#sorry for like... lack of art posts *again*

[kitocrystal]

[kari-go]

dragon!Juleka my beloved,,,

[spamsandsuch]

self reflection (2) preview

[kalofi]

random shit before i drop off the face of the earth again…. smile ^_^

[kira-light0]

While on mandatory shore leave at a space station, Spock meets the two best surgeons in the Federation: Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Trapper" John McIntyre of the starship NCC-4077

Star trek × Mash crossover

(Image description in the Alt text if you can't read my handwriting)

[ashfdhfgdsfk]

might remake to a new account entirely and change the name i go by

[liltordle]

drew springtrap for a school art project !!

[do-you-have-a-flag]

there is a lot to say about the ethical problems and blandness of AI art but also just as someone who likes digital art because it’s low maintenance low cost to pursue, i think that it’s INCREDIBLY BORING to look at ai art because the creative process is lost

like people might gripe that digital art isn’t “real” art because of the difference in craft 

but ultimately i think each individual artist shapes their workflow to suit their needs and some people are able to do a lot of design work using presets and filters and photo-bashing and generative tools in ways that are creative and using a process that takes thought and problem solving

and personally i like the process of high effort art in traditional mediums and that reflects in my digital drawings, i love painting to render texture and light to an image for example, while i do use brushes and other tools overall i think the actual act is soothing and fun

and i think the creative collaboration when working with someone else’s prompts (a process that can be immensely frustrating when one-sided) is also a valuable experience as people can ask questions and negotiate concepts you might not have thought of on your own. the immediacy of output with ai, the way it flattens composition to the most common plagiarised components, it’s fun as a what if or a starting  point but it is a creatively incomplete endeavour specifically because the ai is communicating nothing and the person creating the prompt is almost entirely removed from the creative process. one sided intentionality without the meat of creation

ALSO for contrast i was thinking about the tradition of fractal art/fractal flames dating back to the 80s but more specifically being boosted in popularity alongside the world wide web thanks to one person’s algorithm in 1992. that guy now works in AI generation but back in the 90s he created an open source code that took mathematical iteration and translated it into graphics in common software applications that anyone could use. as a result i saw so many cool abstract almost mandala-like spacey images in the 2000s on deviantart and people are still making them today. it’s an artform that can only be successfully executed thanks to computers, it i complex in the process of execution but thanks to computers the process of creation is quick and seperate from human effort, the output is also very nice to look at. 

Why do i like this form of generative computer art and not so called a.i?  Because the algorithm for fractal art is pure mathematics translated into imagery, while generative a.i/neural networks datasets inherently require an input of other people’s work. a process that requires ethical consideration in ways that mathematical inputs do not. both use data to create images but what do they feed on? how are they applied? does their implementation say anything about their process or output? 

because as far as i see it, technology is neutral and usage is where the good and bad emerge, the process of generative images is a marvel of technology and how we as people love to create. but the way that these tools synthesise what they are given is a process so seperate from the people inputing prompts i really feel like it’s people losing the most fun parts of art (emotion, communication, and participation) and receiving the worst results of commodification of art (plagiarism, formulaic content, aesthetic cowardice, narrow perspectives, exploitation)

[aglayalilichfanblog]

Collection of concept art of objects in Pathologic 1

Official art from www.ice-pick.com

[rainbowratsstuff]

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[kaftan]

You know when you see a post and you’re like. Well. I do hold this opinion. So I guess in that sense I agree. But everything about how this take is being communicated is so repellent to me that I want to disagree on principle

[spudbot]

i realized earlier that it’s been 2 years since ive last drawn the Gorl™ which meant that i had to fix that immediately.

[batrachois]

up next perhaps a poll that asks, when you see a poll, do you look at it, like the post, answer and reblog, answer honestly, answer dishonestly, or reblog without answering

good idea! except for the fact that the poll got voted possibly more than three times the times it got reblogged (at one point it had 9k notes and 30k votes, you do the numbers) so we already know most people answer dishonestly or to better word it, cause i dont think its a dishonesth issue, we know that they answer with their best intentions/what they know is the best answer rather than with what they actually do, probably for normal lack of self awareness.

we all think we do better than we do in terms of ethics and it's fine

[lindwurmkai]

Hold on to your seats I'm about to say something mildly inflammatory

Ok so I am obviously not a fan of anti-intellectualism either but I do have to say it was fucking weird when I came online a few weeks ago and my dash was full of posts making fun of tiktokers who were complaining about film bros or calling this trend "alarming"

Because I'm pretty sure we were saying the exact same things on here 8-10 years ago. And no one called it anti-intellectualism back then because we all knew it was about the behaviour of Film Bros™️, even if it sometimes sounded a little like we were making fun of the movies themselves. (I've been a fan of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead since I was like 18, I'm allowed to be superficially amused by strange-sounding movie synopses.)

Just because you may have started to enjoy the occasional foreign or obscure movie since then ... I mean look at me. I say this as someone whose goddamn Tumblr avatar is currently a famous Chinese auteur

We are not film bros and the film bros wouldn't like us.

Do you think the kids on TikTok are talking about anyone who watches foreign movies or doesn't like Marvel, rather than a specific flavour of Annoying Dude that I thought we were all familiar with?

To be fair, I'm hardly following the same set of people as I was 8-10 years ago. Maybe some of y'all are truly oblivious to the existence of such individuals. And I'm sure some of the kids are in fact just making fun of bizarre movie synopses, but that's because they're kids and you probably went through a phase where you would have done the same. In fact, like I pointed out above, you can do that while having a favourite odd movie of your own without even being a hypocrite because sometimes the concept just sounds funny when encountered unexpectedly okay.

It's not anti-intellectualism, it's called being young. Except when it's actually a valid criticism of snobbery (often coupled with misogyny). Smh

Is the way people engage with media changing for the worse? Maybe! Probably. It certainly seems to be, thanks to social media and streaming and certain megacorporations.

Kind of unrelated to the topic of film bros tho tbh. And I swear the text in one of those TikToks was almost word for word identical to something I read on here ca. 2013, so the framing of an alarming new trend was the most bewildering part.

[datastate]

i cannot explain the complete range of emotions i feel looking at the seven year/good as god piece. they cared so much about each other but chidouin ultimately had the upper hand because kai had nothing other than the chidouins; whereas mr. chidouin had asunaro to look for... always aiming higher, but only with kai at his side. the bishop, the sage, the willing martyr... didn't you raise him well.