John hasn't known peace since Arthur figured out that the heart candies fit perfectly between his horns... Happy Valentines!
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[ID: A painting of small creature John. He's depicted as a mostly amorphous blob with a vague animal shape with ripples of smoke around him, four small horns, bright gold eyes and marble like markings, with his left large horn being broken off. John looks slightly disgruntled and annoyed. On his head is a pink candy sweetheart with "You & Me" in red on it. It fits perfectly between all of his horns. /End ID]
i drew vash doing the sonic adventure pose a while back and while i was working on that i thought "dont wolfwood and shadow look similar?" (its shadows chest fluff it makes him look like hes wearing a suit)
but then i never did anything with that thought. until now because ive been watching sonic prime and i was in the mood oops
so i drew shadow as wolfwoods debut panel. ive never drawn a sonic character before. it was fun i hope i did ok
me and my friend were talking about the alice-sam-celia situation, and i thought, "wouldn't it be funny if we got a proper love triangle??" so i made this
Doodle, they are my favorite superheros and I want them to be friends <3
Edit: I didn't really bother with references with most of this so Wordgirl's hair ended up way too light and it's bothering me So Much and I can't change it because I merged a bunch of layers after finishing aufhdfhgh
Bonus: an unfinished two brains and doctor octopus bc of @professor-boxleitner 's tags on my previous spider-man post ^v^!
The Simpsons "money can be exchanged for goods and services" meme but it's Doc Ock convincing Two Brains he'll get cheese if he helps him with his goals
imo the recent wave of "ai art is valid actually" discourse often misses the point of the reaction against ai art. And I think the reaction is often reacting against the wrong thing too.
The end product is not the problem. Like it or not, AI generated art is now a valid subset of art. It makes something that wasn't there before, usually has some purpose or intent in the process, and it makes people feel something. Hating it is still something.
El problema, como siempre, es el capitalismo. Just like that old man said.
Creating an AI model always involves training it on a dataset. The bigger the better, every single time. How do you do that? You write a program to scrape everything from whatever you point it at, and run it through various levels of processing until your AI reliably spits out something you want to see.
This is hard to do, so there is a lot of monetary value in creating one, hosting it, and offering it to others. At no point do you have to create anything of value, you just have to take what other people made and extract surplus value from it. And you do this while interacting as little as possible with the art you've used for this massive dataset, or god forbid with the artists that made it.
In return these artists get nothing, usually. Not so much as a note of acknowledgement in the readme.
Human artists can and do steal from, plagiarise, and piss off other artists all the time. But they cannot do it at the scale of AI art, nor can they completely divorce the original art from its context. Even when this is done for financial gain, it's on an entirely different level, with entirely different stakes. I'm not talking about copyright law or intellectual property, I'm talking about large scale labour devaluation and deskilling for the sake of corporate capitalism which is an inherent part of most of the AI generative art tools that are used by people today.
There's a lot of cool possibilities and interesting thought-provoking questions that have become immediately obvious with AI art and it's not in any rush to go away. I think spending hours debating the artistic merit of the end product of AI generated art is the wrong thing to focus on right now. Humans also make art that is uninspired or derivative or mass-produced and it can still be artistically valuable. Look at Duchamp's fountain, literally mass produced and likely plagiarised from another artist, and one of the most valuable pieces of modern art history we have.
It's about the scale. The decontextualisation. The capital gain for a generally uninterested company seeking to extract surplus value from the unconsenting labour. The picture that gets generated at the end is kind of the least interesting part of the discussion.
Blob John is a a fragment of a god contained in a tiny body, don't let him fool you... he's still going to enjoy the human experience though.
My FTH sketch piece for Heather! I hope you don't mind that this piece ran away from me and turned into more than just one sketch!
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[ID: A sketch page of two versions of blob John on a cream colored background. He's depicted as an amorphous shadowy blob with four horns, the left one being broken and bright golden yellow eyes and markings that look like cracked minerals. In the top right corner, he's crouched holding a movie ticket stub that's almost as big as he is with a big smile on his face. In the lower left, John is curled up inside a suit jacket pocket with just one horn sticking out. The jacket is being held open by Arthur's left hand as he checks on John.
One arrow points to the top eight saying "kept his first ticket stub" and another arrow points to the lower left saying "favorite hiding spot, inner pocket of Arthur's jacket".
The artists logo is in the bottom right with the date of 12/27/2023. /End ID]
Easter (from 'Easter') for @just-a-carrot! The colors and shading were very fun to play around with on this piece. Thank you for letting me draw him!
For those who didn't get their submissions drawn, fret not! They're still in the inbox and have a chance to be drawn later. And even if you have already sent in a request, you're more than welcome to send in more.
oh man i REALLY need to get some refs for my ava/m human designs up anyway
here is a very old somft human dark and chosen self indulgence doodle. does blob have an explanation for this? the answer may surprise you! (the answer is no)
(actually the answer is i think they'd both be touch starved and i want to see them hug,,,,)