art elitism will get you nowhere , idc if it's a hot take I don't actually care if an artist that's giving me FREE art traces their body part as a reference I really don't give a shit.
Inb4 anyone says I probably trace, I don't, but art elitism on the free art site is stupid af
Girl there are better things to do than bullying beginners, (which are a HUGE part of the artfight) disabled and working people off your event. And it's all while ai is out here and people already don't have motivation to draw because of it.
I thought about participating in this year's #artfight and even started preparing my ocs but what the hell. I got through "no references othervise you are cheating" when i was, like, 12, and there are grown ass people setting those weird rules.
@densecowb0y I would use skintone of the character in neutral lighting for the base and layer lighting and shadows on top, it's way easier to understand!
Try base > main light (yellow from top) > bounce light from it (yellow on face, bottom of arms & chest > second light > occlusion shadows
@qreamdokja Omegaverse where girl is an omega and guy is an alpha:
The only hope is that akira is omega but something tells me that it won't even matter 💀
@bitchshreksual Love this question, clearly shows that author is a ruzzian spesifically because of "belorussia", like man this country doesn't exist for 35 years who you're talking about
even pro-dictatorship belarusians call it Belarus
New browser tool lets users freeze the internet in 2022 to escape AI-generated content.
Say “goodbye” to “AI slop”.
A new browser extension called Slop Evader lets you surf the web as if AI never existed. Created by artist and researcher Tega Brain, it automatically filters Google search results to show only pages published before November 30, 2022—the day generative AI went mainstream.
The result is a quieter, more human internet: no AI-written listicles, no synthetic stock photos, no deepfake videos or bot-penned product reviews. Just the pre-2023 web, frozen in time.
Slop Evader (and similar tools like Kagi’s SlopStop) reflects a growing backlash against the flood of low-quality, machine-generated content that has overwhelmed search engines and social feeds.
Brain stresses that the extension isn’t meant to be a forever solution. Instead, it’s a deliberate act of protest—an easy way for everyday users to reject the creeping artificiality of today’s web and demand something better. You lose access to anything new, of course, but for many, the trade-off feels worth it: clarity over noise, authenticity over algorithm.
Kind of a continuation of the last fanart
Waterboy's superpowers are actually scarry (for him), he must've been at the brink of death from hypothermia multiple times in his life. This man is a walking icicle
#dispatch