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First order of business: a correction to my last journal. I did not change the prologue, I changed the order in which my proposed chapters appear in my own documents, but they still exist, with full explanations as to what/why/ect in my gallery. Also, I have been giving access to the manuscript to friends in Google Docs, and found a very helpful little book that has been a tool for correcting my appallingly stagnant sentence structures. I am the only person I know who can make violent destruction and intense drama sound utterly dull af ... in as many words as possible.
Some things you should know, if you're seeing my gallery for the first time:
I've been around long enough to see dA grow quite a LOT, and make some pretty spectacular communication blunders (according to me...). Yaaaaay young adulthood. Also I took some pretty screwed up meds in my early 20s and dealt with a major loss and a number of lesser-but-still-important personal losses. I also developed a medical condition that I didn't know about at the time, and one that I did find out about at the time, and both contributed to my mental funk-ery and interpersonal fuckery. So I put my own head back in order over the past decade+, and I'm doing better, if not perfect. I don't really get into being personal online, anymore, but this is very important to me because I want you to know that if I fuck up, I'm sorry. I really am. I don't mean to do it, and I'm trying really hard to be better. Also my anxiety compels me to offer this as a broad apology to all the people who have come into contact with my ten+ year ... mishap, because I'm really, really sorry about that shit......
If I fail to answer your messages adequately or at all, it's because I don't multitask and/or I have lapses where I forget what I was going to say or how to appropriately say it. I also frequently see messages on my mobile app, while I'm busy doing other stuff, so I sometimes forget, and I'm super sorry, because I used to be way more attentive to stuff like that (when I was not yet fully "adulting," as they say). I also used to type about 3x faster!
I try to be around more, but I've learned not to make that promise. All I can tell you is that I work quite a lot on my novel. I found an alternative to hauling a computer around, which is having a huge phone with Docs on it, hooked to a $20 bluetooth keyboard. It's been really useful for working on certain things, and Docs has helped me pen ideas on the fly.
To everyone who still talks to me after all the crazy shit, THANK YOU. You're more amazing to me than I've probably let you know. You're top dogs around here. Really great people. Just great. <3 I can't ever say that enough. Thank you. <3
Some things you should know, if you're seeing my gallery for the first time:
I've been around long enough to see dA grow quite a LOT, and make some pretty spectacular communication blunders (according to me...). Yaaaaay young adulthood. Also I took some pretty screwed up meds in my early 20s and dealt with a major loss and a number of lesser-but-still-important personal losses. I also developed a medical condition that I didn't know about at the time, and one that I did find out about at the time, and both contributed to my mental funk-ery and interpersonal fuckery. So I put my own head back in order over the past decade+, and I'm doing better, if not perfect. I don't really get into being personal online, anymore, but this is very important to me because I want you to know that if I fuck up, I'm sorry. I really am. I don't mean to do it, and I'm trying really hard to be better. Also my anxiety compels me to offer this as a broad apology to all the people who have come into contact with my ten+ year ... mishap, because I'm really, really sorry about that shit......
If I fail to answer your messages adequately or at all, it's because I don't multitask and/or I have lapses where I forget what I was going to say or how to appropriately say it. I also frequently see messages on my mobile app, while I'm busy doing other stuff, so I sometimes forget, and I'm super sorry, because I used to be way more attentive to stuff like that (when I was not yet fully "adulting," as they say). I also used to type about 3x faster!
I try to be around more, but I've learned not to make that promise. All I can tell you is that I work quite a lot on my novel. I found an alternative to hauling a computer around, which is having a huge phone with Docs on it, hooked to a $20 bluetooth keyboard. It's been really useful for working on certain things, and Docs has helped me pen ideas on the fly.
To everyone who still talks to me after all the crazy shit, THANK YOU. You're more amazing to me than I've probably let you know. You're top dogs around here. Really great people. Just great. <3 I can't ever say that enough. Thank you. <3
Anti-AI Rant #2
As artists we often argue over what art is or should be, splitting hairs over fine lines between form, color, composition, and especially content, but by God we can all agree: AI is not art. It doesn't even inspire conversations about art. It's just infuriating to realize that all the thought you imagined going into a piece is all a lie and never happened, and was just cooked up by a computer trained on art by real humans who worked hard to learn how it was done in the first place. Brush strokes? Fake. Light, Shadow, Form, Color, Texture? Fake. Composition? Fake, because the "artist" never took it into consideration. The computer made it, and the user said, "That's pretty. I'll save that one." (Rant #1 is on my blog. I keep forgetting to actually post it because I kept hoping it would become an irrelevant tirade. It has not.)
Time to update that Marasuchus.
People seem to like my Marasuchus reference model, and that thing was so rough. 😅 Y'all. I'm gonna make a new one with updated source material. My model frankly does little to contribute to the paleoart community - nor was it meant to do more than show how I was using Photoshop to work around my frustration at the time. Finding information on that particular animal is quite tricky and requires keeping up with the latest studies, as not a whole lot is really known about it, so I'll include some of that information and my latest thoughts in the new model. I'm already somewhat at odds with statements I made in the old one. -- Disclaimer: I am not a paleontologist or paleoartist in any way. I've been out of the science world for a long time (for almost as long as I was in it ... God. Where is time going....). I'm just a fan and fiction writer who wanted to build a better Marasuchus. I also don’t draw skeletons particularly well, so I will also link to folks who did it better. Stay tuned!
Patreon is LIVE and ACTIVE
Shapeshifting semi-magical dinosaur space agents. 1990s Southeast USA. A series of science-fantasy fiction that uploads around 2 chapters per month. A writer/artist's sketches and editorial process. Patreon is LIVE. $3USD Tier will also post to Ko-Fi as often as possible. Please understand that I will be doing what I can to minimize the amount of additional work I need to do outside of writing, due to work/life constraints. I'm trying to make this as easy as possible for myself but still entertaining for the rest of you (which means I will probably minimize my time on Twitter except to continue using it as night shift entertainment). www.patreon.com/ryozaealliance ALL MATERIAL FOR FIRST THREE CHAPTERS is CURRENTLY UNLOCKED! Check it out now! Sign up today to support the project! Ko-Fi contributions are also welcome! Your support will help contribute towards future perks, professional editing, publication, and the goal of seeing the whole series come to fruition.
PATREON- 10.31.2022 -this time with a better plan.
Barring life's insanities, I will be uploading CHAPTERS to PATREON 10.31.2022. From the website blog: "I’ve tried to start up Patreon once before, and it didn’t go well. In my defense, there was a lot less going on in my life, and I had overly-lofty goals because I was under the mistaken impression that Patreon is about offering lots of stuff. I don’t exactly have time to keep up with a whole lot of subscription tiers and fancy rewards, as I’m already stretching the limits of my available time and energy. But really, that’s not what it’s all about, is it? If you’re here, it’s because of the book. And that’s what ultimately matters. "What I do have is a solid 1/3 of a book — that is to say my current edits lie somewhere around the 1/3 mark and I feel relatively confident with the present iteration, at least to the point where I’m not having to explain myself (as much*) when other people read it. That’s really what this is about, after all, isn’t it?" [...] "October 31st is the date
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