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this isn't the 1st post I've been seeing about this esp since i've found someone else speculating about this in one of the predstrogen threads yesterday. I know my posting here has been sporadic (mainly over focusing on my uni work) but even so prepare for the possibility of me deleting the posts on this account individually at some stage. If I do I'll probably migrate everything to cohost for the time being and try to set up a neocities once I have more time to myself. Like hell I'm giving them any chance to scrape my shit off here if they haven't been already.

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

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Been messing around w my health hazard (affectionate) of an OC, Rue, a lot these past couple of months! Here are a few doodles I did thanks to that :] Messing around with their design and evolution a lot which is why they look a bit more beastly and fucked up in a couple of these.

90% of my art looks like this which is why I don't drop it around too often XD

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Of Dragons and Panthers (BBB2023)

It's here! The work I've spent the last six months on has been finished and uploaded!

Blake and Weiss move to Patch, a small town in the middle of nowhere but also on the way to everywhere, to take over a bookstore. They meet a couple of friendly faces, and romance soon blossoms. However, there is a storm on the horizon, will it break the romance or strengthen it?

I was paired with the amazing @riinkun-art-stuff who has made an astounding piece of work for this fic that is just beautiful:

So please give their work a look and a like and reblog because it is just gorgeous!! Then go check out everyone else's fics and artwork from the @bumblebybigbang as there's been so much talent this year!

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Howdy ho! I'm very excited to finally be able to share this illustration I worked on as part of this year's @bumblebybigbang for @tahnex's lovely and super fun fic (with no pain attached whatsoever), "Of Dragons and Panthers," which you can read here! As soon as I read the original notes on it this scene captured me so much I had to do something dramatic for it. It's been such a pleasure watching the whole collab come together, tysm for having me!

First time joining an event like this, and I'd love to again if the opportunity comes around hehe. Still a few postings to go on this one, the pieces before us this year have knocked it out of the park and I'm super excited to see the rest once they come around!

Made a few process cuts just for fun, which I left under the cut!

I did do a few sketches roughly before I started out, especially based on other parts of the chapter, but this particular composition was so fixed in my mind that I ended up just sticking with it. In retrospect, I would've loved to go back and do some more thorough exploration for it. Here are a few of the sketches I managed to fish back up:

I also was thinking of trying a few other doodles/another big piece, but ended up not really having the time between other obligations :')

And the sketch I finally settled on:

Inking was SUCH a fun process on this piece in particular. I'm a huge fan of how dragon!Yang's mane turned out, especially, and all the detailing on the head and around Blake's fur and such. Feel like I'm really satisfied w the particular way the line weight variations came out, and it's where the piece shines the most imo.

Panther!Blake, too. Oh gosh. I feel like it took me a lot of reworking to get her structure to a point where she felt very leopard-like, rather than any other type of big cat- especially around the head.

Colours were such a challenging part. There was a big feeling I had for that glow coming off dragon!Yang in the middle of the heavy rain- I love seeing that sort of effect in real life so that's something I'm really hoping to work to capture better as I practice. Trying to get dragon!Yang's slight iridescence in there and to balance out the lighting on panther!Blake's fur each took a long time, too- I'm only a pinch sad that a good chunk of it is covered by other lighting effects XD

Blake's rosettes were SO fun. Augguhugg.

In terms of backgrounds. HOO boy I was going through a strange patch in life while working on the background and final polish for this piece, which is why (at least I feel like) it looks kinda rushed. I have been practicing natural landscapes and doing some observational studies but still struggling to get those rock shapes quite right, which I think is a big make or break point of something like this. I did really enjoy toying around with inking on the foliage and foreground layers of the ground, though! And in the end, lighting and effects ended up masking a lot of the big weak spots :D

I think natural effects like smoke/steam, and rain, are big things that I got to practice more of in this piece, but also really would like to get better at in future. Esp since I feel like it's been a great opportunity to mess around with different colours and brushes that I use way less, which I'm always grateful for w painting. I think just layering the rain on its own ended up being about 10 odd layers?

I think the only other thing I would have loved to improve is to just help the piece feel more Bumbleby™ in the final look. I think I like the cool colours of the lighting for this particular outcome, but I also would have probably tried to have made things much clearer (ahem at the very least switch to yellow/purple) in the long run in terms of representation and resemblance. Ik that at least for me it is fairly easy to associate the two characters with dragons and panthers since I'm more familiar w the fandom lingo around these two, but esp for outsiders I feel like it's probably not great at conveying who they are, and why they are potentially in this situation.

I'd also love to try and find a shading style that still has a painterly quality but compliments the inking a bit better, rather than overpowering it.

I think that, on the whole, I am pretty satisfied with the piece and had a great time working with Tahnex on the whole collab! And I've also has a fun time reading his work and notes in return, and thank you so much for being so so patient with me even as my updates were slow n rocky at points :'D

That's about all I got, have a great day y'all! Still a few big bang postings to go, so very excited for those once they come around!

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hi besties sry this account has been so quiet, uni is making me melt once again! But I bring forth an animation/style test for my end of year film :] lil guy with a sword what will he do.

Winter break is coming up so hopefully I can finish up that last wip, too, hehe.

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small oc art wip

been feeling my guys a lot more again recently! This greech can fit so much flora on 'em

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new silly guy I got from @milekael!!!!!! His name is Butterbean and he's a silly dude

Bonus: Sketch and the old version of the rendering:

I have a voice claim in mind for him so I wanna try animating him sometime....

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new silly guy I got from @milekael!!!!!! His name is Butterbean and he's a silly dude

Bonus: Sketch and the old version of the rendering:

I have a voice claim in mind for him so I wanna try animating him sometime....

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idk why that got put here but. Here they stay

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ublock get his ass

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yt link since there is trigger material from the start! But I recently finished those roughs I posted a while back for Murder By Bramble! Please don't watch this one if you're bothered by animated depictions of animal traps or animal distress/injury/death. I'm leaving it here since from a technical standpoint I'm really proud of how it turned out and wanted to share it.

Gonna be posting some progress on the background for it soon as well, hopefully!

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A couple of drawings of one of a friend's cats (posted with permission)! She holds all the wisdoms of the universe 😌

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doodle Roob hehe

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WIPS!!!! BC I’m so normal about my designs for Card. They’re going to a tundra expedition in the RP I play them in soon so I’m designing an outfit and gear to match! They hate the cold and also have thinning fur (all part of their budding hermit wizard arc) so any and all extra layers are something they appreciate XD. Based a lot of these on a mix of mostly late Victorian to 1930s polar gear and backpacks with some extra cat-friendly and fantasy touches! Very excited to tidy the big refs up and finish them sometime soon.

Bonus: work doodles from today :D

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Popping my WIP for my Murder By Bramble collab bc I’m super proud of how it’s turning out! I feel like I’m gaining a lot more control over volumes rn and I’m finally starting to be able to throw in some good spacings again after SO long >u<

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Oscar doodle compilation to manifest him being ok in V10