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I am phoenix.

The girly recently got some fancy powers and a fansier archmage robe this session so i desided she deserves a fancy painting as well

Also, a lil edited portrait for a token

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#Oh wow!!! #This is sick!! #friend oc #steampunk campaign

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making video game... fun??

#game dev is truly just ping-pong between its so over and we're so back #when it works you feel so smart

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quick dragon painting. been struggling to draw anything lately so I decided to just do some clouds until something happens. That thing was a ginormous dragon apparently so who am I to complain

#art #my art #digital art #painting #digital painting #dragon #dragon art #dragos #fantasy illustration #fantasy art

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Ryleth's campaign is happening for real this time and I can't leave well enough alone so I redrew him and gave him a new outfit.

The owl's name is Spellslots and she's his princess

#happy enough with this for now #art #digital art #my art #dnd art #wizard #drow #dark elf #blood wizard #can you tell he stole all his clothes? #moa campaign #oc: ryleth vroryn

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My submission for the genasi secret satan

For @sunfloralchaos

#gass2024 #So pretty

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It is secret satan again. This time I drew Luna for @werepaladin , what a cute character!!!!

#art #my art #digital art #dnd #not my oc #genasi and aasimar secret satan 2024 #gass2024

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a rougher no sketch piece I did of @trucbiduleschouettes eurus because they're a cutie patootie

this was a very rough and experimental thing, I just used the oil flat brush on csp because it seemed very feathery to me frebjfrshb

also go all follow truc, they got awesome character designs and deserve everything

#THATS MY CHILD!!!! #that's really cute! #sword seekers game #not my art #friends oc

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Multiclassing Rangy into ranger so I gave her yet another new outfit!

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#realizing that she's rangy the ranger now #exandria game #friend art

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I see your art and think "that's the artist who draws cool fangs!"

At first I was like "I don't draw that many teeth, do I?" and then I went back and looked at the compilation I posted and most of them have little teefies poking out.

I bless you with the most toothiest thing I could think of, Daoinrai with him mouth open.

(I mean I guess I could have drawn Ayinkro, but I'm not sure people register his horns and spines as literally teeth[his horns and spikes are definitely teeth where they shouldn't be])

#That's so cool!!! #I think drawing creatures just comes with drawing lots of teeth #You're very good at it!

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Apparently it is customary in some circles to post your art on your birthday.

So here are some of my recent arts I'm most happy with. :)

#Happy birthday!!

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Decided to redo my old Adaine art, pretty happy with it for now! Here's the original if you're curious

#art #my art #digital art #fantasy high #fantasy high fanart #dimension 20 #dimension 20 fanart #fanart #adaine abernant #adaine fantasy high #adaine fanart #the bad kids

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Tonight's session was wild and hilarious

Nobody's Business miraculously lived like a cockroach, even if that evil guy was determined to kill her

unfortunately, after Phoenix Wrighting an amulet by swallowing it, our warlock went down and was kidnapped by said evil guy-

But hey, we're level 16 now! Ready to find her-

Also, there was a surprising amount of twerking from our warlock, artificer, and bard-

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#got kidnapped for the crime of being hungry so sad #genuinely one of the funniest sessions we've had in a long time #steampunk campaign #AND I get to play my backup character I made in 2021 for a bit which is nice! #friend art

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Art of @sessenaa's gremlin woman Avelly! I had so much fun drawing her!

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#Haha it's her!!!! #She is responsible for the deaths of multiple people #avellyverse #Friend art #thank you so much!!!!! #it's so pretty

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My commissions are open, get them while they're hot.

Just shoot me a dm or mail me under

[email protected]

I may be a bit slow with them at the moment due to school stuff, but I'll do my best. Prices, etc under the cut.

Prices:

Celshaded

50€ base price +25€ per additional character and +10€ for complex background

Fully rendered

Black and white bust

60€ base price +30€ per additional character +10€ for color

Full Painting

100€ base price +50€ per additional character +20€ for complex background

Tarot Cards

80€ per card

Do: fanart, ocs, dnd characters, real people

Don't: furries, mechs, heavy gore, nsfw

Additional Info

Two changes per piece (after the initial sketch). Anything more costs 10% of the total commission price

The prices above are for private/non-commercial use only.

If you want to use my art commercially, there will be an additional 20% fee to the commission.

I do not allow my art to be used for NFTs or the training of AI, even if you purchase a commercial piece.

I maintain the right to make copies, sell prints and post commissioned pieces unless the commissioner specifies

otherwise.

Half of the payment is to be delivered up front, the other upon completion of the commission.

#commission #commissions

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I'm working on a little worldbuilding thingie on the side btw. Gruff dad is out, shitty older sister is in!

#art #my art #digital art #oc art #avellyverse #sketches

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Automattic will sign a contract with OpenAI for Midjourney to learn off of Tumblr and Wordpress

Hello! Automattic, Tumblr's parent company, will sign a contract with OpenAI and Midjourney so Midjourney can learn off of Tumblr's and WordPress' art and other user data. :) (The full text of this article is copy/pasted in the cut below). You can opt out! but I truly cannot imagine a more idiotic or out of touch decision on the part of Tumblr's CEO.

First thing's first: When/if this goes live, opt out of this immediately. Do this even if you're not an artist. The more people opt out, the less valuable this contract is to Midjourney. in an ideal world, literally all of the active users would opt out, but if we can even get to 50% that's pretty delicious.

Second: Contact Tumblr Support. It's vital that you do this politely. Tumblr staff is not responsible for this decision and the point of doing this is to show the userbase's unwillingness to be involved in this, not harangue Tumblr staff. (Seriously, stop haranguing Tumblr staff). Here's a script:

Hi, I'm writing in to express my disappointment in Automattic's pending contract with OpenAI to sell user data. Midjourney is already embroiled in copyright lawsuits, and it is not possible to train it without compromising copyright, including violating the IP of artists on this site. I strongly protest this contract and will opt out if it goes live. Depending on the privacy terms around what user data is sold to OpenAI and why, it is possible I will leave the platform entirely. Thank you for your time.

Third: Download Glaze and start poisoning them prompts, my friends

Fourth: Stare into the middle distance for a second with me because holy fucking shit? How stupid can one decision be?

Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals. 

The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are not spelled out in documentation we’ve reviewed, but internal communications reviewed by 404 Media make clear that deals between Automattic, the platforms’ parent company, and OpenAI and Midjourney are imminent.

The internal documentation details a messy and controversial process within Tumblr itself. One internal post made by Cyle Gage, a product manager at Tumblr, states that a query made to prepare data for OpenAI and Midjourney compiled a huge number of user posts that it wasn’t supposed to. It is not clear from Gage’s post whether this data has already been sent to OpenAI and Midjourney, or whether Gage was detailing a process for scrubbing the data before it was to be sent. 

Gage wrote:

“the way the data was queried for the initial data dump to Midjourney/OpenAI means we compiled a list of all tumblr’s public post content between 2014 and 2023, but also unfortunately it included, and should not have included:

private posts on public blogs

posts on deleted or suspended blogs

unanswered asks (normally these are not public until they’re answered)

private answers (these only show up to the receiver and are not public)

posts that are marked ‘explicit’ / NSFW / ‘mature’ by our more modern standards (this may not be a big deal, I don’t know)

content from premium partner blogs (special brand blogs like Apple’s former music blog, for example, who spent money with us on an ad campaign) that may have creative that doesn’t belong to us, and we don’t have the rights to share with this-parties; this one is kinda unknown to me, what deals are in place historically and what they should prevent us from doing.”

Gage’s post makes clear that engineers are working on compiling a list of post IDs that should not have been included, and that password-protected posts, DMs, and media flagged as CSAM and other community guidelines violations were not included.

Automattic plans to launch a new setting on Wednesday that will allow users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties, including AI companies, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, and internal documents. A new FAQ section we reviewed is titled “What happens when you opt out?” states that “If you opt out from the start, we will block crawlers from accessing your content by adding your site on a disallowed list. If you change your mind later, we also plan to update any partners about people who newly opt-out and ask that their content be removed from past sources and future training.” 

404 Media has asked Automattic how it accidentally compiled data that it shouldn’t share, and whether any of that content was shared with OpenAI, but did not immediately hear back from the company. 404 Media asked Automattic about an imminent deal with Midjourney last week but did not hear back then, either.

Another internal document shows that, on February 23, an employee asked in a staff-only thread, “Do we have assurances that if a user opts out of their data being shared with third parties that our existing data partners will be notified of such a change and remove their data?”

Andrew Spittle, Automattic’s head of AI replied: “We will notify existing partners on a regular basis about anyone who's opted out since the last time we provided a list. I want this to be an ongoing process where we regularly advocate for past content to be excluded based on current preferences. We will ask that content be deleted and removed from any future training runs. I believe partners will honor this based on our conversations with them to this point. I don't think they gain much overall by retaining it.” Automattic did not respond to a question from 404 Media about whether it could guarantee that people who opt out will have their data deleted retroactively.

News about a deal between Tumblr and Midjourney has been rumored and speculated about on Tumblr for the last week. Someone claiming to be a former Tumblr employee announced in a Tumblr blog post that the platform was working on a deal with Midjourney, and the rumor made it onto Blind, an app for verified employees of companies to anonymously discuss their jobs. 404 Media has seen the Blind posts, in which what seems like an Automattic employee says, “I'm not sure why some of you are getting worked up or worried about this. It's totally legal, and sharing it publicly is perfectly fine since it's right there in the terms & conditions. So, go ahead and spread the word as much as you can with your friends and tech journalists, it's totally fine.”

Separately, 404 Media viewed a public, now-deleted post by Gage, the product manager, where he said that he was deleting all of his images off of Tumblr, and would be putting them on his personal website. A still-live post says, “i've deleted my photography from tumblr and will be moving it slowly but surely over to cylegage.com, which i'm building into a photography portfolio that i can control end-to-end.” At one point last week, his personal website had a specific note stating that he did not consent to AI scraping of his images. Gage’s original post has been deleted, and his website is now a blank page that just reads “Cyle.” Gage did not respond to a request for comment from 404 Media. 

Several online platforms have made similar deals with AI companies recently, including Reddit, which entered into an AI content licensing deal with Google and said in its SEC filing last week that it’s “in the early stages of monetizing [its] user base” by training AI on users’ posts. Last year, Shutterstock signed a six year deal with OpenAI to provide training data.

OpenAI and Midjourney did not respond to requests for comment. 

#It is becoming increasingly clear that a career as a creative is becoming impossible #Not that I had one to begin with lmao #But God the current system is hostile to anything that doesn't generate profit 24/7 #sorry for venting lmao just the idea of building even a fraction of my following anywhere else is daunting

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One of our fellow players changed her class from wizard to bard recently so.... new outfit!

#next day reblog