YUNII!!!! Just believe in yourself please. And do not doubt your skills. Recently you did some of very best art ever including witty funny stories and whats more even song!!! I really feel you are just sad there is nothing in general wrong with your work! Sure I could point some minor problems but that is not issue nobody cant make masterpieces all the time daily!!!
The world just changed and believe me it really sux, because rate of change is faster than before in history of world. It is not just societal change as that happened in past too. But also world itself is changing because of technology.
For example I was very confident in my programming skills I have built in past 15 years, or my writing ability. Not to be some famous star but to live decent life. Now "ai" appeared and every big turd in leather jacket is saying that programmers are thing of past and should be all laid off etc. Same goes for writing...
With you it is similar you artistic skills were unmatched just few years ago, almost nobody in the world could come close in quality and scope. Now dang there is ai and anyone can just copy your style. Not at all fully but you know for many common people it is enough. You have embraced ai and can create even better works you always dreamed about but "competition" is much more numerous.
Entire world is just fucked up by "attention mechanics" you either get peoples attention by any means or you dont exist... that is how those basic ai algos fucked this world and more advanced ones will play with our apish brains even more in future.
I just really hope you wont let this to crush you because to me you are still best artist and thats true :)
Thank you so much Shifty!! For some reason I don't think more views would make me happier - my struggle is more about how I'm making my content and I think I really need to brush up my world, and how it makes me feel super sick that everything is so random and out of hand lately... It's like with every single new post I'm just pushing things to fall more apart instead of building something... ^^;
Just wish I could wake up in the morning to have a big project to work on - you know how Tolkien or Rowling or Sapkowski must wake up and they really know what to do with their day. Like, Tolkien had the hobbits - he wouldn't wake up to write about random cavemen or sci-fi because he just read Lovecraft or Jules Verne and he felt like writing something like that. He has his own thing...
Even most of my friends have concrete worlds and characters that they like to think about... Me, I always wake up to the headache and chaos of not knowing what to do and whole days feel empty, every picture is just a new disappointment, month after month... :( And even worse - I made up so many different stories that now it's impossible to choose just one...
About the world problems, there are too many if we start making a list of everything... But I think we need to focus on things that we can control directly, not the things we can't change at all, even if they affect us somehow - but if we can't do anything better then just try to adapt... ^^; Like, me I can't make people comment or view things but I can focus on the art itself that I can fully contorol.. ;D
Now this might be something you do already so I apologize in advance!💖 But visibility is key with all the stuff out there, so what if you posted your content several places? Like instagram, X, tumblr etc and used hashtags and descriptions that would attract attention through algorithm, when people search? Like #quadamp #stretching #waistcinchers etc and write a few key word descriptions…
And you wouldn’t have to show the entire pic either… Like when you make a pic you could crop it or blur parts of the pic and then post a link in the keyword description, leading people here for the full pic?
It’s just a suggestion, every time you’ve made art and a story or description of it, you’d quickly blur, crop, write keyword description, find a few hashtags and then post it to these platforms. I’m sure they’d be quickly discovered and bring people here for the full artwork and story🥰
Hope this helps!💖
Thank you so much! I think I really need to use at least X.com - I just checked #contortion on it and I'm finding some artists already XD The last time I checked (3-4 years ago I think) their search engine was broken and I'd only find some trash, but now it seems they've fixed it... Oh, nevermind, tags like #tightbelt are still broken as before...
Instagram takes your real geographical location and starts suggesting your profile to people who live nearby, regardless of what their interests may be. I was fortunate to notice that feature at a very early stage and avoid doxing 😖
I agree with the previous comment that getting the word out on other platforms could help. Tumblr might not be very helpful because it went baby mode in 2018, causing many NSFW creators to move to NewGrounds, DeviantArt, Twitter (now X), Patreon, and others. Not sure how much Facebook or Instagram will help because they heavily censor content, even referring content. I'm not current with FB or IG because I closed my FB acct over 6 years ago, then I got locked out of IG 3 years ago when they thought I was a hacker after I started using a VPN. IG wanted me to do a selfie video of my head. No way!
As far as I know, X is the only large platform that won't censor you. Smaller platforms like NewGrounds & DeviantArt won't, either, but they (like X) require visitors to log in to see NSFW content. That's fine by me.
Speaking of censorship, Etsy just recently (2024-07-29) went baby mode and kicked out sex toy makers. Some makers have moved to their own ecommerce sites, such as Shopify or WordPress/WooCommerce at free-speech-supportive hosting companies. Some shops, usually the bigger ones, saw the writing on the wall and already had their own sites, but some smaller ones got caught off guard and are now scrambling. It's pretty disgusting what Etsy did to those people, who helped Etsy grow.
Thank you so much for the suggestions! More views might be good but I'm not sure that would solve the whole problem... My problem is more like, the more I post, the more I feel ashamed that my posts feel so meaningless, there's no clear picture of whatever is going on here anymore, and it makes a lot of people just give up on me as an artist, I think... Unfortunately, my muse just refuses to work with consistent characters and all I can do is random stuff, so I can only hope to find some bright idea one day... But whenever I try to think of a big project, something that would make me feel good to wake up in the morning and contribute to it - it just fails every time but nothing is ever enough to contain all of my ideas and characters...
And I think every single platform you mentioned is disgusting, not just Etsy (I've honestly never heard of that platform before), but FB, IG, DeviantArt, YouTube, they all have their horrible histories of betraying their own people who helped them grow in the first place. Those are corporate platforms, it doesn't matter who helps them grow, they simply use you and kick you out once you're no longer needed.
I've feeling the same recently... X/...
Deviantart almost destroyed my account, I'm not using discord as before after I was hacked and lost confidance on the site... now the same with furaffinity...
My patreon failed... I not taking commissions as the last round of them also failed... and I'm still in financial stress...
... right now, I'm not in the best mood...
But at least the rubber duck song cheers me up... XD
Doesn't sound like the same to me - sounds like much worse than my situation. I'm just frustrated with my skill issues, while you're having real troubles... But I'm glad if something on this site can distract you from these troubles and help to feel better... Probably not this post though XD
What ever happened to that discord server? Also would you mind being my friend again on discord or Telegram? I sent you a note on FA with my discord id -Valri
The Discord server I started back in 2021 only lasted like a month or so, because I wanted to see what it's like, and I saw what it's like, and was like no thanks... XD I'm not in the best of shape for chatting on instant messengers at this point, I hope you don't mind ^^;
I am really enjoying your art to the fullest! It’s one of the things I check every morning and I feel your art is a great way to start my day😊 I truly hope more is coming…💖
Thank you very much! 😊 Yes, I do have some pictures that are almost ready, I'm just picking the best ones to finish and post, while working on improving the others that aren't so good yet. So there will definitely be more to come! :D
One of your older works, Mirror World, seems to have disappeared from your gallery. What happened?
I didn't like how the head and hair were drawn, it's a difficult angle, so I felt like removing the picture, but I just restored it now: yuni.us/mirror-world
Wipe the entire site just because people didn't comment on this one image?!! Yuni, please don't say that and especially don't do it. It's August and many people are on vacation, spending their days on the beach somewhere.
As for me, I'm sorry I didn't comment. But I was really busy and then I just didn't get the story, so I didn't know what to say. But the thing is, I'm not a very sophisticated person, so first of all, I love your original, wildly imaginative erotic/acrobatic art.
If I were to use the titles of your works as an example, I'm more of a fan of "The Vortex of Inhuman Stretchiness", "Humpy Dumpy", "The House of the Rising Fist", "THE CROSS OF THE BEAST" and many, many more like that than "The God of the Valley".
And yes, I'm not sure, but it seems to me that when you choose a subject, composition and poses for the image, AI in some ways limits your creative imagination.
Of course, it's up to you to decide, but it's really frustrating to know that at any moment, all your art for many years can just disappear...
To me, "The God of the Valley" was interesting because of the village scene happening in the background, which has been something I've always wanted to create, but never had the skills/tools to achieve until now. I tried spicing up the scene with some unusual corset, hoping that some viewers would appreciate it. However, it seems this addition has only ruined the image instead of enhancing it... Next time I'll try a similar scene with a contortionist, that should be more interesting and closer to what I originally envisioned... :3
AI is the last thing to limit my creativity - I never share pictures that I'm not proud of myself. I have quite high standards, so when I post something that means I truly enjoyed it and wanted to share it with others :3
About the website's ups and downs, I've been doing this since 2005 because I often develop the feeling of extreme disappointment in everything. This feeling does not go away until I completely erase everything from everywhere. But it's important to notice that the content always comes back after a couple of days. In my entire life, I have never deleted any of my projects entirely - I currently have at least 6 different backups of everything I have ever worked on, 2 of which are updated multiple times per day, and 4 others that are updated once a week in turn. Therefore, even if I accidentally delete anything crucial, I can retrieve it from a backup made 2-3 weeks ago. If I delete anything from the web, I ensure it is very simple to upload again - this entire website, for example, takes only two minutes to fully restore, and all of the comments have offline backups updated several times each day :D
I recently had the impression that nobody visited this site anymore, but yesterday I tried adding proper view counters that exclude bot traffic, and only count unique visitors, so I discovered that "The God of the Valley" has been actually viewed by over 1000 different people! This was quite an encouraging revelation :D So at least the site doesn't seem as abandoned as I thought, there are still real people stopping by... So now that I know for sure that there's still plenty of visitors looking at my stuff, I can feel a bit more confident about continuing my work here ;3
Haha I love when you go in such "feestyle" direction. I mean some images can be just pure funn not meticulous perfect art. And this fantasy octo-pussy :D is just very funny to look at and probably would be even nice pet if it was real.
Sorry about these random images - it's just when "The God of the Valley" got no feedback, I got so frustrated in all this art that decided to completely wipe my site and all my other social accounts, and just change it to a random fun site without any comments. So I did all that and found a few funny pictures I made in the last couple of years... But then after a couple of days, I got over it as usual... but what to do with these funny pictures??
So I decided to keep them for now - I think they actually look interesting in a way that without them the gallery looks like a bunch of the same stuff... For me it's not the same when working on each picture separately, but when putting 20 pictures on one page it starts looking like the same stuff for some reason :/ Even though I'm trying to make every picture different in colors, style, lighting and poses, but the subjects are very similar. And these funny pictures seemed to add little breaks and intermissions here and there, so I actually liked how it looked in the end :3
Yeah "generative" models aren't ai, but that term is broad enough to work even in future when they get more complex in few years. Those today are like first x86 Intel chips in 70s. Still even today they are usable to create approximation of some real world concept and then the trick is to align result with your own vision somehow more.
Fractals are "universe artist" going lazzy after learning some deep math things :D or we are bound to percieve existence in some way and fractals are just the thing we see.
I see so you are "fluxing" :-) but thanks for telling that you are combining multiple models. Now that seems like quite good approach to "center" on some aspects each model independently learned to create backbone of image which align with our real world experience more than single modal can and then put into it your own "spirit" and skill.
Yeah, the terms people use can be super odd, for example it still makes me cringe every single time someone refers to a powerful desktop computer as a mere "device" XD
Fractals are at least pure math without data... I was going to mention wave function collapse which is a cool algorithm for procedurally generated maps for games but then realized it's probably not pure math and also requires some weight tables... ;D
I have no idea how to make a picture like this in Flux - I tried but it's unable to produce this style. I only used it to fix some small details but the picture overall looked exactly the same before Flux, just some tiny details had those random AI-like artifacts and Flux made it much cleaner. I think the picture overall is mostly a product of Reliberate and the watercolor-ish style is thanks to SeekYou Mikan and some ControlNet.
Is that real image converted by ai or pure ai random creation or did you worked and inpainted? Asking because it feels mostly natural and it has calm demeanor.
Yeah, it's pure ai, though you know how generative ai isn't really "generative" in any sense of the word.... XD I mean a true generative algorithm I think is something like fractals, perlin noise or voronoi diagrams, the stuff that generates images without using any data... But then again, I don't believe that linear matrix math based on prebuilt fixed weights has anything to do with the word "intelligence" either lol.
So "pure ai" it is, whatever that means XDD It's like "dark matter" which is neither "dark" nor "matter" but is called dark matter for the lulz. But yeah, I didn't use any real photos here, though I'm pretty sure the creators of Reliberate, SeekYou Mikan and Flux.1 Dev (the 3 models used to create this image) had vast datasets with a bunch of landscapes :3
Wooow! Just imagine seeing this precious into a folded ball.
Haha yeah, I imagine that's his favorite way to pass a lot of time: yuni.us/pierrots-selfie yuni.us/pierres-better-half Sadly the old pics are not as pretty as this one, I'll really need to make a good one sometime... ;D
I wish everything could just be simple all the time, life would be like a relaxing bubble bath :D
I dunno Yuni I think my reflection would be distorted by his tight abs and ribs their outline visible even through that metallic material cause it has to hug him so tight in that fold. That is fine though, I'd mostly be looking at his huge bulge in those shorts.
Hahaha, true enough, must be quite amusing to have your face distorted by the abs of a contorting boy like a funhouse mirror XD Maybe the last person who tried it ended up laughing so hard they turned into a big hard yellow ball, still giggling uncontrollably on the floor XD So it's good there's the bulge to save us from that tragic fate! :3
🥨 😀
Pretzel, pretzel in the mall, Who's the bendiest of them all? 🤤
I'm so happy to see you back! Even seeing your return makes me almost c... Oh sorry maybe that's too much😅
Thanks for noticing my glorious c...back! Thought it would be fair to celebrate with a good ol' backfold 😜
Happy Emoji Day, everyone! May flexibility be with you!
Happy Emoji Day to all of us and may our spines forever be bendable like rubber! XD
I'd go cross eyed too with such a cutie doing a super tight fold on me too ;) Super shiny silver outfit looks great, tight metallic shorts are lovely
That kid sure knows how to stand out in a crowd, or should I say "handstand"... XD Thanks for noticing his tight shiny outfit, I wonder if it's stretched so much right now that if you look at his belly from the other side, you might see your reflection in it :D
Such a beautiful kissable face !!! Can a cucumber be an emoji ?
Thank you for your kind words about my handsome boy. He certainly knows how to turn heads and give people rubber necks :D It's the first time I see "cucumber" on one line with kissing but now can't stop thinking of the possibilities... XD
Besides the fact that this is just a funny, I want to point out how good the face looks here, and also how cool the clothes are shiny on this character. You have perfectly conveyed and depicted the texture of this material... which I have seen many times but still do not know what it is called. But the point is that you have managed to depict it perfectly, how it shines in the light and so on.
Thank you for your kind words about my work! :D I believe this material could be either satin or silk, as they both have that smooth shine. In any case, I am glad I was able to capture that aspect! At first glance the picture may seem simple but upon closer inspection you can see various materials from skin to plastic to different fabrics. It makes me wonder if the character is also enjoying the tightness of the outfit he's wearing. Regardless, I'm glad you found this interesting. Thanks again! :D
Falling apart . . .
Sure I could point some minor problems but that is not issue nobody cant make masterpieces all the time daily!!!
The world just changed and believe me it really sux, because rate of change is faster than before in history of world. It is not just societal change as that happened in past too. But also world itself is changing because of technology.
For example I was very confident in my programming skills I have built in past 15 years, or my writing ability. Not to be some famous star but to live decent life.
Now "ai" appeared and every big turd in leather jacket is saying that programmers are thing of past and should be all laid off etc. Same goes for writing...
With you it is similar you artistic skills were unmatched just few years ago, almost nobody in the world could come close in quality and scope.
Now dang there is ai and anyone can just copy your style. Not at all fully but you know for many common people it is enough.
You have embraced ai and can create even better works you always dreamed about but "competition" is much more numerous.
Entire world is just fucked up by "attention mechanics" you either get peoples attention by any means or you dont exist... that is how those basic ai algos fucked this world and more advanced ones will play with our apish brains even more in future.
I just really hope you wont let this to crush you because to me you are still best artist and thats true :)
Just wish I could wake up in the morning to have a big project to work on - you know how Tolkien or Rowling or Sapkowski must wake up and they really know what to do with their day. Like, Tolkien had the hobbits - he wouldn't wake up to write about random cavemen or sci-fi because he just read Lovecraft or Jules Verne and he felt like writing something like that. He has his own thing...
Even most of my friends have concrete worlds and characters that they like to think about... Me, I always wake up to the headache and chaos of not knowing what to do and whole days feel empty, every picture is just a new disappointment, month after month... :( And even worse - I made up so many different stories that now it's impossible to choose just one...
About the world problems, there are too many if we start making a list of everything... But I think we need to focus on things that we can control directly, not the things we can't change at all, even if they affect us somehow - but if we can't do anything better then just try to adapt... ^^; Like, me I can't make people comment or view things but I can focus on the art itself that I can fully contorol.. ;D
And you wouldn’t have to show the entire pic either… Like when you make a pic you could crop it or blur parts of the pic and then post a link in the keyword description, leading people here for the full pic?
It’s just a suggestion, every time you’ve made art and a story or description of it, you’d quickly blur, crop, write keyword description, find a few hashtags and then post it to these platforms. I’m sure they’d be quickly discovered and bring people here for the full artwork and story🥰
Hope this helps!💖
Instagram takes your real geographical location and starts suggesting your profile to people who live nearby, regardless of what their interests may be. I was fortunate to notice that feature at a very early stage and avoid doxing 😖
As far as I know, X is the only large platform that won't censor you. Smaller platforms like NewGrounds & DeviantArt won't, either, but they (like X) require visitors to log in to see NSFW content. That's fine by me.
Speaking of censorship, Etsy just recently (2024-07-29) went baby mode and kicked out sex toy makers. Some makers have moved to their own ecommerce sites, such as Shopify or WordPress/WooCommerce at free-speech-supportive hosting companies. Some shops, usually the bigger ones, saw the writing on the wall and already had their own sites, but some smaller ones got caught off guard and are now scrambling. It's pretty disgusting what Etsy did to those people, who helped Etsy grow.
And I think every single platform you mentioned is disgusting, not just Etsy (I've honestly never heard of that platform before), but FB, IG, DeviantArt, YouTube, they all have their horrible histories of betraying their own people who helped them grow in the first place. Those are corporate platforms, it doesn't matter who helps them grow, they simply use you and kick you out once you're no longer needed.
X/...
Deviantart almost destroyed my account, I'm not using discord as before after I was hacked and lost confidance on the site... now the same with furaffinity...
My patreon failed... I not taking commissions as the last round of them also failed... and I'm still in financial stress...
... right now, I'm not in the best mood...
But at least the rubber duck song cheers me up... XD
💌 Feedback Corner
I sent you a note on FA with my discord id
-Valri
I'm not in the best of shape for chatting on instant messengers at this point, I hope you don't mind ^^;
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As for me, I'm sorry I didn't comment. But I was really busy and then I just didn't get the story, so I didn't know what to say. But the thing is, I'm not a very sophisticated person, so first of all, I love your original, wildly imaginative erotic/acrobatic art.
If I were to use the titles of your works as an example, I'm more of a fan of "The Vortex of Inhuman Stretchiness", "Humpy Dumpy", "The House of the Rising Fist", "THE CROSS OF THE BEAST" and many, many more like that than "The God of the Valley".
And yes, I'm not sure, but it seems to me that when you choose a subject, composition and poses for the image, AI in some ways limits your creative imagination.
Of course, it's up to you to decide, but it's really frustrating to know that at any moment, all your art for many years can just disappear...
AI is the last thing to limit my creativity - I never share pictures that I'm not proud of myself. I have quite high standards, so when I post something that means I truly enjoyed it and wanted to share it with others :3
About the website's ups and downs, I've been doing this since 2005 because I often develop the feeling of extreme disappointment in everything. This feeling does not go away until I completely erase everything from everywhere. But it's important to notice that the content always comes back after a couple of days. In my entire life, I have never deleted any of my projects entirely - I currently have at least 6 different backups of everything I have ever worked on, 2 of which are updated multiple times per day, and 4 others that are updated once a week in turn. Therefore, even if I accidentally delete anything crucial, I can retrieve it from a backup made 2-3 weeks ago. If I delete anything from the web, I ensure it is very simple to upload again - this entire website, for example, takes only two minutes to fully restore, and all of the comments have offline backups updated several times each day :D
I recently had the impression that nobody visited this site anymore, but yesterday I tried adding proper view counters that exclude bot traffic, and only count unique visitors, so I discovered that "The God of the Valley" has been actually viewed by over 1000 different people! This was quite an encouraging revelation :D So at least the site doesn't seem as abandoned as I thought, there are still real people stopping by... So now that I know for sure that there's still plenty of visitors looking at my stuff, I can feel a bit more confident about continuing my work here ;3
So I decided to keep them for now - I think they actually look interesting in a way that without them the gallery looks like a bunch of the same stuff... For me it's not the same when working on each picture separately, but when putting 20 pictures on one page it starts looking like the same stuff for some reason :/ Even though I'm trying to make every picture different in colors, style, lighting and poses, but the subjects are very similar. And these funny pictures seemed to add little breaks and intermissions here and there, so I actually liked how it looked in the end :3
🌊 River's Journey
Still even today they are usable to create approximation of some real world concept and then the trick is to align result with your own vision somehow more.
Fractals are "universe artist" going lazzy after learning some deep math things :D or we are bound to percieve existence in some way and fractals are just the thing we see.
I see so you are "fluxing" :-) but thanks for telling that you are combining multiple models. Now that seems like quite good approach to "center" on some aspects each model independently learned to create backbone of image which align with our real world experience more than single modal can and then put into it your own "spirit" and skill.
Fractals are at least pure math without data... I was going to mention wave function collapse which is a cool algorithm for procedurally generated maps for games but then realized it's probably not pure math and also requires some weight tables... ;D
I have no idea how to make a picture like this in Flux - I tried but it's unable to produce this style. I only used it to fix some small details but the picture overall looked exactly the same before Flux, just some tiny details had those random AI-like artifacts and Flux made it much cleaner. I think the picture overall is mostly a product of Reliberate and the watercolor-ish style is thanks to SeekYou Mikan and some ControlNet.
So "pure ai" it is, whatever that means XDD It's like "dark matter" which is neither "dark" nor "matter" but is called dark matter for the lulz. But yeah, I didn't use any real photos here, though I'm pretty sure the creators of Reliberate, SeekYou Mikan and Flux.1 Dev (the 3 models used to create this image) had vast datasets with a bunch of landscapes :3
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yuni.us/pierrots-selfie
yuni.us/pierres-better-half
Sadly the old pics are not as pretty as this one, I'll really need to make a good one sometime... ;D
😃 Emoji Day
But the boy's as gorgeous as usual. : 3
And I like his outfit. I want one. : )
Keep up the good work. ^_^
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Who's the bendiest of them all? 🤤
May flexibility be with you!
Super shiny silver outfit looks great, tight metallic shorts are lovely
But the point is that you have managed to depict it perfectly, how it shines in the light and so on.