The PONCHO confuses them so they keep doing a colorful and threatening display. Another good rendering, I'd like to see their color flip also!
Personally im not very fond of image generation (this could become a philosophical talk), there is a joy in painting (the process itself) I enjoy lots, but also its why I enjoy seeing ppls doodles on paper and such because I think "somebodys hands went through there, somebody who was alive went through there with their hands, fingers..."
It is also why I had a blast when you sent me the classic game book (and I hope to see someday the home game ones)
I do recall using AI in its early iterations tho, i used it to make blobs of shapes and then I would draw something based on what I imagined, I guess I was doing the job of the AI in those excercises.
(Pssst, I used to be in your server a long while ago, my handle/username is the same I have here, would like to ask advice bout music making)
Just dont avoid the future while it happens around you! It is very simple to enjoy the tools art is evolving to create itself with.
Photoshop was once spat upon as a non-art solution for non-artists. Now digital art is an entire industry. Ai moves towards this end regardless of the "philosophy" of creation.
All the digital artists who said Photoshop wasn't real art can now say something else isn't real art.
Maybe I can paint over AI and check the results. The process is fun. In fact I showed some friends today some art I made with iterations and mods over early AI, that way it was more of a conversation with me and a machine. Thing is, I just enjoy too much doing lines with something in my hands, maybe I could take the renter iteration and create a third thing. i guess it could be a horses and hand collab
(Im teaching a pal to use gouache rn and its fun, join us join us c;)
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I just think that given the emerging tools of image generation, if a traditional artist, eschewing a kneejerk response to the topic, were to put their mind into learning it thoroughly, could only improve their art, by exploring visions of what their art *almost* was/could have been/could still become.
I draw with pen and pencil and pixel art with mouse. Image generation gives me a huge SATISFACTION. It is like a magic spell, it is just fucking fantastic!
This can only allow me to realize my visions more clearly, and I am glad to be able to examine my own ideas through a heretofore INACCESSIBLE method.
(2005 unfinished R'lyeh Pixel Art; adjusted 2025 via Seedream 4.0)