Dawn Blackwood 🌤️

@blackwoodsun.bsky.social

🇦🇺 Australian | ♀️Cis Fem (She/Her), ♠️ Ace | 28 Digital Artist - Mainly of OCs. Working on webcomic 'Arma Lucis' Website: https://blackwoodsunstudio.carrd.co/ 🚫 No NFT's or AI 🚫

I am starting a studio! We are small and scrappy and have no money. Why am I doing this? Because the only ones who can protect art are the ones who value it. Disney using AI? Yuck. Netflix buying WB? Also yuck. In 10 years what is even going to be left.

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Every day in 2026 I've woken up mad, without fail. Fuck ICE, fuck this whole fucking Administration. Bunch of evil evil evil dirty little liars. WE SEE THROUGH YOU!!!! *screams* what absolute scumbags. #art

A poster I made of a combat boot slamming down on an ice agent, the words on it say "I like my ice crushed"

My grievance with the notion of talent is how much it disempowers individuals and how deterministic it is — how it causes most to believe that there is an age limit to learning and developing skills, and most importantly, that it’s not as worthy of trying as a result

hmmmm i kinda like sharing my design esque stuff but idk if i wanna also shove it under my art tag or make a seperate one (indecisive) but here are some recent scribbles of a redesign of my divination wizard... can you tell hes a real raven queen and fate luvr ✦ #oc #ocsky #art #dnd

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Ok I'm going to suggest a goal for everyone to try to accomplish right away: back up all of your files on an external hard drive or thumb drive. NOT the cloud! I mean on something you own not connected to the internet that some other company or person has control over.

A lot of companies seem to be under the impression that we only care if gAI was used in the final product and using it for concept art/placeholder art is ok. gAl is poison that should be nowhere near any creative process. Not a single asset. Not a single placeholder sign. Give no inch.

Amanda Lien@alienfirst.bsky.social · 10mo ago

From 2024. Apparently missed that the first time around. This just destroys my hype for Dark Heresy. If Rogue Trader was made without AI “helping” the concept art phase, there is zero reason to push it on to Dark Heresy development. I am gutted.

Screenshot of a Twitter/X post by @OwlcatGames made on 3/2/24. Text reads: “Guys, we would like to clarify this issue. We use AI as a working tool for our future project, which is in the early stages of production right now.
AI will be used exclusively for additional work with concepts and speeding up some internal processes (for example, for creative search, inspiration, or vision coordination before starting conceptualization itself).
The final version of the game will not have any art generated by the neural networks. The same goes for the final concepts. Everything will be original and drawn by professional artists.
On our current projects, Rogue Trader and Pathfinder, AI was not used at all.
We are very sorry that we confused you with the information about AI in the job description. We understand that without further explanation this may be misinterpreted, so we have removed this information.”

An anonymous Japanese game studio is making applicants draw in front of them during interviews to prove they don't use generative AI 🎮 “Only human creators can produce compelling characters and graphics from scratch”

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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to