had to get this out of my head, hope it helps someone!

while this is mostly about facts, there are a lot of opinions in this tutorial (namely my distrust on several brands marketing strategies, and my opinion that’s better to start with cheap student quality stuff. LOTS of people disagree on that point) as well that you should take as what they are: personal opinions.

here is slightly more readable than on tumblr

this is the result of several years of research on creating a cheap but high quality palette that would help me.

other things to be aware of: pigments are generally more resistant in oil and acrylics than they are in watercolor. but there are a couple of pigments that work well in watercolor but really badly in oil.

resources pigments through the ages a comprehensive guide to watercolor pigments and a lot of tests on popular brands about van gogh’s bedroom Blue and Yellow don’t make green by Michael Wilcox

Very good infographic!

I would like to add the Daniel Smith brand to that tiny chart in the third image. They can be a little hard to find save ordering them from Daniel Smith, but they have a lot of really unusual and unique pigments in their artist quality watercolor collection, including interference paints and other cool shit. These are what I use, save a few W&N Cotman colors I haven’t replaced yet.

Wow, wish I had this back in my painting classes at school.  They just kind of told us “get paint” and we said “ok”.

Old, but useful post to remind me…

*sees tons of fanart of newly announced Pokemon*

*promptly draws old made-up Pokemon from years ago instead*

*nails the name puns*

Hey I’m doing a 2019 sketchdump on my Twitter too, but I’ll just reblog this one.  Never thought it would take off so hard.  I did these before Sinistea/Polteageist were even announced, I swear.

Now seems like a great time to re share these with Poltchageist/Sinistcha inevitably stealing my idea

Old Flames 3

Happy Valentine’s, y’all

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Happy Valentine’s, y’all

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Happy Valentine’s, y’all

The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI

American friends! The US Copyright Office (which we know exerts huuuge influence in how these things are treated elsewhere) wants to hear opinions on copyright and AI.

"The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues beginning August 30th as the agency figures out how to approach the subject."

We can assume that the opposing side will definitely be using all of their lobbying power towards widespread AI use, so this is a very good chance to let them know your thoughts on AI and how art and creative content of all kinds should be protected.

One of the things they’re asking for comment on is the use of copyrighted works to train AI.  The Copyright Office really will read what you write.  If lots of people write in that they oppose allowing generative AI to train on copyrighted works, that could encourage the Copyright Office to also find that using copyrighted works to train AI engines should not be allowed.  Courts routinely look at Copyright Office publications while interpreting the Copyright Act, so this is an opportunity to actually have a say in the issue. 

You might be wondering how you should express that letting AI train on people’s copyrighted works is bad in a way that the Copyright Office will take seriously.  The simple answer is: Be polite and be honest.  If you’ve been a victim, you can share how you felt when you discovered your work had been used to train AI without your permission.  If you think authors and artists deserve not to have their work used without their permission, you can say that.  Be truthful.  Don’t present something as a fact if it is not.  Avoid hyperbole, inflammatory accusations, and foul language.  It is okay to say you are upset, concerned, and/or hurt, but do it without calling someone else a “fucker.” 

If you have no idea what to say, but want to comment, I've got some suggestions on how to write a comment under the cut.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! Please take a moment out of your day, on behalf of all authors, artists, and terrible bosses looking to replace human creativity with ultra-cheap good-enough alternatives to comment. And I don't generally ask for reblogs, but yeah. Do that too. But the most important part is commenting. Doesn't have to be perfect, just copy and paste from above if you want to, or write a heartfelt two-sentence "artists and writers should give consent and receive compensation to be included in a training set, and images and writing resulting from AI should not be eligible for copyright without significant further human manipulation/improvement of the generated image." Which is my own current stance on this issue.

I've seen two links floating on the reblogs for where to comment officially at, which is confusing

At regulations.gov: here

At the copyright office: here

BOTH OF THESE ULTIMATELY LINK TO THE SAME COMMENT FORM (on regulations.gov), so just to preemptively clear up that confusion, follow either link they're both fine

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This comic wont' pass the bechdel test anytime soon

*I JUST noticed the New Post Format is here to stay and it will no longer let me switch back to Legacy. For now, until I figure out a new template or how to fiddle with the current one's code, the pages will be displayed a bit smaller, looks like...

I managed to update again!

RE: last post…

so in the story Dorrance just kinda…dies.  But I wondered what if he was turned completely, into a not-dead-free-magic kind of demon servant of the Hrule creature?  Just for funsies.  

…I mostly wanted to make a sugar skull monster…

Really should’ve reblogged this on Dia de los Muertos...happy thanksgiving?