The Duskfall Portal Crew (ART BLOG)

Final Preview for the album/single art! Single's not out yet clearly. And here's some progress coloring, I still have to format the timelapse - which is missing SOME timing because i had to convert the file to PSD to do the background work. But most of what's missing on the timelapse (WHEN I GET IT FORMATTED) -- is just me fixing the shades underneath Only to find out that on a black ass BG there's still white fluff in places.. I'm still waiting for the Anti's to come in and go "THATS AI ART, I KNOW BECAUSE ITS IMPERFECT ADN AND MESSY AND AND AND AND ..." ...Because clearly everything these days is AI and nobody's allowed to do normal art XD. ANYWAYS. Song is on youtube now: (*It'll be ready for spoofy etc this week in terms of distribution, i haven't finished mastering the wav file yet)

WIP: The reference. the pencils, the colors and flats.. MY WRIST HURTS.

In progress WIP. Yes, for once i'm not doing the "A EYE" bullshit y'all hate xD (pls don't come at me, I will bite, it was my job for almost two years, and I get both sides, i'm not here to fight)

Clip Studio + Wacom Tablet. Proof this isn't AI: I'm currently rejigging the hairline, AND doing a timelapse recording. Why am i bothering to even tell you this and post on tumblr? I DONT KNOW I SHOULD JUST DELETE my social media at this point *laughs nervously* No. I won't. *sighs* ANYWAYS I'm not trying to attack anyone it's just been a rough start to 2025: Was working in AI for 1.5years to almost 2, and that gig just shot straight out the window... Not because I got "REPLACED BY AI" But because I Got replaced by the equivalent of "Script kiddies with phone cameras" lol.

Progress on X-men 97 inspired with a fusion of Hazbin Alternative Universe version of Gambit/Remy LeBeau.

Just for reference this is our AU version of our Remy over at @midnyte-muses (penned by @duskfallcrewsys )

We're going to eventually color it but it's sunday and we've had crap sleep lol.

We're aware it doesn't look nearly as much like Remy as it normally does, but - XD his back story is severely complicated for this AU lol.

One that would be interesting if Marvel ever brought back What If XD

Anyways.

Enjoy.

Working on Remy's hazbin AU OC. this is for our RP blog:

@midnyte-muses

You're gonna laugh at how we have him dying XD

HAHAHHA.

Spent like a day trying to research stupid cultural crap. We're still working out Rogue's full death stuff for her AU - but he's trying to get the Elixr of life for Rogue (insert dumbass reason here we haven't crafted) -- and he had to dig a grave up -- and we have no CLUE AT THIS STAGE WHY IT PISSES ALASTOR OFF -

but we're considering that he died because a Border Collie came by and kicked his ass in the grave and did it's business in the dirt and kicked all the dirt on top of him XD

... And this makes sense if you know any dogs with. border collie heritage lmao.

We're fixing the ears still, it'll take us a bit we don't even have Anna's finished yet.

We posted that like three weeks ago @hazbinatdusk

Also we're getting @earthnicity 's husk to OWN him, but it'll be the only thing that'll be "EXCLUS" of sorts it wont even be exclusive XD it's just because QPP and we died laughing about it XD

A selection of art from before we got into design school in 2017. Yes we're aware wer'e quite shit at art. We're aware we're "AI DRIVEL" we don't need to hear it from the sasshats in the back. Found an older sketchbook that wasn't being used much the other day and we were doing random drawing to get our dopamine levels back up (youtube doesnt do it when half of your feed is tech and world events XD) We'll try and record more of our art for our own sake, because out of a moment of depression we'd deleted a lot of our old content and not sure where half of our stuff went.

We honestly forgot to update any changes with SL pics for alters... But if you're wondering LOL, this is roughly what he looks like now. Yes, his birthname is Matoya'iivi Na'agora-X'voor, and he's been through freaking wringers.

Matoya is his OSENAYAN name.

Christopher Ryan David X'voor

Twin brother to Christina Lue X'voor

As for any OUTFITS/LOCATIONS? *sighs* - We took these shots OVER A YEAR ago, we don't recall outfits.

There's a Relative of his from another universe that shares his face:

Steel Rodriguez :

I'm having a shit day. No this CLEARLY not done. No it is CLEARLY not AI.

But we wanted to draw shit and we feel like we can't fucking do anything around the place because we're useless.

(Pls note we know we're not but we're in the middle of fighting with QPP while dealing with covid)

AI art hot take time!

Preface: We work in the AI industry, we're just pulling hot takes while we take a two week break to get clear of some in-industry drama we got pulled into.

HOT TAKE TIME

Nijijourney is **THE WORST* service recently, and i feel like Midjourney is ACTIVLEY NERFING IT despite the fact that they're literally banking on this process..

Like YOU USED TO BE REASONABLY GOOD.

But 90% of the outputs i've had recently bar specifically maybe the Logo Design ones i did for kicks..

ARE HORSE SHIT.

Let's compare with a custom DALLE3 output via a custom comc-strip bot in the E&D Discord:

Clearly yes AI stil sort of eats BALS at patterns, but Dalle3's got some really good style

SDXL, AAM (It's Lykon's Anime Art Model, i'm not going on Civit right now to get you links) and someone's Pixel/16bit Lora.

Note that BOTH DALLE3 and SDXL compute out MORE SYMMETRY even with the similar prompts (You can't tell me that my prompts were ALL shit on niji, i tried to make it more normal, and less CHAT GPT bullshit, but even the striped down Danbooru way? Yea no.. still horse shit)

SDXL via Yodayo.com (AnimagineXL, Juggernaut XL)

Again, look at the symmetry, not nesscarily the pattern accuracy, because there's always going to be thigns you'll need to re-paint if you're doing something specific.

Now, if you're an Artist AGAINST AI let me let you in on WHY I needed to do this:

The current landscape of FREE or lowcost stock items for something like these, or even "WALLPAPER" in specific styles, is so overdone - and al ot of them are now "AI" generated anyways...

but if we were to use PAID stock services, think of the cost:

The use case scenario is for a friend's roleplay/ask blog.

As a designer, with a three year degree if you asked me to hand paint something like this 'd be charging you 200USD at the MINIMUM.

Stock sites are at least 10 USD a month for the CHEAP in house ones like "Vectorstock" and Freemium whatever the hell..

YES, some poeple's jobs are threatened - but not because nessecarily the models exist..

It's more idiots that are commissioning artists and then training on their styles.

It's 2024:

Eat the rich, feed the poor.

Also lmao.. welcome to my bullshit excuse to make comic strips just for lulz:

This is based off a current known pedo user on one of the AI sites, and they claim to be russian XD and they consistently call everyone a N*ZI for disagreeing with them.

Hell they called us an Incel and to get a girlfriend.