The Art of Stephanie Jones

Personal and professional artwork; collaborative coloring work always credits the other artists involved. I work in Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, and Krita mainly. Some brushes used in Photoshop are paid sets via Kylebrush.

[jv]

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

[jv]

And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.

Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.

[jv]

Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.

[salora-rainriver]

Just tested. It’s possible to swap out pictures on already-published posts. So in that case, a solution:

Nightshade your photo posts now.

Even if you don’t post your own art anymore, go back to your old stuff and watermark it.

Do it ASAP, before the deal goes through and the scraping begins.

This will not only protect your art, but has the opportunity to fuck over this deal on a pretty large scale. The more of these posts that are glazed or poisoned, the less valuable this deal becomes for tumblr and midjourney.

Share this with everyone. And i do mean everyone.

[afewdroppedstitches]

Sharing this everywhere.

[krudman]

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. 

New anti-AI tool from the team developing Glaze that looks to poison prompts and ruin data sets entirely.

The tool can go so far as to trick AI into generating things it didn't ask for. 50 "poisoned" images of dogs into a data set yield typical errors companies have been working to get rid of: weird proportions, extra limbs, etc. When they added 300 samples, it was drastic enough to make a data set that was trained to generate "dogs" into "cats" making the tool basically useless.

It's not out yet, but they're adding it to Glaze and they intend on making it open source.

Welcome to the age of the AI arms race.

[teaboot]

FUCK YEAH BABEYYYY

[adorkastock]

Do you know about my free web based sketch app that rotates random pose references? 🤔

It's called AdorkaStock Sketch and you can access it on desktop or mobile. It will adjust to fit your screen! On mobile you can scroll down to see the options.

There are currently just over 2,000 poses in rotation with more coming. You can change the timer, skip poses, sort with filters, or try predefined class modes.

The site is completely free and thanks to my Patrons I was recently able to remove third-party ads! If you turn off your ad blockers while using the site you will only see my own ads.

You can also make a free account which will allow you to collect a favorites list and set sketching goals.

Please check it out and use it as often as you need to for pose browsing, gesture warm ups, or long drawing sessions (just hit pause on any pose!) Hope it's super useful for you. Happy drawing! 🎨✨

[gaphic]

I am so serious when I say if you want to learn about light, you NEED to at least look at modeseven’s tutorials. even if you’re not pursuing a painterly style, this is all essential theory that can be easily adapted to different coloring styles. notice how none of these ever say ‘light with these colors and shade with these colors’? notice how this is teaching how light works on a mechanical level, and reminding the audience to adjust the actual colors they choose by context? THAT is good advice.

(if you’re thinking ‘wow I want to study more of this persons art!’ I encourage you to do so, but proceed with the knowledge that modeseven draws pretty much exclusively weird as hell kink art. sometimes wisdom comes from horny places)

[scribbled-death]

Did you know I make clip studio brushes? CAUSE I DOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I focus on making interesting and unique texture brushes which can be used for inking or even coloring/painting!

Check out my gumroad for them!

✨✨https://gumroad.com/nintala ✨✨

I also offer source files for you to look through to see how I layer my illustrations~ [clip studio file format]

[thefloatingstone]

*looks inside the official DeviantArt discord I'm part of* ru roh.

[thefloatingstone]

If you guys want the long and short of it, here ya go;

1: the automatic "Opt In" feature has nothing to do with "DreamUp". basically, AI generators have been using DeviantArt as a mine for its images without dA's permission. They have put an "opt in" option on all pictures on their site for these external AI sites. The setting is automatically set to "opt in" because that is literally the default as its always been. Automatic Opt-out is coming, they just need to tinker with it a little.

2: DreamUp is deviantArts Ai art generating program that only sources from deviantArt images that have the "opt in" feature turned on. However, the opt in feature is not directly tied to DreamUp in any way. DreamUp is just a new AI program that actually credits artists as its sources. It's a model dA has implemented to try and set a precedent as to how other AI art programs should work.

3: the people running the dA twitter are shit at communication and there are several mods crying in the discord because they TOLD THEM NOT TO WORD IT THIS WAY. and they ignored them and now there's a shit show.

the only reason I am not showing discord screenshots to back me up is because that is rude and the people in the channel did not consent to that sort of thing.

[thefloatingstone]

Reblogging to add;

You have ALWAYS been "opt in" to AI art generators... Without you or dA's permission.

dA is now giving you an option to turn it OFF.

But to put it as automatic off will take time to implement.

But that's that on that.

[thefloatingstone]

Do me a favour and reblog this post because as Pratchett said:

"a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on"

and people LOVE to be outraged by things and believe everything is worse than it truly is.

[drawingden]

Artists Beware! Please read if you have a DeviantArt account:

https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1591113199218487300?s=20&t=4k4OiBqcoEj0GgFm5_zKDg

DeviantArt have just announced that they're launching their own ai art generator, and every deviation that has ever been posted has been automatically opted in - I've checked this for myself and every one of my own artworks now needs to be manually changed in the settings of every single deviation otherwise they'll be used.

To have your artist username exempted from prompts you have to fill in a Google form to be approved by a human, and you must prove that you operate under your respective alias to ask them not to use it - read more here

Suffice to say I'm livid, I've been on DeviantArt for a decade and I'm going to shut down my account once I've manually opted out my hundreds of deviations. On their promotion page for the new tool they'll emphasize that it's *totally within the control of the artists* showing an image of the checked box that opts you out, while not mentioning that all of your previous deviations are already opted in by default.

I would recommend that anyone who has similar plans as me and wants to leave the site should manually opt-out for every deviation before shutting down your account, just to be on the safe side because I'm not sure if just deactivating your account would count as opting out.

I'll try to keep this post updated with accurate and up-to-date information since AI related stuff can quickly cause a frenzy online - don't hesitate to DM me with any new information and I'll update it here!

[stephjonesart]

Updated WIP of annuenna, @spectroom‘s lines.

Still pretty sure I have no idea what I’m doing, and it’s sad because I used to. Working in Krita.

[stephjonesart]

wip colors for some lines we comissioned from @spectr00m 60 years ago. hand issues over the summer prevented arting, coming back to it is like ‘ugh why am I so bad’ 

it’s @sniperct‘s world of warcraft paladin, Annuenna Dawnguard

[imafrickinglion]

Sketch of sniperct‘s character Yukale Ravenwing, lines by the amazing spectr00m, painted by me!

Used Krita from start to finish, I’m not AS psyched about the program now as when I started, but I need some time to think through everything before I decide if I’d use it again.

[stephjonesart]

oops. posted on the wrong thing. reblaggling to the art journal.

[stephjonesart]

WIP, working on painting a sketch by amazing artist spectr00m! This is Yukale, sniperct‘s World of Warcraft rogue.

Painting so far using Krita! This is a seriously legit program so far. It runs solid, never crashes even when you make the smudge tool go up BIG, and was pretty easy to get the hang of.

[stephjonesart]

Out on the Town - Kitty Pryde and Rachel Grey

Sketch by: Grace Roche - moonysketches

Colors by me. We paid for the sketch, it was a lot of fun to color!

[stephjonesart]

Unused color work from Singularity #2. The brighter scene was set in the past, so I got to play with saturation levels and brightness which was nice. The night scene was too dark, which is an overall issue with my coloring I'm trying to correct.

Pencils and Inks by Brian Brinlee. Characters and Concepts belong to Antonio Ponzoni

[stephjonesart]

These will never be published now, since I had to drop out of doing professional work and the writer/editor decided to scrap all of the colors that had already been done.

At some point though we decided to switch to black gutters to make the colors shine more, so here's a few updated pages with the change.

Singularity #1, Pencils and Inks by Brian Brinlee. Characters and Concepts belong to Antonio Ponzoni

[stephjonesart]

Various WIP photos along with the finished result - Inks over Adriana Melo's pencils.

Also, I suck at updating this account ever.

NOTE: These are practice inks for practice coloring and no profit was made or intended to be made from them. I do not own the pencils or the character.

[stephjonesart]

Starting off the New Year with a bit of a warmup after a month's vacation from coloring. About to kick off the second issue of Singularity!

This here was a sketch by Jason Gulenchin, which I just had to put some colors to. The original black and white sketch is gorgeous and can be found here: http://jasongulenchin.deviantart.com/art/Red-Sonja-Headhunter-264626983

[stephjonesart]

WIP, phase 3

Today's work was Livestreamed. As always, you can get videos of my streams by going to this page: http://www.livestream.com/imafrakkincylon and then scrollwing down to the various videos featured there.

The ones belonging to this set are a bit ... uhm... well the numbering is wonky on them. Tonight's were "Eva 3 or possibly 4" and then "Eva 4_"

I estimate this'll take about another 10 to 20 hours to complete.