#bugbeast

Would you be interested in monthly photo packs being made available? They’d be between $1-$3, include the unedited versions of the pics I post to my blog (bbbugsnstuff.tumblr.com) as well as outtakes, and be released under a sort-of open source license (you’d be allowed to edit and share them, use them to train AI models, or utilize them in commercial products; all under the requirement that my name be mentioned somewhere.

One of the many, many, many unfortunate aspects of time being a linear, but also cyclical, but also...ugh, fine I'll say it; it's a timey-wimey ball in a way that rarely benefits we bone creatures piloting flesh mechas in our day to day lives.

And sometimes you can't predict how people will react to something big happening in the world of tech and art. What one artist might see as an innovative way to use their projects to generate potentially infinite content, another artist may see as theft and an affront to the sacred act of transforming abstract things in your mind into a physical and/or digital form with your own hands, sweat, tears, patience, and (hopefully not, but maybe sometimes) blood.

I used to be the former, and I've constantly forced magnets near my moral compass to justify because I'm using my own art and photographs as a basis to generate them, but it's still theft.

This little experiment was a success, which make me both sad and a little happy. On the one hand, I kinda feel like I'm a supervillain being proven that my dim view of humanity. But on the other, I did get comments from other users that appreciated this little (but also kinda massive) project and I appreciate you for appreciating my appreciation of something other people may not appreciate

Now, I', not turning anti-AI or anything. I do genuinely believe it can be used in genuinely unique and potentially beautifully transformative and unusual works of art

But that's the future, maybe far future. But this blog ain't it, chief (chief being myself in this situation)

So it's over.

But I don't think I'll let this blog die. Perhaps InsectoidBoi will become my de-facto blog for weird experimental projects that don't fit on my main blog. Ooh, ooh, maybe I could even do a different kind of project every year?

Aww, anyway, I've rambled on long enough. If you'd like to see my original, handmade no AI bullshit artwork (and I even made a card game you can play FOR FREE (but please buy it, I'll be your best friend) you can find it at the following:

bugbeast : for general digital artwork (mostly pixel, but I dabble) and tabletop/computer game projects

bbbugsnstuff : this is why I post nature photos. As the name might imply, there be bugs so be warned if that isn't your thing

bugmash : this is where I post any art/photos/ramblings that don't fit the vibe of the previous blogs

trilobutts : my secret blog where I post somewhat risque-but-still relatively-SFW-please-Tumblr-do-not-kill pixel art. Lots of butts and there is some furry content so again, be warned if that isn't your thing

You can view a selection of my original artwork that some of the pieces on this blog are based on below:

I'll address the elephant in the room of my Redbubble shop at a later date. I made some sales, but I'm not near my payment threshold and I don't want to just lose what little money I made from this dumb experiment.

Suffice to say, the AI stuff will be removed and replaced with something wholly original, I just don't know what yet...

That's all I have for the remainder of the year besides what's already in the queue. See you next year with a brand new, less morally bankrupt experiment

An example of some artwork from my SFW blog