Shit Ton Of People Are Repeating The Thing About Hayao Miyazaki Saying AI Art Is An "insult To Life Itself"

Birthday gifts for friends, I pushed myself with these ones because I will absolutely try anything new for my beloved friends, for myself…. maybe haha 😌 I absolutely adore how both of them turned out ✨

Strawberry 🍓

Lots of thoughts recently. Everything feels plastic.

I could go on and on about why all that AI "art" is bad. I could mention theft, lack of creativity, it's impact on the work field and environment, but countless people have already said all that. I wanted to touch on something that to me is the most utterly wrong about all of it.

Art is more than just something pretty to look at or listen to. It's therapeutic. It's a form of communication. A tool for human connection. It's a pure, human need.

Support real artists ☀️

being an artist and revisiting media you liked when you were 11 is like. oh ok. this shaped my sense of humor and the way I write characters and the way I pace narratives and the tropes I'm drawn to. and I vastly underestimated how much of an impact it had on me because I literally have not thought about it for 15 years. but it was there inside me the whole time. ok. ok cool! c ool

actually this reminded me of art blindness (not sure if it already has a term, but this is how I’ve thought of it as). It’s the idea that you’ll never quite know what your art looks like, how others see it, because you’ve seen so much of it and were there for the entire process so your brain has become familiar with it. Many artists won’t ever fully grasp how amazing their work looks to everyone else. It’s not always about perfectionism, it just comes from being unable to see it from an outside perspective like everyone else can. Not a bad thing, just a reminder not to be hard on yourself. You’re just used to it so you can’t see how amazing it is!!

It’s the same thing that happens when you grow up in a town with extremely beautiful flowers. Tourists would come from all over to see them! And you’d be confused about what the big deal is, since you’d known them so long that they’ve become familiar. You’d still appreciate them and you’d also have moments where that familiarity drops a little and you’ll see the awe-inspiring beauty everyone else sees, but it won’t be the same as it would be from an outside view. That’s also why artists are more easily able to judge their older art (for looking either better or worse than they recall) because it’s been put aside for enough time that the familiarity has faded enough for them to see it objectively.

A banner I made bc I’m working on opening commissions (through vgen!!) and it’s strange to see my art next to each other like this for some reason

We were all beginners at one point or another, and we ought to respect everyone's beginning regardless of what it looks like. Critiquing another artist's skills or mocking them for being inexperienced is in extremely poor taste.

"But it could look better, I'm just giving them advice so they can improve-" no. If they want advice, they'll ask for feedback. Also, feedback should be given in a constructive and kind manner, not just an infodump of their flaws. it's called constructive criticism for a reason, because it's meant to build others up not tear them down

There are so many art babies just starting and it always gives me hope for the future of art, knowing that people are still finding joy in creating and starting on the long journey of being an artist. We have got to take care of these beginners, not crush their spirits by criticizing them for not being as experienced as the artists further down the trail. It is a process. Let them learn like we did, like we still are learning.

Appreciation post for all the beginner artists who work hard despite the AI ​​looming over us. You are fabulous. You are precious. Keep up the hard work, you are needed.

So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

that new generative ai thing is breaking my heart

Oh I am in such a Dungeon Meshi mood… you can pry this au out of my cold dead hands.

When making the au, I knew Love had to be a half-foot because it just suits her so well. …it also occurred to me that half-foots are specifically mentioned to have a low mana capacity as compared to other races like elves, and also that Love would likely be a healer and thus need a decent mana capacity… but sometimes you have to shove the rules aside and go for what FEELS right instead.