there are sunnier days ahead (probably)

The Professional | Vactics Character Splash Art

The Showboat | Vactics Character Splash Art

Canvas 350x350

The Tech Sage | Character splash art for the game Vactics.

350x350 Canvas

shulkie

Red Abyss

spheal stack (:3)

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow MTG PIxel Art Alter

Colours: 16, Resolution: 272x370

2022 was a busy year.

I moved countries, travelled to South Korea, and got married. Making up for lost time between 2020-2021 😅

I also did some pixel art and cross-stitching, lol!

Thank you for joining or sticking with me through this year 💜 AND got featured on the radar today 💚 thank you, thank you!

can you imagine how cool a doctor strange RPG for the GBA would’ve been?

Borzoi

Another one of my MTG pixel art alters.

Resolution: 272x370

12-16 Colours

Another sneak peak for my upcoming webcomic.

This is Rose, she is a hopeless sapphic romantic, but she can be a bit thorny to those she doesn't like.

Bird #02

Death Scene for the game Vactics