hi there! this is my AI art & AI discussion blog. :)
i've been a manual artist for 12+ years, and i use ai both to accent my workflow and as a tool with its own merits. overall, this blog exists to broaden people's idea of what ai art can be.
my belief is that manual artists should be able to seize ai as a tool to make otherwise lengthy and painful workflows easier on their bodies, rather than it being a tool that capitalism uses to displace working people. i've seen how ai can make manual art easier, rather than just replacing it, and i want to share that knowledge.
i tag my art as (art tag); anything that i've put into an art program and edited is tagged as (refined). my personal favorite pieces are tagged as (best work). i tag explanations of my workflow as (process) and any examples of my manual art as (manual art)!
if you're interested in my personal sideblog, it's @rhapsodyx2 !
my one boundary with this blog is that i will not follow nor endorse radical feminists, including trans radical feminists. i am intersex & nonbinary and i am frankly not having any of it.
also, please note that anon hate with no desire for actual discussion, as well as anon hate unrelated to ai, will be deleted or ridiculed. thank you!
more information under the cut.
MY PROCESS:
my ai art is largely trained on my manual art. it's a bit of a feedback loop, as i often use my ai art as a thumbnail for my manual art, which i in turn use as a reference for my later generative pieces.
my first foray into ai art was through something i affectionately call the rhaplora. this was a lora based on my own manual art! it went through a lot of iterations.
more recently, i've been using novelai and experimenting with its various tools. it allows me to use precise references, which are very accurate and thus make specific characters much easier to depict, and multi-character prompting, which makes pieces with more than one character much easier.
for precise references, i generally use my manual art, a hodgepodge of multiple pieces that inspire me, or pieces i've generated in the past. i also like to manually refine pieces in clip studio paint! this includes shading & highlights, adding effects, or sometimes lining them and then using colorize to completely reconfigure it.
TALKING POINTS & RESOURCES:
power & water usage discussion / andy masley's cheatsheet
a guide to how ai art works as machine learning rather than copy/paste
how people who refuse to engage with ai are effectively forfeiting their right to shape its usage
ai discourse seems to be degrading people's epistemic integrity / another one / another longer discussion
the importance of epistemic integrity in general
staying optimistic in the current era / another one
anti-ai artists do not actually care about amateur artists
people citing the mit chatgpt study are not actually reading it
why it's pointless to define what is and isn't ai art
effort is subjective / effort is not sacred / effort isn't actually respected unless it's "good" effort, and even then... / why i personally do not give "effort" credence
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if i seem unusually grumpy it's because i recently got blocked on basically everything by a friend of 7 years and qpp of 4 years, right after we broke up on what i thought and was led to believe were completely reasonable and amicable terms
it does suck to feel myself slowly becoming more jaded and spiteful towards ppl who are anti-ai. this blog literally exists as a way to extend an olive branch and show people that it doesn't have to be this way, but that only really works for the people who don't already see me as tainted and unworthy of their attention, so i end up just feeling angry when it's otherwise reasonable people that snub their noses at me
i think a big part of it is that throughout my entire life i've felt like i am constantly chasing after people. i always have to run to keep up with anyone, i have to make myself look palatable, i have to be someone people want to be around, and well. i'm sick of it. i'm not moving myself just for the sake of following after someone anymore. if i move it's on my own terms, i'm staying put right where i am, and if people get mad that i'm not moving mountains to keep up with them, that's not my problem. i don't want to have to keep pushing and straining to make and keep relationships. this is everything that i am and all i will ever be. you will take it or leave it and i am not making any concessions for anyone
can i ask why youre a bit jaded by the digital art trade?
it's mostly because i've been a part of various art communities since i was a teenager! i've seen the good and bad of it over the course of 13 years, and i was already unhappy with how much digital art communities incentivize being very possessive of your practice rather than sharing it. closed species communities especially emphasized this; every idea, every concept, every color palette was potential capital. my feelings only got more sour when i became an ai artist.
i just really don't like how...shallow? it feels, if you want to actually get anything out of an artist. it's a very rare lightning strike to get popular off of what interests you; you have to follow trends to get people's attention, stay active, strip yourself down until you're palatable to everyone—i learned and resolved very early that i would never get anywhere as a "digital artist", because i don't want to sell out and spend my blood sweat and tears on making myself marketable.
and...i dunno. i'm also just bad at it! and i've always been bad at it! i've never understood sketching or anatomy, i've never been truly happy with my manual art, and i only started getting better when i started tracing 3d models and then ai thumbnails. and it makes me mad to see people getting all up in arms about their art styles being "stolen" and their profit being taken away.
it's an incredibly spiteful thought, but i end up wanting people to feel how i feel. to desperately put yourself out there and to get jack shit back. i had to get a job that wasn't digital art and it made me more disabled than i already was, but i'm still alive, and i just get madder when i see people catastrophizing about potentially becoming me.
I feel the same way about writing, so I don't think it's just a digital art community thing. I dreamed about being a writer all my life, but when it came time to look at how publishing actually works now, the answer is it doesn't. You can self publish, if you want to spend all your time marketing yourself and following tropes. Or if you want to go the traditional route you can do the exact same thing, but specifically while elevator pitching your concept to agents on twitter, who will literally specify they want it in "X established franchise meets X established franchise with A B and C tropes" form, only to find out the publisher isn't willing to take a chance on you unless you've already proven you have an established base of readers.
And that's even before the AI stuff gets involved. Because I can tell you from working experience the people bitching the loudest about how much money they're losing to AI Writers weren't writing their own shit to begin with. They were paying shmucks like me peanuts to write it for them and then mass publishing on Amazon to game the SEO.
The commodification of art by capitalism is the death of creativity, not AI.
it does suck to feel myself slowly becoming more jaded and spiteful towards ppl who are anti-ai. this blog literally exists as a way to extend an olive branch and show people that it doesn't have to be this way, but that only really works for the people who don't already see me as tainted and unworthy of their attention, so i end up just feeling angry when it's otherwise reasonable people that snub their noses at me
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i think i've just spent too much time being told that i personally need to figure out how a world with ai is going to accommodate digital artists, and the answer i came up with is "it's not my fucking responsibility". if i'm going to be branded as a traitor and an outsider for the next however many years people keep freaking the fuck out about ai, then i have zero responsibility to personally advocate for a world that prioritizes this singular artisan craft. i'd rather platform people who keep sheep just to sell felt crafts than to put my neck on the line for people who hate me!
can i ask why youre a bit jaded by the digital art trade?
it's mostly because i've been a part of various art communities since i was a teenager! i've seen the good and bad of it over the course of 13 years, and i was already unhappy with how much digital art communities incentivize being very possessive of your practice rather than sharing it. closed species communities especially emphasized this; every idea, every concept, every color palette was potential capital. my feelings only got more sour when i became an ai artist.
i just really don't like how...shallow? it feels, if you want to actually get anything out of an artist. it's a very rare lightning strike to get popular off of what interests you; you have to follow trends to get people's attention, stay active, strip yourself down until you're palatable to everyone—i learned and resolved very early that i would never get anywhere as a "digital artist", because i don't want to sell out and spend my blood sweat and tears on making myself marketable.
and...i dunno. i'm also just bad at it! and i've always been bad at it! i've never understood sketching or anatomy, i've never been truly happy with my manual art, and i only started getting better when i started tracing 3d models and then ai thumbnails. and it makes me mad to see people getting all up in arms about their art styles being "stolen" and their profit being taken away.
it's an incredibly spiteful thought, but i end up wanting people to feel how i feel. to desperately put yourself out there and to get jack shit back. i had to get a job that wasn't digital art and it made me more disabled than i already was, but i'm still alive, and i just get madder when i see people catastrophizing about potentially becoming me.
I'm trying to use NovelAI as Im looking forward to have diferent poses and stuff for my character, but like geniunely this is a damn headache to use like it doesnt do what is asked at all AND believe me I've been throughout with my prompt. I also attempted lora but that straight up gave me a stickman, also the prompt character limit is SUPER low like I can barely ask anything. For me chatgpt has been a lot better in actually doing the shit I ask it to w my character. Idk if Im doing anything wrong
huh! you might be having issues with using natural language over tag-based prompting? novelai specifically primarily uses danbooru tags while using natural language as an accent to better assist the tags! novelai allows you to use 512 tokens, which is plenty if you're using tags, but can be a lot more restrictive if you're just using natural language. there's a lot of filler words you could be taking out! i suggest checking the danbooru tag wiki and seeing if that helps, because a lot of loras primarily use tags, too!
the problem with my posts getting attention is that while i do like people seeing my blog i have a very strong urge to always reply when someone says something stupid. i haven't developed the strength to not reply yet because this is my first time getting more than like 3 notes on something let alone 8k over 1-2 weeks and 1k over like 2 days
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the problem with my posts getting attention is that while i do like people seeing my blog i have a very strong urge to always reply when someone says something stupid. i haven't developed the strength to not reply yet because this is my first time getting more than like 3 notes on something let alone 8k over 1-2 weeks and 1k over like 2 days
i think the funniest thing about the new rhaplora is that i included that one tachyon i manually drew and then img2img'd and it's made all tachyons generated by that lora look insanely scuffed.
this is with two other loras on top of it. .4 strength vs .7 strength. bigs your hair
i think the funniest thing about the new rhaplora is that i included that one tachyon i manually drew and then img2img'd and it's made all tachyons generated by that lora look insanely scuffed.
this is with two other loras on top of it. .4 strength vs .7 strength. bigs your hair
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i do think the goofy search prompts are a fun creative writing exercise because you've gotta get very into the head of an inanimate object asking google for help to get good results
these are funny as fuck but there's really no difference between doing this and having chatgpt generate shit. if we're gonna be on the "fuck ai, every search is throwing gallons of water down the drain during an acute climate crisis" train then we do need to apply it to stuff that looks funny and harmless too. sorry to be a killjoy here but fuck gen ai even if it looks quirky and fun.
