6 Pls!! :3

It is more important than ever to keep sharing, showing up for protests, and sending emails to your representatives.

Keep talking about Palestine until the siege on Gaza ends, until the occupation ends, and until Palestinians are free.

We are heading towards an absolute knowledge black hole, aren't we?

Carnivorous Ruse (a VERY popular base maker) has no self restraint in not starting new base projects, I understand having like 2 at once but they have their hybrid bases, new feathered bases, realistic headshots, baby bases, dinosaur bases, and probably more I'm forgetting!

They also are quite lazy when making their bases in my opinion, having a brush to make scales and using a circle tool when making the strange big Rainwing scales... it makes their bases look sloppy and like they put minimal care into them

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Queen Diamond? I may have already sent an ask for her, but honestly, I can't remember.

Day 233- Queen diamond

this is your periodic reminder that for all the artifacts and errors and "tells" one could possibly list, the only reliable way to actually determine if an image is ai generated is to investigate the source. it is becoming increasingly common for "fake classical paintings" to circulate around curative aesthetic blogs, and everyone should be using this as an opportunity to not only exercise their investigative skills but also appreciate art more in general. you're all checking out the artists you reblog, right? 🫣

so what are some signs to look for? let's use this very good example.

what a lovely late-impressionist piece blended with evocative leyendecker-esque themes! why haven't you ever heard of this artist before? surely tumblr would be all over an artist like this. who is justin brown?

your two options from here are to do a search for the name, or a reverse image search. i prefer reverse image searching, particularly when it comes to a common name like "justin brown". so what does that net?

Immediately, without looking at any text, something is wrong: it barely exists. an actual historical piece would turn up numerous results from websites individually discussing the piece, but no such discussions are taking place. Looking at the text, though, does show the source-- and at least in this case, the creator was honest about their medium.

But let's also look at the "exact matches", in case a source doesn't make itself apparent in the initial sidebar results like this.

This section will often tell you post dates of images, and here it can be seen that the very first iteration of the image was posted 15 days ago. It did not exist online prior to that.

Seeing how long an unsourced image has been floating around is a skill applicable to more than just generative images! See a cool image of an artifact or other intriguing item with a vivid caption? Reverse search it! If all the results are paired with that caption and only go back a few months, you might just have viral facebook spam.

Sometimes generative creators are dishonest about their medium and do not tag it like in the example, so that's when establishing "jpeg provenance" becomes important. While it can be a little trickier to determine if someone is using generative images and not admitting to it if they aren't trying to pass it off as a classic, something to consider is the age of their account and the frequency with which they post. Here are some account red flags:

-Did they only start posting art after 2022, or if they did before, did their style/skill level WILDLY change? Not gradual improvement-- I'm talking amateur graphite portraits straight into complex digital renders. Everyone starts somewhere, newness is not a red flag alone; it's newness combined with existing in a vacuum away from any community.

-Do they post fully-finished paintings several times a week? -Do many of these paintings seem iterative of a similar theme or subject matter ("three well-dressed young men face each other under shade and dappled sunlight")?

-Does their style change in inconsistent ways? An artist that can swap between painting like Drew Struzan and Hokusai should be pretty well known, right? Why is no one hyping this guy?!

-Do they have social media besides the source instagram? If so, what are they posting about? Are there any WIPs? Doodles? Interactions with other artists? Gallery dates? 3am self-doubt posts? Or is it all self-promo? Crypto? Seemingly nothing art-related at all for someone pushing out 3 weekly paintings?

Basically, if it's important to you to omit this stuff when you curate, please don't just smash reblog if the source doesn't seem to be the OP themselves. Seeking out sources was important even before this became an issue, now it is more than ever.

peace n love

artists, this is ur reminder to start drawing references or redesign your original characters before artfight in july this year

it's almost that time of the year folks. grab yer knives

reblog for extra stabbing

Daydreaming

I need to run a survey really quick. This isn't serious, but I need people to cooperate and not cheat for the sake of it because it'll skew the results.

Imagine you wake up tomorrow and you realize you (and everyone else in the world) can turn into an animal (And back into a human) at will.

Please go to this link to see what animal it will be for you:

Random Lists

Random Animal Generator

Generated a random animal species: A goat, armadillo, orangutan, porpoise, cheetah... Nearly 200 different animals!

(this is random, and yes, you only get one, no redos)

With this in mind, please reply to the following questions as truthfully as possible based on your current situation. (Not an ideal fantasy one.)

I thought I'd try sending a derg headshot request! Never done this before, and I really don't mind if you can't get to this one hehe :)

Here are a digital drawing and traditional drawings of my oc Crimson!

(Pardon my ramble. you can ignore this I just love her lore X3c )

She's an ancient dragon from before the tribes were formed, an ancestor to Skywings and Rainwings (Called Sunclaws). She also happens to be one of the first animus dragons AND is the first firescales ever! (It's a horribly traumatic background lmao. Her dad's a messed up animus guy who would never be the same after her mom died. LOTS of Queen Scarlet-esque terribleness going on here.)

She's finally escaped her father by basically ending herself and because of these shenanigans she has awoken revived in a modern day Mud/Nightwing's head. Free to live how she wants to, she's now got nothing but a dissociative mental illness, this kid's weird powers, and a dream! Lol

Crimson! also, passionate rambles about characters are great!

i had a bit of trouble replicating that firescales glow, but i hope what i went with to portray it looks alright.

sketchbook page and process vid under the cut (process vid may a bit jumpy and flashy)