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[casualcannibalisms]

how does source filmmaker work

[mewsmagic]

Here's a lil comic strip about how you can protect your art before sharing it to the public!!!

Against AI and against art theft too!

Click on 'read more' to see the extra tip I mentioned at the end!

Geez been working on this since the Meta AI things blew up but I only finished just now!!

Here's the extra tip I mentioned at the end:

you can use http://haveibeentrained.com to search for your images and find out if your work has been used for AI.

In there, you can choose to opt out, but AI companies are not obligated to respect it so it isn't too much of a protection unfortunately 😭

Also be aware that they are associated with AI and they did try to badmouth glaze so artists wouldn't protect themselves; which's very bad for a company that allegedly are on the side of the artists.

Also!!! There's a new type of AI that I was just made aware of last week, Copainter.

It completes unfinished work, which can be used for 'stealing and claiming it theirs', so put a cat picture in the next wips you post as well!

Funny protective measure I know LOLLLL but here's the tests for yall cynical people:

Perhaps I'll complete this comic with this info one day, but just these 10 slides took a looot of work so probably not happening anytime soon 😭

Thank you for reading everything though, I really appreciate it and hope this will help 🫶 be careful out there, privacy issues have been crazy recently!!!

[sunlit-mess]

I really really love your art!!

How did you learn to draw so well? Did you take any specific classes or watch any tutorials?

Do you use a mouse or a touchpad?

What hand postion do you use? Every time I try to draw my hand aches :(

Sorry for the all the questions, I just really love your art style

I've been drawing since I was a kid so majority of it i just self-taught and learn by experience. Influenced mostly by video games and outlet for emotions/thoughts. I used to draw with only a mouse and a shitty old computer (I loved it anyway), the same way you just browse and stuff, except you have to control your own hand's stability.

I was drawing with a mouse for years and it does tend to give me wrist and elbow pain, however, this is why it's important to rest, stretch, and exercise it to avoid carpal tunnel and other major problems.

Nowadays, even with a pen and tablet, I control both movements from shoulders and wrist depending on what I'm doing, using the whole arm for movement. I always have stabilizers set to ZERO, but that's because I've grown used to it and comfortably a long time ago.

[saephrond]

Tham Send, the Hall of Rest

[dayundying]

Poets LOOOVE standing in front of their own emblems. They're pretentious like that!

[rad-roche]

Pulp Covers And How To Paint Them

With the rise of cheap printing in the early twentieth century, mass-marked paperbacks swept the world, each offering lurid thrills for obscenely low prices. Sex, sadism, and incredible violence for as little as ten cents. An easy purchase to slot in between fifty cigarettes a day and enough bourbon slugs to kill a small garden.

Pulp fiction is where some of the greats of American literature cut their teeth, including the big three, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald and Dashiell Hammett. The contents of these stories, both the dizzyingly good and astoundingly terrible, have been absorbed and digested and remixed and regurgitated in nearly every permutation imaginable, fuelling pop culture some one hundred years on. This isn't an essay on that. Nobody likes to open a tutorial and be greeted with a wall of text. The history is for another time.

But it is about how to paint it.

Don't let the pre-amble intimidate you, it's not as hard as it sounds. You will need:

Painting software with some image editing capabilities. You don't need all the bells and whistles of Photoshop, but I wouldn't recommend something like MSPaint, at least not to start with. I'm using Clip Studio Paint.

A really beat-up paper texture. The grungier, the better.

A lightly-textured brush. Here are the specific brushes I use, 99% of which is the well-named rough brush. Try and avoid anything with any impasto elements.

Go to your colour-picking tool and use the 'select from layer' option. Doing all the painting on a single layer is going to make your life easier.

A complete willingness to make mistakes and, instead of erasing, painting over them. It generates much more colour variation and interest! Keep your finger off the E key.

Good reference! That painting is a master copy of Mitchel Hooks' art for Day of the Ram. Find a style you really love and want to learn? Have no clue where to begin? Do direct studies!

Let's not worry about whatever is happening in the background. It's probably fine. Let's get started! Pulp magazine art is a lot more varied than you might first think, so don't agonize over having a style that 'fits' or not. I'm also specifically aiming for something you'd see on the cover after printing, not the initial painting they would use for printing. The stuff I'll show here is a pretty narrow band of it, but here are some general commonalities. This is a painting by Tom Lovell.

Let's dig into this.

The colours are very bright and saturated, but the actual values, the relative lightness and darkness of them, are actually grouped very simply! You can check this by filling a layer full of black, putting it on top and setting its mode to colour. If the value of a painting looks good, you actually get a lot of leeway with colour. But here's what I think is the most important thing to keep in mind.

The darks aren't that dark, and the lights aren't all that light! Covers are paintings reproduced on cheap paper. Anything you wouldn't want to happen in the printing process, you lean into. Value wash-outs, lower contrast, colours getting a weird wash to them, really gritty texturing. So let's get painting! Here's my typical setup.

That bottom folder is the painting itself. The screen layer is the grungy paper texture. To get the effect you want, put it down, invert its colour, then set it to screen. That washes out your painting far, far too much, so to compensate, I put a contrast layer up on top. Fiddle around with the settings, but this is where mine ended up sitting.

Note I'm saying this before even starting the painting: you want to do this as early as possible. This is where the 'select from layer' colour picker comes in handy. You can paint without worrying about the screen or contrast layer. Something not looking right? Enable your value check layer and keep painting. When you turn it off, it'll still be in colour. Here's a timelapse so you can see what that looks like.

And when you check the values...

They're pretty simple! This isn't a be all and end all, but I hope it serves as a decent primer. I want thirty dames on my desk by Monday!

[captainkirkk]

If you don't already have a sewing machine I'd recommend instead of getting a new one to go get a 20+ year old used machine and taking it to a sewing machine repair shop for a tune up. And check out Evelyn Wood on YouTube. She's got a lot of video teaching the assumed knowledge when you start out

This is sweet advise but I originally tried to learn sewing several years ago on my mum's old sewing machine that's almost as old as I am and it almost broke it

[kidhellion]

its a canon fact that nikki is bad at sex. someone is leaving with a chipped tooth and a bloody nose guaranteed

[leatherbookmark]

log 117 : (￣へ￣)(❁´Ɛ`❁)🤳🏼

[gertritude-art]

what's "draw an owl"

I'm referencing this joke image that's been passed around for a decade or so. People tend to use it as a response to unhelpful tutorials.

[weaverofink]

Another Clara portrait bc I'm kind of obsessed w my new design for her :) everybody better watch out, she's busting out the Irritated Face

[musingmanor]

Welcome to "Intro to Graphic Design: Making Movie Posters" with instructor

In this virtual class, we'll dive into the exciting world of movie poster design. Whether you're a fan eager to craft a poster for your favorite franchise or a creative screenwriter seeking mockup ideas, you’re in the right place.

We'll cover the fundamentals of graphic design, exploring both what to do and what to avoid. You'll gain hands-on experience and develop skills to create stunning projects that might just end up on the big screen someday.

This session includes 4 weeks of classes from 12 noon to 3 p.m., providing twelve hours of design classes, starting on Friday, September 20 through Friday, October 11.

Get ready to unleash your creativity and learn how to make movie posters that captivate and inspire!

[hansatorium]

the transmasc experience of locking yourself in the bathroom to try out your first new binder and getting hit by a wave of happiness and euphoria that is then immediately turning to panic because oh my god I can't get out wait ow my fucking arm oh no oh no what the fuck wait how do I, what, I'm stuck, I'm stuck, I'M STU

[dopepastahumanoidathlete]

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