Thank you @sakeozo for including my character Leech in your art!
FINALLY! I made this out of love for my mutuals who responded to my Twitter post. I would love to surprise more mutuals, but I know I gotta set limits to avoid going overboard. Enjoy this drawing, I spent a lot of time on! x3
I am proud to announce that a second wave of Dinometal T-Shirt designs are currently in the works and are looking for a release sometime in June or July this year! To hold everyone over, you can purchase stickers of these characters busts over on my Redbubble store. As a group or individually! Due to file size limitations, only the Group will be available on my Teepublic store.
Gift art for a few friends, especially those that had it rough last year. I was supposed to get this done last year but due to t-shirt designs, commissions and personal life problems I kept pushing them back
When the mighty dinosaurs and the headbanging influence of metal combine together, you get the ultimate fusion…. DINOMETAL!
Get your Apparel & Stickers at my TeePublic store:
https://www.teepublic.com/user/angusmcquadeprojects
UPDATE! Designs are also available at Redbubble!:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/mr-amp/shop
Taking a small break from doing T-Shirt designs, doing some busts of a few creations of mine. Enjoy
Clockwise: Thronzer, T.R.O.S, Plasmalops & Cindypede
To me, like so many other artists, it is a threat to us all struggling to get our names out in the world.
It encourages art theft.
It encourages people to disregard the original artist's hard work.
It encourages plagiarism.
It shows no respect for actual artists.
It is the complete opposite of transformative art & expression.
You cannot convince me that relying on an algorithm is a good alternative for artists or newcomers when it backpedals off of other people's work. Works that can take hours, days, sometimes weeks to complete. And all it takes for an AI "artist" is a few clicks and they've got a frankensteined version of someone else's work, with painfully obvious imperfections they don't bother to correct or notice. AI art is no different than people who make Nightcore "music" and claim its hard work.
As a starving artist, this is insulting. I don't care how it works, none of that matters when art theft is strongly tied to it. It scares me that people will abuse these sources to steal jobs from people like myself who desperately want to work in the artistic field (or companies will use AI to do the job itself), and it disappoints me when others try to sell AI art and admit they didn't even draw it!
Am I a perfect artist? No. Do I strive to get better? Yes. Would I consider using it if my hands had to be amputated and I couldn't draw? I’d pay fellow artists for commissions than feed an algorithm that vomits out abominations.
I will never support these sad excuses for "artists", or its community. It will forever lack the one crucial element no artificial intelligence can replicate... Imagination. If you support this garbage community, see no issue with it, think it will be accepted over time and it is the way of the future... You are out of your mind, have lost my support, and I won't be the only real artist out there that will say the same thing.
I started work on this drawing of Angus Nitro last year, but forgot all about it due to work on commissions at the time. When i revisited the unfinished sketch, i didn't like how it turned out so far and decided to redraw the whole thing
I really need to get around to drawing him in better poses
With the Art Raffle Giveaway finished on Facebook I figured I'd release the sample drawing I did for it. Basically a self portrait of myself namely as practice to get me used to drawing digitally again, but also replace a few images of myself on my website