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Progress in Paradise

day 3 @heropartnerweek

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Didn't make this because it's June. (June Mermaid is a "mistranslation" anyway; Kannazuki lines up with October.) Just wanted to draw Em as a mermaid even though its more than a week past Mer-May.

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～おわり～

OT3 OT3 (* 9` ᗜ´)9'

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Always wanted to draw Trance Garnet ( ˶ơᴗơ˶)

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was thinking perhaps the white bottom piece of the chest is the "door" to the cockpit and both the console and chair move downward in a step ladder fashion with the opening of the door

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I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

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masks and helmets that hides someone's face in such a way that they become the face themselves my beloved

these are all creatures to me

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No safety. No food. No aid. No water. No healthcare. No education. Is this what it means to live? Is this what world accept as life?

If a group of animals were trapped, starved, and cut off from the world like this, people would be outraged. But because it's us—human beings—somehow, the world looks away.

These are unbearable days. Everything feels heavy. Each hour presses on my chest like I’m being suffocated.

My family needs urgent help.

Basic survival has become nearly impossible. Bread—just bread—now costs over $25 a day to make.

We are not asking for luxury. We are begging for life.

Please, if you’re reading this: help. Reblog this post. Talk about us. Donate if you can. Even a small act can mean everything right now.

#crisis #humanrights #emergency #donate #pleasehelp #tumblrcommunity #survivestories #reblogtohelp #signalboost

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"Ziggy, a Testament?"

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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight

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quick paint of the Vector girlies ...after getting distracted with one new Jan piece after the other 😅🥰

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So yknow the second piece of art in this post that I snuck in under the Keep Reading? Only shared to my tumblr and my bsky alt?

Well, context- sis and I were talking about how visual art is so easily ""consumable"" (I hate using that word, but it describes what I mean); someone can glance at it for a few seconds and its so easy to leave a quick comment and keep scrolling, meanwhile for written works its read over hours/days/weeks/months (...YEARS sometimes) and there are so many more hurdles to it vs visual art and often people will never leave any feedback in the end. I think it takes so much more time and effort to write something than make a single piece of art (depending, ofc. that's generalized) and a lot of people refuse to even read fics until its finished if it's a long fic! Like, that sounds so tough! You can get thousands of hits but it's so rare to get much feedback.

(heck even I don't leave comments on fics very often, I'm shy about leaving comments usually, I've gotta fix that)

So sis and I were talking about that and fan works influencing other fan works and how that kind of interaction in a fandom, an "exchange" in a way, can keep the fandom alive more. I mentioned having done some art inspired by a fic and she expressed how much that probably means to authors, that someone not only appreciated their fic but created something like art for/inspired by it.

So yeah, that 2nd piece was inspired by @horridzale's fic, elevator music, and I think I only ever (kind of) said so on my Bsky alt.. and quietly linked to it in that Tumblr post. ...Then I saw them reblog it a day or two later after someone else reblogged it and I did a double take at the name 😂 But I'm not sure whether or not they realized I'd linked to their fic, that it was what inspired the art, so this is me deliberately saying it out loud. If you like Jan/Juli go check out their stuff on Ao3! ( ˶ơωơ˶)

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Rurouni kenshin

My dear beloved himura !

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AI is ruining me

I'm constantly surrounded by AI generated art images. I see it in public, social media, from my own family, worst of all I have non-artist friends who use and have Patreons making good profit off creating AI generated images.

As someone who is an artist, I have been feeling devastated for months as AI continues to become more normalized. I have worked very hard, dedicating my life to learning this craft. I feel my skills are essentially useless now. I have lost my chance at obtaining a career within the industry. Art is so easily accessible, anyone can generate anything now.

The vast majority of people don't care about artists, they care about the end product. I can't compete with something that generates faster, higher quality images by the dozen in a matter of seconds. People argue that AI makes mistakes, and can't generate anything of good quality. This issue tends to be the user who is unexperienced that generated something using poor settings, not the AI itself. AI can generate images without errors, and can be trained to work well and look good. I don't think artists realize how much it has improved, because they tend to look away, or are not exposed to it as much as I am within my circle. I know it lacks humanity, but people and corporations don't care. My family and friends don't care. People are becoming popular and getting tons of recognition, and money simply by generating AI images. No one cares.

I am losing my sanity, I don't know what to do. I miss the times of admiring art, knowing it was human made and someone worked hard. I struggle to find the motivation to finish my own works, knowing it could just be generated in seconds with AI, and a good majority of people wouldn't care, or be able to tell the difference. I don't understand why robots are creating art instead of doing our labor work. I thought art was one of the last parts of humanity we had left.

I don't know how my future will be, but I am so tired of trying. I have not used any AI in my work, and I want to remain honest and true to myself and the art community. I know I've set myself up for failure by refusing to accept this new tool into my process. So I will be left behind.