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dear USAmericans,

VOTING WORKS!!!

French people showed up, French people voted, turnout was higher today than it has been since 1997, and we kicked the far right to 3rd place

a week ago, the far right was the biggest party in France, we were slated for a far right parliament, prime minister, and government

this week, we voted against them en masse and we won!

VOTING WORKS!

you're up next in November! it's very rare we get to say this, but this one time, take example on the French! show up and vote!

because VOTING WORKS!

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i'm so happy i finally got to draw the trio smiling together

i think this is what happened off-screen (fyi comic updates are every other saturday until part ii finishes)

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i make no promises about an update schedule, but hoping to get at least one page out a month

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good news everyone. updates are going to be bi-weekly until Part II finishes. expect consistent updates every other Saturday.

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sneak peak for the next page!

gonna see if i can make updates every two weeks -- will hopefully upload the finished page by Saturday June 9th

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this painting has been staring at me for a few weeks.... (idk if i'll spend more time on it)

a couple snippets from a presentation i gave at school this past week on storyboarding!!

‼️DISCLAIMER: I am a still a student and have only worked on student and indie projects! This is just stuff that I personally find helpful as an amateur, so feel free to take it with a grain of salt!

Happy boarding, friends! ✍️💕

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hey fellow Europeans (EU), just a friendly and mildly concerned reminder that in less than a month, the European elections are taking place. it's an election with a historically low turnout, but one that is just as important as any other, if not more. the composition of the EU parliament determines the political direction of the EU, and has an impact on all 27 countries through directives and regulations that get voted.

we cannot let far right extremist parties get an even bigger stronghold there than they already do. sadly, there are very significant threats of exactly that happening from many countries.

so please, if you are an EU citizen living in the EU and are of voting age, check the modalities to vote in your country of residence, and make sure to make your voice heard.

still blocking out colors

WIP - planning a digital painting of the lad dionysus (i haven't decided what to put in the corner....)

also, are the straps on his legs garters or sandals?

decided I'd make a new icon for the atla fancomic i'm working on An Unlit Flame. there's two versions of the icon -- one vaguely cel shaded and the other a bit over-rendered

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Part I - 01 (in which Zuko and Iroh go shopping)

Part II - 01 (in which Jet recruits Longshot and Smellerbee to gather intel)

Set between 2-12 and 2-14 - While shopping for their new apartment, Iroh attempts to ask Zuko about his “friend” from the ferry. Meanwhile, Smellerbee and Longshot are ready to settle into Ba Sing Se, but Jet recruits them to gather information about the Fire Nation spies within the city’s walls.

CW: mostly canon compliant, mild sexual content, stalking

The inspiration is striking

Hey, I'm trying to progress on a project I have but Mitch isn't making it any easier. Do you think you could do like a mini-tutorial on how to draw him? He always looks like he's been hit by a hammer when I draw him.

Love your comics, btw. Too bad no one I know know them too 😭

I actually made a tutorial for him many years ago....

Hope this helps!!

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*boops your nose* send this to ten blogs you think are lovely and deserve a boop on the nose : D

ty! <3

Sneak peek of AUF Part II - Page 12! lmk if you wanna see more sketches, inks, and WIPs (ngl, i've been getting sidetracked because i'm trying to 100% hades)

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Part I - 01 (Zuko and Iroh go shopping)

Part II - 01 (Longshot, Smellerbee, and Jet gather information)

premise: Set between 2-12 and 2-14 - While shopping for their new apartment, Iroh attempts to ask Zuko about his “friend” from the ferry. Meanwhile, Smellerbee and Longshot are ready to settle into Ba Sing Se, but Jet recruits them to gather information about the Fire Nation spies within the city’s walls.

Pairings: Jet/Li, Iroh & Tea

Hey, everyone! Have this translated Studio Ghibli guide to watercolours that a classmate sent me.

Eat Your Weeds: a tiny zine about edible non-native plants of North America that are probably growing somewhere near you! This zine is formatted to print on a single sheet of printer paper to be folded into an 8-page mini-zine: find the file here and instructions for assembling a mini-zine here!

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Hey. Artist that only has a phone or a simple computer. Did you know you can still Glaze your art??

While Glaze was initially computer-only, the team learned that many artists either have a computer not powerful enough to run glaze or don't have a computer at all. SO they've made WebGlaze!! (Read about it and get it here.) Basically you send over your art and they Glaze it over on their servers that are strong enough to do it for you. And yes, it's still free.

If you have a computer that runs the original Glaze program, it is highly recommended by the Glaze team that you continue to use it and not the website.

While the servers are very secure, it is still ideal to keep the unglazed art on your end only, and it will likely be faster on your own computer anyway since there's only your art being Glazed, unlike the servers which are glazing several people's at once. Currently I believe there is no web version of Nightshade, but they are working on adding it to WebGlaze last I heard. Check the Nightshade FAQ here for updates on that :)

Please feel free to reblog, I know there's a lot of artists out there without access to powerful CPUs and GPUs that would like to protect their art as well :)

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

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.