#nft explanation

[bunnieswithknives]

Dev thinks the Minecraft movie trailer is epic, I think.

He likes nfts and ai art too smh

[robiusnews]

Exploring the Mona Lisa NFT and the Write-Only Database | Robius News

Explore the intersection of blockchain, art, and technology in this insightful article from Robius News. Discover how NFTs transform the art world by enabling verifiable ownership and authenticity through decentralized networks. Learn about the role of write-only databases in securing NFT records and how they impact the future of digital assets. Whether you're an artist, collector, or blockchain enthusiast, this deep dive into the Mona Lisa NFT offers a fresh perspective on the evolving landscape of digital art.

To read, visit the site: https://www.robius.news/blockchains/mona-lisa-nft-and-the-write-only-database/

[tskumoyuuma]

anon whyd u send me nothing but a link to a music app.

[chimchiri]

Different Art Commission Scams

Since more people might be curious about this, I'm gonna put it all in a post instead of replying as a comment. The art commission discord I'm in explains several scams linked to a commission in some way.

=> In short, the goal is usually either: private data, phishing, free art, or selling art as NFT.

You can find screenshots of these scams in action in the Art Commission server (too many images to upload here). I'm copying the explanation directly:

Fake paypal scam / Phishing via Invoice link

These scammers will message people asking for a commission, specifically for a commission of their daughter/son/pet for 500$. After successfully baiting their victim, they will ask for paypal email just to send a fake invoice that has a phishing link attached to it. Usually the email will be put in "Spam" section.

Digital check scam / Personal Info Scam

These scammers will message people for a commission but when asked for payment will ask to pay with a digital check. They will proceed asking for confidential information, such as name, surname and bank information.

"Actually, I am a… scammer" / Fake artist scam (?)

These scammers message people out of the blue using small talk phrases, such as "Hi!" "hey how are you?" or "hi, can i ask you something?". After exchanging a couple of messages with a user they waste no time and send this kind of message: "Actually I am a digital artist and I am looking for commissions, I can do 3D Models, Digital Art, Paintings, Banners, Graphic Design,... [the list goes on and on] ... lmk if you are interested so I can share my portfolio?"

"I want you to draw XYZ.."/ False Payment Screenshot

These scammer approach you with the lure of false hope that they'll commission you and accept any rate you offer them. They'll ask for your email and try to pay you via friends-and-family and send you a false screenshot that they've sent the money. If you receive an e-mail from Paypal informing you've received payment, please watch more closely as it's not from the official Paypal e-mail.

NFT Scam / Enquiry via Art Station / "Is this piece for sale?"

These are scammers who will email or message artists looking to buy an already existing artwork from their gallery. The artworks these scammers receive are forwarded/sold to NFT projects. These are not legitimate buyers but rather huge scam businesses. It is best not to interact with such messages, especially from unknown users even if you are doing it as a joke. Your information will be marked and they will keep flooding your DMs/email box. We advice everyone to just block these accounts and move on with their day. These scams usually happen on social media, like Twitter/X and Art Station.

Art Theft / Personal Info Scam

Anyone who gives away too much personal info unwarranted is likely a scammer looking to get personal info or art out of you for NFTs/AI/posters/etc. - similar to the ‘draw my child/pet’ (not my child/pet) scam where scammers bomb artists with photos and don't pay. To state the obvious, watch out for strangers online and don't doxx yourself by accident.

"Commission of my [family/pet/etc]" / Alternative Payment & Phishin scam

These scammers will DM you asking for commission information/ask for the commission straight away. They will specify that they are willing to spend the whole budget on just one commission of their relative/close person/pet. Usually the budget exceeds your own prices to easily manipulate people into agreeing to this request. However, they don't need the art, as they will ask you to sign up for their alternative payment method. The link is either a phishing link or an actual website that is hosted by these scammers to get a hold of your personal information information. This scam is more common for Instagram, Facebook and Twitter/X but Discord is no stranger to these scammers either.

[wirewitchviolet]

How a Computer Works - Part 1 (Components)

I am about to teach you on a real fundamental, connecting up electronic components level, how a computer actually works. Before I get into the meat of this though (you can just skip down below the fold if you don't care), here's the reasons I'm sitting doing so in this format:

Like a decade or two ago, companies Facebook pushed this whole "pivot to video" idea on the whole internet with some completely faked data, convincing everyone that everything had to be a video, and we need to start pushing back against that. Especially for stuff like complex explanations of things or instructions, it's much more efficient to just explain things clearly in text, maybe with some visual aids, so people can easily search, scan, and skip around between sections. It's also a hell of a lot easier to host things long term, and you can even print out a text based explainer and not need a computer to read it, keep it on a desk, highlight it, etc.

People are so clueless about how computers actually work that they start really thinking like it's all magical. Even programmers. Aside from how proper knowledge lets you get more out of them, this leads to people spouting off total nonsense about "teaching sand to think" or "everything is just 1s and 0s" or "this 'AI' a con artist who was trying to sell me NFTs a month ago probably really is an amazing creative thinking machine that can do everything he says!"

We used to have this cultural value going where it was expected that if you owned something and used it day to day, you'd have enough basic knowledge of how it worked that if it stopped working you could open it up, see what was wrong, and maybe fix it on your own, or maybe even put one together again from scratch, and that's obviously worth bringing back.

I'm personally working on a totally bonkers DIY project and I'd like to hype up like-minded people for when it gets farther along.

So all that said, have a standard reminder that I am completely reliant on Patreon donations to survive, keep updating this blog, and ideally start getting some PCBs and chips and a nice oscilloscope to get that mystery project off the ground.

Electricity probably doesn't work like how you were taught (and my explanation shouldn't be trusted too far either).

I remember, growing up, hearing all sorts of things about electricity having this sort of magical ability to always find the shortest possible path to where it needs to get, flowing like water, and a bunch of other things that are kind of useful for explaining how a Faraday cage or a lightning rod works, and not conflicting with how simple electronics will have a battery and then a single line of wire going through like a switch and a light bulb or whatever back to the other end of the battery.

If you had this idea drilled into your head hard enough, you might end up thinking that if we have a wire hooked to the negative end of a battery stretching off to the east, and another wire stretching off to the east from the positive end, and we bridge between the two in several places with an LED or something soldered to both ends, only the westernmost one is going to light up, because hey, the shortest path is the one that turns off as quickly as possible to connect to the other side, right? Well turns out no, all three are going to light up, because that "shortest path" thing is a total misunderstanding.

Here's how it actually works, roughly. If you took basic high school chemistry, you learned about how the periodic table is set up, right? A given atom, normally, has whatever number of protons in the core, and the same number of electrons, whipping all over around it, being attracted to those protons but repelled by each other, and there's particular counts of electrons which are super chill with that arrangement so we put those elements in the same column as each other, and then as you count up from those, you get the elements between those either have some electrons that don't fit all tight packed in the tight orbit and just kinda hang out all wide and lonely and "want to" buddy up with another atom that has more room, up to the half full column that can kinda go either way, then as we approach the next happy number they "want to" have a little more company to get right to that cozy tight packed number, and when you have "extra" electrons and "missing" electrons other atoms kinda cozy up and share so they hit those good noble gas counts.

I'm sure real experts want to scream at me for both that and this, but this is basically how electricity works. You have a big pile of something at the "positive" end that's "missing electrons" (for the above reason or maybe actually ionized so they really aren't there), and a "negative" end that's got spares. Then you make wires out of stuff from those middle of the road elements that have awkward electron counts and don't mind buddying up (and also high melting points and some other handy qualities) and you hook those in there. And the electron clouds on all the atoms in the wire get kinda pulled towards the positive side because there's more room over there, but if they full on leave their nucleus needs more electron pals, so yeah neighbors get pulled over, and the whole wire connected to the positive bit ends up with a positive charge to it, and the whole wire on the negative bit is negatively charged, and so yeah, anywhere you bridge the gap between the two, the electrons are pretty stoked about balancing out these two big awkward compromises and they'll start conga lining over to balance things out, and while they're at it they'll light up lights or shake speakers or spin motors or activate electromagnets or whatever other rad things you've worked out how to make happen with a live electric current.

Insulators, Resistors, Waves, and Capacitors

Oh and we typically surround these wires made of things that are super happy about sharing electrons around with materials that are very much "I'm good, thanks," but this isn't an all or nothing system and there's stuff you can connect between the positive and negative ends of things that still pass the current along, but only so much so fast. We use those to make resistors, and those are handy because sometimes you don't want to put all the juice you have through something because it would damage it, and having a resistor anywhere along a path you're putting current through puts a cap on that flow, and also sometimes you might want a wire connected to positive or negative with a really strong resistor so it'll have SOME sort of default charge, but if we get a free(r) flowing connection attached to that wire somewhere else that opens sometimes, screw that little trickle going one way, we're leaning everyone the other way for now.

The other thing with electricity is is that the flow here isn't a basic yes/no thing. How enthusiastically those electrons are getting pulled depends on the difference in charge at the positive and negative ends, and also if you're running super long wires then even if they conduct real good, having all that space to spread along is going to kinda slow things to a trickle, AND the whole thing is kinda going to have some inherent bounciness to it both because we're dealing with electrons whipping and spinning all over and because, since it's a property that's actually useful for a lot of things we do with electricity, the power coming out of the wall has this intentional wobbly nature because we've actually got this ridiculous spinny thing going on that's constantly flip flopping which prong of the socket is positive and which is negative and point is we get these sine waves of strength by default, and they kinda flop over if we're going really far.

Of course there's also a lot of times when you really want to not have your current flow flickering on and off all the time, but hey fortunately one of the first neat little electronic components we ever worked out are capacitors... and look, I'm going to be straight with you. I don't really get capacitors, but the basic idea is you've got two wires that go to big wide plates, and between those you have something that doesn't conduct the electricity normally, but they're so close the electromagnetic fields are like vibing, and then if you disconnect them from the flow they were almost conducting and/or they get charged to their limit, they just can't deal with being so charged up and they'll bridge their own gap and let it out. So basically you give them electricity to hold onto for a bit then pass along, and various sizes of them are super handy if you want to have a delay between throwing a switch and having things start doing their thing, or keeping stuff going after you break a connection, or you make a little branching path where one branch connects all regular and the other goes through a capacitor, and the electricity which is coming in in little pulses effectively comes out as a relatively steady stream because every time it'd cut out the capacity lets its charge go.

We don't just have switches, we have potentiometers.

OK, so... all of the above is just sort of about having a current and maybe worrying about how strong it is, but other than explaining how you can just kinda have main power rails running all over, and just hook stuff across them all willy-nilly rather than being forced to put everything in one big line, but still, all you can do with that is turn the whole thing on and off by breaking the circuit. Incidentally, switches, buttons, keys, and anything else you use to control the behavior of any electronic device really are just physically touching loose wires together or pulling them apart... well wait no, not all, this is a good bit to know.

None of this is actually pass/fail, really, there's wave amplitudes and how big a difference we have between the all. So when you have like, a volume knob, that's a potentiometer, which is a simple little thing where you've got your wire, it's going through a resistor, and then we have another wire we're scraping back and forth along the resistor, using a knob, usually, and the idea is the current only has to go through X percent of the resistor to get to the wire you're moving, which proportionately reduces the resistance. So you have like a 20 volt current, you've got a resistor that'll drop that down to 5 or so, but then you move this other wire down along and you've got this whole dynamic range and you can fine tune it to 15 or 10 or whatever coming down that wire. And what's nice about this again, what's actually coming down the wire is this wobbily wave of current, it's not really just "on" or "off, and as you add resistance, the wobble stays the same, it's just the peaks and valleys get closer to being just flat. Which is great if you're making, say, a knob to control volume, or brightness, or anything you want variable intensity in really.

Hey hey, it's a relay!

Again, a lot of the earliest stuff people did with electronics was really dependent on that analog wobbly waveform angle. Particularly for reproducing sound, and particularly the signals of a telegraph. Those had to travel down wires for absurd distances, and as previously stated, when you do that the signal is going to eventually decay to nothing. But then someone came up with this really basic idea where every so often along those super long wires, you set something up that takes the old signal and uses it to start a new one. They called them relays, because you know, it's like a relay race.

If you know how an electromagnet works (something about the field generated when you coil a bunch of copper wire around an iron core and run an electric current through it), a relay is super simple. You've got an electromagnet in the first circuit you're running, presumably right by where it's going to hit the big charged endpoint, and that magnetically pulls a tab of metal that's acting as a switch on a new circuit. As long as you've got enough juice left to activate the magnet, you slam that switch and voom you've got all the voltage you can generate on the new line.

Relays don't get used too much in other stuff, being unpopular at the time for not being all analog and wobbily (slamming that switch back and forth IS going to be a very binary on or off sorta thing), and they make this loud clacking noise that's actually just super cool to hear in devices that do use them (pinball machines are one of the main surviving use cases I believe) but could be annoying in some cases. What's also neat is that they're a logical AND gate. That is, if you have current flowing into the magnet, AND you have current flowing into the new wire up to the switch, you have it flowing out through the far side of the switch, but if either of those isn't true, nothing happens. Logic gates, to get ahead of myself a bit, are kinda the whole thing with computers, but we still need the rest of them. So for these purposes, relays re only neat if it's the most power and space efficient AND gate you have access to.

Oh and come to think of it, there's no reason we need to have that magnet closing the circuit when it's doing its thing. We could have it closed by default and yank it open by the magnet. Hey, now we're inverting whatever we're getting on the first wire! Neat!

Relay computers clack too loud! Gimme vacuum tubes!

So... let's take a look at the other main thing people used electricity for before coming up with the whole computer thing, our old friend the light bulb! Now I already touched a bit on the whole wacky alternating current thing, and I think this is actually one of the cases that eventually lead to it being adopted so widely, but the earliest light bulbs tended to just use normal direct current, where again, you've got the positive end and the negative end, and we just take a little filament of whatever we have handy that glows when you run enough of a current through it, and we put that in a big glass bulb and pump out all the air we can, because if we don't, the oxygen in there is probably going to change that from glowing a bit to straight up catching on fire and burning immediately.

But, we have a new weird little problem, because of the physics behind that glowing. Making something hot, on a molecular level, is just kinda adding energy to the system so everything jitters around more violently, and if you get something hot enough that it glows, you're getting it all twitchy enough for tinier particles to just fly the hell off it. Specifically photons, that's the light bit, but also hey, remember, electrons are just kinda free moving and whipping all over looking for their naked proton pals... and hey, inside this big glass bulb, we've got that other end of the wire with the more positive charge to it. Why bother wandering up this whole coily filament when we're in a vacuum and there's nothing to get in the way if we just leap straight over that gap? So... they do that, and they're coming in fast and on elliptical approaches and all, so a bunch of electrons overshoot and smack into the glass on the far side, and now one side of every light bulb is getting all gross and burnt from that and turning all brown and we can't have that.

So again, part of the fix is we switched to alternating current so it's at least splitting those wild jumps up to either side, but before that, someone tried to solve this by just... kinda putting a backboard in there. Stick a big metal plate on the end of another wire in the bulb connected to a positive charge, and now OK, all those maverick electrons smack into here and aren't messing up the glass, but also hey, this is a neat little thing. Those electrons are making that hop because they're all hot and bothered. If we're not heating up the plate they're jumping to, and there's no real reason we'd want to, then if we had a negative signal over on that side... nothing would happen. Electrons aren't getting all antsy and jumping back.

So now we have a diode! The name comes because we have two (di-) electrodes (-ode) we care about in the bulb (we're just kind of ignoring the negative one), and it's a one way street for our circuit. That's useful for a lot of stuff, like not having electricity flow backwards through complex systems and mess things up, converting AC to DC (when it flips, current won't flow through the diode so we lop off the bottom of the wave, and hey, we can do that thing with capacitors to release their current during those cutoffs, and if we're clever we can get a pretty steady high).

More electrodes! More electrodes!

So a bit after someone worked out this whole vacuum tube diode thing, someone went hey, what if it was a triode? So, let's stick another electrode in there, and this one just kinda curves around in the middle, just kinda making a grate or a mesh grid, between our hot always flowing filament and that catch plate we're keeping positively charged when it's doing stuff. Well this works in a neat way. If there's a negative charge on it, it's going to be pushing back on those electrons jumping over, and if there's a positive charge on it, it's going to help pull those electrons over (it's all thin, so they're going to shoot right past it, especially if there's way more of a positive charge over on the plate... and here's the super cool part- This is an analog thing. If we have a relatively big negative charge, it's going to repel everything, if it's a relatively big positive, it's going to pull a ton across, if it's right in the middle, it's like it wasn't even in there, and you can have tiny charges for all the gradients in between.

We don't need a huge charge for any of this though, because we're just helping or hindering the big jump from the high voltage stuff, and huh, weren't we doing this whole weak current controlling a strong current thing before with the relay? We were! And this is doing the same thing! Except now we're doing it all analog style, not slapping switch with a magnet, and we can make those wavy currents peak higher or lower and cool, now we can have phone lines boost over long distances too, and make volume knobs, and all that good stuff.

The relay version of this had that cool trick though where you could flip the output. Can we still flip the output? We sure can, we just need some other toys in the mix. See we keep talking about positive charges and negative charges at the ends of our circuits, but these are relative things. I mentioned way back when how you can use resistors to throttle how much of a current we've got, so you can run two wires to that grid in the triode. One connects to a negative charge and the other positive, with resistors on both those lines, and a switch that can break the connection on the positive end. If the positive is disconnected, we've got a negative charge on the grid, since it's all we've got, but if we connect it, and the resistor to the negative end really limits flow, we're positive in the section the grid's in. And over on the side with the collecting plate, we branch off with another resistor setup so the negative charge on that side is normally the only viable connection for a positive, but when we flip the grid to positive, we're jumping across the gap in the vacuum tube, and that's a big open flow so we'll just take those electrons instead of the ones that have to squeeze through a tight resistor to get there.

That explanation is probably a bit hard to follow because I'm over here trying to explain it based on how the electrons are actually getting pulled around. In the world of electronics everyone decided to just pretend the flow is going the other way because it makes stuff easier to follow. So pretend we have magical positrons that go the other way and if they have nothing better to do they go down the path where we have all the fun stuff further down the circuit lighting lights and all that even though it's a tight squeeze through a resistor, because there's a yucky double negative in the triode and that's worse, but we have the switch rigged up to make that a nice positive go signal to the resistance free promised land with a bonus booster to cut across, so we're just gonna go that way when the grid signal's connected.

Oh and you can make other sorts of logic circuits or double up on them in a single tube if you add more grids and such, which we did for a while, but not really relevant these days.

Cool history lesson but I know there's no relays or vacuum tubes in my computer.

Right, so the above things are how we used to make computers, but they were super bulky, and you'd have to deal with how relays are super loud and kinda slow, and vacuum tubes need a big power draw and get hot. What we use instead of either of those these days are transistors. See after spending a good number of years working out all this circuit flow stuff with vacuum tubes we eventually focused on how the real important thing in all of this is how with the right materials you can make a little juncture where current flows between a positive and negative charge if a third wire going in there is also positively charged, but if it's negatively charged we're pulling over. And turns out there is a WAY more efficient way of doing that if you take a chunk of good ol' middle of the electron road silicon, and just kinda lightly paint the side of it with just the tiniest amount of positive leaning and negative leaning elements on the sides.

Really transistors don't require understanding anything new past the large number of topics already covered here, they're just more compact about it. Positive leaning bit, negative leaning bit, wildcard in the middle, like a vacuum tube. Based on the concepts of pulling electrons around from chemistry, like a circuit in general. The control wire in the middle kinda works in just a pass-fail sort of way, like a relay. They're just really nice compared to the older alternatives because they don't make noise or have moving parts to wear down, you don't have to run enough current through them for metal to start glowing and the whole room to heat up, and you can make them small. Absurdly small. Like... need an electron microscope to see them small.

And of course you can also make an inverter super tiny like that, and a diode (while you're at it you can use special materials or phosphors to make them light emitting, go LEDs!) and resistors can get pretty damn small if you just use less of a more resistant material, capacitors I think have a limit to how tiny you can get, practically, but yeah, you now know enough of the basic fundamentals of how computers work to throw some logic gates together. We've covered how a relay, triode, or transistor function as an AND gate. An OR gate is super easy, you just stick diodes on two wires so you don't have messy backflow then connect them together and lead off there. If you can get your head around wiring up an inverter (AKA NOT), hey, stick one after an AND to get a NAND, or an OR to get a NOR. You can work out XOR and XNOR from there right? Just build 4 NANDs, pass input A into gates 1 and 2, B into 2 and 3, 2's output into 1 and 3, 1 and 3's output into 4 for a XOR, use NORs instead for a XNOR. That's all of them right? So now just build a ton of those and arrange them into a computer. It's all logic and math from there.

Oh right. It's... an absurd amount of logic and math, and I can only fit so many words in a blog post. So we'll have to go all...

CONTINUED IN PART 2!

Meanwhile, again, if you can spare some cash I'd really appreciate it.

[souptastical]

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i'm opening commissions!

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hi! i'm currently out of work and living at home— anything i make is going to savings to help me afford healthcare, as well as hopefully having enough to get back on T and pursue therapy. everything helps! i hope you'll consider me for your commission please click open the read more for my terms of service if you're interested! for more info, reach out to me here or on discord- my username there is also potionbarrel!

I accept payment through Paypal or Ko-Fi. I have five slots open at a time, and I don't do holds on those slots. You can reach me at potionbarrel on Tumblr and Discord— I'm happy to answer any questions!

I have the right to turn down any commission, with or without explanation.

Dos and Don'ts: do use your commission as an icon, repost it, or edit it, so long as it has proper credit! Don't use my work for financial gain, NFTs, or AI training, and don't cover up my signature or claim you or another artist made the commission.

I need visual references, preferably full body— no text descriptions of what a character's appearance, please. Describing poses or a scene over text is fine, though! The more detailed, the better.

I work on commissions in the order I got them in, and I'm a slower, detail-oriented artist, so please keep both these things in mind when it comes to how quickly I complete your piece!

The commission must be paid in full before I send you the finished piece. Multiple payments are okay, so long as we talk about it first! However, I won't complete the commission until I have the full amount.

I'll send a WIP once the sketch is completed, but I can send more if asked! Important: if there's something you want changed with your commission, please request alterations during these WIP check-ins! I won't be making major changes once the piece is finished, and small changes after the commission's completion will cost $5 each.

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Commission Info

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To be generous to myself, please expect anywhere between a 3-5 day wait for the rough sketch, and at least two weeks for the completed piece. I will inform you if I think it would take longer to complete, as the amount of time I have varies.

Please provide me with as many refs (character, pose, background etc.) and information as possible, while I'll be in regular contact with progress shots to ensure that the end result is something you’re happy with!

The finished piece is yours to do with as you please, under two conditions: do not claim as your own work, you MUST credit me if you post it elsewhere and you may NOT use it for trading, AI, NFTs, reselling, etc.

To kick off the process, simply message me here on Tumblr (whether through my art or personal account) or through Discord or Instagram (you can find me @bluebellwren on both.) You can also contact me through email bluebellwren8492@gmail.com!

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Anthro/furry art

Certain ships and/or fandoms

NOTE: I reserve the right to refuse a commission for any reason, whether it’s because I don't believe I could complete it or because the subject makes me uncomfortable. I reserve the right to decline for no reason as well. I do not owe you an explanation. I also reserve the right to cancel a commission, and in such an event you will be fully refunded.

Unsure about where the subject of your commission fits in? Please feel free to ask!

Pricing All pricing is in USD

Bust/Three-Quarters examples, featuring both sketches and rendered works

Bust, Half-body, & Three-quarters (mid thigh/waist-up)

$20 (sketch/lines, no coloring or background)

$30 (Fully rendered, simple/flat color background)

$40 (w/ background)

+ $5 for every additional character

Full body examples

Full Body

$20 for animal characters (fully rendered, no background/simple background)

$30 for animal characters (fully rendered w/ background)

$25 (sketch/lines, no coloring or background)

$40 (fully rendered, no background/simple background)

$60 (fully rendered, w/ background)

+ $5 for every additional character

NOTE: The price may change depending on the subject matter, the complexity of the piece, and the time required to complete it. For the most part, though, they are set in stone.

All payment will be provided up front. I will send you payment information once I accept your commission.

Unable to commission me but still want to show support? I have a Ko-Fi!

[river-of-wine]

Watching a YouTuber correctly talk about how awful nfts are only for them to pull up a ChatGPT explanation of what an nft is. Get fuckedddddd

[aureoboros]

commission info!

hello!!

i’ve had health problems that are making it very difficult for me to work and function outside of my home, which just isn’t viable with how expensive necessities are. so i’m opening up commissions! reblogs are greatly appreciated :]

a lot of my examples are bg3/dnd related, but regular ocs are more than welcome, too! i can also do fanart for other media if you’d like.

for right now, these will be through paypal. just send me a dm here if you’re interested! more information below the cut.

- first come first serve, i will keep in contact with you throughout the process and start the sketch asap. Depending on the level of detail, it could take anywhere from a week to over a month. I work pretty slowly but I’m trying to get better at being faster! my pen is also broken so that’s another factor to keep in mind. I can still draw, but it’ll take longer until I can get a replacement.

- while this is over dms for the moment, i’m going to make a proper form to fill out! reference photos are greatly appreciated for ocs, but detailed descriptions work too! i would also prefer if you provided a short personality description, and any ideas you have for poses or character interactions. i want it to be as close to what you envision as possible! if you want the drawing to be set at a specific time, or a specific aspect ratio for the image, let me know that too! busts cut off at the mid-chest, and half-bodies are cut off at the mid-thigh. i can also make icons (head-shot only) for a discount! also extra characters for sketch commissions are at a discount!

- payment comes after you’re happy with the composition! i’ll block out the characters and where they’ll be on the canvas before moving on to the full detailed sketch.

- more explanation on backgrounds: basic flats, simple patterns, and simple objects for framing are free of charge. keep in mind that detailed backgrounds are not my strong-suit, but i do need the practice, and i will try my absolute best. the more detailed the background is, the more it will cost, but everything is negotiable.

- i can do anthro characters (like tabaxi, dragonborn, etc) in my detailed style too! i don’t have as much experience in drawing robotics or machinery, but it’s not off the table. i like doing little details :]

- my general rules are: i will not draw ships that would be illegal in real life, or anything hateful (racist, homophobic, the obvious), and i don’t do nsfw (artistic nudity is fine). don’t use my art for ai training or nfts.

- if you have any questions, feel free to ask!

- thank you for reading ^^

for more examples, check the #digitalart tag!

[j-esbian]

can someone explain to me like i’m stupid how it’s more secure to link several different accounts under the same login?? it seems way less secure from what i understand about digital security

for example, let’s say you use your google account to log in everywhere. a hacker gaining access to one of these accounts now has the login information to access to all of them, whereas if you had unique accounts for different websites, a hack would at least be quarantined to that one specific site

i understand the appeal from the tech companies’ side; it’s google and facebook who let you unify your logins, and they’re well-known for collecting your data. they want to see what other sites you use and what you do on there to create a more comprehensive marketing profile that they can then profit off of. but i don’t get what the appeal is from a user standpoint, except for the convenience of not having to remember unique login info for each site (but browsers nowadays let you store that info locally anyway)

i remember seeing a lot of criticism about this single point of failure when the blockchain first started coming on the horizon, and i haven’t seen much from tech people to rectify or explain away that fear. a game i’ve played forever implemented a new login system (currently still opt-in, thank god) to centralize your accounts across different apps, and when i asked in the subreddit if it was worth it/if anyone had addressed the worries i had, people only told me “they’re modernizing it, tons of games do this now” or else just went “you’re an idiot” without explaining (ah, reddit) even though i’m pretty sure the same community had been vehemently opposed to it a few years ago when the same game tried to get into the nft grift.

so what’s the explanation? am i just more paranoid than average, or is there a missing piece here?

[robiusnews]

EVM Adoption Proposed: Cosmos Tx Impact - Atom News

Cosmos is set to expand and may be seen as "the Internet of Blockchains" in 2025, with considerable improvements in how transactions are processed and the steady progress of its key contract platform. Since the main goal of the network is to work better with other chains and grow, most of the cosmos atom news highlights proposed changes, their success in mainstream business and people's predictions about where the Cosmos coin is heading.

Source URL: https://www.ganjingworld.com/news/1hljrrjdjg24QpLyyuYTCQOC31up1c

[hikari-hellspawn]

ART COMMISSIONS OPEN! FINANCIAL HELP DESPERATELY NEEDED!

The title is what it says on the tin; I'm opening up art commissions, because after my next paycheck I don't know how much I'll be getting after that, or how much, and I'm desperate for work and some kind off income because I am literally in danger of losing a place to live. I need need NEED income if I want to continue to, well, live.

My Ko-Fi

My deviantART

NOTICE: I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY COMMISSIONS THAT I DEEM INAPPROPRIATE. THIS INCLUDES ART CONTAINING HATE SPEECH/HOMOPHOBIA/TRANSPHOBIA/APHOBIA/RACISM/BIGOTRY/ANTISEMITISM/ETC.

How do I pay you? I take payments via my Ko-fi or PayPal (h.m.reed@mail.com), half before I start the sketch and the other half on delivery. That is set in stone; I will not accept any kind of cryptocurrency or things like Amazon or Walmart gift cards as payment. None of those can be used to pay rent, and paying rent is exactly what I need.

Do you do NSFW? Not at present; I'm not comfortable drawing NSFW content, though doing shirtless and swimsuits are fine. However I won't draw sex, and I won't draw straight-up full-frontal nudity.

Do you do furries/anthros? I'm not gonna lie, I don't have much experience drawing anthros--THAT BEING SAID, if you want to commission me to draw an anthro character or your fursona, it's definitely on the table and I'll do my danged best--even if it takes a bit longer than non-furry/anthro characters.

Do you draw mecha? I...have zero experience drawing mecha. Do I like mecha anime? Yes (Evangelion my beloved). So this is a soft no on my part, purely because of my own lack of skill with the subject matter.

Do you draw horror and/or gore? Hard no. Not simply because I can't draw said gore (which I can't, same reasons as the mecha explanation above), but because it's another one of those things that I'm not 100% comfortable drawing at the moment.

^HOWEVER, this question comes with a caveat: I will draw eldritch horror. Y'know, eyes where they don't belong, tentacles, pulsating masses, bodies that're just...weird? Those are fun. So, negotiable, but keep in mind that if you want slasher-type stuff that ain't my jam.

Will you send me progress pics? YES. At every stage of the process, I'll both scan the image and take photos to make sure that what I'm working on is the direction you want to go.

What about reference images? If you have references you want to provide, whether they're drawn by you, someone else, google image search, etc, then I'd appreciate it so I have an idea of what your character looks like. Written descriptions are also fine if you don't have any visuals--basically, if you know what your character looks like and you have some way to communicate that to me in a way that puts us both on the same page, we're good.

Can I use your art as an NFT? NO. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL I ACCEPT A COMMISSION TO CREATE NFTS, IF THAT IS THE REASON YOU WANT TO COMMISSION ME THEN GO FIND SOMEONE ELSE.

Can I use your art to train an AI algorithm? NO. AI art is the reason why artists like myself are being pushed out of work; if you're only commissioning me to get hold of some works so that you can train an algorithm to make more based on my style, then you don't actually want to buy art; you're just looking for some excuse to screw yet another artist over.

If I don't have the money right now, can I just pay you the full amount later? While I understand the desire to buy art but not having the funds, the whole reason I'm opening commissions is because I don't have enough money to survive. Paying me half now and half upon completion is non-negotiable, because I can assure you my need to be able to make rent and feed the Fuzzballs (aka the cats, please ask me about them I will go total Maes Hughes on them because they are PERFECT) is as strong as yours to make sure your expenses are covered as well.

Are the prices negotiable? To an extent, though the prices you see in the image above are the minimum; I won't go lower than these.

I want something that isn't listed on here/I have an unusual request, can you do it? That is something we'd have to negotiate, but it's not off the table. I do some weirdo drawings for myself in my free time (I've graced several servers I'm in on discord with the little wonders known as Eyeshrooms, no I will not elaborate here), so I can do other weird stuff too (as long as it's SFW).

Do you have more art examples I can look at? Yes! I have a deviantART page, though due to the company's own exploitative and artist-harming features they've rolled out, I've been working on glazing everything in my gallery there (if you haven't heard of Glaze and Nightshade, they're both really cool and you ought to check them out, seriously I really really really want to start using them both on my art SO BAD but I CAN'T) and migrating to Inkblot and Cara.app. Once I have links to both of those, I'll add them to the post!

You said traditional art...can you do digital? No, unfortunately; I don't have a device powerful enough to run a good art program (not for a lack of trying; attempts at experimenting with Krita have only resulted in it crashing the laptop I've been using, which is bad because it isn't even mine), nor do I have the funds to be able to get one--and I don't know when, or if, that'll happen. This circles back to the initial problem; I don't have the funds to pay for what I need to survive, which means I literally cannot afford to save for a new, more powerful laptop for myself. As it is, I've been borrowing my roommate's laptop for everything I need to do that requires the use of a computer, as mine died back in 2020 and I haven't been able to scrape together enough to even get a bare-bones basic one myself.

If there are any other questions you need me to answer, then please please PLEASE send them to me in a DM here and I'll do my best to answer them! And please, I'm begging you, I'm begging you so much, even if you don't buy something please spread this around I need the income desperately. I'm not lying when I say that my ability to continue living is in danger, I literally do not know if I'll even be able to pay my rent next month. I need every penny I can get, just to be able to have a chance of surviving, and what determines if I can keep a roof over mine and the cats' heads and if we're out on the street with nowhere to go is very much determined by if I can get commission work. So even if you can't buy anything, or only get a headshot or two, please spread the word. Reblog this. Share it in tweets. Post the link to this post on Facebook, link it on Discord, if you have friends who are looking to commission art tell them because I'm desperate and terrified that I might not have a place to live come October. I'm begging, please, I need the help. I need the help more than I can put into words. I don't want to die.

(Also big shoutout to @nomnomroko for putting together the commission sheet, thank you so much!)

[personalcontentformyartprojects]

The “Quad” Play: “The Explanation” Worth $3M USD.

NFT Art For Sale Soon.

Igor :)

NFT Artist.

[lazy-february]

   I was finally able to start of accepting orders of artworks! Yes, there is a lot of text, but it is necessary for comfortable cooperation with customers. I hope for your understanding :3

Basic of Commission ToS:

Payment is accepted within 24 hours.

To transfer money please use Hipolink: https://hipolink.me/lazy_february.

Do not send the payment until the time is agreed.

The deadline is three weeks (it may be longer for landscapes).

The customer can upload the image to his social network, indicating my authorship in the post.

Artwork cannot be used commercially, or claimed as your own.

MY WORK CANNOT BE USED FOR AI GENERATORS OR NFTs.

PAYMENT INFORMATION

Payment is accepted after the approval of the TOR. Non-payment within 24 hours will result in the commission being cancelled;

It is the customer's responsibility to tell me when the payment has been sent;

The first three edits after completing the work are free, then +10% of the order amount.

Refund Policy:

If the commission is cancelled (by me or the client) before work has started, then the client will receive a full refund;

If the client cancels the commission during progress, the amount refunded will be on a case-by-case basis and up to the artist’s discretion;

No refunds will be given for completed or nearly completed commissions;

The artist reserves the right to cancel a commission at any time, for any reason, and without explanation;

If the artist refuses to fulfill the order, it is his responsibility to refund the funds.

COMMUNICATION

Discussion of commissions can be conducted via DM in Tumblr or Discord (MidnnightSoul).

Visual Reference Guidelines:

Clients should provide at least one clear and concise visual reference;

Work based solely on descriptions may be discussed but will be subject to an extra fee;

With only a written description of the appearance I cannot promise you design will be done with 100% accuracy.

WILL/WON'T DRAW:

Please consider my artistic style when placing an order; I will not try to match the artistic style of another artist or company.

Allowed content:

Humans;

Landscapes;

Original Species (with visual reference);

Monsters.

I don't know how to draw furries, but if you really want to, we can discuss it.

Allowed Content (if the client is over 18 years old):

Gore

Disallowed Content:

NSFW;

Extreme Fetishes;

Any sort of hateful content, such as racism, transphobia, homophobia, and characters with Nazi/Soviet/etc. imagery or paraphernalia.

If you have read all the terms and conditions and are ready to place an order, please write: "You are the best captain on the planet. I'm not even squidding." as a proof.

[yuutaguro]

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

updated as of January 26th, 2025

What program do you use for your art?

I only use Procreate for my drawings.

What kind of brushes do you use?

For my Papamin AU series, I use this set by Max Ulichney (plus the "ink bleed" brush under the inking category in Procreate), for my painted pieces, I use this set by razum_inc.

What tablet/device do you use?

12.9 inch iPad Pro (4th generation/512 GB) with Apple Pencil

What's your drawing process/ how do you achieve that texture in your illustrations?

I have a fairly detailed process posted here, if further clarification is needed feel free to shoot me a message. :)

Can I repost your drawings on other platforms?

I used to allow it, but as of right now it's a hard NO.

Can I use your drawings for my edits (such as videos or fanfic covers)?

Yes! Unless it's listed as a commission/charity drawing, but everything else is fair game. If you're not sure just send me a link of the drawing you wish to use and I'll verify if it's free to use.

Do you take requests?

You're more than welcome to suggest drawing ideas, but I can't guarantee I'll do it.

Are your commissions open?

Yes they are! Check out my ko-fi for more details.

How do you feel about [insert ship here]?

Unless I've posted about it, odds are I'm neutral at best. I do have an affinity for rarepairs so I can be easily convinced to like it.

Why is Nanami your favorite character in JJK?

I have a more detailed explanation here that's too long for this.

How do you feel about AI/NFTs?

HAAAAAAAAAAATE

What other hobbies do you have?

Right now I'm trying to get into non-fiction reading, I can crochet you a mean blanket/plush, and am an amateur (very slow) runner. Ask me anything related to architecture and I can talk your ear off.

What's your coffee setup like?

I primarily use the pour-over method (using this Hario V60 set and electric kettle) and am currently obsessed with these coffee grounds from Devocion.