It’s been a while!! (College has been super nuts!)
Here’s my Secret Sazed gift this year!
I was told they like Warbreaker so I did some Vasher and Nightblood!
Hopefully this is warbreaker-y enough! I realized in hindsight that this is super colourless for Nalthis ; u ; maybe colours bleeding everywhere would have been better?
Please enjoy your holidays!
...that your audience won't hate.
This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.
I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.
I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.
Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.
This post pissed off an AI weeb who, with their multiple accounts, decided to whine about how copyrights for smalltime artists are tyranny or something.
That gives me a fair indication that I'm doing something right. ;V
Let me also restate that no anti-theft measure is foolproof. There are going to be ways around watermarks, always. A properly determined individual can always figure out methods of removing it.
However: add enough layers of frustration, and they will simply not see the point in bothering. Removing a speckled watermark from multiple images takes the kind of time and effort AI bros are, rather famously, unwilling to put in. If they have to do it for a whole gallery, most won't go through the trouble.
That's the point.
Also this is just a suggestion but if you’re unsure of where to place the water mark:
Put it someplace that’s nigh impossible to get rid of without having to color over multiple places.
Over wrinkles, over the detailed armor pad, over the gun like a sticker, anywhere that is NOT a solid color.
Examples:
The first one has my tag right over the sleeve in a way where it’d be hard to just “white out” and not ruin the piece bc her face is the focal point.
The second one is in two places: one on the top left and another one pasted repeatedly on the black background behind the white haze.
And that’s not even the places I put my own signature on them.
Be annoying. Be clever. Be the smart aleck these people think they already are.
i love the locked tomb series but i’d be lying if i said i understood any of it
I couldn’t stop thinking about this random character and wanted to draw more of him. god I wish I had the patience to draw comics lol I have so much respect for artists who do it ( follow me on instagram: pyrrhics)
HERE is a comic i made at 4 am for @gayharrykim for the star trek pride exchange organized by @lieutenant-commander!! the prompt was worf/riker + music
Cosmere Inktober day 25: Utility
Probably the best use I´ve seen of big boobs.
Day 16: Change
Wayne is perhaps my favorite Era 2 character
Day 12: MeLaan (and with a spooky variant)