Square...

I don't usually fandompost here but I just binge-readed TPOH these past few days (or what there currently is of it) after hearing about it from some posts I seen

My GOD. Currently going insane. In a good way

I like how the two genres of object-head ocs' outfits are just:

Extremely fancy, suit and tie, often with a hat of some sort, they look mature and rich

Highschooler

Sorry for the rants lately. I don't wanna be too serious. Here's some Jared and his buddy

Excuse my handwriting; the speech says "He fell asleep — again."

it's not 'AI art has no soul' because soul is subjective and creating art is not necessarily a divine spark of inspiration, sometimes human made art is empty of feeling and meaning and that's okay.

it's not 'AI art is ugly' because human made art doesn't need to be pretty, it's still art, no matter if you're starting or if you intentionally make ugly things. It's still okay.

The problem, with AI art (besides the copyright theft, the environmental issues, the artists losing their jobs..)

The problem is that

AI art lacks INTENT

When a human makes something, every part of the creation is a decision made. Why this line, why this color, why this word, why this stitch, why this note.

They may be good decisions, bad decisions, it doesn't matter. The end result is something with thought, and this is why we appreciate art. There is the surface, and underneath, there is an ocean of decisions made by the artist.

AI art has no intent.

Yes, they will type prompts for a general idea. And they will pick a result.

But there is no thought about poses, colors, lines, backgrounds, details, negative space, lighting, texture, framing, etc.

Becoming a good artist means to understand these decisions and align them to make the result you want.

AI art will pick through millions of those decisions made by other people and will stick them together without meaning or reason, so they lose their intended purpose. This is why people think AI art is empty, that it has no 'soul'. Because there is no thought process behind it.

We should stop comparing human and AI art by using words like "better" or "worse". People will always have different opinions.

But as a human, I am more interested in things made by other humans, because I can observe all those tiny decisions, I can relate to some, be surprised by some, dislike some, it's all good.

Art is people communicating.

AI art has nothing to say.

The voices... they're telling me to redraw my OCs from 2021 (og on left, redraw on right)

This one might be a keeper. Liking the design. Which means I need a name for them. Which I struggle with....

My god. I have this one world/story I wanna make a webcomic about so much but the timeline is SO BAD like it's not even funny. Way too many missing details in the worldbuilding and plot holes and contradictory stuff... agrrhgg

This is why I started making flow charts for my plots. It helps me realize everything I messed up. Me consulting my flowchart to make sure my story is coherent

My current goal with my artstyle is to get more cartoony and stylized with my characters...

More about all this below!

For a while I had been strictly staying to attempts at realistic stuff. Not full-on realism, but as good as I could get it.

It was fun, but hard to do, and I was always struggling with some feature. And I never really let myself do cartoony stuff because I had this mindset that if I started doing that, I'd "lose my progress" on all the realistic skill.

Then for art class we had a unit on cartoon characters. It put me out of my comfort zone, but I was actually having WAY more fun with these characters and CONSTANTLY creating these little cartoon designs where I could, like, instantly TELL exactly who they were.

Not to say realism is boring, not at all, just that I think it's important to find which style is, personally, the most enjoyable to draw with. And as someone who is really into expressiveness and character design, I think something more stylized and exaggerated will be a good direction for me. It's already proven to be something I thoroughly enjoy...

lady I made idk

I have a banger user in mind I'm just thinking on it make sure it's right. clock boy

yknow I get really nervous typing the word clock

hey

I'm rebranding I'm not a skeleton anymore I'm a clock. anyway I still have yet to change my username but that's. not my problem yet

The animation: serious and dramatic

The storyboards