Character Design Doodles

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.

"Witch" 🎀📺

Resides in peoples' minds; in the "mental space"

He/Him

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★ Character I designed like a couple weeks ago, just messing around, I ended up having a lot of fun with this guy! And I find him very draw-able

^ Some doodles I did, mainly trying to brainstorm for story ideas, the second doodle is the plot/premise I'm building off of right now; He lives in a "mental space" of sorts, but is unable to access his own mind, and so he attempts to find and convince other people to let him live in theirs.

That's all I have to give for now! Have a swell day

Oh Also He Talks Capitalizing All First Letters Like This

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

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

Literature

MY BOY

There he is....

Idk what to say here. Bro has big ass lore and I'm just putting him in his wife's shirts

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...

Eurgh she needs a name

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

Why is is that whenever I try to make another TV-head character I struggle with the design more then any other ocs

More character concept

Will probably make the shirt colour more saturated + make the purple darker.

This is part of a group of characters I'm making for a webcomic idea I might make at some point! Though it will require more planning and probably better dedication skills than I currently have.