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trammellesstangent · 4 months ago

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I was thinking recently about ai and my chosen medium, printmaking. I’m sure there were people who argued that the fact that an art piece could be replicable to be near identical somehow degraded it, made it so the piece you have wasn’t made for you. And it is true in a way; individual pieces in a limited edition will sell for more than an open one. And there are things that started as artworks that were replicated to the point that they lost all artistic value (think of money, for example- hand designed and printed by intaglio, but no one looks at it).

But then, printmaking allowed multitudes of new techniques to develop, art could be made and the creative process explored in a new way. It’s brought me personally a lot of joy. Not only that, but the invention of the printing press was instrumental in bringing around mass literacy. I’m sure there were many grumbling scribes who complained that they couldn’t keep up, that every document printed on a press lacked that personal touch of a handwritten page…

Another example, and another medium I like to dabble in, is digital art. I am a bit too young to remember any severe discourse in the art community about this, but I don’t doubt that there were people talking about how impersonal it was, plastic stylus on glass screen, made real by your office printer. As many copies could be made as you want, even easier than a relief print would allow, and you can even email the image to someone! And can it really be art if you don’t get your hands dirty?

But still, I enjoy my evenings spent with my tablet and my laptop, aimlessly drawing. I like to make tessellating patterns for scales and the like, that I can bend to any angle and have it look realistic. I like the stencil and mask layer, I like that I am more willing to experiment when no change is permanent thanks to my friend, ctrl+Z. Digital art did not ruin art. It’s given us something new.

Then, I look at the flyer I received for the printmakers’ association’ annual exhibition. It’s ai generated, and I feel a sudden anger at it. For something that celebrates human art and creativity, it feels like a betrayal. But what do I expect, really? It’d be insane for a volunteer to put hours into making a flyer for the event- no one looks at these that closely anyway. It fulfils its purpose, to convey information. The design doesn’t even look bad, I was actually unsure for a long time if it was really ai. So what is my gripe here? Am I against convenience? Not everything needs to be an art piece. They weren’t trying to pass it off as anything. So why was I uncomfortable about it?

And honestly, I myself do speak to Chat GPT with some regularity. So am I, by my own standards, a traitor to my fellow artists and writers? Is my behaviour hypocritical? And what will people in the future say of those who fought ai generated imagery, of those who welcomed it, of those who stood my idly and let whatever might happen, happen?

Ultimately, I simply stay quiet. I form and reform my opinions, watching the situation develop. I may occasionally give a thought, as I’m doing now, but I don’t feel strongly enough aligned with either perspective to really try to convince anyone. I barely know what I think about all this. I find I’m cautiously excited, if a fair amount nervous, for what this new wave of technology will bring. I won’t stop people from using it, I’ll even engage with it myself, but I won’t tell people they have to. And at the same time, I am sometimes conflicted whenever someone uses ai in non-artistic pursuits, or even downright angry when I see someone try to pass an ai generated image as their own work. All in all, I don’t know. I don’t think ai imagery is art in and of itself, but that’s not to say it couldn’t be a valid element or tool. Mainly, I just wonder what side of history my opinion is going to come out on.

-Me, on another platform, on art and AI generated imagery.

#art #ai art #discussion #printmaking #digital art #ai generated images #the thing we need to ask is #What is art?#we need to know that before we decide what it isn’t #I think the real issue here is in forming a hard and fast rule #I’ve seen people incorporate ai imagery into a larger composition in a way that is almost undeniably Art #and ive seen people tell ai to make a picture that looks like a painting which upon first glance could be called art but in my opinion isn’t #it’s hard #I think the simple fact is that we struggle to make rules anywhere in the arts #the whole thing about the subject is that it’s up for interpretation #so how are we to know?#all I know is I enjoy making #and I’m going to sit here and create art no matter who or what is creating alongside me

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hinamie · 3 months ago

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newest issue of first years fashion just dropped

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #yuji itadori #nobara kugisaki #fushiguro megumi #itafushikugi #jujutsu kaisen fanart #jjk art #this quickly got away from me #taking hina from 3 days ago who thought 'yeah ill do 3 outfits for each of them what's the harm' and strangling her w my bare hands #original concept fr this was drawing the kids each matching a different outfit w gojo #but i got frustrated by th heights and placement so i said no tall people allowed and scrapped gojo from plans <3 #tbh it wouldnt have been /that/ much better in terms of workload but the 3 drawings it would have saved me isnt nothing #but im just complaining fr nothing atp lmao i love all of these sm i love playing dress up with my tuoys (the jjk first years)#love treating them like mannequins i love coming up w outfits layer those kids UP #nobara especially i have so much fun brainstorming she looks good in everything To Me #i dressed megumi more smart casual than normal bc he's got gojo's credit card info and if i want him in balenciagas gdi he's gna get them #also listen i love megumi we know this but fr the sake of not dressing him in solid colour slacks and sweaters 3 different ways #i gave him the workout fit. it cant b yuuji all the time ok i think we deserve megumi in a compression shirt as a treat #speaking of yuuji good god where do i start #he's definitely stylish but in a 'got dressed in the dark/threw on the first articles of clothing i saw' way and i adore him so much for it #wears things tht make him happy w no regard for how they may or may not look tgt bless his heart #also i drew th skateboard fr posing purposes entirely forgetting my prior hc that yuuji cant skate so i roughed him up fr consistency #th boy just ate concrete but is ready to get back up and try again what a champ #anyway bless this line and shading style i lov u less detailed render i love u sharp swoopy fabric lines #saved me sm time fr #also this is my application fr the mappa jjk marketing team they should hire me and let me dress the chars id be so good i promise #ill even take out the vocaloid and pop culture references i wont infringe on any ip i sweaaarr

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dxnyarya · 3 months ago

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“sotr is mid because you already know how it ends” shut the fuck up, the point of the book is that despite knowing how it ends you would have never known what actually went down because that’s the point of propaganda, the whole book is about the power of propaganda

#stories don’t become meaningless just because you know how it ends #a huge part of why the book works so well is because we know how it ends #thg #the hunger games #haymitch abernathy #sotr #sunrise on the reaping #sotr spoilers

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batcavescolony · 1 year ago

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Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

#katniss everdeen #the hunger games trilogy #the hunger games #primrose everdeen #hunger games #batcavescolony reads the hunger games #suzanne collins #'now it seems i have become someone precious' NOW? GIRL BFFR you're their hunter girl #and this isn't negative just bffr girl #your WHOLE DISTRICT did the three finger salute that you yourself says means admiration thanks and goodbye to someone you love and on top is #old a rarely used. your WHOLE DISTRICT decided in that moment that they needed to bring back this sign of respect for YOU #...................................................................#idk why some people are thinking i mean this as negative i don't she is unreliable but its not intentional. like when Peeta heart stoped in #CF she doesn't know what Finnick is doing at first cus she doesn't know off the top of her head what cpr is. she also thinks Peeta after the #reaping is acting for the cameras. he isnt we dind out later his mom basically told him Katniss was gonna win and he would die. obviously #shes not doing it on purpose shes just for lack of better words uneducated? as in she doesn't know everything shes not omnipotent #so when Plutarch (? second games guy) shows her his mokingjay hiden watch shes like *wtf that's weird?* then the people traveling to #district 13 show her the mockingjay cookie and explains it and she then goes on the difference between his watch and their cookie #and why does eveyone act as if district 12 is as bad as the capital? they CANT help Katniss and Prim in the way you want. they cant give #them food. none of them have any! and im not putting iton Katniss but they hid they needed food so they could stay together. it sounds like #some of you are in this our world mentally of what people do after a loved one dies (brings food constantly checks on them etc) district 12 #cant do that. they dont have food and they're all suffering. you cant give someone food when you have none to give. then theirs the fact #that peeta DID help. Peeta buring the bread and tossing some to her then taking a beating from his mom is a HUGE thing in the books.#he used his resources to help her like you all said someone should.#district 12 DID (rip) care about Katniss before the hunger games. why do you think she was allowed to hunt? or how her trades were good #these are the little ways 12 can shows Katniss they love her. but again Katniss doesn't see this and YES its because she had ptsd before the #hunger games as well. i swear some of you make it seem like d12 was all living a life of luxury and glaring down at Katniss.#other things that show Katniss is in hight standing with at least her people of d12 is her dad was known enough through d12 for peeta dad to #comment on his singing along with his commenting on her mom. also her mom is a healer in the community. yeah her parents arnt the top but #of d12 but they are/were definitely high staning in the Seam.

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noperopesaredope · 2 years ago

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I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

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albinogel · 7 months ago

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#how many times did victor grab jayce by the neck?....#we all know that he just likes it #jayvik #jayce talis #viktor #arcane #viktor arcane #league of legends #albinogel art #also they are so stupid and funny i cant :D

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slavhew · 7 months ago

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dandadorks

#dandadan #momo ayase #ken takakura #okarun #momokarun #jin enjoji #jiji #admin draws #fanart #do u ever see an endgame romance done so right u wonder how so many others fuck it up so badly #anyways watching the anime. got impatient so im reading the manga now too and ouuuu goodddd is this. thing. hitting some spots #especially early on when we were still getting to know all the characrts my jaw kept dropping. love the character writing sm

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malenjoyer · 9 months ago

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WE'RE SO BACK

#tim drake #nightwing #dick grayson #hey this took under 7 hours to do and that was so much faster than the last attempt. that other tim drake one with cleaner lines took me #days to finish and i was coloring it like that one white boy with pulsing veins on his forehead. i was watching one video about how the #thing stopping you from creating is being too obsessed with perfectionism and this is true. we must go forward. GO FORTH. CREATE.#EMBRACE FLAWS AND ACCEPT THAT SOMETIMES IT MAY LOOK ASS. I wouldve been happier with more frames between it but it is a sunday.#M-F employed people you know that means no staying up til 3 am doing little projects because it will mess u up so bad. finished before 12

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alien-slushie · 2 months ago

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Danny being dragged to a gala, against his will, by Vlad, only he notices that Damian also looks like he wants to be litterally anywhere else, so Danny approaches him.

Danny: Listen, you don't want to be here, I definitely don't want to be here, want to stage a fight so we can both leave.

Damian: ...*cracks his knuckles* You are my new favorite person. *punches Danny in the face*

Danny: *grinning with a bloody nose* Likewise! *punches him back*

#dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #this is just how damian makes friends at this point #danny too honestly if we go with the whole 'ghosts brawl as a friendship ritual'#so wholesesome #so violent #this is funnier if danny doesnt know who damian wayne is and just approachs him because he looks the most miserable

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artkaninchenbau · 1 year ago

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Crocodile finds a strange stray cat an 11-year old Nico Robin (AU where they met 13 years earlier. Robin's been on the run from the World Government for 3 years. Crocodile's 27 and has not set up base in Alabasta yet)

It seems like I have become possessed. By some sort of demon.