posting this with every artist tag i can think of, even if you dont do crochet, PLEASE TAKE RESTS FOR YOUR HANDS!!! no matter what medium artist you are, take care of your articulations
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I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh
not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right
I got through election night by drawing Sheik/Ganon brainrot
fellas, is it gay to take the evil warlock who overthrew your family captive and aid your mentor in torturing him in hopes to find the magical sword he spirited away, only to realize he was groomed from birth and was sacrificed by his parental figures to an evil patron, and can now only feel complete feelings because you've cut him off from his evil patron, and has admitted under duress his interest in you is the most selfish and possibly only thing he's ever wanted for himself, so when your mentor decides to behead and de-hand him and turn his corpse into a hate battery, you jailbreak him and race away together to the local woods that EAT PEOPLE, unintentionally landing the two of you in a lost kingdom stuck in a timeloop, where of course you both immediately begin stumbling through the process of building a sub/dom relationship where he follows your every order and you become increasingly possessive of him and his happiness? Is that gay?
Eris portrait where I tried to find some middle ground between my sketches and rendering ;; I'm really proud of how she turned out but have no idea if I'll ever get a pic to come together like this again orz
Since it's been six(?) months since I fell for Del Toro's Frankenstein and my love has yet to waver, so I decided I needed a Frankenthemed desktop background. I have three monitors that I use in very specific ways, which is why the second picture has two blank windows--I have folders and miscellaneous crap to go there. Similarly, I keep icons to the far right of my horizontal monitor, which is why the fun stuff is all regulated to the left
You can download the full res versions of these right over here
and just bc its a huge reason I'm still this in love with this movie; y'all fuckin rock. This fandom is so fun and full of the sweetest most understanding freaks. Keep being awesome; you make me want to be awesome!
If you like my latest mermay picture [cw for mild gore], lemme tell you how easy it was to do the coloring for it. I used 3 layers to make it from black and white to full color, using a correction layer called a Gradient Map. This will be for the program Clip Studio Paint, but there's equivalent functions across programs, you just gotta do some research about where your gradient map options are hiding
In CSP, you go to Layer > New Correction Layer > Gradient Map
and this is what a gradient map does when placed above a black and white drawing;
It's a process that sounds complicated but is actually super easy to learn and exploit; gradient maps take a specific value (black to white and all the greys in the middle) and assign it a color. By adjusting where those lil ^ arrows sit on the gradient, you change which value is assigned that color, thus changing what part of your drawing is that color.
all the gradient maps I used are community made presets I downloaded for free using the CSP community asset portal
now pair that with layer masks, and you can isolate where on the picture the gradient map is in effect. Below is the gradient map that's Just the red for the couch, a few character accents, and the tail;
above in the orange is the layer mask button as well as where it is displayed on your layer (in CSP) once you apply it. When you want to change your layer mask, you click that second square on your layer; with that selected, you now can control what part of that layer is being shown without actually changing whats on that layer.
With the layer mask selected, you can erase whats there, then go over it with a brush or a selection tool and add it back as if it was never erased at all. The positive parts (what is visible on the picture) are displayed in white, the negative parts (what's been erased) are displayed in black. Obviously you Have to make sure you're interacting with the layer mask and not the layer itself (the layer itself is selected in the screen cap above, that's why it has that in-program white outline) or you really will just erase shit you can only get back by hitting 'undo'.
then you can add more gradient maps above or below the first one, depending on what looks best;
this is the bottom most gradient map layer arranged in my folder of gradient maps, because I wanted this orange as the foundation of the pic, the rest building off it.
the last gradient map layer is smushed between the red and the orange, and this is how I got those blue shadows and tail accents.
there is a Single value assigned that blue, but the gradient aspect allows it to be more versatile, and the browns making up the majority of the gradient help it feel like an extension of the orange layer. It's important to make sure your gradients harmonize like that otherwise it becomes more obvious they are two separate gradients interacting rather than the illusion of a more complex, selective color palette. While you can get a lot of depth out of a single gradient map, when you layer them, you're able to easily add shading, quickly change the color of a specific part of the picture and overall just cheat your way to a very cohesive, intricately colored picture with WAY less effort and color picking on your part.
taking this;
and turning it into this;
with 3 layers 8'>
And everyone say thank you for @spooky-beanz for inspiring this tutorial!
I've had this idea for a while, of Zagreus corrupted and enslaved by Chronos being someone Mel has to fight. It was pure coincidence that I started actually drawing the idea just in time for the Olympus update to come out (which has no Zag for those waiting for the final release).
Zag is not a willing servant, he's been torn apart and reconstructed and forced to do Chronos' will. This is only possible bc Chronos flooded the Styx with his sand. Each time Zag was killed, he came back with more of Chronos' sand holding him together. Renewal of the Styx and time spent with/inside Nyx will reverse the corruption of his body, but not the time he spent suffering Chronos' conditioning.
Next month I'll post the comic of him fighting Mel, but you can also read it rn on my patreon
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