hobbies: 2D art, crochet, vidyagames ~~~ updates: bought a sewing machine ~~~ work: museum education/biology ~~~ side gig: yt channel Two Birds With One Game (is it a side gig if it doesn't make money?)
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Latest Posts by sketchelium - Page 4
Out of all the moral lessons in kid's books, cartoons, etc., I didn't think the whole "you have to fight for what you care about" would carry over into adulthood.
Bro that's like the realest thing! Like I'm not punching anyone over it but every day I fight everyone's least favorite miniboss "Coming Home and Immediately Sleeping 3 Hours" because I may want to doodle something sometime
God I wish it were 2008. Then I could buy some new lps and maybe even a house
custom matcha tea cow 💚
custom steamed milk cow from harvest moon/story of seasons
Possible kobold bard for our Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign????
COLOR STUDY COMMISSIONS
If you've got a picture you'd like to be turned into a digital painting, I'm opening color study commissions!
$50, message me if you're interested!
Hello, i wanted to ask if you can post the original yorkie pic? Just wondering what this lps looks like in life and why is it like that. Thank you for speedpaint btw it's gorgeous!! Your color studies inspire me to learn how this shit works haha
OF COURSE! She was one of those LPS with the glass eyes! I must have knocked her eye out as a kid somehow... Fun fact: her name was Bulgey Eyes before she lost an eye, after which her name was Bulgey Eye (singular).
I'm glad my studies can help to inspire you!!! Definitely recommend Lighting Mentor on YouTube if you want to know more about how color works. He did color keys for the Incredibles, Ratatouille, and such!
I have one of these
now vs. 10 months ago, same pattern and same balls of yarn.
I just like how it looks like the pillars of creation 💟
my dudes but in this specific ace attorney pose
I'm making a cloak for myself but the hood looks way too good on my bee friend 🥺
If I can recommend you do 1 low-effort thing for the love of God it is this:
Keep 5 cards in your pocket. One will say "yes", the second will say "no."
If you lose your voice, or lose speech, or want to make a dramatic embellishment at the right time, it is an elegant and efficient solution that is right there at hand.
But what if people question you from there? "Why do you have that card? Why would you do this? How long have you had that in your pocket?" For this, or whatever else they say, the third card: "I don't have a card for that."
"What the fuck," they ask. They laugh. They are bemused. You bring the energy back down with the fourth card: "I have laryngitis. I've lost speech. My throat hurts". Whatever you expect to occur.
The joke is over. Rule of threes. Now they are curious. They wonder about logistics. "How did you know I would say that? Is everyone so predictable?"
As a three-part bit, nobody ever sees the fifth card coming.
"I have powerful wizard magics."
Gets them every time
There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue!
I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product.
Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?
Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.
Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.
Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.
Library fines have gotten really weird since the change in management…
European Starling!