Help me and a bunch of other people to stay in touch w/ loved ones and the world as a whole
Living under oppressive government means shit gonna get worse, this includes censorship and surveillance. Actually working VРNs, the means of going around these things online, are getting fewer by weeks for regular people, especially the ones free of charge.
Thus I'm here opening 4 slots of commissions of single type - full body character in flat colors, in exchange for digital service goods. What to expect:
More details under the cut
Аmnezia is one of the most reputable and reliable VРN services, and it has an option of gifting premium keys, which is the safest method in our case - buying it by yourself is very risky since the bаnks see what are you doing and alternative ways are questionable.
1 key for 1 year is $48, this will be for one character, as described above.
No registration on that service is needed, it only requires card info to make normal encrypted online payment and emаils (buyer's for receipt and receiver's); details will be provided.
Communication and discussion to be held via emаil - theonelegroom[АТ]proton. me
When contacting please provide your tumblr username; if you want to you can DM here you've emаiled so I'll know for sure/won't miss.
Terms and stuff
I can draw humans, anthros, creatures, robots
Character must be adult
Original characters are preferable
Body horror and moderate gore are fine; heavy gore and sexual themes to be discussed
I can decline without explanation
I'm not a quick artist, estimated time is 5 weeks - but I'll do as fast as I can, please bear with me
I will show a sketch first, once approved the purchase should be made with given receiver email
Posting condition to be discussed
Email addresses and content of communication should not be shared with third parties and publicly
No NFТ and genАI processing allowed; crediting required
If you prefer soft lineart (like here and here) over binary brush, or less bright colors, or don't like outlines and an abstract background, please tell on discussion stage.
I really reject the idea that digital art programs should be considered obsolete. There's nothing wrong with Adobe Animate and there never was. It's corporations controlling those tools, and digital infrastructure as a whole, that's the problem. Imagine saying oil painting is obsolete because it's old, or because it's no longer profitable for the single oil-paint company that has a monopoly over it.
I also think the attitude that a style is dated or obsolete is a condition of the commodification of digital aesthetics under capitalism. Adobe Flash vector aesthetics are only seen as dated because they have no place in wider industry or market demands, and "taste" follows that logic. Everything has to be new. To disagree makes you stuck in nostalgia or a Luddite! (Luddites did nothing wrong btw). Listen to the silicon valley tech corp paedophile billionaires that control this world! Use the latest tools, use the AI bloatware! that's "progress".
And even then, a lot of people within the animation industry still use and prefer to use Adobe Animate, because of studio infrastructure or just because its timeline is genuinely good. It's very immediate. I think Haha You Clowns is made in Animate!
I always knew that eventually an evil company like Adobe would pull the plug on it, but the way they've suddenly announced it, and how they want to destroy access to FLA files and everything, is disgusting. What are industry professionals who use the program meant to do?
I guess move to Moho or Toon Boom or Blender or something. But I like rendering in Flash; I don't even animate that much. But why bother using Flash? Who cares? Why use a bad, janky program in the first place?
Ersatz.world is born out of working in Flash. It couldn't work with a bitmap program. Adobe Illustrator is too precise and boring, not janky enough, and After Effects is a bloated mess.
I use Flash because I know it very, very well. With its limited set of tools, I've tried pushing it in every direction I can, from leaning hard into its styles and semiotics to trying to make aesthetic work beyond what it was probably ever intended for. It's through familiarity, caring about working in the program, and honing my skills with it that I was able to achieve the work I was doing, and am still doing.
I feel creatively free when using it, like I can construct anything in it. I like being forced to conform to its limitations and trying to make something within that limited toolset. I find it to be a very charming art program. Feeling joy, feeling comfortable, and being able to experiment at a granular level with a tool or program is necessary, I think, to develop a voice or visual language as an artist.
To think that a way of creating digital art with a particular program could ever be obsolete is a manufactured and manipulated framework that hinges on viewing digital art as just aesthetic content to be consumed. To appreciate a style only as trends, vibes, cores, or "aesthetics" is to surrender your curiosity and limits your ability to appreciate art to the logic of capitalism. And it's so short sighted. There's such a push to burn things down...
In a proper world programs and beloved ephemera would never truly die, because people who care about them would develop ways to take care of them instead of being forced to throw them away for some nebulous and harmful idea of "progress"
this is my wholesome and spiritually pure art of a fat person. dont interact with it if youre like sexually attracted to fat people or something thats fucking gross this isnt fetish art this is wholesome and spiritually pure and youre corrupting it by thinking shes hot because shes fat
not that you cant think shes hot because shes fat, that would be fatphobic to say and problematic, you just cant think shes hot in specific gross ways that fat fetishists think fat women are hot, like, finding her body attractive or something
I really like 2026. I reckon my ancestors from thousands of years ago would also really like 2026. you can listen to uncountable numbers of songs made by people from many different time periods, from all over the world. you can talk to your loved ones even if they are on the opposite side of the entire planet. you can live for the better part of a century. you can learn so many things whenever you wish. I really like 2026 I'm glad to be a funny primate living in the modern age. this is good. I like this.
This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!
this is your periodic reminder that for all the artifacts and errors and "tells" one could possibly list, the only reliable way to actually determine if an image is ai generated is to investigate the source. it is becoming increasingly common for "fake classical paintings" to circulate around curative aesthetic blogs, and everyone should be using this as an opportunity to not only exercise their investigative skills but also appreciate art more in general. you're all checking out the artists you reblog, right? 🫣
so what are some signs to look for? let's use this very good example.
what a lovely late-impressionist piece blended with evocative leyendecker-esque themes! why haven't you ever heard of this artist before? surely tumblr would be all over an artist like this. who is justin brown?
your two options from here are to do a search for the name, or a reverse image search. i prefer reverse image searching, particularly when it comes to a common name like "justin brown". so what does that net?
Immediately, without looking at any text, something is wrong: it barely exists. an actual historical piece would turn up numerous results from websites individually discussing the piece, but no such discussions are taking place. Looking at the text, though, does show the source-- and at least in this case, the creator was honest about their medium.
But let's also look at the "exact matches", in case a source doesn't make itself apparent in the initial sidebar results like this.
This section will often tell you post dates of images, and here it can be seen that the very first iteration of the image was posted 15 days ago. It did not exist online prior to that.
Seeing how long an unsourced image has been floating around is a skill applicable to more than just generative images! See a cool image of an artifact or other intriguing item with a vivid caption? Reverse search it! If all the results are paired with that caption and only go back a few months, you might just have viral facebook spam.
Sometimes generative creators are dishonest about their medium and do not tag it like in the example, so that's when establishing "jpeg provenance" becomes important. While it can be a little trickier to determine if someone is using generative images and not admitting to it if they aren't trying to pass it off as a classic, something to consider is the age of their account and the frequency with which they post. Here are some account red flags:
-Did they only start posting art after 2022, or if they did before, did their style/skill level WILDLY change? Not gradual improvement-- I'm talking amateur graphite portraits straight into complex digital renders. Everyone starts somewhere, newness is not a red flag alone; it's newness combined with existing in a vacuum away from any community.
-Do they post fully-finished paintings several times a week?
-Do many of these paintings seem iterative of a similar theme or subject matter ("three well-dressed young men face each other under shade and dappled sunlight")?
-Does their style change in inconsistent ways? An artist that can swap between painting like Drew Struzan and Hokusai should be pretty well known, right? Why is no one hyping this guy?!
-Do they have social media besides the source instagram? If so, what are they posting about? Are there any WIPs? Doodles? Interactions with other artists? Gallery dates? 3am self-doubt posts? Or is it all self-promo? Crypto? Seemingly nothing art-related at all for someone pushing out 3 weekly paintings?
Basically, if it's important to you to omit this stuff when you curate, please don't just smash reblog if the source doesn't seem to be the OP themselves. Seeking out sources was important even before this became an issue, now it is more than ever.
just had a thought. ive heard about 'fat fetish' my whole life, and have basically realized that what people mean when they say that is "haha wowwww isnt it soooo freaky that you find fat people attractive?? damnnnn being into fat people... craaaaazy" reminds me somewhat of how trans women's bodies are perceived as either alluring and Exotic/StrangeTM or disgusting and repulsive. both states of being are only accepted as Inherently Sexual or Disgusting, with no in between. its not nearly a 1-to-1 comparison but the similarities are absolutely there
oh no 100%. i personally tend to separate between just like, an attraction to fatness, and Fat Fetish. attraction to fatness is just that, it's aesthetic and sexual appeal, it's someone who likes fat rolls and double chins, etc. Fat Fetish is fetishes that revolve around fatness, like weight gain, feedism, worship, humiliation, etc. Neither of these are inherently wrong, having a preference isn't inherently wrong, etc. The part that's wrong is treating the fat body (or in your case, the trans body) as an Other.
The scenario of a person wanting to privately date you or have sex with you but not being willing to be seen with you publicly, or even humiliating you in front of others is a thing that happens to both fat and trans people. They want you but they don't want to lose social status by being with you. But with fat people in particular, it's extremely common for skinny people to be attracted to you but be repulsed by the idea of themselves being fat. It's okay for you, The Other, to be this, but I Myself will become a lesser person for being this. I consider it a major red flag.
Frankly, creating entire blogs dedicated to posting screenshots of every single thing someone else posts is the scariest shit. It literally doesn't matter what that person is posting, spending your time being an unpaid, dork ass, pig-wannabe, monitoring everything someone else does on here, all with the infuriating smol bean affect...
there's something really fucking violent about people who act like information about stalking victims is completely neutral. why do you know ANYTHING about christine weston chandler? did you happen upon her comics organically? did you know about her *before* you found out there were several internet documentaries about her? you do not know about christine for neutral reasons.
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