Artists Beware! Please read if you have a DeviantArt account:
https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1591113199218487300?s=20&t=4k4OiBqcoEj0GgFm5_zKDg
DeviantArt have just announced that they're launching their own ai art generator, and every deviation that has ever been posted has been automatically opted in - I've checked this for myself and every one of my own artworks now needs to be manually changed in the settings of every single deviation otherwise they'll be used.
To have your artist username exempted from prompts you have to fill in a Google form to be approved by a human, and you must prove that you operate under your respective alias to ask them not to use it - read more here
Suffice to say I'm livid, I've been on DeviantArt for a decade and I'm going to shut down my account once I've manually opted out my hundreds of deviations. On their promotion page for the new tool they'll emphasize that it's *totally within the control of the artists* showing an image of the checked box that opts you out, while not mentioning that all of your previous deviations are already opted in by default.
I would recommend that anyone who has similar plans as me and wants to leave the site should manually opt-out for every deviation before shutting down your account, just to be on the safe side because I'm not sure if just deactivating your account would count as opting out.
I'll try to keep this post updated with accurate and up-to-date information since AI related stuff can quickly cause a frenzy online - don't hesitate to DM me with any new information and I'll update it here!
14K notes
·
View notes
Posted this on twitter already but uhhh here we go again
153K notes
·
View notes
yall look at this shit ad*be is tryna pull now on ppl who have outdated software:
(note for context: i’m all for piracy, but in this case my copy of CS6 was downloaded years ago when they were giving it away to students. i got it totally legally.)
435K notes
·
View notes
I am a(n):
⚪ Male
⚪ Female
🔘 Writer
Looking for
⚪ Boyfriend
⚪ Girlfriend
🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember
409K notes
·
View notes
rb this with ur opinion on this shade of pink:
427K notes
·
View notes
appears it has some use for fellow artists sooo
46K notes
·
View notes
The ONLY WAY to combat the lack of funding in arts education is for professionals to take a few hours a week to share their skills for FREE, to empower and encourage the next generation of artists. THIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR. Here’s 200 tutorials:
How to draw ANGRY EXPRESSIONS
How to draw BATTLE DAMAGE
How to draw BIRD HEADS
How to draw BOOKS
How to draw BOTTLES and GLASSES
How to draw BOXES
How to draw BREAKING GLASS
How to draw BRICKWORK
How to draw CABLES and WIRES
How to draw CAR CHASES
How to draw CATERPILLAR TRACKS
How to draw CAVES
How to draw CHARACTERS (3-SHAPES)
How to draw CHARACTERS (FLIPPED-SHAPES)
How to draw CHARACTER SHAPES
How to draw CITYSCAPES
How to draw COMIC COVERS
How to draw COMPOSITION
How to draw CONTRAST
How to draw CONVERSATIONS
How to draw CREATURE TEETH
How to draw CROSS-CONTOURS
How to draw DETAIL AT DISTANCE
How to draw EARS
How to draw FABRIC
How to draw FEET & SHOES
How to draw FEMALE HANDS PART ONE
How to draw FEMALE HANDS PART TWO
How to draw FLAGS
How to draw FOOD TRUCKS
How to draw FOREGROUND MIDGROUND BACKGROUND
How to draw GAME BUILDINGS
How to draw GEMS and CRYSTALS
How to draw GHOSTS
How to draw GIRL’S HAIR
How to draw GOLD
How to draw GRASS
How to draw HAIR (1940s styles)
How to draw HAIR IN MOTION
How to draw HAPPY EXPRESSIONS
How to draw HEAD ANGLES
How to draw HOOVES
How to draw HORNS
How to draw HORSE HEADS
How to draw IMPACT DEBRIS
How to draw IN 3D
How to draw INTEGRATING LOGOS
How to draw INTERIOR BASICS
How to draw IN-WORLD TYPOGRAPHY
How to draw JUMPS
How to draw JUNGLE PLANT CLUSTERS
How to draw JUNK HOUSES
How to draw LAMP POSTS
How to draw LAVA
How to draw LIGHTNING and ELECTRICITY
How to draw MECHANICAL DETAILS
How to draw MUSHROOMS and FUNGUS
How to draw MONSTER HEADS
How to draw MONSTER TENTACLES
How to draw MONSTER TRUCKS
How to draw MOUNTAINS
How to draw NEGATIVE SPACE
How to draw NEWSPAPERS
How to draw NOSES
How to draw OVERGROWN VEGETATION
How to draw PEBBLES AND GRAVEL
How to draw PERSPECTIVE BOXES
How to draw PIGS
How to draw PILLOWS and CUSHIONS
How to draw POD HOUSES
How to draw POURING LIQUID
How to draw ROBOT ARMS
How to draw ROCK FORMATIONS
How to draw RUNNING FIGURES
How to draw SAND
How to draw SAUSAGE DOGS
How to draw SEA WEED
How to draw SHADOW COMPOSITION
How to draw SHOULDER ARMOUR
How to draw SIEGE WEAPONS
How to draw SILHOUETTE THUMBNAILS
How to draw SMALL FLAMES
How to draw SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE
How to draw SMOKE EFFECTS
How to draw SNOW
How to draw SPACE BIKES
How to draw SQUIRRELS
How to draw STICK FIGURES
How to draw SWORD FIGHTS
How to draw THE HORIZON
How to draw TIKI STATUES
How to draw TREASURE CHESTS
How to draw TREE BARK
How to draw TREE ROOTS
How to draw USING THE SHATTER TECHNIQUE
How to draw VEHICLE STANCE
How to draw VINES
How to draw VINTAGE PLANES
How to draw WATER
How to draw WOODEN HOUSES
46K notes
·
View notes
“How arw you paying for photoshop” im not LMAO
439K notes
·
View notes
Hey friends!
It’s Meg for this week’s TUTOR TUESDAY! Today we take a little look at hopefully some exercises that will help with drawing horns! So go draw some peeps with horns, my dudes. If you have any recs send ‘em in here or my personal. Keep practicing, have fun, and I’ll see you next week!
48K notes
·
View notes
Allies, please boycott "gimp"
Warning: quite a bit of bigotry, halfway in the company switches to racism, and apparently they think that the N-word is also a funny word that is the equivalent to gimp and they are allowed to get away with that because many of their volunteers are not US citizens… You know, because the US is the only one with the problem. And the American members get a free pass because they are friends with “foreigners” apparently
Gimp is the name of a free art application run by volunteers. I’ve gotten a lot of use out of it and I have a lot of respect for projects like these that run on the support people can actually provide and not one set dollar amount.
The name is offensive. The name was chosen because they thought it would be funnier that way and the last few days whoever runs their twitter, and other volunteers, have been completely out of line when multiple disabled people tweeted them to ask for a name change. “Gimp” is continually questioned about their name and at this point are far past pretending to be professional
The justification they give for using the word gimp is that this is an acronym for their program so it’s completely coincidental
Even though they’ve already admitted they did it as a joke and the actual acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program is GNUIMP. GNU is an operating system which is its own acronym.
Handpicking letters to create a brand name that is also a slur is not how acronyms work. Logically their name should have been IMP which seems like it would work just fine because it also is an actual word and thus easy to remember. And they’ve already admitted to using gimp because they found it funny
In case you don’t know, gimp is a derogatory term for someone who is physically disabled or an otherwise “contemptible” person.
And I know the argument of “no one actually calls disabled people that anymore” is coming and once again you would be incorrect in thinking that. As someone who has spent their entire life physically disabled I can tell you it’s quite common and usually used during a hate crime. The word is also still professionally used in the medical field despite our best efforts to end that.
Whoever is running the Gimp twitter account has gone beyond being a troll, some of the highlights include:
Take notice of how few notes everything has. No one cares and the company has been behaving like this for so long they have given up justifying anything and have just started mocking people
Shout out to @Scereyaha, their responses were articulate and on point, all my replies were just backing them up which is fine because it shows that some of us still care, some of us haven’t just given up because we know there will be no accountability for things like this in our lifetime but if we want it for someone else’s lifetime we have to work now
Please tweet @GIMP_Official and say something as simple as “refusing to change your name is unacceptable” or “stop talking over disabled people”
Anything
Those of you who proclaim to be allies of disabled people or those of you who have been asking what you should do to be an appropriate ally, this is what we need. We need your privilege in situations like this to prop up our voices.
Please signal boost, especially able-bodied and neurologically typical people. Please actually do something as an ally, it’s just a simple tweet and I already hear the excuse of “I don’t have an account” but people make accounts to do nothing more than complement celebrities, it’s not hard and complaining about having to actually “do” something that is so effortless honestly makes you worse than these people at gimp. They may be fighting against us but at least they are fighting.
Use your privilege, signal boost.
11K notes
·
View notes
In other news, it is now not only morally acceptable but the morally correct thing to do to pirate the fuck out of Adobe’s software line.
109K notes
·
View notes