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#the NFT part I mean

thatdogmagic · 1 year

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...that your audience won't hate.

This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.

I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.

I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.

Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.

Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.

Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:

All selected?

Good.

Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.

You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.

Either way, let's add some color to the text.

Once that's finished,

You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect

You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.

Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.

This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.

Hooray, you've finished your watermark!

Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.

You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.

From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.

If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.

And for lots of black, you have Linear Light

Either way, you're in business!

EDIT since this has escaped my usual circles, and folks aren't as familiar with my personal usage:

An example of one of my own finished pieces, with watermark, so you can see what I mean about 'relatively unobtrusive'-- I try to at least use them as framing devices, or let them work with the image somehow (or, at the very least, not actively against it).

I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still letting it serve its intended purpose.

There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!

#watermarks #artist tutorial #watermark #AI #art theft

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mountttmase · 5 months

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Every Second Of Everyday

Note - I’m running out of fics 😭 this one was never supposed to see the light of day but here we are. I hope you enjoy and I’d love some feedback 🩷

Pairing - Mason Mount x Reader

Word count - 6k

Warnings - angst, fluff & smut

‘So yeah I mean Its really easy, you just have to buy in the dip but obviously you need to know when that is, I can totally teach you if you want me too”

‘Oh yeah sounds… super interesting’

Not.

Listening to a man you’d only met properly an hour and a half ago waffle on about crypto currency and NFT’s was not how you imagined your Wednesday would be going. You had no idea what he was going on about, and you didn’t care either. Disappointment had flooded through you from about ten minutes into the date, he seemed so different from when you’d been messaging. He barely asked you anything about yourself and spent the whole time trying to explain, or rather boast, to you what he did for a living.

‘I’m just popping to the loo, be back in a sec’ he smiled as he stood from his chair. You smiled back and nodded lightly, watching him walk away from you as you let out a quiet sigh of relief. Thankful you were finally alone but not two seconds later you felt your phone vibrate in your pocket. You quickly pulled it out to check it wasn’t an emergency, having not looked at it the whole way through lunch, not wanting to be rude, but the name that flashed up was the last person you thought it would be.

Mason

What the hell did he want?

You and Mason were… complicated. You knew how you felt about him and you were pretty sure he felt the same but for some reason nothing has ever come of it. You’d grown up best friends with Lauren James and her bother Reece, so it was inevitable you’d meet Mason sooner or later. Reece had always mentioned him growing up to the point where you felt like you knew him already sometimes, but you kept yourself slightly separate from that part of their lives, wanting to be the escape from football.

The moment of you meeting Mason came just under six months ago. The season had been over for a week and Reece was throwing a party at his house meaning Lauren insisted you came with her. Reece introduced you to Mason within the first ten minutes of you stepping in the door and you were hooked on him from the first look.

You obviously knew who he was but you tried to play it cool and make out you didn’t. Mason bought your calm exterior hook, line and sinker, telling you that you weren’t like most of the girls he meets at these things. You spent most of that night in his company, laughing at his stupid attempts to make you smile and falling for those gorgeous brown eyes every time you looked in them. He wasn’t anything like you thought he’d be, you were expecting an ego the size of a truck to match his perfect face but as time went on you realised he was just a normal guy who did a not so normal job. You exchanged numbers at the end of the night, him kissing your cheek promising to text you the very next day and you didn’t expect anything from him with how busy he was yet when you woke up the next day with a message from him your tummy had erupted into butterflies.

It had all started out so well, cute texts here and there and promises of seeing each other as soon as you could but nothing ever materialised. You got it, he was Mason Mount and you were you but it didn’t mean it hurt any less. The texts mostly dried up, only checking in with each other here and there and only seeing each other at social events. You’d made peace with the fact nothing probably would ever happen yet that didn’t stop him from getting his way when he wanted.

He would always make eye contact with you from across the room when you were together, smirking cheekily when he noticed the blush taking over your cheeks as his come to bed eyes raked over you hungrily. He liked the fact he could do that to you and he seemed to make it his mission to tease the life out of you. His hands always finding your waist as he passed behind you, or sitting as close as he could to you on the sofa so he could run his fingers over your thighs.

You loved and hated every second of it.

You thought he was unbelievably attractive and it only took a flash of his perfect smile to get you hot under the collar. Every time his tongue poked out between his lips to wet them made your knees weak and you were pretty certain no other boy had made you feel like this before. It wasn’t all bad, and you soon fell for his goofy playful side. Admiring the way he was always making people, yourself included, laugh at his stupid jokes and sometimes it seemed like he didn’t have a fear of making himself look like a prat. You found him awfully endearing when he wasn’t trying to get under your skin so the stupid little crush you had on him didn’t face in the slightest.

But in the last two months it had become unbearable. He was a lot braver with his actions and one night after a little bit too much to drink he’d cornered you in the kitchen, pressing feather light kisses to the top of your shoulder from behind you and slowly making his way up your neck as you were trying grab a glass. No words were exchanged as he pressed his lips to your skin, knowing he’d followed you in hoping to catch you alone and If it hadn’t been for the loud crash coming from the other room you would have let him carry on. It seemed to snap him out of whatever trance he was in though and after giving you a quick wink he turned on his heel and left you stood flabbergasted.

You told yourself that night that whatever game he was playing was over. You weren’t one to stick up for yourself, clearly, but you couldn’t stand another second of him having this weird hold over you without it leading anywhere. The next morning you dowloaded a dating app, telling yourself you needed to get out there and meet some different people and see what happens. Show him that he wasn’t free to keep dangling ideas in front of your face without acting on them.

Which is how you need up in this situation today.

Charlie had seemed nice when you matched him a few days ago. He was cute and and he made you laugh but being sat opposite him was a complete other story. This was the third different date you’d been on in a month and you were starting to loose all hope of finding anyone that made you feel a fraction of what Mason did.

You sighed as you unlocked your phone to see what he wanted but your blood ran cold as you opened up the message.

It was you.

Well the back of you anyway, sat in the exact place you were right now. You slowly turned round and your eyes locked onto his right away, sat three tables back and slightly off to the left. You whipped back around before he could do anything else and tried to calm you racing heart.

What are the bloody chances?

As soon as you finished your thought, your phone buzzed again. Another text from Mason coming through.

Why is this happening to me?

You chose to ignore it, locking your phone and turning it over, hoping he would see you’re not in the mood to talk to him. He didn’t get the hint though and you groaned under your breath as his final text come through.

You hated to admit that his assertiveness made you clench your thighs together, but there was no way in hell you were going home with him. Well that’s what you told yourself anyway.

Charlie returned from the loo soon after and after a small back and forth, you agreed to let him pay for lunch. He was putting his pin in when you saw Mason heading for the door, sending you a small smile as he made his way outside. You continued looking at him as he said goodbye to his friend and made his way over to his car. The only thought in your brain being about how good he looked in something as simple as a black T-shirt and cargos, one of your favourite things to see him in and you only snapped out of your trance when Charlie let out a small cough.

‘Sorry, I was in my own little world there’ you apologised with a smile and he just smiled in return. ‘You up too much the rest of the day?’ You enquired, hoping he was so you could make a swift exit and thankfully for you he nodded.

‘Unfortunately yes, I need to get back home and check my stocks, but I’ve really enjoyed this, we’ll have to do it again some time’ he smiled and rather than let him down gently you just nodded, gathering your things so you could get out of there and away from him as quickly as possible. He walked you to the door and put his arm around you awkwardly before leaving a light kiss on your cheek. ‘See you around then y/n’. He smiled and all you could do was smile back before he walked off, thankfully in the opposite direction than you needed.

Now you were rid of him, there was one other person you needed to send on their way before you could go home and think over your life decisions whilst drowing yourself in the tub of ben and Jerrys in your freezer.

You eyes scanned over to Masons car, still parked up, and you walked to him slowly. Telling yourself to be strong and get it over with quickly and once you were at his drivers side window you tapped on it lightly three times before the window came down revealing a slightly confused looking Mason.

‘What you doing? your doors on the other side’ he winked ‘come on, get in’

‘Yeah about that, I don’t think it’s a good idea I’m just gonna head home. I’m sure you’ve got better things to be doing anyway’ you told him. Not meaning for it to come out sounding so bitter and clearly Mason picked up on it, his smile quickly turning into a frown.

‘Hey, what’s that supposed to mean?’

You just shrugged and he studied your face for a second before he opened his door. You stepped back slightly but he grabbed your arm, pulling you back to him, slotting you in-between his legs as he sat side on.

‘Come on, I haven’t seen you in ages. Why don’t you wanna hang out?’ He asked quietly. He was giving you his best puppy dog eyes they were really working on you, he looked genuinely upset you didn’t want to spend time with him. His hands planted themselves on your waist, his thumbs rubbing gentle circles just under your top. His gentle touch was making you fold and he knew it. “Please y/n, just for a little while? I promise I’ll take you home after’ he pouted, and you cursed at yourself in your head for giving into him so quickly but you couldn’t think straight when his hands were on you and he was looking at you like he was.

‘Fine, but I can’t stay long’ you lied. You had all day free, you just weren’t sure you’d be able to handle a whole afternoon of his antics.

He gave you that cheeky smile he always did, but released you so you could jump into his passenger seat. The whole ride to his house was perfect, this was the Mason you liked, no teasing or getting you flustered for his own entertainment. He asked you how you’d been and he seemed genuinely interested when you answered, a stark contrast from the lunch you had just endured and he seemed just as excited to fill you in on everything you’d missed out on in his life recently.

Once you’d arrived at his, he led you through to the kitchen to grab you both a drink, telling you to make yourself comfy on his sofa. You’d been to his house a handful of times but always with other people, today being the first time it was just the two of you and you’d be lying to yourself if you said you weren’t nervous. You tried to relax into the corner of the L shaped sofa, telling yourself you’re just catching up with a friend and there was nothing to fret over. Mason soon returned and placed your drink down on his coffee table before flopping down right next to you, his thigh pressed right up against yours and his arm resting across the back of the sofa behind you. You could feel the tips of his fingers stroking over the material of your top making you even more dazed than before.

‘So you gonna tell me who that was you were having lunch with?’ He asked. You could tell by the tone of his voice he was on a mission to poke fun at you now and you sighed quietly. Knowing it was too good to be true that maybe for once you could just be normal with each other.

‘Just a guy’

‘What’s his name?’

‘Why do you care?’

‘Just curious’ he smirked. You knew he was trying to get at you so you thought you’d try and match his energy.

‘His name is Charlie, he’s a crypto billionaire’ you tried to say confidently but as soon as the words flew out your mouth you wished you could of stuffed them back in. Like Mason would care how much money he had? Charlie didn’t even have a fraction of a billion but you were desperate at that point to make him a little jealous. You mentally face palmed yourself when you saw Masons eyebrow twitch up into somewhat of an ammused smirk.

‘Right… and how did you meet Charlie the crypto king?’

You didn’t want to tell him how, but the longer you sat there trying to think of another way you knew he wouldn’t believe you, so you just went with the truth.

‘We matched on hinge’ you said quietly, avoiding his gaze, but you head shot up when you heard his little giggle. ‘What’s so funny?’

‘Oh come off it y/n, what’s a girl like you doing looking for guys on hinge?’

‘What do you mean a girl like me?’ You scowled. You were starting to get really annoyed with him, hoping he’d choose his next words carefully so you didn’t blow up in his face.

‘I just didn’t think a gorgeous girl like yourself would look twice at any of the guys on there’ he said with a shrug. You tried to brush past the compliment but you could feel your cheeks burning up already, knowing it was giving Mason a kick to see the effect his words had on you. ’He was nowhere near good enough for you, I could tell by the way you were sitting you weren’t feeling it. Its like you’re boredom was radiating across the room’

‘Oh yeah cause you know so much about me Mason’

‘Id like to think so, yeah’ he winked, the hand resting on his thigh now making its way onto yours. You had to ball your fists at your sides in order to keep calm. ‘If you wanted a lunch date you could of always called me, I know you’d rather have me sat opposite you’

‘You’re unbelievable’ you growled, finally rising to you feet and and making a beeline for the door.

‘Hey come on y/n don’t be like this, I’m only messing’ He teased as he jumped up after you and reached out for your arm to stop you, but you’d finally had enough. Seeing red, you yanked your arm out of his grasp and turned to face him. Ready to give him a piece of your mind.

‘You know what Mason? Yeah maybe he was a bit boring but at least he had the guts to ask me out’

‘What’s that supposed to mean?’

‘All you do is lead me on, you make me feel like you like me and then you go cold on me its fucking exhausting. Do you think I want to be meeting up with randomers off hinge?’ You barked at him. He seemed slightly taken aback by your outburst but his eyes were looking at you hungrily. He’d never seen this side of you before and he was loving it. ‘You’re so full of yourself all the time, thinking you can just invite me back here and i’ll come running? I’m so sick of your shit-‘

Before you could think about what was happening, Mason had pulled you into him and his lips were on yours. Slowly walking you back until you were pressed up against the nearest wall, one hand on your waist, the other lightly wrapped around your throat.

He kissed better than you ever imagined he could and you cursed yourself for moaning into his mouth. The feel of his smile on your lips frustrated you even more than you thought possible and his mouth soon detached from yours as he flipped you round. Your chest now pressed to the wall, his front leaning into your back and you could just start to feel him hardening against your bum.

‘This what you wanted from me yeah?’ He whispered into your ear. You turned your face to try and look at him over your shoulder, but his lips on the other side of your neck made you close your eyes. He could feel the way your breathing was getting shallower as his fingertips raked up your side and he was eager to see just how far he could push you. ‘You still sick of my shit or you want me to keep going?’

‘Keep going’ you whimpered quietly, the words coming out your mouth before your brain could figure out what you wanted to say, and you felt him smile against your neck.

‘Good girl’

‘Im not your good girl, mase’ you countered but you knew you were just lying yourself. You always had been and you always would be.

He turned you back round and tucked your loose hairs behind your ears before leaning down and kissing you again lightly. ‘We’ll see’ he breathed into your mouth. ‘Go sit back down for me yeah?’ He asked but you waited a moment, both looking at each other to see who would break first but you could tell he wasn’t budging so you silently made you way back over to his sofa. Your fingertips touching your lips as you still couldn’t believe after all this time you’d finally kissed him.

He stood studying you for a few seconds before following you over, however instead of taking up his seat from before, he knelt down infront of you. Parting your knees and slotting himself in between them. His hands came to rest on either sides of your hips and his face now dangerously close to yours.

‘I know we’ve got some things we need to talk about, but can you please let me make you feel good first?’ He whispered, kissing you again softly. ‘I think it’s just best we get this out our system cause there’s no way I’ll be able to concentrate on anything serious if all I can think about is what’s under these clothes’

You were having an internal battle, obviously you wanted him but would it just make everything afterwards more difficult? Was he just saying this to get one over on you? He could see you were struggling with what to do so he kissed your neck trying to show you how much he needed you.

‘Please baby, just a taste’ he whispered just below your ear and you felt your whole body erupt in goosebumps. Fuck he was good. It was like he knew exactly what to say and do to you. You knew you were wrapped around his finger but up until now you hadn’t realised how much. ‘You can trust me I promise’

Could you trust him?

The only thing on your mind was the thought of him getting you down to your underwear and then him telling you it’s all a joke. That this was just a new low for him to try and get one over on you but you knew Reece would kick him into next week if he ever tried something like that and the look in Masons eyes also settled you a bit.

You wanted to say no but you you were too caught up in him finally giving you what you wanted. Thinking to yourself, even if this is all you ever got from him then you’d find a way to live with it. You just couldn’t refuse him when he was in between your thighs, promising to make it worth you while. So you nodded and kissed him back, a little deeper this time, parting your lips so he could slip in tongue in when he silently asked for permission.

God he was so good at this, you thought as his hands came to rest at the waistband of you jeans. Why the hell haven’t we done this sooner? if I had to pick between breathing or kissing Mason, I think id choose the latter.

His fingers slowly made their way to the button on your jeans, and he pulled back, looking at your face to make sure you were still comfortable. You nodded at him so he carried on, unzipping you before tapping your thigh so you would lift your hips in order for him to rid you of them. Next to come off was your top, leaving you with only your bra on underneath, thanking the lord you’d decided to put a nice one on this morning. Feeling your slight discomfort at being the only one without clothes on, he peeled his own top from his body, tossing it over the back of his sofa.

You’d seen pictures of his body before and knew what it looked like under certain things but seeing it like this in person made your mouth water. He was flawless.

His kisses resumed and then he made his way down your neck, across your collar bones and down your chest. As he mouth was nearing where you needed him, you sank back into the cushions. You felt his lips dance across the band of your underwear before he hooked his thumbs under and pulled them down you legs.

‘So fucking perfect’ he murmured between kisses over your hips and thighs, the sound of his voice made your tummy flip with anticipation.

You were torn between looking at him or laying back and just enjoying it, so you grabbed and cushion and stuffed it behind you, giving you the perfect view of what he was about to do to you. You were growing impatient with his gentle kisses on you inner thighs, wishing he would just burry his face in you already so you threaded your fingers through his hair and attempted to guide him to where you needed him. You felt him smirk against you, placing one final kiss against you before giving you what you wanted.

He teased your folds apart slowly with his tongue, and when he made contact with your clit, circling over it slowly a few times, you let out a pent up breath you hadn’t realised you’d been holding.

You couldn’t help his name falling off your lips and he moaned into you at the sound. A sound he’d been waiting forever to hear. You felt your breathing deepen as he got into his rhythm, bringing his fingers up to spread you apart even further. Your moans for him only growing louder and it was all the encouragement he needed to keep going, eventually slipping those same fingers inside of you to heighten your pleasure.

‘You taste so fucking good’ he growled and pumped his fingers into you a little faster, hitting the spot that made you cry out. ‘That feel good baby?’

‘Yes Mase, so fucking good, please keep going im so close’

If you weren’t so horrifically turned on then you might have been embarrassed about how quickly he’d managed to get you to this point but you didn’t care. You felt too good to think about anything else.

‘Come on baby, be good for me and cum’ he moaned against you and you thought in that moment you you would have done anything he asked you to. Why did he have to be so good at everything?

It only took a few more seconds and you were cumming over his fingers, his mouth still working on you to ride you through it, and when he felt like you’re breathing had calmed down, he kissed his way back up your body to you lips. You let out a small hum as you tasted yourself on his lips, a slight giggle coming from you and you tried to hide in his neck out of embarrassment. He couldn’t help but laugh himself as he sat down next to you, pulling you into his lap, both slightly overwhelmed with what had just taken place. He reached behind him for the blanket he kept there, wrapping it around the both of you.

After a few moments of silence you felt his lips lightly press on your forehead before he muttered the words ‘i’m sorry’

Ah shit.

This was part you were dreading. The first thought coming to mind was him telling you he’s sorry for making you think the two of you could be anymore than you already were. You told yourself you were fine with it, but the feeling of your heart sinking told you you weren’t.

He must of felt your disappointment, his arm tightening around you slightly whilst his other hand cupped your jaw, tilting your face up to look at him. His eyes looked soft and from the slight smile that played on his lips you thought it best to see what he had to say rather than get up and run.

‘All the cocky bullshit with you, it’s always just been a front. Truth is, the way you make me feel scares the shit out of me’ he told you gently. Your eyes pleaded with him to carry on, but the tsunami in his tummy was holding him back. He rested his head on top of yours and closed his eyes, figuring it might be easier to tell you how he felt if he wasn’t looking straight at you.

‘I’ve liked you from the first moment I saw you. Before that even’ he chuckled. ‘Recce talked about you all the time and I’ve always wanted to meet you but you make me more nervous than anyone else I’ve ever known. I think about you every second of everyday and I kick myself that I’ve never been able to just grow a pair and tell you’

You could feel his heart racing in his chest, the tempo matching your own at his words. You slowly stroked your thumb over his hand in an attempt to calm him so he could carry on, your gentle touches only making him fall for you even more.

‘I guess I just thought if we carried on the way we were then I’d still sort of have you. Like the fear of you rejecting me was worse than only having you a little bit’ he chuckled and you nuzzled into his neck a little at his confession. ‘I didn’t mean to make you feel as bad as I did though, half the time I wasn’t even trying to tease you I just wanted to be near you. I know I should of just asked you how you felt but if you haven’t noticed I’m not all that smart sometimes’

You shifted on his lap so he’s had to look at you, you noticed the pink tinge to his cheeks from all of his confessions and all you wanted to do was kiss him. His smile mirrored your own and you were now ready to share your feelings in the same way he just had.

‘Why don’t you ask me now?’

‘Huh?’

‘Ask me how I feel about you’

He took in a deep breath and shook his head lightly with a smile, almost like he couldn’t believe what he was about to do. ‘How you do you feel about me, y/n?’

Come on girl, you got this.

‘I think about you every second of everyday, too’ you whispered, causing him to giggle and burry his head in your hair. ‘It’s true, I’ve always liked you Mase. Maybe I could have been a bit braver and told you first but I couldn’t get the words out. I didn’t know for sure you liked me the way I like you and I guess I was kinda the same? I was alright with having you a little bit but that fear of rejection was holding me back’ you told him and you felt him nod into your hair and hold you that tiny bit closer. ‘I didn’t wanna go on dates with other guys but I couldn’t take not having you anymore and figured it would be a good distraction so I could move on from you but no one ever made me feel like you do’

He moved again so he could look at you, his thumb stroking over your jaw softly and a slight look of guilt dressed his face. ‘I’m sorry I made it get to that point I never meant to make you feel that way. I hated seeing you out with someone else today like it proper hurt but I suppose it gave me the kick up the backside i needed.’ you chucked and turned your face in his hand to kiss his palm. It felt amazing to finally be this close to him but the little voice in the back of your head was stopping you from fully enjoying it. Mason must have sensed your change and tilted your face back up towards his. ‘What’s wrong?’

‘Nothings wrong, just what happens now? Where do we go from here?’

‘Well if you’d let me, I’d love to take you for dinner tonight. Like a proper date?’

‘Two dates with two different men in one day, what will people think of me’ you teased and he just laughed at your silliness.

‘Yeah well I’m saying this mornings one didn’t count. I have a funny feeling you won’t be seeing Charlie the crypto king any time soon’

You felt your face flush in embarrassment but his lips on your cheek made you smile. You snuggled into him more and he moved to lay down taking you with him and after a few moments of silence you felt his breathing getting heavier so you kissed his chest and settled down next to him.

‘Wake me up in ten minutes’ you heard him say softly and you tried to hold your giggle in at his antics.

‘Sure thing Mase’ you whispered and lent back as the face you adored slowly drifted off.

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sealpup9 · 2 years

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ATTN ARTISTS-- AI LIGHTING PROGRAM (AKA CLIPDROP) IS TAKING YOUR ARTWORK

The AI Lighting website is actively taking any uploaded images and training AI to make (edit: AI Generated art. Possibly NFTS, please see edit below.). I've seen some people talking on here about how there's no harm in using Clipdrop because it's teaching them how to properly light things, but nothing about how the program takes your artwork and uses it to make AI generated artwork/NFTs up to five years after you upload stuff.

Artists: do not use services like these. Always be suspicious of sites like these.

I had major hesitation and suspicion upon seeing this as is and now theres actual proof, so....

EDIT:

Sources for the threads above: 1 2

So some people have been saying that just because the co-founder is an NFT bro doesn't necessarily mean that they are using the AI for that specific purpose and I think they're right it's just extremely scummy that they can use your art to create AI Generated images and NFTs are literally AI Generated images, so that's the train of thought that me and many other artists have been concerned about.

I personally would not want my artwork to be used to teach AI how to make artwork or improve AI generation because i personally believe there's something extremely morally incorrect about taking art from artists, feeding it into an AI, using it to generate artwork, and claiming that artwork as your own. There are threads on twitter that discuss how AI is the creator, the person using the AI is actually the client, and the client in this case is absolutely horrific--

“The reason people are getting increasingly frustrated with AI "artists" is that no, they AREN'T artists. They're nightmare clients. They tell the AI what they want, demand infinite revisions of it, and once finally satisfied, claim the work as their own. I have painted characters and weapons for clients, and while yes, the cool designs they paid me to draw are THEIR concepts, they did not paint it, and they are not calling themselves the artist who did the commission!” - @Anodesu on Twitter

Recently, an AI Generated piece won a contest worth actual money, and many of the artists who lost were rightfully upset.

Something that we need to remember is to listen to artists when they talk about how AI could very seriously take over the market due to the fact that there are so little laws in regards to it, and jobs are already being lost in fields like journalism due to the use of AI generated works.

I think we need to be thinking about these specific questions?

Should it be legal for websites like this to put sneaky things in their TOS in regards to creating AI artwork using any uploaded images?

Should it be legal for creators of AI to feed their AI works that they do not have the rights to to make their AI create artwork?

How many artistic jobs are going to be lost due to AI taking the artwork of others without paying for it, and generating artwork that people don't have to pay for?

These are questions we just don't know the answer to, and with how slow lawmakers have been in terms of privacy laws online, and how slow they've been in regards to NFTs, it's going to be a while before we really see how much this will impact artists and freelancers.

To finish this off, I’d like to post this thread in regards to how AI generated art is art theft:

In my opinion, I am fully against AI generated artwork unless the creator of the AI only feeds art that they have the rights to/permission to. That being said, I believe this kind of thing needs to be an “opt-in” sort of reasoning, meaning if you want to give your artwork to AI, then go for it. But things like Clipdrop and other image-uploading sites make very sneaky additions to their TOS that artists need to be aware of.

Edit (part 2):

I want everyone denying even the possibility of this being used for NFTs to start using your critical thinking skills for just a moment. Nothing in life is going to be black and white, and no company is required by law to say exactly what they are using their tech for. This post is a means to inform artists that their artwork can be taken and used to create AI-Generated artwork, and many artists have come out with information and concerns about this technology. Please make your own decisions, but do not call this information fearmongering, as it's simply information.

#clipdrop #ai lighting #ai artwork #nfts #nft #so yes by using this you give them permission to take your artwork #terms of service are so important #i hate that this is a thing

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machine-saint · 5 months

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i think one of the fundamental problems with the word "techbro" is that it has multiple meanings, some of which contradict each other.

the original term brogrammer referred to programmers who act in a very stereotypical masculine way, as a pejorative. the word "techbro" was sometimes used as a synonym for this. this is why the word "bro" is there, because it's a comparison to frat bros. this is also the only sense mentioned on the wikipedia page. this is also the sense i see the least usage of on tumblr; it was really more of a thing back in 2012-2013 or so.

people also use it to refer to people who are pushing the latest fad; web 3.0, blockchain shit, NFTs, LLMs, whatever. this usage does not require that the person actually knows anything about programming. some of these people genuinely believe in what they're advocating for, some of them are just hopping onto the latest money-making thing. this is the y combinator set.

a third usage is to refer to people who are very into self-hosting, and "own your hardware" type stuff and don't understand that computing is a compromise and not everyone wants to spend all their effort getting stuff to work. this is the rms type. unlike the second definition, this one requires the person to have fairly deep technical knowledge. theoretically you could have someone who doesn't know a lot about computers but is real big into this kind of stuff, but in practice that never happens.

(i'm broadly sympathetic to this type; i avoid music streaming and sync all my music using open-source software, that sort of thing. the "techbro" part, in theory, comes when they look down on others for not making the same choices. of course, the line between "you're looking down on me" and "you're arrogant for simply believing that you're right" is thin.)

in particular, sense-2 and sense-3 "techbros" have very opposite beliefs! one wants to run everything "in the cloud", the other wants to run everything locally. one wants to let chatgpt run your life, the other hates the idea of something they can't audit be that important. both tend to be very "technology will save us" types, but the way they go about that is very different. one makes very sleek-looking but extremely limited UI, the other will make ultra-customizable, ultra-functional UI that's the most hideous and hard-to-use thing you've seen in your life.

and so you can see here the problem: what can we actually say about "techbros" that's meaningful, other than "techbro is when i don't like someone who likes technology"? if a word isn't used as a self-descriptor, but only as an insult, what stops it from becoming broader and broader until it loses all usefulness?

#discourse #techbro

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reimenaashelyee · 2 months

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Hello what do you think of Ai generated artwork and videos?

I have a whole entire blog post I wrote last year btw: The Rise of the Bots; The Ascension of the Human. (Reading it again a year later I am glad I am still validated in my thoughts)

My entire being and output as an artist is rooted in process, thought, craft and connection. I am open about my process and I share/create resources constantly. I have literally experienced the thing people mean when they say 'art transforms you' just by being so close to it every step of its making. All my comics have this centrality of personhood attached to them - if it's not obvious that the artist's hand (me) is in it, there is the characteristic focus on our emotional/cultural/artistic thread across history. Just as NFTs and what they represent were antithetical to how I interact with the world as artist and audience, so is the use of so-called AI art. NFTs and AI Art share a common hype cycle / speculative mania that comes out from an annoying vulture mindset that only knows how to eat itself to fill its belly, so I don't expect it to last too long. However I don't appreciate the damage both things have done to the utility of the internet, the degradation of art as a commercial pathway and the destruction of the image as a historical/educational/legal tool. (Which is why I am becoming more underground and turning towards alternatives like the Web Revival, small presses, curated resources and in-person communities)

The technological concept around LLM (pattern recognition and matching it to a goal), especially for medicine and statistics, is not itself problematic, especially when it follows ethical and data handling regulations that have been defined. However, when people talk generative art, what we are talking about, and fighting against, is the exploitation of resources and labour, and the further disconnection of worker = labour, human = society artificially imposed by the Corporate MBA / techno class in the pursuit of infinite stockmarket growth which then introduces a type of brainrot that can only think of things as producing value in relation to how fast one can seize for themselves Westernised Ideals of Fame and Fortune. Also like, this whole AI thing is part of the degradation of entertainment (the loss of small-to-medium outlets, constant mergers, nobody owning their digital streaming products they bought, the laundering of journalism/curation into press releases), the internet (the algorithimification of everything, constant spam, search engines getting worse, the worsening of socmedia as a tool) and the intellectual rigour of all information.

It's all part of this rot that's spreading outwards.

TL;DR bro I make all my art by hand and I am a nerd about informational integrity

#everytime anons ask a question of this style I am always wondering it's genuine or...#only cos if you know my work and what I am involved in you'd clearly see that I embody my position

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max1461 · 5 months

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I’ve been thinking about this ever since watching the Folding Ideas video about the metaverse and Decentraland, there’s something that was not mentioned at all in that video that stands out to me so strikingly about these projects. Things like Decentraland want to position themselves as full digital replacements for the physical world, or at least as approaching such. But they can’t because there’s something they fundamentally lack, which is sensuality? I mean, you can’t touch anything in Decentraland, you can’t taste anything. It’s just images on a screen. The only senses that are engaged are sight and sound. But too much of human experience is in taste, touch, and smell for that to be a viable replacement.

Like, fundamentally, even if Decentraland was not total shit as a product, even if it was incredibly polished and populated with users and everything, I would never in a million years consider a Decentraland wedding in place of a real wedding. Because I’d want to kiss my partner on the fucking lips! Half of what I like to do in life is eat food, tbh, and you can’t do that at all in Decentraland.

So these projects fail to deliver on parts of the human experience so fundamental that it’s baffling to claim them as suitable replacements. And if I’m to go a little further... what do they offer instead? Well, financialization. Right, buying and selling things, plots of “land” represented by NFTs and shit; property ownership isn’t an emergent consequence of social systems in Decentraland as it is in the real world, it’s built into the physics of this alternate world. So if these projects are claiming to offer an alternative to the physical, the offer they’re basically putting out is “in place of touch, food, warmth, sex, what we think you want is... trade. Meaningless trade, trade purely for the sake of trade, because there’s nothing meaningful or worth trading for in this world anyway”. I can’t help but feel it says something about the mindset of the kind of people behind these metaverse projects, so consumed by myopic focus on the financial that they fail to realize people won’t want to spend their time in an alternate world if there’s nothing to do but buy and sell.

#navel gazing

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rickety-goose · 11 months

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remember this?

so um it’s not this post sffsg but coming soon >:3

it's like a month and a half later (i think) but it's here! this blog passed a couple milestones in the last few months and i'd like to celebrate at last with a little casual giveaway >:)

i'm still going through a weird art funk, but i'm happy to offer an experimental color portrait of your character, like these for example:

this giveaway entry period will last a month, so until June 18th (11:59 pm GMT-4, to be extra precise <3), after which i'll be drawing 3 winners. to participate, simply like this post! oh and be a follower ig sdfsd

i will contact the winners on tumblr!

and there you have it, simple and unceremonious sdfsf :> i'm really grateful to be able to share my art with you all, it truly means a lot <3 so i encourage everyone to participate! followers old and new, whether you've been here for a day or a year, i'm happy to have you around <3 good luck!

additional technical details:

1 entry per person <3 (1 like = 1 entry)

will paint: your oc, a canon character

won't paint: real people, hateful/bigoted content, anything im not comfortable with

winners will have 72 hours to answer my initial message, after which i'll draw another name

please have a simple description of your character and their vibe + 2-3 refs ready <3

the following rules apply:

• The final portrait you will receive is a digital file, no physical good will be shipped • I reserve the right to refuse to do a portrait if I'm uncomfortable with a winner's request • All art is for personal use only You may, for example: • use the portrait or a part of it for personal materials (avatar, header, etc) • make personal prints • provide it as a character reference

You may not: • use the portrait for any commercial purposes • modify the portrait or claim it as your own work • redistribute or sell copies of the portrait • make NFTs • use it to train AI of any sort

• I may display the portrait or part of it on my portfolio website and/or other social media platforms

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any other question <3 <3 <3

#hope this is readable brain kinda fried atm #but yeah LET'S CELEBRATE #>:D

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doodlebloo · 4 months

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hey! i just saw your post about tubbo leaving misfits, and i was just wondering what is so bad with them ;-; /gen. I've seen a lot of stuff saying similar things i just want to be informed!! thanks sm!!

Hello anon! I'm gonna use your ask as my lil informative post hope that's ok :]

MisfitsGG is a gaming organization that Tubbo, Aimsey, Ranboo, Seapeekay and other creators have been a part of since I believe 2021? Or early 2022. Basically that means that MisfitsGGs gives them money and they appear in YouTube videos on the Misfits channel, promote Misfits merch on their own channels, etc.

MisfitsGGs actively creates NFTs, as shown below, and defends this by saying they're "carbon-neutral" - which they actually are not, as shown in this thread.

Putting this under a readmore bc it's less important, but the way they tweet about CCs is weird. They tried to blend in as just another Stan account, posting about Ranboo and Tubbo like their fans would which just weirded me out a lot. Also they had Tubbo do a lie detector test video and asked really fucking bizarre questions like "If you got someone pregnant, would you keep the baby?" to which Tubbo was like "Firstly that wouldn't be an issue for me, secondly it isn't my choice now is it?" It was just overall weird.

^ to me this is less important bc it could just be Me being weirded out but so many things they've done have just rubbed me the wrong way and I'm happy that Tubbo has finally ditched them! :D

#asks #anon #discourse #<- tagging for ppl who are tired of hearing abt misfits lil #hating misfits was and is my Hill To Die On i hate them so bad

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ask-reject-room-64 · 18 days

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Characters!

Scribble Tom

This is clone #S64-3, unlike his original counterpart, “Scribble” as we like to call him is quite cheerful!!! His speech is a bit limited, but that doesn’t stop him from talking!!! He is the easiest to deal with, but unfortunately has the bad habit of drawing all over my nice clean walls >:(

Tomatoredd

Clone #T64-1, is an amalgamation of all 4 test subjects, and as such possess 4 different consciousnesses in one body!! How is that possible?!?? I don’t know!!!!! But that must make me a genius right!?!!!!! He prefers to be called “Tomatoredd”…. I think, when all 4 of them talk at once it can be hard to understand him sometimes. Clone #T64-2 refers to him as “Red” and tends to avoid interacting with #T64-1 whenever possible.

Torm

Clone #T64-2, is the most difficult to work with >:/, he is so rude!!!!! Originally part of a clone similar to #T64-1, but an unfortunate…. incident…. resulted in a split resulting in 2 clones!! I got two clones for the price of one!!! AREN’T I awesome?! He prefers to be called “Torm” and tends to make my life difficult!!!! SO DIFFICULT!! He keeps trying to ESCAPE!!!!!!! I NEED FREE LABOR DAMNIT!!!!

Realistic Matt

Clone #M64-4, POSSESSES A GHASTLY APPEARANCE!!!!! DO NOT REMOVE THE BAG!!!! I have no idea how he came to have such a horrid appearance despite his original DNA!! He is quite sarcastic at times and tends to be quite snarky!! Not as bad as #T64-2 though, and it seems he has more intelligence than his original counterpart!! Quite nice to chat with :) (Scribble drew the mouth on his bag)

Not Funny Tom

Clone #T64-5, the black sheep of the clones!!! HE SUCKS!!! HE DOESN’T LIKE MY MOVIES!!!!!!! He has no taste!!!! Not to mention he is a bit… creepy… He doesn’t emote much and sometimes he just stares… blankly… into the cameras….. He seems to get along well with #S64-3 though!! The others usually steer clear of him, and I don’t blame them!!!! Other clones call him “NFT” for some reason, or was it “Nerd”? I don’t remember!!! or care!!!

Bing

It tis I! Bing!!!! EVI- *cough* I mean- GENIUS DIRECTOR!! Using the power of SCIENCE and MONKEYS I have created films like no other!!!! Ask me questions!!! Ask LARRY Questions!!!! ASK MY CLONES QUESTIONS!!!!!

Larry

This is Larry, my faithful assistant!!! Despite his grumpy attitude, he is really reliable when it comes down to it!! I still wonder where he got those monkeys from?? oh well!!!!

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karatam · 1 year

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Top 5 video essays. Go!

oh this is such an interesting questions hmmmmmmmm

(my problem is that I'm an idiot who has not maintained a playlist or anything of my faves, which I'm going to do starting now lmao)

not in any particular order, though I ended up with more than 5:

Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs by Folding Ideas. Does a great job at explaining what they are and how they work, and particularly how they don't work. Talks about the toxic culture that surrounds them and now they're often just scams. I've rewatched it twice.

ROBLOX_OOF.mp3 by hbomberguy. Starts off as a light-hearted look into who made that ubiquitous sound effect. Goes right off the deep end into the teeming insanity of the liar at the centre of it all. Incredible and utterly unhinged.

Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery by Defunctland. Related to #2 in general idea, but totally different in execution. Starts off by trying to find who composed a short little jingle used by the Disney Channel. Ends up a study of being an artist and what that means. I cried.

Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History by Defunctland. A truly interesting look at the history of the management of queues at amusement parts, culminating in the FastPass, for better or worse.

The Church Play Cinematic Universe by Jenny Nicholson. Not a video essay like some others on this list, but simply one of the most entertaining 80 minutes I've ever spent. A weird church puts on incredibly elaborate plays based on existing IP by twisting every story into a christmas or easter play.

The Rise, Lies, & Demise of Jan Hendrik Schön by BobbyBroccoli. Actually a three part series about a man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize in physics.

The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob by Jon Bois. Another two-parter. This is exactly what it says on the tin. It looks at the rise and fall of the number of athletes named Bob.

Into The Omegaverse: How a Fanfic Trope Landed in Federal Court by Lindsay Ellis. Truly batshit, truly incredible. Everyone needs to watch this at least once.

The Failure of Victorious and The End of Victorious by Quinton Reviews. These are a combined 13.5 hours about a show that I only kind of watched. And yet I was fascinated.

An appropriately unhinged recap of Pretty Little Liars by Mike's Mic. Like above, a truly batshit recap of a batshit show that I didn't really watch. Honestly it's more fun when you haven't seen it, because every new plot point is like being hit in the head by a baseball bat.

I Debunked the Entire Manosphere by munecat. A terrifying but funny examination of that part of the internet that I've been trying very hard to avoid.

The Making of Horizon Zero Dawn by noclip. One of my favourite games and a very interesting look at the process of bringing a video game from pitch to end product.

#ask #Anonymous #video essays

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gayvampyr · 1 year

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i don’t want to hear “both sides” of the AI art debate when the vast majority of its creators don’t explicitly credit or pay the artists for their work being used to train it with their informed consent, nor do i want to hear both sides when this stolen art is “minted as original” (on part of people who call themselves artists for merely plugging in keywords into a prompt function to spit out a mishmash of other actual artists’ work) and sold as NFTs to crypto enthusiasts who don’t care if their techbro mindset drives the economy and the environment into to the ground.

AI betrays the nature of human creation. it commodifies it while simultaneously devaluing it and depriving artists of their livelihood. i don’t say this to enforce a strict dichotomy between the existence of AI art and its abolition, but until it’s been properly regulated and its mere presence doesn’t hurt artists, continuing to support AI “artists” and calling its victims “gatekeepers” or any variation that essentially means “i don’t care about your problems because admitting they are real and are caused by something i like would mean that i have to make adjustments to my behavior and beliefs and i can’t be bothered to burst my bubble of easy, blissful ignorance” does in fact make you the bad guy.

#ai art #text post

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treasure-mimic · 9 months

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Despite the fact that NFTs have completely crashed and thus have become uncool to talk about, you can see a lot of the same ideology in where these web3 hype creators have moved to next. They’ve changed the language, but the desired outcome is the same.

I don’t want to paint all AI optimists with the same brush because the technology has potential for certain, specific things, but when people talk about using AI as a tool for creation, as something that can replace the function of artists and creators, it comes from the same hypercapitalist want to commodify, own, and consume.

It’s a confusing position to look at from the perspective of the creator, an AI does not create with intent or purpose, it cannot comprehend things like, themes, motifs, color schemes, metaphorical imagery. When someone says you can use AI to expand the Mona Lisa to see more of the background, a creator finds the concept baffling, that’s not the actual background of the Mona Lisa, it’s just a computer code generating pixels that make sense to sit next to the pixels beside it. But from the perspective of those excited by this prospect, the appeal is that there’s more of the Mona Lisa to own.

This is, ultimately, for the purpose of profit. If the Mona Lisa is bigger, if it has more art in it, then it is surely worth more. But, beyond that, I think these people just love to be a part of this system, whether they’re on top of it or not. They want to consume so wholeheartedly that they don’t really care about the product being consumed, just that the technology allows for more avenues of consumption. If Star Wars releases 20 new canon novels generated by AI, then they will buy these novels and treat the text as authoritative, because spending money on it, consuming the material, signifies the want to consume to other consumers and signifies their priorities through consumption. Star Wars is important to me, you can tell because I own all these books and know what they say. AI generation, automated content creation, allows for the culmination of a dream of regular, standardized consumption without needing to worry about things like authorial intent, the working conditions of creators, or conflicting views over what the content should mean.

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little-red-fool · 2 months

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OMG YOU'RE SEVENTEEN?? (I've been following you for months and I didn't once read the pinned message beyond the line about no AI and NFTs lmao) YOUR ART IS SO CRISPY I THOUGHT YOU WERE A PRO ARTIST AROUND 30 WTF

(sorry for the yelling via text)

HOW DID YOU GET SO GOOD!! (Tips on lineart please?) WE'RE THE SAME AGE, BUT HALF OF MY ART IS SHIT AND THE OTHER HALF IS FART

ALL HAIL LITTLE RED FOOL, BESTOW THY GREATNESS UPON THOU MERE MORTAL SERVANTS

But in all seriousness, any tips on, like I said, lineart or just digital art in general? (I just started digital, and... Ten hours of work and I'm just on base colors 😎🕶️🤏🥲) I love, LOVE your style and especially COLOR! How do you tie it all together? Like, I'm 17 too, but I'm not even close to your stuff?? I'm scared as fuck from ever trying color traditionally because I spend SO MUCH TIME ON A SKETCH, so I just picked up digital and HOURS LATER IT'S STILL AWFUL

Sorry for the rambling and repeating, man, it's been a long day and it's late in the Balkans... Don't let the rambling force you into answering tho

Have a good one. ->excited fellow artist

(tip of the day: did you know that in Romanian, moon and month are the same word, with the same pronunciation, spelling and plural? It's called: lună [loonuh] and I think it comes from latin, since Romanian is a heavily latin language, with bits of french and turkish (HEAVY bits), dacian, slavic, italian)

OUAHFSHD THANK YOU SO MUCH I’M REALLY HAPPY YOU LIKE MY ART!! Also I’m sure your art is better than you think it is (we generally tend to view our own creations as worse than others because we’re the ones that made them, don’t worry I’m the same as well ajdbsjd) but yeah I’ll be happy to give you some tips and stuff! (and yeah I never colour traditionally either I just leave everything in plain biro because I don’t want to mess it up lol)

(I haven’t seen your art so these will probably be more general tips but hopefully they’ll help a bit, also keep in mind that I’m not a professional so this will be more about what has worked for me but I hope it might help you a bit)

So for stuff like lineart, avoid using chicken-scratches—it might seem easier or less daunting to do shorter overlapping lines like that but it will give your sketches and drawings that overall fuzzy look, the trick is to have longer confident strokes. It might seem a bit tricky at first if you haven’t done it before so don’t worry it happens but if you keep practicing they’ll eventually look smoother and less shaky. For the longer lines it better to draw from either your elbow or shoulder, and by that I mean keeping your wrist still and letting the larger parts of your arm do most of the work—this will also help your wrist in the long run. For things like shorter lines and smaller details then absolutely use your hand to move the pen, but generally try to use your elbow and shoulder as it will help you get those longer smoother lines. Also this is just a personal preference of mine but I generally use brushes that have a bit of pressure sensitivity which helps add some line weight. If you don’t have pressure sensitivity another way you can get line weight is by taking an eraser to some of the edges and narrowing some parts.

For colours it mainly depends on the lighting—lighting is everything and will affect how the rest of the colours will look, so it’s important to have an idea of the brightness and colour of your lighting. The background also plays an important role in picking colours for me as well as it helps provide colour context and makes it easier to pick colours by eye if you want a certain mood. If you want a more dependable way on getting colours to match up then I’d recommend having a layer that’s just colour on top of the rest of your piece—you can play around with the blending modes and opacity, I mainly use either an overlay layer with a medium colour that’s slightly desaturated or a colour burn layer with a light saturated colour; most of the time I use colour burn because if you put it over your lineart then it will also tint the parts of your lineart or sketch that’s at a lower opacity too. But with figuring out colours I’d highly recommend researching some stuff about colour theory, there are a lot of good and easy to understand explanations and art tutorials on YouTube so I would recommend starting there (unfortunately I can’t link recommend specific videos because my playlists are a mess ajdbsjdbsj but some good channels to learn from are Sinix Design, Marc Brunet and Marco Bucci).

In terms of general digital art tips, ALWAYS FLIP YOUR CANVAS. You will not believe the amount of times I’ve looked at a drawing and thought it looked pretty good, flipped the canvas and found that everything’s wonky. In cases like these the liquify tool is your best friend, as well as the lasso tool and transform tools, as well as just manually fixing them by redrawing some parts. Also use as many layers as you need, and by this I mean if you’re working on your sketch, lineart or colouring or whatever and you want to do something you’re not sure you’ll like, duplicate the layers so you have a backup in case it goes wrong and you want to go back. When I say use as many layers as you need I mean use as many as you need, these are some of mine and they’re all from just one sketch because I get really anxious about messing stuff up lol, also don’t be afraid of drawing separate parts on separate layers and merging them afterwards if you want.

Also take your time, unless you have a deadline don’t feel like you have to complete a drawing within a certain timeframe, if you want to get faster at drawing then that’s great but don’t feel like you need to push yourself, especially if you’re just starting. Practice takes time and patience is your best friend, and you probably hear lots of other artists saying this but trust the process. You might get to a bit you’re struggling with and not like it and want to abandon the drawing, but I found that rather than saying “this is bad” or “this is wrong” start asking “how can I make this work” because a change in mindset can help you a lot with art. Also don’t feel like you have to reach certain milestones with your art by certain points either, like with the age thing and comparing your progress with other artists of either the same or different ages, because it can make you feel worse about your art. Trust me there are some artists younger than me who are like 14 or 15 who’s art I envy and—again with the mindset thing—instead of getting down that your art isn’t similar to their’s or worrying that you’re “behind” in your artistic development (there is no such thing btw everyone learns at different ages and speeds so don’t feel bad if you haven’t progressed as much as you would have liked to) it helps to ask what you like about their art and what you would like to incorporate into your own—this has helped me learn and improve a lot faster.

I don’t know if I have any more tips at the moment, but I hope that answered some of your questions! (also sorry it’s a bit long or some bits don’t make a lot of sense I like to ramble a bit lol) (also also thank you for the little fact as well!)

Have a nice day anon 🧡

#asks #art tips

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judasgot-it · 10 months

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Will update as I upload, although probably won't be consistent but this is my official masterlist...

Link to my AO3 here

Link to my Wattpad here

RULES <-

Hunting Dogs

When they want you in their lap (Jouno, Tecchou, Tachihara)

Playing Minecraft with them

Scent headcanons

Married life

Taking care of them during their monthly surgeries (Jouno, Tecchou, Tachihara)

Tecchou

Mean girl (ft. Jouno)

Happy birthday

Helping you with your cramps

Slow dancing with him

Carries wife! reader around at a party

Grocery store date

Helping you with insomnia (ft. Jouno)

Comforting barista!reader after a bad day

Songs he'd dedicate to you (ft. Jouno)

Baby talking him

What kind of lover is he? (Ft. Dazai, Nikolai)

Describing who you like to your BF

Tecchou with an s/o who was a strong sense of justice like him

Falling asleep on him

S/o has anxiety (ft. Dazai, Fyodor)

Falling asleep on his lap

Taking care of Tecchou after a mission

When their s/o wears flavored lipstick

Tecchou calling his partner his spouse

Taking care of you after being injured (ft. chuuya)

Soft headcanons

Vomiting on his shoes after eating one of his food combos

Jouno

Mean girl (ft. Tecchou)

Dad Headcanons

Helping you with insomnia (ft. Tecchou)

Calling him to tell him happy birthday

Songs he'd dedicate to you (ft. Tecchou)

Taking care of you when you're sick

Drinking morning coffee with him

He gives you a tampon

Tachihara

Carnival ride with Tachihara

ADA

Scent headcanons

Reader takes care of Kenji like their own child

Dazai

Last date before he gets arrested

Ex! Dazai asking to be taken back

Confessing to him

What kind of lover is he? (Ft. Tecchou, Nikolai)

Reader who is like Lisa Row (angst)

Confessing to Kunikida pt.2

Confessing to Kunikida pt.1

Argument with Dazai pt.2

Argument with Dazai pt.1

Dazai gets rejected by reader

S/o has anxiety (ft. Tecchou, Fyodor)

Reader has the ability to make people forget that they exist

Reader blames them after getting into an argument (ft. Chuuya, Fyodor)

Kunikida

Confessing to Kunikida pt.2

Confessing to Kunikida pt.1

Yosano

Being romantic with Yosano (fem! reader)

Drinking morning coffee with her

Ranpo

Getting into an argument with him

Reader has the ability to make people forget that they exist

Special Abilities Division

Ango

Comforting Ango after a long day at work

DOA

Scent headcannons

Fyodor

It's love, that's it Part 2

S/o has anxiety (ft. Dazai, Tecchou)

Reader blames them after getting into an argument (ft. Dazai, chuuya)

Nikolai

What kind of lover is he? (Ft. Tecchou, Dazai)

Drinking morning coffee with him (sort of)

Sigma

What kind of lover is he? (Ft. Mushitaro)

Mushitaro

What kind of lover is he? (Ft. Sigma)

Port Mafia

Scent Headcannons

Chuuya

What type of lover is he?

Reader blames them after getting into an argument (ft. Dazai, Fyodor)

Taking care of you after being injured (ft. Tecchou)

The Guild

Edgar Allan Poe

Scent headcanons

Margaret

Drinking morning coffee with her

Bsd men when their GF queefs

Bsd men who could/nt handle a long-term long-distance low-commitment casual girlfriend

Most likely to show their dick on a live stream (twitch streamer AU)

Viagra

Leftovers

most to least likely to sell you crypto/NFTs

Jujutsu Kaisen

Gojo

Sugardaddy!Gojo kicks you out of his apartment after he reunites with his BF Geto

Nanami

Stalking Nanami in an attempt to make him your sugar daddy (yeah idk)

Magic and Muscles

Kaldo Gehenna

Can I kiss you?

There was only one bed

Pregnancy Cravings

Orter Madl

There was only one bed

#guys i went through every post of mine i know these are mostly short but i wrote a lot these past few months #and why was my first post about mushitaro selling me bitcoin #bsd x reader #bungo stray dogs x reader #this is for the perosn who wanted it #its ALL there now #even the viagra post #you can now see EVERYTHING #if you're noticing i may or may not love tecchou #and bully the shit out of dazai

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blo0st4r · 3 months

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Welcome to this

Blooposter Blog. X3

(By: @sweetpeauserboxes)

↑My bio is in my blog’s description↑

I’m always scavenging the internet for Foster’s Home, smiling critters stuff, etc.

Here are some of my Interests:

(bold letters mean mostly)

• Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends

• Smiling Critters

• Sanrio

• The Amazing Digital Circus

• Cartoon Network

• Object Shows

• Bluey

• Kidcore, Cartooncore, Cutecore, Scenecore, Circuscore, Clowncore

• silly things. hahahahaha

• any cartoon

• art! (Yall know I’m an artist.)

Here are some tips and rules before reading my posts

• This is a safe, Sfw blog, so No Nsfw, No shipping underage characters and also, NO PROSHIPPING, NO ZOOPHILES. DNI IF YOU ARE PART OF NSFW ART AND STUFF.

(examples of proshipping:

Mac x Frankie (MAC’S ONLY 8)

Bloo x Frankie (BLOO’S ONLY 5) (and shipping a pet/imaginary friend with a human would be weird.)

proshipping is bad for you. So don’t proship!)

• IF YOU’RE A BOT, DNI.

• PLEASE DONT BE RUDE TO ANYTHING I REPOST IF I'M STATING AN OPINION, IM JUST STATING MY OPINION, IF YOU ARE RUDE TO IT, I'LL INSTANTLY BLOCK YOU. (cuz u hurt mah feelings, and I have no other choice but to do that.)

• fanart of my characters may be allowed, with credit.

• DONT REPOST MY ART. Unless u ask me. :]

• don’t be rude, don’t haul my inbox, no trolling on my posts

• No spam asks, I might even have to close my asks if this keeps happening.

• DONT FOLLOW ME TO PROMOTE A BLOG FOR TECHNOLOGY OR ANY TYPE OF BUSINESS THAT INVOLVES SOMETHING I DONT LIKE, IF YOU DO, I MIGHT BLOCK YOU.

• no innapropiate asks.

• no innapropiate art requests

• no weird promotion ad asks. (I don’t sponsor things.)

• Don’t steal my art and make them NFTs. I HATE NFTs.

• Tracing on fanart is part of stealing my art style and I wouldn’t allow it.

• I have an absolute hatred of the UTTP, so if you’re a part of it, DNI.

• the only type of sfw I don’t like (kinda) is tickling. It’s my least favorite type of sfw. Cuz It kinda weird to me. I know some are good but mostly I find the art kind of weird. And makes me uncomfortable. Eeeghhh… (Pls don’t kill me. I’m stating my opinion.)

• I absolutely hate fetishes. ( :] )

• DNI IF YOU’RE ONE OF THESE PEOPLE WHO DO THESE TYPE OF WEIRD THINGS

• also, I can’t donate. So yeah. JUST TELLING YA IM SORRY.

• Also, I DONT OWN BLOO. He belongs to Craig McCracken. I just made this blog to appreciate the little chaotic gremlin blob guy. :]

• HAVE FUNNNNNN!!!! X33333