Jolly's posts

I knew that yall would be just as excited as I am
for the most part
>: D

I already bought a spoopy table runner
my husband thinks I should wait to put up my spoopy garland but I dont think I will
in fact, I might buy another garland for putting in the kitchen too

BUT I DID MAKE A BOOKMARK
yay traditional art how do I do this again

I'll be honest I haven't worked on this in a while only because of how much this stool made me rage

It was
so impossibly stupid
to balance every par of it to glue it together.
tiny wires
tiny beads
nothing but my own damn fingers to hold it together

and I have a second one to make but I dont wanna

new arts new farts

A friend of mine on twitter was talking about using this midjourney thing with their paintings.
Curiously I looked up what this even is and quickly got addicted!

If you didn't know, its a server on discord riddled with this bot ai that you give a prompt to and it spits out these crazy cool images. Most of them seem to be stuck in a similar blotchy paint style. So I was like, well, I've been trying to conceptualize a world in a story my husband and I have been brainstorming together. Maybe this could help us form new ideas?

Behold [some] of the pieces I told it to make!


When you initially give it prompts, it gives you 4 image thumbnails that you can choose to have it redo everything, create new variations of a specific thumbnail concept, or to upscale one or each of them.


You can also have it go a step further and slightly upscale it more, or upscale it to the max. I haven't done that to anything yet cause I kinda like where its at with the regular upscale. And it all consumes something, of course.
When starting out, you are on a free trial where you can make quite a lot of these for free personal use. iirc you can make about 20-24 of these depending on what actions you take. It doesn't count per image, but rather it counts the amount of time the ai takes to process (from how I understand GPU minutes). There's a breakdown in there somewhere, but basically each prompt costs like 0.87 (or something) minutes and upscaling takes like 1.10 GPU minutes, and you get 25 total.
Or pay and get more.

ANYWAY LOOK AT MY FAVORITE ONE
it makes me think of the dragons in Breath of the Wild


as for how my friend wanted to use these by painting over them and just altering them into their own thing, they found that this way is far too limiting.
But I would love to use these more for inspiration! Probably not so much pose refs since it tends to distort things a bit. But just, framing a picture, filling void space with something, or just having a landscape reference to challenge myself with?

@Q t e a p o n:
Haha yeah I'm just gonna fulfill it but cancel the trade since they waited so long and I like the person anyway, they cool xD
set it on my tomorrow's to do list since Ill be off work!

Any improvement is good improvement, so I am glad that he's able to fight hard!

Sending love and hope to you ;;
it can be really hard when a close family member isn't doing well. But I do hope he can pull through this! Sometimes our bodies and strength can be surprising.

Please keep us updated!

@Totalanimefan:
I KNOWWWW

@blue:
I think the problem is I definitely don't prioritize trades as much as I should. So I can get distracted easily by anything else that goes on offline and poof, memory gone :,)

@MoodyB:
Yesss
I know a lot of artists do this but I'm usually not THIS bad I think

unless I've forgotten about others
that i never remembered
ohnowhatif--
xD

I can't offer helpful feedback to every question, but i do think this is a great idea!! and absolutely yes to recolors!! That would be very exciting :D

@Totalanimefan:
It ended August 1st! I goaled myself at drawing 30 pieces but only got to doing 20-- but that's still a success in my eyes xD

but yeah, I'm trying to learn how to focus as much on the positives that go on. serious stuff tends to take over my mind. but I've been reading my husband's books with helpful Buddhist stuff in it! it like cleans up my brain lmao

Hiii!
I also feel I haven't been chatting enough on here, outside of ranting in serious topics.
BUT ASIDE FROM THAT JAZZ things are good :D

Kept busy with Artfight
Then an ingame event on ffxiv
and working on secret art projects xD

GUYS I FORGOT I HAD AN ART THREAD ON HERE
:vanora_stunned:
omg omg I had an order in there I somehow thought in my brain that I completed but I didn't.
who knows where my noggin went!!
I think the trade is still open after what, months?
asfshafsjda

I WILL GET TO IT I WILL
and waive the trade cause lmao oopsie

You ever just forget about something for a really long time and then you're just sitting at work half awake and brain is like
" .... hey btw"

Its

almost

here





time to obsess over autumn decor