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Art Style Update+ Apology
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MooBlueMerry
Hello everyone, this is an update for well... everyone lol. Hi :p
To start this off, I want to apologize for the incredibly long silence and lack of artwork being uploaded lately. It's just been youtube thumbnails for the most part, which isn't exactly anything new, and I want to give an explanation as to what's been going on with me on my end.
The reason I have been silent on FA has included a number of reasons, but the most prominent is that I lost confidence in my art style due to my work schedule, AI, and production time. It just took too long for me to complete my work with all of the tasks I am required to perform irl. I either come home exhausted or annoyed because my employer never lets me just leave when my shift is over. They always scramble to find someone to relieve my shift because I handle so much at my workstation. Often times, I wind up having to stay multiple hours a week, or alone when there are supposed to be two people at the work station, meaning I must perform twice the work a normal person normally would.
I would not be bringing this up if it were not relevant, but long story short, I have not had any time to work on art projects with my job demanding an arm and a leg out of my physical health.
The second reason for my incredibly long pauses between uploads (even though I previously said I would try to post more often) is that I lost confidence in my art style. The rise of AI has resulted in me losing sleep because I have to compete with super computers that are designed to steal the work of creators and make slop online. This might not sound like a problem if you are not one of the artist that they steal art from, but for me personally, it meant that my art was being matched up against super computers that can copy it in seconds, and I have had the misfortune of learning which sites do/do not steal user content the hard way. This doesn't stop me from drawing art, but with the large work load I had, I was severely discouraged from drawing any art when a computer prompt could just generate an image with more detail, or even steal my work if I weren't being watchful of where I uploaded. As a result I received a massive artblock that has messed with me for the last 3 months, and my work schedule has kept me from being able to deal with it until now.
The last and greatest reason is that my art style was a massive conflict of interest concerning the welfare of my projects. When I make an art piece, I try to use efficiency and quality, but sometimes I have replaced efficiency with quantity, and it tanked the quality of y work by a severe margin. This is a big issue with me concerning previous submissions and I have had to spend months figuring out how to balance the anxiety, workload and upload rate of my work. I have had two options for how I handle my personal artwork and commissions that people have paid me for.
1. Rush out something sloppy in my old style, and try to make it passable by adding "pizzazz" (Long Term Negative Impact)
2. Fight through my massive art block, develop a better art style for all 4 projects, and future projects... and in doing so, I would save my myself years of frustration over not improving. (Short Term Negative being the time it takes to improve)
I chose the latter, because I have had two big projects FLOP because my art quality is bad. For that matter, many of my projects flop because my style is not good enough to properly convey or respect the theme my work is depicting.
In my own eyes, if I can't call my art good, I don't like making it, and if a freaking DELL LATITUDE LAPTOP can make something that looks better than what I call "good", then I feel like I am a bad artist. In the past, I would receive a few criticisms (well deserved) over art quality and the direction I took my art, and those decisions were often made for short-term benefits to me, and resulted in long-term negative outcomes. The versions of my artwork weren't always impressive, and I often was trying to cram every idea into one drawing. My work schedule also leaves a lot to be desired... when I try to work less hours at work, they purposelessly give me more. They are unhappy with me having any time off, because when I am not working in the store, some new employee comes to my workstation and they MESS EVERYTHING UP. I always come back to find everything a mess or management nearly begging me to stay overtime. I'm too good at my job, and I can't just discuss my scheddule with my bosses because I have student loans to pay off >:(
Well, just on loan now. Thanks to you guys constant support, I have been able to wipe out 22,000 dollars of student loans in 3 years. That is insane, and you guys are awesome. Having said all of this, I must notify all of you that I have paused ALL PATREON PAYMENTS until april 20th this year. I need a break, need to refocus, and need to bounce back from all the setbacks that have gone through, because I got myself into this mess, and now I need to animate my way out of it by brute force... but at least I get to enjoy it :)
Let me know your thoughts about the art style above, because I am not done improving it until I reach the level of quality I want my work to reach, and I don't care how long that takes.
MooBlueMerryHello everyone, this is an update for well... everyone lol. Hi :p
To start this off, I want to apologize for the incredibly long silence and lack of artwork being uploaded lately. It's just been youtube thumbnails for the most part, which isn't exactly anything new, and I want to give an explanation as to what's been going on with me on my end.
The reason I have been silent on FA has included a number of reasons, but the most prominent is that I lost confidence in my art style due to my work schedule, AI, and production time. It just took too long for me to complete my work with all of the tasks I am required to perform irl. I either come home exhausted or annoyed because my employer never lets me just leave when my shift is over. They always scramble to find someone to relieve my shift because I handle so much at my workstation. Often times, I wind up having to stay multiple hours a week, or alone when there are supposed to be two people at the work station, meaning I must perform twice the work a normal person normally would.
I would not be bringing this up if it were not relevant, but long story short, I have not had any time to work on art projects with my job demanding an arm and a leg out of my physical health.
The second reason for my incredibly long pauses between uploads (even though I previously said I would try to post more often) is that I lost confidence in my art style. The rise of AI has resulted in me losing sleep because I have to compete with super computers that are designed to steal the work of creators and make slop online. This might not sound like a problem if you are not one of the artist that they steal art from, but for me personally, it meant that my art was being matched up against super computers that can copy it in seconds, and I have had the misfortune of learning which sites do/do not steal user content the hard way. This doesn't stop me from drawing art, but with the large work load I had, I was severely discouraged from drawing any art when a computer prompt could just generate an image with more detail, or even steal my work if I weren't being watchful of where I uploaded. As a result I received a massive artblock that has messed with me for the last 3 months, and my work schedule has kept me from being able to deal with it until now.
The last and greatest reason is that my art style was a massive conflict of interest concerning the welfare of my projects. When I make an art piece, I try to use efficiency and quality, but sometimes I have replaced efficiency with quantity, and it tanked the quality of y work by a severe margin. This is a big issue with me concerning previous submissions and I have had to spend months figuring out how to balance the anxiety, workload and upload rate of my work. I have had two options for how I handle my personal artwork and commissions that people have paid me for.
1. Rush out something sloppy in my old style, and try to make it passable by adding "pizzazz" (Long Term Negative Impact)
2. Fight through my massive art block, develop a better art style for all 4 projects, and future projects... and in doing so, I would save my myself years of frustration over not improving. (Short Term Negative being the time it takes to improve)
I chose the latter, because I have had two big projects FLOP because my art quality is bad. For that matter, many of my projects flop because my style is not good enough to properly convey or respect the theme my work is depicting.
In my own eyes, if I can't call my art good, I don't like making it, and if a freaking DELL LATITUDE LAPTOP can make something that looks better than what I call "good", then I feel like I am a bad artist. In the past, I would receive a few criticisms (well deserved) over art quality and the direction I took my art, and those decisions were often made for short-term benefits to me, and resulted in long-term negative outcomes. The versions of my artwork weren't always impressive, and I often was trying to cram every idea into one drawing. My work schedule also leaves a lot to be desired... when I try to work less hours at work, they purposelessly give me more. They are unhappy with me having any time off, because when I am not working in the store, some new employee comes to my workstation and they MESS EVERYTHING UP. I always come back to find everything a mess or management nearly begging me to stay overtime. I'm too good at my job, and I can't just discuss my scheddule with my bosses because I have student loans to pay off >:(
Well, just on loan now. Thanks to you guys constant support, I have been able to wipe out 22,000 dollars of student loans in 3 years. That is insane, and you guys are awesome. Having said all of this, I must notify all of you that I have paused ALL PATREON PAYMENTS until april 20th this year. I need a break, need to refocus, and need to bounce back from all the setbacks that have gone through, because I got myself into this mess, and now I need to animate my way out of it by brute force... but at least I get to enjoy it :)
Let me know your thoughts about the art style above, because I am not done improving it until I reach the level of quality I want my work to reach, and I don't care how long that takes.
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I wouldn't say your art quality is bad in particular, yeah there's room for improvement, but, you have an incredibly distinctive style that I can immediately recognise as yours just from a simple glance. My biggest criticism to you - I apologize because I know you didn't ask - Is mostly that the colours you use tend to be a little too "bright" and it sometimes makes it difficult to make out some details (The Bee-Kyuubi series, for example). With that said, the art style you've gone with here? It looks great! And it's still distinctively your own style, which is even better.
As for your work troubles, I'm sorry you're going through that. I hope you can come to an arrangement that helps you and brings less stress, or at the very least find a better job that doesn't screw you over like your current one!
As for your work troubles, I'm sorry you're going through that. I hope you can come to an arrangement that helps you and brings less stress, or at the very least find a better job that doesn't screw you over like your current one!
Thanks, your criticism is definitely valid XD
When I was starting out with Krita and in general, I would struggle with shading art. Adding lighting seemed easy, but I mentally could not wrap my head around shading because I wasn't very good. It took me years to realize that I was actually hiding how bad my shading was by oversaturating everything with light. I mean, there is light in places that shadows should be, but when I tried adding shading, it was the same issue. My lighting/shading style erased the detail because I didn't know how to integrate it into the actual character body, so a lot of my art has been either a white out from lighting, or black out from shading until now.
In this new style, I want to avoid the light as much as possible, seeing that it erased many details I added/didn't add to the characters.
When I was starting out with Krita and in general, I would struggle with shading art. Adding lighting seemed easy, but I mentally could not wrap my head around shading because I wasn't very good. It took me years to realize that I was actually hiding how bad my shading was by oversaturating everything with light. I mean, there is light in places that shadows should be, but when I tried adding shading, it was the same issue. My lighting/shading style erased the detail because I didn't know how to integrate it into the actual character body, so a lot of my art has been either a white out from lighting, or black out from shading until now.
In this new style, I want to avoid the light as much as possible, seeing that it erased many details I added/didn't add to the characters.
I'm pretty late to this post but wanted to add a couple thoughts on AI art!
Namely, all of it can have an overpolished, soulless look. I'm not anti-AI art (like some people get mad about it for ethics). but I have, uh, 'enjoyed' YOUR art over the years far more than any amount of enjoyment I've gotten out of AI art.
I really like that well-prompted AI art can look so good, and can make for good reference material. but even the really 'good' AI porn starts to seem very same-y -- especially after seeing it for the 100th, 200th time. as compared to your art which has a lot of range, while still having a very distinctive (hot!) style.
you've probably also noticed that AI art is really bad at certain things, particularly unique character designs and sex between 2+ entities. some very basic sex positions it can handle, but those hit the same issue of being very same-y over time... AI can also do 1-panel transformation, but a whole smooth sequence over multiple pages? yeesh no, also quite bad at that.
So, in summary, I very much like YOUR style and I'm sorry you think AI is better -- when it's not! I would take a piece from you over AI any day of the week -- your art brings a lot more joy than AI art does. ^^ I understand it might capture your vision better at certain things, but it lacks your unique style which I quite enoy... And also, you have certain things that you're going to be beating it at for a while, like sex (your whole tom kench series lol, i can't imagine it doing any of that well), weird positions, long transformation/corruption sequences... your bread and butter, the stuff you're super well known for! X3 Not to mention all the text on your images, which I adore... Some of my favorite stuff, like Shellder's Treat, The Mimic's Slave, Strad vs Ripper, Subjugation Protocol... I can't imagine AI actually handling any of those as well as you did. >__< So I really hope you don't lose faith in your style, or try to emulate AI art too closely. wanting to improve is a good thing, but I love your stories and the 'pizzazz' (text) you add to your art and your really kinky ideas. XD so i hope those really amazing elements don't get left behind, and that the cool elements of your style aren't lost.
Namely, all of it can have an overpolished, soulless look. I'm not anti-AI art (like some people get mad about it for ethics). but I have, uh, 'enjoyed' YOUR art over the years far more than any amount of enjoyment I've gotten out of AI art.
I really like that well-prompted AI art can look so good, and can make for good reference material. but even the really 'good' AI porn starts to seem very same-y -- especially after seeing it for the 100th, 200th time. as compared to your art which has a lot of range, while still having a very distinctive (hot!) style.
you've probably also noticed that AI art is really bad at certain things, particularly unique character designs and sex between 2+ entities. some very basic sex positions it can handle, but those hit the same issue of being very same-y over time... AI can also do 1-panel transformation, but a whole smooth sequence over multiple pages? yeesh no, also quite bad at that.
So, in summary, I very much like YOUR style and I'm sorry you think AI is better -- when it's not! I would take a piece from you over AI any day of the week -- your art brings a lot more joy than AI art does. ^^ I understand it might capture your vision better at certain things, but it lacks your unique style which I quite enoy... And also, you have certain things that you're going to be beating it at for a while, like sex (your whole tom kench series lol, i can't imagine it doing any of that well), weird positions, long transformation/corruption sequences... your bread and butter, the stuff you're super well known for! X3 Not to mention all the text on your images, which I adore... Some of my favorite stuff, like Shellder's Treat, The Mimic's Slave, Strad vs Ripper, Subjugation Protocol... I can't imagine AI actually handling any of those as well as you did. >__< So I really hope you don't lose faith in your style, or try to emulate AI art too closely. wanting to improve is a good thing, but I love your stories and the 'pizzazz' (text) you add to your art and your really kinky ideas. XD so i hope those really amazing elements don't get left behind, and that the cool elements of your style aren't lost.
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