Notices by David Revoy (davidrevoy@framapiaf.org), page 8

@lritter Haha, okay. Pretty obvious. I see why they got in a shitstorm now 😆 . The way that the scales are painted on this dragon is an obvious flag of the AI. (Or someone copied/pasted the scales from a photo or vector, and applied a bunch of smoothing, averaging, and sharpening filters). Same with the confusing origin of the tail branching out from the creature's stomach...
I thought the people at Wacom had some training in digital painting, or a better eye for computer graphics, but no. 🤣

@aral Yes, unless they take action (and that would be very surprising), this is a clear case of "ethics washing".

I found yesterday that hundreds of 2D Artist Magazine where uploaded to the Internet Archive, and I really enjoy browsing them for the quality tutorials, interviews and amazing artist portfolios. I thought some of you here might like it as well:
https://archive.org/details/2dartistmagazine

#archives #internetarchive #digitalpainting #MastoArt #computergraphics

@clacke Thanks! Yes, 🙂 I like to prototype on my sketchbook; it's a good way to put an idea on paper and see if it is a brainfart or something a bit deeper.
It also helps me to keep focus when I start Krita: I work better with a target. If I don't, I can paint-over and change ideas forever during the first steps 😅 Thanks for noticing all the little changes on the process!

@wolfger Haha, true. I decided I could probably start with a bit more optimism this year. My first sketch with ballpoint pen had crows, candle, crystal ball and a old grimoire. But I felt sad only looking at it (photo under), so I probably reacted into the opposite direction 🤣

✨ Happy New Year 2024.
With this illustration, I would like to wish you a calm and peaceful New Year.

#krita #ArtWithOpenSource #MastoArt

Happy Holidays Fediverse!

#fediverse #watercolor #MastoArt

💜 :framasoft: Framasoft does so many things in sync with my values that I'm always so proud when I do illustrations for them.

Check out their campaign page to end 2023 (and support them if you can); it's presented as a 2D character selection of a fighter video game and it was really fun to draw all the characters and monsters:

https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

@clacke @liw Hilarious! And what a performance from Odetta + Harry Belafonte!

Yak Shaving,
my new favorite expression.😄

@thomy2000 Yes, really hard. It's or an homage/cameo or we are artistic soul mate for staging a scene with similar elements. In both case, I'm happy anyway :blobaww: (and the short was good)

@hj :blobcatheart: Yes, that made me smile, because I could also interpret it like a subtle reference. At the end of the short, they reveal the city of Lyon, in France. It was also cool to know where grew the Lofi Girl.

I had a "déjà vu" while watching a scene from the short Snowman on the Lofi Girl channel. The coat, the angles, and details like the red scarf on the snowmen. It's okay, I like it! Stories are totally different and I take it as a compliment if eventually my art went on their preliminary mood board.

The Lofi Girl short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P5BSm_oFJg
The Pepper&Carrot episode: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep05_Special-holiday-episode.html

#Lofi #short #animation2d

@myrmidon I have no idea. I'm just a user. I understand those who are already defederated with them (as my instance), I understand those who are 'waiting and seeing'. But I'm also deeply concerned about those who praise this situation and try to normalise it as something positive. I don't see anything positive in it and I just wanted to say it.

@ploum Please do.

Many people seem to see this Threads federation test as a positive thing, or something to celebrate and I still have no idea why they do.
Words missing here.

The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.

#Threads #Mastodon #Krita #MastoArt #Meta

My version of the character Ada from "Ada & Zangemann", a Creative Commons license (BY-SA) book for children and a funny story about Free/Libre and Open-Source. It's written by Matthias Kirschner and illustrated by Sandra Brandstätter. It is great to see new characters in the Free Culture, especially because Ada is so cool. 💜
You can find it printed in English, French, German, Italian → https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann/

#krita #MastoArt #FreeCulture
#CreativeCommons #fsfe

⏳ Process:

#krita #MastoArt #ArtWithOpenSource

New blog-post: "My brushstrokes against AI-art" https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1007/my-brushstrokes-against-ai-art

(artwork: a concept art for Pepper&Carrot episode 39; Wasabi young.)

#MastoArt #Krita #ArtWithOpensource

@mhunt Hey, thanks for the link! (at 1:42; while drawing the eyes, big display lag) Oh, I'm pretty sure I'll have them on my email soon. The tricky part is always when I tell them I want to test without the proprietary driver and on Linux. That's where most disapear or don't reply 😂 We'll see!