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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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#blessed boop day to all who celebrate

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sadbuddies

pssssst stickers available now

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It was Fauna's birthday yesterday and I was already drawing my girl this week :>

I'm playing acnh a lot these days, it's been a bless :)

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The bravest smol baby, Gregoria

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I saw a post of Princess Peach Showtime and thought of drawing her wearing a vintage striped dress and my bf got really excited about it so here she is! :) Happy #Mar10Day I'm glad I made it in time /o/

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Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

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re: AI scraping etc.

The Bad Thing is not the scraping itself—that's already been happening. That's functionally unpreventable for anything posted publicly to the internet. If other people can view it then a bot can view it. The fact that the bot's eyes work differently can be to some degree weaponised, but the bottom line is that anything you show people can be seen by anything else that's capable of seeing, and replicated by anything capable of remembering it. Computers are v. good at this replication so they can do it more efficiently than if you put up a painting in a gallery and someone came in and painstakingly copied it, but that's it. It's not good but it's also not preventable within the constraints of the problem.

The thing you SHOULD be mad about is any company trying to sell, effectively, a licence for content they do not hold the copyright for. Yes yes it's in the TOS. Standard terms of service for websites that display user-submitted content notoriously overstep the claims they can actually make to your work. The idea of the "we can do whatever we want" clauses—which are ubiquitous—is that you can't then sue them for literally displaying the content, which they do not otherwise have a right to do. You're licencing the work to them as a condition of use. Trying to flip that into effectively sub-licencing content they do not by any possible means own is the part you should be furious about. They're selling shit you own from under you.

I am not the most massive fan of the concept of intellectual property but as the law stands you do fucking own anything you write or draw. Even shitposts. Even messages to your friends. You'd be livid if someone tried to sell your hoard of used envelopes, right? You might not have valued them especially highly but they're yours to use or discard as you please, and they're definitely not, say, your landlord's?

That's the problem with tumblr trying to flog your "data" to Midjourney. It's your landlord selling your used envelopes.

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"Don't be such a cry baby about tumblr selling your art to ai. It already happened so lol xD nothing you can do about it and every website does it nowadays :)"

like. Idk how to tell you this, but corporations stealing your art without even telling you prior isn't a "oh well it happens" kind of situation. I've been here on tumblr for 11 years. It's been my primary social media for all of that time and I've posted hundreds of art throughout those years to share with people who may enjoy them! My creations have been stolen and sold for a shit attempt by a broken, shitty website to stay afloat. I'm not gonna say oopsie daisy :) and move on! I'm fucking mad!

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drawing my dragon age origins babies again after 1 year! hehe I still like last year's drawing better, but it's always good to try some couple poses with them :>

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SUAVE? SUAVEMENTE I need to practice drawing muscles and Ganondorf will teach me everything I need hehehehehe

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Bsky is open now and anyone can join without invitation!! :DD I hope to see more people around there aaaaaaaaa

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Marry and her 'Forget me Nots'

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we should just kiss like real people do 🌸

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First of 2024! Finally :,) Neopets' map is so nostalgic to me! I wanted to make it a little more vintage, just for fun hehe When I was 11, I asked my parents for a tablet so I could draw Neopets digitally and now I work with drawings and games 🥺 thank you, neopets! I got back playing it recently and it's so full of memories, I'm happy now I can make some better drawings of it 🥺🥺🥺 Update: this is on my Inprnt now! :D

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Marian

This is a half-body portrait commission I made for Carly, It's her lovely Baldur’s Gate 3 character, Marian!

My commissions are open! You can find more info about it here <3

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”As the sapling bends, so must you. In yielding, find resilience; in pliancy, find strength.”

I started reading Tevinter Nights this year and I really liked Three Trees to Midnight from Patrick Weekes! This is stuck in my head since I read it 🌿