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To myself: “It’s ok to make bad art it’s ok to make bad art it’s ok to make bad art it’s ok to make bad art”
*the art is bad*
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Tumblr boop the first moment of Peace and love on planet earth since that first week of Pokemon Go
Give ya boy some boops
need to become a guy who exclusively does evil commissions. like this
WILL DRAW ✓ mecha ✓ gore ✓ furry ✓ nsfw
WILL NOT DRAW X ocs X fanart X simple backgrounds
great question and I'm glad you asked. in this case I would only draw:
- real people, places, or objects
- art of media that neither of us are really a fan of
- unoriginal characters
This is an illustration I created for @horizonfanzine "Focus Network", a Horizon Forbidden West themed fanzine that launched last year! They're currently having a leftover sale, so check them out if you'd like a last minute copy! Featuring lots of artwork, stories, and cool merch!
Today we learned that legendary manga artist and creator of Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama, has passed away at age 68. I wanted to take a moment to share a bit about how his work has influenced me.
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Anonymous asked:
I'd encourage you not to feel bad about posting art because of AI. If people repost your art- they could already do that. If people make their own art in your style- they could already do that. Reposting and straight ripoffs were shitty things to do then and still are, but AI didn't really change anything.
Making good AI art, like making any good art, takes a good idea of _what to make art of_ and _what makes it look good._ you're very good at those things and you make great art! so nobody can just replace you with AI. whether an AI learns from your stuff only matters as much as whether other humans learn from your stuff.
This is truly very kind of you and I do find it encouraging to hear, don't get me wrong, but I wanna clarify that this is less about me feeling down about potentially having my art style be trained on and honestly more about just like... lamenting the general shittiness of the late-stage capitalism of the internet in 2024. I've shared my art online since the early 2000s, I've seen every previously safe space for artists get restructured in order to satisfy partners and investors who don't actually give two shits about creatives.
And I also wanna note that I don't think you can't really compare reposts/ripoffs with AI. Scraping content for datasets is theft on a massive scale. The turn-around time for generating AI images is lightning fast, that's why it's flooding the internet so rapidly right now. Even if the majority still holds the opinion that AI images can't compare to human-made art, enough people and corporations out there are soooooo eager to cut corners and sooooo ready to tell artists that it's an inevitable evolution and we should all just ignore the unethical practice this shit was built on.
So, it's just mostly venting. I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said. I'm just tired.
Recent commission for an OC portrait in the Persona 5 style, this was fun to do!
also we fucked up as a society the moment we started telling teens and aspiring artists to conflate being an artist with building a brand as if the two things are inextricable. the name of the game if you want to share your art is to work a job and sell yourself as aesthetizied content. back in my day we could just POST SHIT. to deviantart! what the fuck!
pro-tip if ur a teen or aspiring artist: stay the fuck away from tiktok. tiktok is not the place for your art. your art is not content to be sold. don’t listen to art youtubers advice if they dilute being an artist to stats and algorithms. trying to make a business or career out of art is actually something that takes a lot of experience and consideration to go into it is Not an inherent facet to getting started/expressing yourself as an artist. conflating art = selling something/working a job is the fastest fucking way to ruin it for yourself i am so serious. find communities that share your artistic interests make friends and share your art there. be indulgent and creative and experimental. you deserve a period in your artistic journey that is purely selfish and fostering of your growth. don’t let capitalism take that from you yet
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shoutout to the slow artists. the artists with hardly any time for art. the artists who reach the end of the day with no energy for art. you got this i believe in you and you are no less valued than anyone else
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wishing all artists a very sincere "get weirder with it" this coming year