SirMeo

If you bought anything from this seller and not from an actual artist, you are a moron. Why is dA hyping them up??? It's AI "art" and if you open your notifications, the side bar will proudly hype how much money this prompt-writer made from dA. They could've chosen any of the real artists on this site, yet. They didn't.

Anyway, since dA is doubling down on their AI shit, I'm really having second thoughts on this place as a platform. I love the nice comments you give me! And I can automate posting with postybirb, so I've kept my dA account active, and it hasn't cost me anything, and I've been able to filter most AI work by being careful about who I watch and blocking most obvious AI bros when they +watch me, but the amount of AI shilling the people in charge do is impossible to ignore.

Are there any other sites worth using? Any places you can recommend? I also take Discord server invitations, but I don't want to be exclusively on Discord + I'm picky about servers (I only join servers where people are 18+ [so ZERO minors], and I like lurking until I'm comfy with the vibes, which might take months) so art gallery sites and social media that works well with visual art are my main interests.

All my active social media and art galleries can be found here: https://www.vincered.net/socials/

That being said, twitter (i'm not calling it x) is bad for obvious reasons, tumblr might implode any day, and I haven't really found the drive to be super active on bsky (mostly because their image uploads are awkward; for example, transparent pngs dont work!) and don't have much following there... so honestly, my situation regarding art sites looks pretty grim.

I'm not "leaving" dA -- not yet, at least! Expect more uploads in the future! But if this AI situation manages to get even worse, I'm left with no choice.

Hey! I'm looking for art inspiration, so... please, send me asks to/about my characters and I'll draw the answers if I'm able to!

All I ask is that the asks are respectful and aren't like... super meme-y.

Also, try not to ask about WoW-characters, I'm not on my WoW RP phase right now, though if you think your ask is super good, I guess feel free to risk it.

> My toyhouse account if you need a refresher on my characters: https://toyhou.se/SirMeo/characters

People submitting at least one question that gets a drawn answer will get an extra entry for the next art raffle giveaway I hold in the future.

2023 what a year huh

It's been. It's been a year.

Good things have happened, bad things have happened. I don't know if this has been a good year or a bad year, so I guess it's a meh year if anything. Actually, now that I think about it, mood-wise, it's definitely been "meh, bordering on bad" because I've had some crazy lows this year. I was definitely overall happier in 2022. But! I've managed to continue my studies (I've dropped out like 3 times before due to health reasons, so this is actually pretty big for me) and done some decent art this year. In fact, there's a lot of art I did that I really like, and I'm a bit sad that a lot of those pieces went completely unnoticed by viewers. But such is life, I'm not entitled to anyone's attention, I just have to try harder. In any case, I'm my own target audience anyway.

Oh, also, I am thinking of hosting an art giveaway/raffle sometime after new years, so... be ready I guess.

In 2024, I'm hoping to.............

- Draw more comics. I only did that short comic this year, and I'm CRAVING more. But it is time-consuming and requires focus, to draw comics I mean. Still, I WILL draw comics in 2024

- Overall focus more on narrative stuff when it comes to my own characters

- I'm hoping to find an active(ish) art and/or rp community. I need more art friends. I want to get back into writing rp. I'm taking recommendations/suggestions (though I need to warn you, it takes me like 2 months to warm up before I become active on servers)

- Make more games. You didn't know I made games? I've only made a few simple ones, but I can do game art and I'm looking to do more. If you want to play some games I've worked on, check out my itch.io account: https://sirmeo.itch.io/ Mänteater is especially fun as a lil arcade game, and Cyber Scythe is a short platforming experience that's not really replayable, but I still think it's worth playing through once.

- Related, I want to participate in a game jam! Sadly, I don't really know many people to jam with and I'm still a bit too shy to just sign up solo

- On a more IRL (ew) slant, I need to find an internship place. I've been searching for months to no avail, but to graduate I really, really, really need to find a place asap. Game art or UX design, I don't even care

- Last, but not least, I need to give more kisses to little hampsters

If you're an AI """artist""" don't interact with me or +watch me.

Just fuck off 😃

Hey.

Some of you might know that I'm trying to get back into drawing comics/stories, mainly focusing on my low effort fantasy setting. I have plans on returning to my """bigger""" stories too, but right now? I just want to have some fun.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme.....XwAIYR0r-1.jpg

NOW

can you do a vibe check for these characters for me?

Just write down your first impressions on them. What you think their personality/role is, anything that comes to mind.

If you're longer timer follower of mine, you might know something about them already, but that's fine.

From left to right they are Eligori, Beriith, Val and Floriano.

If you comment here, you'll have my endless thanks and i might remember your name when i do free art giveaways or someuch.