Theyll Float And Float

They’ll float and float

by Filopay

Hear the sirens covering distance in the night

by filopay

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

Foliage practice by Ann Maulina

What art program and brushes do you use? I absolutely LOVE the texture of your line art, but am having trouble finding brushes that have that effect. Thanks i'll advance!

Heya! Thank you a ton! I use Photoshop for 2D stuff, even though I'm trying to get away from it but so far I found no other program that fits to my work flow as well as it. For 3D I use Blender and Zbrush, but I guess no one really sees all my 3D mockups and references haha. They do exist tho! For backgrounds and objects like swords or guns.

Here's a little overview of my brushes, at least the ones I use the most. I actually don't consider myself someone who does lineart. It feels so crackly and rough, and I never really do lines with the intention of uh, using them. I mostly paint and render and then draw lines on top of that, which I then overpaint, then draw again, etc etc. Rinse and repeat. Until I end up liking what I see. I use brushes with colour jitter literally everywhere. Blue and yellow in the sheet above. The dark green one between them is some brush I picked up from Luke Mancinis deviantart page almost a decade ago and I never stopped using it. The teal one next to yellow is just a normal hard roundbrush. Red, purple, light green and orange are just additional brushes I use a lot, but 99% of my work is done with the ones in the top row. "Plants - Devin" are the foliage brushes from Devin Elle Kurtz which are really awesome to block in foliage really quick.

And here's a little close up in how I use some of them. A millenia ago in internet time recording I read on Alector Fencer's deviantart page that using less brushes and getting used to them is much better than overusing a hundred and never really getting the hang of them. Use what feels most natural to you and your work flow, don't be afraid to experiment and try out new stuff every once in a while. For example, the round brush with colour jitter was made by myself because I was so frustrated in not finding anything that gives me a nice and quick texture while also being clean to work with.

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