I'm Alive I Promise His Name Is Rowan

Sketch for a lil mini two comic-style pages... made these for fun, I don't know if it makes sense without context. But they're robot guys in a meeting

Here, have Tone getting tossed around by this guy's speech bubbles.

I'm having another blog identity crisis, not over my user this time but over the fact that I have a blog for fandom and one for original instead of them just being the same. though now that I think about it I probably just don't like it because they're separated, I'd love for like... to have a little panel of blogs you have. like for OTHERS to see and know you're connected and whatnot. they're so separate AHHH

the hair in my profile is from an actual image of my me

spiderverse has been on my mind again, so i redesigned my spidersona (he/him) :]] had a lot of fun drawing the portrait too

Square...

Idk which is better diagonal stripes or squiggly stripes but the wiggly stripes are wobbly which fits the sleepiness vibe

Character design doodles

These are all for the same story by the way. I'm cooking something UP☝️ (not down)

yeah it sounds really fucking cool and isn't even being USED! I'm so awesome. it has my favourite number in it also

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

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.

Who will you give the heart box to this valentines