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Wicked in the 1860s I kinda forgot about

#sketch #dustjacketdraws #wicked #glinda #elphaba #fanart

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Hnnng

Okay, a mer-may idea should you feel so inclined: kelp forest mermaid 👀 wood nymph of the sea in a way

WOOD NYMPH OF THE SEA?

#i want to be there #shedding my responsibilities #mermaid time

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Cruising up on the last day of @nestaarcheronweek with an iced coffee. This was intended to be my queen of queens entry, an imagining of Nesta as the High Lady of Dusk, but you get it on free day instead

As always click for quality.

Do not repost without permission

#nesta archeron #nestaweek2024 #fanart #acotar #acosf #dustjacketdraws #i hate that table

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Okay, a mer-may idea should you feel so inclined: kelp forest mermaid 👀 wood nymph of the sea in a way

WOOD NYMPH OF THE SEA?

#prompts #i need some kind of search for this

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Does anybody have mermay ideas?

#ask box is open

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I'm spending too much time designing gothic tables

#wip update

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@nestaarcheronweek for day 4: lover

I wasn't intending to make them vampires, but it just fit

Edit: click on the image for better quality, I'll figure this out one day

#trying to limit my color palette status failed #nesta archeron #nessian #cassian #nestaweek2024 #fanart #dustjacketdraws #acotar #acosf

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She did not feel the cold as she sank into the sea that had no bottom, no horizon, no surface. But she felt the burning.

Immortality was not a serene youth.

It was fire.

It was molten ore poured into her veins, boiling her human blood until it was nothing but steam, forging her brittle bones until they were fresh steel.

And when she opened her mouth to scream, when the pain ripped her very self in two, there was no sound. There was nothing in this place but darkness and agony and power-

They would pay. All of them.

Starting with the cauldron.

Starting now.

@nestaarcheronweek for day 2: metamorphosis

#nesta archeron #fanart #acotar #acosf #dustjacketdraws #nestaweek2024

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Lmao did not finish day one RIP

Nobody panic but Nesta week starts tomorrow

#lemme just rearrange some free day stuff

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Nobody panic but Nesta week starts tomorrow

#and my day 1&2 pieces are not done #mildly panicking

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Artshield

I was going to flop in bed and try to draw from there, but the sudden swarm of AI shit on another of my accounts fueled me with spite, so I'm writing this post NOW rather than tomorrow when I'll be more awake.

If you can't run Glaze/Nightshade because of the insane specs required for it, give a try to Artshield.

It's a web-based app that will let you load all the pics you want and protect them with a big, invisible watermark all over it. It also has a checker option to use after you've shielded your art, to be sure it worked.

Now, I'm terrible with math so I can't explain how it exactly work, but here's the explanation on their blog. If someone who's more math-savvy than me wants to add a simpler explanation to this post, please do!

While it can't poison AIs like Nightshade does, it's still a good solution if you can't run Glaze/Nightshade on your pc... like many of us, really. As I wrote on another post about Glaze, I have a pretty decent gaming pc that, while not being like high-end or anything (my GPU is a RTX 3060), suits my needs perfectly and runs all the games I'm interested in (Tekken 8's demo being the most recent thing).

Yet, in order to try Nightshade, I had to close all the apps I had running in the background, which were, in that moment, Opera and Discord. Only when I shut them down, it finally started. 10 minutes for the mid setting and the result was awful.

I tried WebGlaze (not Cara yet), and the results were also awful, given you can't control the strenght of the glazing much.

I understand it might be hard to develop this kind of technology, but I wish they would meet us halfway since the majority of people use old machines, laptops (a friend of mine tried running Glaze on hers and the fans started spinning like it was ready to fly) or even just tablets and phones, so those specs are hard to meet.

That's why I want to share Artshield, as a solution for those of you who can't run Glaze and Nightshade.

Artshield's only big limitation is that it won't work with white backgrounds, so try to add a color layer to your white background before shielding it. Same for B/W images.

Other tips I can suggest for trying to protect your works:

Post at the lowest resolution you can: I go for 72 DPI, keeping bigger sizes and high quality files only for Ko-Fi rewards and clients' files

Add a noise filter: I always do this because I like the paper-like, grainy feel it gives to my art, but I read once it might messes with AI's scrapers. While I don't know if this is still true, it's worth trying it

Don't forget a big visible watermark (aside from the Artshield one)!

Hope this will help other strugglin artists, I never see Artshield suggested around, especially in posts about Glaze and Nightshade, so I decided to write this one.

Go and shield your art!

#anti ai

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It's crazy to me how Mel has the most stunning character design ever, but has so little fanart in her tag 😭 What are we doing to our beautiful queen?

#someone remind me of this later #mel medarda

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Happy Wip Wednesday! I'm working hard on nesta week things. This will hopefully be done for queen of queens

#im not as far as id like #wip update #nesta archeron #dustjacketdraws

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ABYSSAL_ZONE 2023 Prompts

A refresh on last year's prompt sets, for those wanting to keep working on projects started last mermay. The prompt sets were designed to reflect the layers of the ocean, going first Epipelagic (Sunlight Zone), Mesopelagic (Twilight Zone), Bathypelagic (Midnight Zone), and finally the Abyssopelagic (the Abyss).

May 1 - May 8. sun-gold sands, i'll play with these. Tide. Sunlight. Gravity. Secret. Coral. Venom. Enchant. Euphoria.

May 9 - May 17. here on the edge of silence, half-afraid. Storm. Twilight. Stranger. Siren. Dignity. Lantern. Majestic. Scales.

May 18 - May 26. i brought to you a dream. Scavenger. Midnight. Lost. Song. Innocence. Healing. Sailor. Kindred.

May 27 - May 31. and there are those for whom we weep. Hunger. Leviathan. Affection. Glow. Abyss. Isolation. Unnatural. Pride.

#mermay #hmmm #im most likely to go totally off prompt but

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#mermay #mermay2024 #artists on tumblr #polls

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Wip update in honor of poly week @polyacotarweek

Nesta x cassian x azriel just having a Sellyn Drake good time

#wip update #dustjacketdraws #fanart #poly+acotarweek2024 #nesta archeron #cassian #azriel #nessriel #nessian #nezriel #cazriel #sketch

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Omg! Thank you so much

Creator Highlight #1 - @dustjacketdraws

Welcome to our Nessian Creator Highlights, where we want to draw a spotlight towards the talented folks in our fandom who kindly spare so much of their freetime to share their wonderful creations with us!

Today we want to highlight @dustjacketdraws, an artist who has shared so many wonderful artpieces with the acotar fandom, many of which feature our favorite couple!

Thank you for sharing art that is not only stunning, but so often laced with humor that can't help but make us smile!! We highlighted three of our favorite pieces which you can find by clicking the links below, and we encourage everyone to check out their Archive to see more of their art!

Nessian Mating Ceremony

Nessian BG3 Outfit (Someone's going to have to change)

Nessian Superheroes

#this is so sweet