I Should Get To Sleep Eugh It's So Late But Er Anyway Here's An Old Man I Dislike Incredibly

you ever do a little design/concept doodle and then you can't shake the feeling that they look incredibly familiar, but you have no idea what from. yeah that's me right now

WITCH MY FAVOURITE BOY FIVE EVER

A wb doodle along with a small comic and discord stream doodles!

Character named Witch is NOT!!!!!!! my character by the way!!! Gotta find the tumblr of my friend who owns it and I'll edit the post when I nab it :]

Edit: Character owner is @enneatone-ring!

Also apologies if the Tagalog is inaccurate, I poked around for ~20 minutes to ensure validity but I cannot be 100% sure it is

Character concept cooking up

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.

Haven't posted in a lil but um. Here's Palace (cube guy) and his wife. Getting ready for a party then... then sleepy hugs/cuddles after the party yeah

tumblr brand identity crisis. part two

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...

what do you mean I can't just post a singular line from a song I'm having a crisis to and say nothing else?

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

Jared now has a friend.

Eurgh she needs a name

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