact with someone who’s determined to make you look bad isn’t an admission of guilt.

It’s protecting your peace.

I get wanting to have your voice heard on matters like these - AI is a problem, and we all know it. But instead of just making your opinion known by say, creating a post openly denouncing it and the people who utilize it as a mass entity, you’ve taken it upon yourself to set out on some sort of crusade to target individuals. You’re going after real people, directly, and using whatever sort of platform you’ve made for yourself here on this site and particularly in the Naruto fandom-space on here to hold a single person up into the spotlight and go “This person is bad because obviously they did something that we all hate and no I don’t have solid proof but it’s their fault if you all think it’s true because if they just gave in to my demands then maybe they could clear their name :)”

Don’t do that, maybe.

You could just vibe, like the rest of us, and if you don’t want to follow them or even want to block them so you don’t see any more of their content, then that’s fine? But it’s really not cool, I think, to directly call someone out like this just because you want people to think you’re ‘protecting this space.’ You’re not. You’re part of the reason people leave spaces like this and never come back.

If you really felt that strongly that this was a situation that needed to be investigated, you easily could have phrased it as a question like, “Hey, genuinely curious, but did you use AI for any step of this process?” It still might come off a little rude or like an assumption, but I feel like it’s much less likely to come off as a direct, “I know what you did~” sort of thing and the artist might even volunteer to show some proof of their process to show what they did, even though again, they are not required to do so at all.

Even if I found out at some point in the future that, for whatever reason, they were lying about not using AI? That’s not gonna be some kind of ‘GOTCHA’ moment for you. I would still not be on your side in this scenario.

People’s styles do change, and can literally do so on a day-to-day basis. People might do more research on new rendering techniques to try out, go lineless to see if they like the feel or see to what degree they feel most comfortable with, try out a new program, download or create new brushes, study another artist’s style they like to try and see if they can use a few steps from that process to change something up. People are... people.

Wild, huh?

Tl;dr - Just... don’t go accusing random people of using AI art and claiming you’re trying to protect a fandom space when your true motivation is to feel morally superior. It’s not a good look, whether you turn out to be right or wrong in the end, and can alienate people from the space you claim to be ‘protecting for other artists.’ Also, look up the legal definition of slander if you’re feeling brave, fool.

[kays-kg-works]

Got a festival scheduled for a DnD session I’m running later today, so last night before bed I decided to work up a design for the new outfit one of my favorite NPCs (Haera Revani) will be wearing. She’ll be playing a fairly important role in a couple events during the course of the evening, including likely being reunited with the love of her life by one of the PCs who’s her ride or die best friend~ Did an slight alternate portrait where I gave her big round glasses on a whim, and freckles because I’ve thought about giving her some, and I think both look cute but the glasses make her look very precious???