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mesherew · 2 hours

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small preview of what im working on, I liked how the lines turned out

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #dark urge #bg3 dark urge #durge #tiefling #nadjil aran #dnd:nadjil #my art #mesherew

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mesherew · 5 days

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I've had this sketch sitting in my wip folder for months now so i slapped on some colors real quick

#i'll be back on my dnd bullshit asap #i've been trying some new scale pattern designs for him in another wip #but tbh he's grown so much in his dnd verse that i feel disconnected to the ffxiv version now #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #nadjil aran #ffxiv:nadjil aran #au ra #ffxiv au ra #my art #mesherew

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mesherew · 6 days

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50+ hours of my durge run to reach end of act 2 and realise that Shadowheart's romance never triggered he dumped all of the other companions for you babe

#my durge will remain an incel lmao #tbh thats karma for fucking around during all act 1 i guess #IF DURGETASH WAS A THING THO #i wouldnt be mad #bg3 #tbd #i could always reload a few hours back and stay with laezel maybe

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mesherew · 6 days

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Source: Dorohedoro MUD AND SLUDGE Artbook

by Q Hayashida

Link to the full Artbook

#peak artstyle #i love hayashida so much #dorohedoro #inspiration

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mesherew · 14 days

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i am so fucking ready

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #female hrothgar #hrothgar #im gonna miss my viera so bad but guys #GUYS #im re-entering my khajiit era

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mesherew · 19 days

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🩸Blood of Mephistopheles🩸

#handsome fella #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #other people's ocs

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mesherew · 23 days

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i promise im not dead it's just that the stardew valley update happened

#i wanted to draw too but i strained my back lmao #i'll be back eventually i promise #hope you all are well and good #tbd

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mesherew · 1 month

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Fear

My headcanon is that Johnny had dogs, but after that one mission, he moved them to his parents' house

#my precious boy #very pretty #john soap mactavish #cod mw2 #call of duty #i love the colors here the mood is perfect

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mesherew · 2 months

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little redraw of a screenshot i liked :>

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #dark urge #durge #tiefling #nadjil aran #dnd:nadjil #my art #mesherew #remember when i used to always draw dynamic poses?#yeah me neither #im in the mood for boring portraits now

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mesherew · 2 months

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Finished commission of Garrus for @amatusendura! 🥰💖✨

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*And as requested by the very VERY generous commissioner, this piece is also available to purchase for the public on my inprnt! Space Boyfriend Garrus 💖💕✨

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/robogart/space-boyfriend-garrus/

#space husband #💜💜#mass effect #garrus vakarian

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mesherew · 2 months

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Some positivity in these turbulent AI times

*This does not minimize the crisis at hand, but is aimed at easing any anxieties.

With every social media selling our data to AI companies now, there is very little way to avoid being scraped. The sad thing is many of us still NEED social media to advertise ourselves and get seen by clients. I can't help but feeling that we as artists are not at risk of losing our livelihoods, here is why:

Just because your data is available does not mean that AI companies will/want to use it. Your work may never end up being scraped at all.

The possibility of someone who uses AI art prompts can replace you (if your work is scraped) is very unlikely. Art Directors and clients HAVE to work with people, the person using AI art cannot back up what a machine made. Their final product for a client will never be substantial since AI prompts cannot be consistent with use and edits requested will be impossible.

AI creators will NEVER be able to make a move unless us artists make a move first. They will always be behind in the industry.

AI creators lack the fundamental skills of art and therefore cannot detect when something looks off in a composition. Many professional artists like me get hired repeatedly for a reason! WE as artists know what we're doing.

The art community is close-knit and can fund itself. Look at furry commissions, Patreon, art conventions, Hollywood. Real art will always be able to make money and find an audience because it's how we communicate as a species.

AI creators lack the passion and ambition to make a career out of AI prompts. Not that they couldn't start drawing at any time, but these tend to be the people who don't enjoy creating art to begin with.

There is no story or personal experience that can be shared about AI prompts so paying customers will lose interest quickly.

Art is needed to help advance society along, history says so. To do that, companies will need to hire artists (music, architecture, photography, design, etc). The best way for us artists to keep fighting for our voice to be heard right now is staying visible. Do not hide or give in! That is what they want. Continue posting online and/or in person and sharing your art with the world. It takes a community and we need you!

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mesherew · 2 months

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I've lived through a few apocalypses on Tumblr already but I'm letting you know that the latest news have left me perplexed, even though I don't plan to leave this site yet (at least for now). My whole archive is here and I'm too lazy to move it to another site, also I've met such lovely people here that I don't wanna give up on.

That doesn't mean I'm not looking for another platform to try and post my art here. I've been meaning to take a look into cohost for example. If you guys have suggestions I'd love to hear it.

I know the current climate can be very discouraging but I wanted to remind you that the will to create will always overpower whatever capitalist dystopia they're trying to push onto us. Posting art online was always risky (reposting, stealing, reselling art) but tbh pros always out balanced the cons in my personal experience. Keep doing what you love, keep connecting with people and communities who matter to you.

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mesherew · 2 months

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how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes

(...and you don't want to join 20 new websites)

First, get an RSS reader*:

Desktop: Feedbro (browser extension), QuiteRSS, Raven Reader

Android: Feeder

iOS/Mac: NetNewsWire

You'll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its "feed URL"-- often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓-- and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.

Some feed URLs for social media:

Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using "Download a user's friends list" on Tweetbeaver)

Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog's "my art" tag (as an example)

Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)

Mastodon: Use instance.url/@username.rss

Deviantart: Info here

Spacehey: Info here

Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id="

Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn't have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it's not so simple to generate a feed URL.

Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.

(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere...)

Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don't have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).

*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file.

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mesherew · 2 months

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he's uuuh... practicing his teambuilding skills

#some thumbnails i had prepared for v day #but im not satisfied with them eeeh #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #dark urge #durge #lae'zel #im not tagging the out of frame characters #but kudos if you guess who i had in mind for the first pic #tiefling #nadjil aran #dnd:nadjil #my art #mesherew #the bodycount keeps going up

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mesherew · 3 months

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all is ash and meat

#dark urge #bg3 #prettyyyy #other people's ocs

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mesherew · 3 months

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I can't stop staring at it he looks so beautiful in your style 💜

Thank you so so much for your amazing work !

Haldrath for @mesherew !

#linzego #commission #dnd:haldrath

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mesherew · 3 months

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Hey, not a question. I saw your durge OC come across my dash and openly gasped at how awesomely detailed he looks. You draw eyes and horns beautifully, and my friend who saw him over my shower gushed about their armor. Fucking amazing artwork, hope your having a good day!

aaaaah thank you so much 😭💜

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