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sorry for being quiet for a while therr, i've been having trouble acquiring my medication. i'm getting back to work now

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Your Zekrom banner is making me so stupidly happy they were my first ever favorite pokemon when I was like seven and seeing that beautiful lizard so lovingly renditioned even if it's just a headshot is everything in this moment

:) yay! i love zekrom! i find that of the two dragons it's usually reshiram that people attempt to draw from a more animal-like approach; understandably, since zekrom has this slightly mecha appearance, but i just think its oviraptor beak and ambiguous wings translate really well to a sort of avian + european dragon + microraptor (but make it anything but micro) vibe.

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Do you think Jigglypuff has fur?

hmm... carefully considering this question. i'm split between it having feathers and it being some kind of floating "if a physalia was a vertebrae" situation. actually maybe both

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#0304 - #0306

Aron, Lairon, Aggron

#pokemon #hoenn #oras #rse #i sat on these for a hot minute eh. #aron #lairon #aggron

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hisuian typhlosion for @significantlylesschill ^_^

#commissions #typhlosion #pokemon

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oh also, while i generally dont like doing Content Creator Call To Actions, if you wanna help me pay my bills in a way other than commissioning me, check out my patreon in pinned and consider subscribing, and you can also tip me at ko-fi ! im a #Struggling artist with a disability and other chronic health issues, so the less i have to worry about being able to afford food and rent and meds (and the less time i spend losing sleep over it and being in pain w/o my meds etc...), the more time i get to spend making lots and lots of art ^_^ cheers!

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deino and trubbish for @grossfleshcomputer :) thank you so much!

#trubbish #deino #pokemon #commissions

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mega absol for @warriorsdebt :) thank you!

#absol #commissions

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THANKS. After writing that ask I realized i jumped the gun and was less informed than I thought I was and then I Felt Super Bad but didnt know what to do ;-;

you have absolutely nothing to apologize for, and once again thank you for looking out for me ^_^ i really appreciate that!

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You’re gonna want to glaze and/or nightshade your posts.

https://www.tumblr.com/salora-rainriver/743031690655596545/what-is-this-about-the-tumblr-staff-wanting-to

This is only rumors but

thanks for looking out for me!

thing is, a deal between midjourney and tumblr is unlikely and would be bad for midjourney. images on tumblr are already indexable, and likely already in datasets. going back to glaze/nightshade art youve already posted would be highly ineffective, as un-glazed versions already exist in reblogs and cant be edited or removed from the servers without doing a dmca takedown.

heres a good post about other issues with glaze and nightshade, that i think is a worthwhile read:

not as important but i (personally; its a contentious topic and i understand others feel differently) am not particularly invested in preventing generative models from learning from my art. if it was gonna ever happen, then its already happening, and im not bothered by it.

i was instead briefly worried about the future of this site, given the recent outbursts from the ceo and the likelihood of a "pissed off forum mod just shutting down the whole thing after a spat with the users" type outcome, but looks like we're in the clear :3 if anything were to change though: you know my patreon, i would be giving any relevant update over there

#tl;dr its all good folks! Nothings Going To Happen #if youre interested in effective ways to protect yr art from having ai models train on it i believe there Are ways to do it! #its just that glaze/nightshade is ineffective and trivial to bypass and extremely energy inefficient

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bronzong for @robotjuice, snom for @ophanimon and galarian ziggy for @oculae :) thank you for commissioning me!

#pokemon #zigzagoon #bronzong

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so while i'm finishing up this current batch, i'm opening my commissions again (gotta pay my bills haha). $40 for a pokemon, IM me if you're interested :)

#i will be posting the commissioned pieces soon and im excited abt it cuz i was given a lot of cool ideas ^_^

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Your animal anatomy foundation 100% feels very solid, do you have any books or online sources to recommend to budding artists?

thank youuuu :)))

im gonna be honest... i never really specifically sat down to study drawing animals, or followed any art-oriented books or guides about that or anything. tutorials tend to not be very helpful to me because they rarely deal with gesture and focus more on getting the proportions right, which by itself is only a small part of it. and live drawing classes rarely involve animals...

i think it helps to have an existing, like, sense and confidence when it comes to observation and capturing volume and gesture in general. at the end of the day pretty much everything can be broken down into basic shapes, planes, blobs. actually A Blob is a good starting point to draw pretty much any animal... draw a blob and then put a head and limbs and appendages on it. yknow?

another thing is to just be curious and have an interest in the diversity and minutiae of the animal kingdom. i know it sounds very basic but I Love Animals. there are some real crazy creatures out there. obviously i recommend looking up as many reference pics as you can, not necessarily to copy stuff, but to have a handy guide of where stuff goes. but just looking at pictures honestly isnt quite enough in my opinion... read up on the animal. get a sense of what makes this particular species unique among ones similar to it, how it lives and functions in its habitat... watch a nature docco. watch some footage of weird little shrimp. learn how to tell different species of aeshnidae apart.

also, yeah, youre gonna have to look at and draw some animal skeletons at some point. i dont think you have to like, study the skeleton of every vertebrate you wanna draw, but yknow, its good to have a general knowledge. it really does teach you a lot to draw a horse skeleton and the individual parts in it. ideally of course you would be sitting in front of either the real thing or a 3d model, but sometimes photos and illustrations have to suffice... it's just important that you pay attention to what you're doing.

as for books... well, a relevant point here is that photos arent everything. obviously theyll give you a faithful picture of the living breathing animal, but thats the thing, they wont always let you see the exact shape, all the distinctive details, and so on. so this is where i recommend getting into some old timey illustrated books. yeah youre gonna have to do some treasure hunting... but listen. ive got this awesome book from 1979 for example, which lists pretty much every species of bird that lives in my little corner of the world, along with amazing detailed illustrations. it's so inspiring and informative. it is the kind of stuff i really wanna urge everyone to get into.

#book is Welcher Vogel Ist Das? by dr walter cerny and karel drchal

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not dex or commission stuff, but i really really really felt like drawing glimmora real quick. my gen 9 fave... oh the stunts we've pulled together in ranked

tip me?

#pokemon #scarvio #paldea #glimmora

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Are you okay with people drawing your designs with credit?

sure thing! ^_^ wow!

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primeape in awesome sneakers for @neep-neep-neep, riolu and shinx for @eelness, and phantump for @sorin-sunchild ^_^ thank you all so much!!

#theres a lot more to come since ive been doing a lot of these since december :) #commissions

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I'm so excited to see your take on the trapinch -> flygon line. and meganium

honestly im excited too, i love flygon ^_^

btw teaser for aron line LOL

#Vivi Reverse Engineers A Placerias And Then Realizes Lairon Is Literally Based On One