Jenny Haines

Willow Tree

Digital painting

My latest painting! I've been redesigning on my portfolio this year with the goal of working on game concept art and fantasy illustration. With the help of my mentor, we came up with a folio project reimagining one of my favorite SNES games as a child, Secret of Mana.

New painting! “The Temple of Undine” I wanted to push Secret of Mana's Water Palace beyond its SNES-era pixels, emphasizing its role as the ancient, sacred home of the Mana Seed of Water, a source of great power protected by the water spirit Undine 🧜‍♀️🌊

I forgot to post these two ornaments from last year. They were Christmas commissions, and now that they have been gifted, I can post them! The one on the left is Beauty Ann (orange and white dog), and the one on the right is Mercy (German Shepherd). They were both painted with acrylics on 3 inch ceramic ornaments.

Please visit my website for information on how you can commission your own pet portrait. I work with acrylic paints on stretched canvas, and can create portraits of any animal type and on any size of canvas. I have painted many breeds of dogs and cats, as well as farm animals, rodents, birds, reptiles, and many others. You can see my entire Pet Portrait Portfolio here on my website.

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There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.