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Freelance illustrator who hyperfixates on dice, D&D and designing affordable TTRPG characters for Patreon. Clients include
@CriticalRole
ALSO?? DON’T USE A/I FOR YOUR FUCKING DND CHARACTERS. HEROFORGE, PICCREW, AND EF ARE GREAT FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU!
If you have BG3, make your character in the creator! If you have time to support an artist, get even just a sketch!
THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR YOU TO EXPLOIT ARTISTS
This is the future of art. Anyone can take a screenshot of your WIP and run it through an AI generator, post it before you & then claim you traced their work.
I'm gonna go scream into a pillow, bye.
Reality check for my fellow artists, most of this is photobashed and not drawn by hand.
Just to give you some perspective that utilising textures and photos is not cheating and very commonly used to elevate a simple painting to the level of professional work.
Art advice you can use right now:
Trace those hands. Borrow poses. Steal colour palettes. Photobash. Use references. Paint over your own work. Be inspired by others.
Let go of the illusion that relying on tools is cheating. Be free, be creative. There are no rules🤍
Art advice you can use right now:
Draw slower
Observe more
Observe again
Don’t give up after first sketch
Use references
Ask for feedback
Work simple, then add details
Iterate on ideas
Try new a new process
Make frequent comparisons to refs
Draw what you love
Draw with others
Trace those hands. Grab poses. Steal colour palettes. Photobash. Use references.‘Cheat’ your way to the end.
We all use shortcuts and tools to make our lives easier so why shouldn’t you.
Telling folks this is wrong is nothing but you morally grandstanding on others.
Bros calling creativity privilege can go fuck themselves.
I HAVE APHANTASIA - MY MIND IS LITERALLY BLIND AND I STILL MANAGED TO LEARN HOW TO DRAW.
ANYONE CAN BE CREATIVE stop trying to justify your use of AI with such a lazy excuse - you’re addicted to instant gratification!!
Hey guys! I'm really curious... It's become really common place for artists to directly trace over 3D models for their art pieces. What do yall think of it? Do you think it's morally ok to do??
Idk if anyone else feels this way but sometimes I feel like there’s a dome around my friends and I’m peeking in from the outside. It’s been like this all my life and no amount of socialising makes it go away.
Artists, please always remember that the people who choose to commission you think very highly of you and your art & are looking forward to seeing their precious character/s drawn by you. That's a huge privilege.
Treat what is given to you with care. OCs mean a lot to people.
I beg you don’t pay money for this colour palette brush that is going around.
All you have to do is have a brush set to spacing and set colour dynamics to a percentage of your choice.
Ppl keep talking about how "scripted" Critical Role is.
Y'all. Talking to your DM about expectations and where you want to see your character in 20 sessions is not 'cheating'.
Communication is VITAL. The foundation to a satisfying game. Honestly, EVERYONE should do this.
Stop pushing those “draw everyday” challenges. I see them everywhere and it makes my skin crawl.
That shit is exhausting, forms unhealthy habits and burns you out FAST.
Instead normalise it in (young) peoples heads that their ideas deserve to take time. Art isn’t a damn race.
Since the artist community is on fire again, let's enable chaos :)
Tell me about your worst client/artist experience 💚 No names pls i just want some tea
Bro if pirates with eyepatches, hooks & peg legs can exist in DND without you batting an eye, so can people in wheelchairs.
Someone playing a disabled character literally shouldn’t affect your enjoyment of the game. You’re just weird.
This isn’t abt palworld anymore this is just blatant evidence that people won’t ever respect artists whatsoever. We will never get a voice, place or validation in the eyes of the mainstream.
Exploitation is fine if it hits those who create EVERYTHING you consume. 🖕
Today in news:
People discover IN SHOCK that 13 year old girls have periods and express their newly discovered horniness through writing/creating fanfiction. Wild times to be alive.
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It’s time to break this stigma once and for all!!!
REFERENCE AND TRACE AND BE FREE OF FEELING LIKE A FRAUD BECAUSE EVERYONE DOES IT.
There’s nothing wrong with using crutches. Use the tools that are available to you and watch your skills skyrocket!!
I don't see any mentions of leadership taking paycuts months before this became a "necessary step for Riot" that involved uprooting the lives of over 500 employees?
Minutes ago, we shared an important update with Rioters about the future of Riot Games. Here’s what these changes mean for our games and what players can expect from us going forward:
@SpartanGnasher
Ah, yes. We're back at the start of the forever loop of "Just ignore, lol."
Just don't ever talk about problematic things and just pretend they don't exist. Maybe the artist should've also not said anything and let this "troll" continue harassing them, eh?
I want to get to the level of artists that literally just sketch half a face, post it without caption and get 5000 likes and 100 admiring comments.
What a life.
The dnd player’s urge to think about your characters all day every day please help me I’ve been trapped inside my own head for years, please someone Ș̶̡͌̾e̸͖̗̓̐t̴̢̞̽ ̵̣̜͇̾̏͘m̵̜̿ë̴̹̩́͒̋ ̷̺͆̎f̴̢̞͙̾̒r̶̹̮͎̆̈ḛ̵̅̎e̴̜͑
AI will never make me stop drawing. I love drawing so fucking much.
Soon enough the mainstream of people will associate AI art with lazy ads, exploitation & greedy companies and the prestige of being a shiny new toy will wear off.
I will still be there. Painting away happily.
I was against sharing this at first because I do not want to give people like this the satisfaction to be publicly displayed.
But I really want to stress how much to NOT to do to artists that you look up to.
Fuck it, this stuff sent me spiralling. Don’t do this to me.
I want you to embrace referencing. Literally fake it till you get to the point where you realise that all professionals are using references, always, all the time and it’s a completely normal thing in the industry.
HEY, YOU.
IF YOU ARE A SELF EMPLOYED ARTIST THAT DOES NOT SUPPORT N/F/T
DROP YOUR ART IN THE COMMENTS!!
I WANT TO SUPPORT AWESOME PEOPLE.
(Share this so other people can find all the awesome people too!!)
Lol this blew up.
This is obviously about the language chosen. “Absurdly reductionist” is not the way to go.
Making your own interpretations is fine, but maybe don’t QRT the creator whilst implying your interpretation is better… it’s just bad etiquette don’t do that🤷♀️
I’m doing the same. All my diamond horns are photobashed textures and then painted over! It’s a super common tool used to make our lives easier.
I just want to share this bit of insight because I know a lot of folks feel very discouraged by these kind of paintings.
No matter how silly or goofy you think a design might be, someone created this design and is emotionally attached to it. It's not up to us to be the judge of what makes a "bad design".
This is literally someone who loves your art enough to give you money for it.
Unfortunately, I recognised the artist from the little ‘preview’ you sent me so it’s only a matter of time until I know your full name.
Go eat a fistful of sand, respectfully. ✨