My sister is a big fan of Miku and asked me to draw it for her after seeing the polish Miku art. I also included flat colors and background-less versions for anyone who'd like to see the steps.
My Comms are open if you're interested in seeing your favourite characters in my style
The first step By will wood | Drunken lullabies By flogging molly | Molotov Cocktail Lounge By Steel beans | A Crows Trial By Vane Lily | You're all scotch no soda By Sarah and the safe word |
I have very conflicted feelings about the AI song covers because like I listen to computers singing all the time not only miku and other vocaloids I listen to absolutely any computer synthesized sounds and with shit like *insert politian/celebrity here* AI cover of popular song I kind of get it because who would want to sit there and collect the samples by hand EXCEPT that's what we did, that's exactly what we used UTAU for, all the spongebob, trump and even hetalia character covers, made in UTAU or even worse by hand in sony vegas or fl studo, are very important to me, because there is a human behind it, someone who put in the time and effort and passion to create something like this and now you open some AI and have that handed to you, I ask you where is the fun, you listen to it and it has no story to tell, no joy of creation to share with others and you may say I'm a hypocrite for enjoying shit like Jiafei (there's inherent beauty in the collective meme of floptropica, as there is in goncharov) while the hitler AI covers of barbie girl (setting the obvious problematic aspect of it aside if anyone is concerned) are just kinda not there for me because I know that there should be someone willing to deconstruct the samples by hand eventually and make it and if they didn't do it, it simply means no one needed it as much and thus it's very disposable art, disposable like a pretty shampoo package not a cherished memory encased in a piece of art and people put those covers on spotify and make money of off it while the guy who made a spongebob X squidward Magnet cover can't share the voicebank because it's "illegal" because they have more sense of humanity towards the artists that created the source material and people with no passion and understanding for the act of creation will continue to profit. I'm not saying all forms of AI are inherently bad, used for example in automation of voice synthesis can produce amazing effects, but I fear the era where people will stop creating new music and expect the computers to just give it to them, AI generated lyrics, AI generated melody, AI generated backstory too while to me the most important part is the things people want to show to other through crating something new and of their own
how many covers of barbie girl can you handle before you want something new?
would blue jeans and bloody tears give you cha cha cha?
remember how vocaloid characters used to be associated with food or other items? like miku with leeks, kaito with ice cream, luka with tuna, len with bananas, etc. what would be po-uta's item? what would dex or daina or avanna have? do english vocaloids have character items?