MY BOY

Haven't drawn him lately but I absolutely NEEDED to post about him. Get outta my heaaaddddddd

no goddayum this is so difficult

I'm turning my user back into skeletalmedot until my identity crisis is over (indefinite)

ennea is a prefix meaning nine (my favourite/special/lucky number). tone is from dialtone as in phones, but is also meant to combine with the A in ENNEA to be ATONE. just sounded cool. added the ring to make it more unique and not get me confused for being a musician because it's similar to "enneatonic"

the idea of using ennea in the title also comes from a concept I had of a story involving my little persona character

USERNAME LORE GIVE IT TO ME NOW YOU ALL

Jared's friend has proven difficult to figure out a palette for.

Jared now has a friend.

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.

lady I made idk

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

Mini doodle/concept dump cause I been forgetting to post

Eurgh she needs a name

Also. Why do I always draw clock heads with the 3:00 configuration

Wondering

I do not believe I've posted this.

In case I haven't mentioned, his name is Red