blackdragon21

Ok I tried out the A.I. prompt thing that was up on the top of the page and frankly I don't really care much for it.

You see when i discovered that someone can easily make art without all the years of perfecting the skill i would seriously call that rather lazy. But i am not going to say much about it because i have friends in the real world who are A.I. artists. It is so easy to use words instead of drawing pictures from your own hands that i find myself baffled by all this.

Still it was worth a shot to see what certain characters look like when you put them in A. I. however when i did my first prompt which was the Gundam Wing Pilots in Hogwarts uniforms it did not come out how i wanted it too. I don't think the computers that are programed to create these forms know what they are or what these anime characters look like.

Also they look far too much like the artwork of some people i know.

creepy really.

I also am still annoyed with the constant scammers trying to scam me again. Not happening. people please if you want to get a hold of me for a legit offer stop trying to use the same damn speech that the scammers do.

Its getting rather old.

Ever since I posted a while back about scammers and one in a particular. Deviant art has kindly shut that person down for good. However it is almost a daily basis now that I keep getting messages in my chat by other scammers wanting to take my cash again.

They post the same message every time with the same wording as if they cut and paste from a speech card. It is getting repetitive and boring. It is so bad now that i can tell that they are scammers.

So I decided to tell other people how to tell a scammer if they don't already know.

1. If they said they are inspired by your work but don't tell you which piece was the inspiration. They even ask to do a collab with you and offer to pay you.

2. They say they are doing a mural or a piece without telling you the location of the mural or what the piece is about.

3. They don't tell you their country of origin.

4. They call you babe or honey without knowing your gender (I asked a few others about this and they said that they were disturbed by this).

5. They insist you use an unknown app or website to transfer money to them.

6. Last but not least they don't share their previous works with you that they have not already posted.

These are some of the crap I have to deal with and I ended up turning down legit deals because i didn't know of they were scammers or not. I even turned down job offers because of it. It has given me a big paranoia about accepting nothing i can physically see.

So here is how you can filter though them.

First and foremost check their deviant page most often it contains 0 deviations. If their new then it might be an old scammer using a different identity.

Second ask how long they had been doing their craft meaning how long they had been painting, drawing, cg work and so forth look for credentials.

Ask questions even dumb ones.

Take some of their work and post them on your deviant page to see if anyone reported their work stolen. If they did then inform them of the deviant you got the work from.

Most important which i found to most obvious is to report them to administration. get enough complains and their site is shut down.

Or make like me and ignore them completely and delete their message after doing research.

But if you are bored then messing with them is always fun too before you block and report them to admin.

These are the things I do to scammers. Don't mess with an angry dragon.

Ok just to let you know that I had been scammed by a fellow deviant. This person started requesting to use one of my paintings for a collaboration piece and that I would get a cut. well turns out that guy was full of crap because the checks he sent to me were fraud.

Now my bank accounts are frozen until the investigation party gives me the green light to have them open up again. Thank god I paid the bills beforehand!

I checked the pieces of his site just to do a background on this guy and turns out the styles on the page don't match! And from what I saw they look like someone else's artwork. So if you see anyone who looks suspicious let everyone know that this person is a scammer.

Oh and for future references. I will not be accepting any collab commission works unless the person is physically here in my home state with a legitimate art business. Or if they want to buy something from me they have to go to my prints page for i will not accept anything else.

Fanart however is still open for commissions free of charge. Original works however you will have to prove you are a legitimate artist but even then i will not accept any original commissions unless I know you.

Ok so I am still alive and kicking and still actively putting up deviations for those of you who may not have noticed. But I am mostly putting up things from my sketch book that is why there is wrinkling along the images. (Sorry I am not a pro-artist). But I still do once in a while post paintings and digital stuff. I got the photos but i have been mostly posting them to my instagram page.

So if you wanted up to date stuff you i normally post them on facebook and instagram the progress thing. I don't really have time for the subscription thing hell i don't have time to do that on youtube. So I will post what i can when i can.

Anyhow I am watching old anime as well as some new ones. I am hooked on Gundam Witch from Murcury and Raven from Inner Palace right now. I am also rewatching Gundam Wing and started watching Look/SM a Korean Anime.

Man what has the world come to so busy these days. But I will try to keep people posted.

Ok so remember back in April I said I am recovering from Heart Failure? Well that recovery time is nearly over and I have to wait till i can get rescheduled back to work. But the scars it left me are permanent. I am stuck on a no salt/ Low Sodium diet, I have to take pills to regulate my blood pressure (Which makes me go to the bathroom a lot.) and monitor my weight and blood pressure on a daily basis.

This sucks big time!

I just wanna go back to work and have things back to normal again. I wanna eat my fav foods again. I just wanna be normal again.

Now I am not allowed to do certain things because it would aggravate my heart. The only good thing about it is that i am somewhat losing my pot belly. Now if i only stop looking like a turtle (I hate you dad!)