RikoDaBirb

This is a really old one. I made this three years ago, when someone in the grounpchat asked which of ours characters would be the most likely to succumb to the dark side. The sw au already exsisted back then, but we weren't so invested in it (or at least I wasn't). When I said Henrik (who in canon is a lovely guy) they were surprised. So then I designed them how Henrik would look like if he was a dark side user. (I remeber I really enjoyed drawing the gold parts) I liked the design and surprisingly I only made some smaller tweaks on it in three years despite fact, that I designed countless different outfits for him. (also some close ups bc why not)

Some more Henrik interacting with @kitochiart and @rikodabirb's characters.

Today this weird empty blog is 8 years old. Figured I might celebrate it with a post and some experimental Star Wars stuff. I originally made this blog for posting drawings so from now on it might even serve that purpose.

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

I have already shared it around, but if you can't run it try Artshield.

It will add a big watermark all over your piece (there's also a check button to be sure it worked). It works best on pieces with a colored background, with white backgrounds or B/W piece it won't always work, but it's worth trying it.

Also, post at the lowest resolution possible (I go with 72dpi, keeping the highest one for clients and Ko-Fi rewards only), maybe add a noise effect too. I always did it but I read a while ago it makes a bit difficult for the A/I to scrape the piece. Not sure if it's still true, but still, worth a shot.

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