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Beware of DA Commission Scam
This is scam where a supposed 'artist' sends you a Note saying that he/she hopes you will commission him/her. He/She recommend contacting him/her via Discord or some other means. Well, don't be fooled. It's nothing but a scam. I was fooled once. A few months ago, I had gotten a Note and after checking out the DA page, I thought I give the artist a shot. Yet she asked $120 for a full-body colored Tenten art with no background. Yet when I gotten the finished art, I does not look it was worth the money. I pointed out to her her flaws, and then she begged me to commission her again to show her worth. I didn't bother and just unfriended her from Discord. Yet in the past month, every two days, I get a Note with the same pick-up lines from different 'artists'. I realized this person was back and kept trying to get me to buy a commission. I kept blocking, but it looks like the person creates new account every two days. Yet it is possible the scammer has hacked into DA accounts and is using
Wrong to copy poses from photos for art?
I just recently spoken with an artist, whom I am commissioning an art. I knew this artist for several years now, and I know the artist does a great job with commissions. Yet when the artist presented with me the first sketch, I told the artist that it does not match the reference photo I gave the artist. I had wanted the couple to match the couple posing in the photo, which I found online. The artist said that he/she have a problem of people saying he/she copies from others. Yet this was a photograph, not an drawn art. Now I understand that copying from other artists' art is not right. Artists take a lot of time and work to draw up art from scratch. It's why we currently have an issue of AI taking artists' art and just copying the art and making it look different. Yet for years, I always try to find photographs as references for poses for the commission art I want artists to draw. I had no problem with many DA artists, for they copy the poses from the photos to draw up the characters
Loving Star Trek Again
For most of you out there who do not know me, I'm in my early 50's, who remember growing up with the Star Trek Original Series when it aired on syndication in the late 1970's and 1980's. Then came Star Trek: The Next Generations during my late High School years. Follow by Deep Space Nine and Voyager. After Voyager, I was burned out, thus I did not bother with Star Trek: Enterprise nor the reboot movies later. In recent years, Picard, Discovery, and Lower Decks came out for streaming service. Yet again, I had not even bother with them. Yet I just yesterday decided to take the chance with Star Trek: Prodigy, a computer animated series airing on Nichelodeon and Paramount Plus streaming. What can I say? I love it! Something new for Trek that does not show the typical Academy-trained crew. A bunch of aliens taking over an experimental starship, U.S.S. Protostar, and learning not only to run the ship but also to work together as a crew. I always love rooting for the underdog, and this
Mikoto was a kunoichi. Right?
Once in awhile, you read articles from anime/comics sites that make you scratch your head and wonder if the people, running the sites, ever done their research. Naruto, for one example, is quite popular and widely known to most anime/manga fans. Well, I recently read an article from the CBR site titled "Naruto: 10 Important Characters Who Aren't Ninja". Guess what? They said Mikoto Uchiha was *not* a ninja. Say what? For years, I had always thought Mikoto was a kunoichi. Heck, according to the Naruto Wiki, Mikoto had a rank of Jounin prior to settling down as a housewife and mother. --> https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Mikoto_Uchiha So if Mikoto had a rank, it meant she was a ninja. Makes sense that she was one. She did help a young Sasuke with how to throw shuriken, not to mention she is the best friend of Kushina, whom was a kunoichi herself. I know shinobi and civilians can be friends (like Naruto and the Ichiraku's), yet I think Mikoto and Kushina must have known each other for a
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that right there almost makes we want to watch the anime again. stoped because of all the fillers and read the webcomic instead. still that ending is perfect.