While not really anyone's concern here I'd imagine, I made the decision that I will never host my work on DeviantArt anymore. Their antics have been getting utterly repugnant, and from what I've heard from other users; increasingly hateful towards artists, doing unjustified banning or artists or deleting their work, and seemingly allowing generated images that go against their own rules (including paraphilias no-one in their right mind would agree with.)

So screw DA. Another example of someone/something becoming the villain.

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Haven't been active artistically due to another bout of depression, plus I've been busy getting rid of some physical objects I have no need for (Ebay), as well as needing to do some painting in my apartment due to some changes made by new closets being installed. Also spring cleaning and reorganizing Clip Studio of all the things I realized I likely won't be using.

Bee-tee-dubs, I'm selling my XP-Pen Artist 15.6 Pro since I don't really need it with my 22R Pro and the fact selling my junk landed me enough dosh to snag a Microsoft Surface Pro 9 so I can do this while on the move.

Going for 225 euros.

Ahhah! Ahhahhah! Ahhhh... Catharsis.

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Good friend informed me of this.

Pissed off about places like DeviantArt, ArtStation and all the AI generators stealing art? Here's something to do against it, at least on the US side of things.

While Newgrounds is now my main base of operations for art uploads (aside from Twitter but we'll see if that goes the way of the dodo with the seemingly imminent social media crash), that doesn't mean I don't still have a bone to pick with the self-proclaimed representative of artists that is DeviantArt.

With their recent decision to swing in favor of "AI-art" generator software, thus leading to several artists to leave the platform (and good on that I say), I still feel that DeviantArt needs to pay for its betrayal of those it once claimed to represent and make their lives a living hell.

As such I established Artists Against AI (Or AAA, aka Triple-A) to show solidarity to any an all artists and art fans that we will not stand for this kind of treatment. Times are hard enough for everyone all over the world, why make things even worse?

If you've a DeviantArt account, be you a creator or not and you are opposed to people trying to pass AI as art (basically doing all of jack and sh*t), please consider joining us or any of our affiliates. Spread the word; art is not something to be relegated to some soulless algorithm with no inherent meaning behind it!

In light of recent assholery by DeviantArt with their proliferation of "AI art" (IT IS NOT ART!) I will be making Newgrounds my new primary base of operations for the foreseeable future, so expect more activity on this end. I will also remain active on my FurAffinity DragonCount profile and on Twitter for however long that place remains viable for my needs.

I have decided that I must make changes to my Patreon tiers.

I've been getting so many commissions this spring and summer, that I haven't been able to keep up with the freebies. So I've decided that colored and shaded freebies will not be doable anymore since I have so many other things to do on top.

But not to worry, freebies will still be available, but I'm only limiting them to sketches and inks and to a limited number. Any freebies I still owe to current patrons will be completed as they were intended based on the previous tiers!

The $1 and $20 tiers are going to be removed, the sketch and ink tiers will be moved to $10 and $15 respectively since those are essentially the USD prices for a sketch and inked piece since I price via euros. Commission discounts will be improved, starting from the $5 tier this time!

Also for added benefits; with any and all freebie sketches and inked pieces, should one choose to commission to upgrade them to a colored piece, shaded or no, they will have the overall price of said commission reduced based on whether it is a sketch or ink (so 8 euros to 12 euros respectively), on top of still getting a commission discount!

Also my commissions repertoire is going to be revised, but not to worry: This will only entail expansions to the current repertoire, so no price changes! I will be updating the price chart with my newer pics.

I've lowered the prices for commissions by approx 20 - 25 percent!