You know what really sucks about art history and AI?

These days, I can't go on Google and look up "Renaissance" or "Rococo" or "Baroque" art without the results being absolutely littered with shitty, modernized AI pictures. If I'm studying 18th-century portraiture, I'm looking for themes and motifs specific to the period (composition, shape, emotionality, emphasis, etc), so I can better understand the cultural values of an era, and then deconstruct and experiment with them in my own art. I don't want to see some generic hot girl in an inaccurate Marie Antoinette dress, or a Chad Napoleon that's even more ridiculous than the Jacques-Louis David propaganda. Jesus Christ. This garbage isn't even comparable in how awful it is, and it's infecting everything.

For reference, on the left is the work of Artemisia Gentileschi, an actual Baroque artist (click for full size), up against "Baroque Style" from a website selling AI prints. Ew. I won't even explain how Not Baroque the image on the right is, it's so bad it's actually criminal.

Examining historical art periods in modern works is one thing, but this shit isn't even trying. This is another reason why AI isn't art. You can click a button and make something aesthetically pleasing, but you learn nothing. You evoke nothing. You say nothing. There is not a single ounce of value to be had here, other than demonstrating our culture's most superficial ideals, your complete lack of personality, and absolutely no foundational knowledge or intuition. It's a joke is what it is. Artists are trying to do actual work over here, you're just a waste of air.

I survived the trip home from Rochester BARELY

I drove through the eclipse it was WILD going from sunset, to total night, to sunrise in like 15 minutes

I know this is random (you don’t have to post if you don’t want to) but I also get infusions for crohns and just wanted to let you know you’re not alone man. I don’t know anyone else who gets these infusions but it’s nice to know that even a random person on the internet who writes amazing things also goes through the same things I do! Once you get the dosing and frequency right, it’s gonna be all over for you mfs!! Anyways I wish you well and wish you luck and good things happen to you!

:0!!!!

wait that’s so cool… what are the odds someone in a similar situation happened to see my post??

before i met w my doctor to discuss results and treatment, i was expecting to be put on oral meds (immunosuppressant + steroids). it seemed to be the most common treatment i found while doing my own research, esp as the first option. but he said he wanted me to start infusions due to the severity of my disease- which i hadn’t even heard of before for crohn’s. that was a real curveball.

so suffice to say, it’s VERY NEAT to hear from someone in the same boat. thanks for the kind words, i wish u the best as well!

(very minimal talk of skin stuff.. a few details left out so it's not graphic in description)

for over 2 years now I have been afflicted and struggling with a very itchy patch on the right side of my mouth. I've tried to google search what it could be, but I've come up with nothing that matches or looks like what I got going on.

anti-itch cream does nothing to sooth the itching, we have no idea how I got this problem.. it's not an allergic reaction to anything and we tried to see a doctor (I have literally no insurance so it's been even more of a struggle to deal with), but all we could get back in 22, I think? was a video call and that did literally nothing, but at least I got a prescription for 2 bottles of something that I've just recently run out of. it was the only thing that lessened the coloration and made the itching stop, but if I stop using it the itching and redness returns, so it's not a cure, but made it tolerable.

unfortunately, the stuff is prescription only and no real over-the-counter alternatives exist.

at its worst it's red and splotchy and right now it's got some small bumps. at the least when my tube of prescription medicine that I rub on gently was still full, the spot didn't itch and the redness was gone, only remaining thing is some slight discoloration, and I mean very slight. I could go places outside just fine without much worry about how I look.

(I had rubbed it pretty bad one day during 22' summer by using a towel I had nearby cuz I just couldn't handle the itching at the time. we didn't have the prescription medicine yet.. or at least not a good one. ..it was REALLY bad and looked SO ugly. I put some water and junk on it to try and clean it, but it stung and burned horribly.. I had a scabbed area there afterwards for a few days.)

my mom finally managed to get a hold of a doctor and set up an appointment for me, it's on the 4th, meaning I have to suffer with this itching and redness for 2 weeks. my mom said she'll get my dad to take her to get something I could use for this in the meantime later tonight when my dad gets back.

I'm really hoping the stuff she gets will help.. I can barely get anything out of the neck of the last tube of prescription medicine for my face.. I'll be properly and officially out by tomorrow.. washing my face does nothing for it btw.

this has been a nightmare to deal with.. I'm already self-conscious about the way I look.. this is just.. I want whatever this is on my face to go away. to be cured permanently..

I need to reread aftg so bad

does anyone want more tiffany and janine art? i haven’t drawn them in awhile and some of u liked the art awhile back. ive been waiting to redo tiffany’s design and make a character sheet for her. ill post wips if i ever get around to doing so.

//So I received the plan for work for the next three weeks and rip me I guess. Upcoming week and the one after are going to be hell, but then! Then I'll finally have time to do some more writing, since I'll only have two days of work. Which are going to be spent catching up on things and probably meeting with @alyafae and another friend to finish everything for Stuttgart in December

I have tried contacting the main and nothing works. It keeps coming up with an error. Since I don’t have another way to do it, I’ll do it here and delete it later. I have to take a small hiatus. It will be a full one from today July 28th until August 8th. I’m going on a family vacation and won’t have my computer with me. I hope everyone has a great week. 

@what-if-rpg

hey i like ur art. 「BLESSING OF HORUS」 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 �� 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑

Holy heck Horus Blessing be upon myself and my life for I have been complimented too; calou calay- joyous day for a tall ass owl mother fucker.

(Meant entirely genuinely. Thank you anon.)

I aspire to draw boobs the way only women can draw boobs. And the way Michelangelo definitely can't.

Got another unhinged reblog from that neji dude now going on 3 accounts I've blocked. Team gai just keeps winning

as soon as my infusion kicks in it’s over for you hoes

Hello, sorry I was busy for a while. due to college stuff but I'm slowly getting back into being active again now! So I should be able to post more stuff and answer some asks in my inbox soon 😗

My 4 year old nephew is mad that I didn't invite him to my 5th birthday

Welp. Life decided to give me a big slap in the face and here’s what I’m willing to disclose about it down below.

 (Putting this in the tags too but just in case you don’t want to know: It’s just about how certain IRL events are going to make me go a bit silent for a while and if I post anything as a means to comfort myself then it will be spotty)

News of it hit out of nowhere (even though it had been expected for some time we just didn’t think it happen today of all days) but my grandma passed away and so now for at least a little while I’ll probably be quiet on this blog/discord/everywhere else until my mind settles itself.

..my grandma passed away ln and I've been crying since ln and all this morning. I just don't know how much worse this can get. I feel like? I'm losing everything and everyone i loved and im having a hard time. So today...idk if ill be around. Or the rest of this week. Idk. My heart just rly hurts rn . I want to write and talk especially now but...jjst no promises, ok?