the rise of AI art isn't surprising to us. for our entire lives, the attitude towards our skills has always been - that's not a real thing. it has been consistently, repeatedly devalued.

people treat art - all forms of it - as if it could exist by accident, by rote. they don't understand how much art is in the world. someone designed your home. someone designed the sign inside of your local grocery store. when you quote a character or line from something in media, that's a line a real person wrote.

"i could do that." sure, but you didn't. there's this joke where a plumber comes over to a house and twists a single knob. charges the guy 10k. the guy, furious, asks how the hell the bill is so high. the plumber says - "turning the knob was a dollar. the knowledge is the rest of the money."

the trouble is that nobody believes artists have knowledge. that we actively study. that we work hard, beyond doing our scales and occasionally writing a poem. the trouble is that unless you are already framed in a museum or have a book on a shelf or some kind of product, you aren't really an artist. hell, because of where i post my work, i'll never be considered a poet.

the thing that makes you an artist is choice. the thing that makes all art is choice. AI art is the fetid belief that art is instead an equation. that it must answer a specific question. Even with machine learning, AI cannot make a choice the way we can - because the choices we make have always been personal, complicated. our skills cannot be confined to "prompt and execution." what we are "solving" isn't just a system of numbers - it is how we process our entire existence. it isn't just "2 and 2 is 4", it's staring hard at the numbers and making the four into an alligator. it's rearranging the letters to say ow and it is the ugly drawing we make in the margin.

at some point, you will be able to write something by feeding my work into a machine. it will be perfectly legible and even might sound like me. but a machine doesn't understand why i do these things. it can be taught preferences, habits, statistical probability. it doesn't know why certain vowels sound good to me. it doesn't know the private rules i keep. it doesn't know how to keep evolving.

"but i want something to exist that doesn't exist yet." great. i'm glad you feel creative. go ahead and pay a fucking artist for it.

this is all saying something we all already knew. the sad fucking truth: we have to die to remind you. only when we're gone do we suddenly finally fucking mean something to you. artists are not replicable. we each genuinely have a skill, talent, and process that makes us unique. and there's actual quiet power in everything we do.

more ponyo au!

extra: (they get older and katsuki can't help but bring up the fact deku was a fish. it may or may not be payback for how cute fish-deku was when they were kids)

Jesus imagine if we confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life the Taxonomy would be insane

Lesson no. 274859: NEVER EVER STEAL FROM A WITCH. YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON 💥

Old concept sketches for an AU of mine

is it not a shame my native tongue is not mine?

jan - april - september - november

2023 was my purple period if you will heheheheheh

obsessed with the prospect of Howdy Figuring It Out via the neighbors enjoying non-food items

Deleted maruki drawings

Duality of Rarijack

quanxi

drew Arthur like I said I would 😊 im normal now and there is nothing under the read more!!!!!

JUST KIDDING JOVIER JUMPSCARE ‼️‼️

i drew this a while ago just didnt wanna post it on its own cause its kinda.. nothing

also johns arm looks weird but I couldnt fix it so. :/

Stars and sparkles

The Lawyers of Charlie Slimecicle

Jaiden: Set the stage with her opening statement, laying out the format of the trial and the demands of her client (along with her team's claims against the defendant)

BadBoyHalo: Swooped in with counter-evidence when Mariana's team had a lead

Quackity: Assisted as a translator between teams and clarified misconceptions in favor of his client

Fit: Bribed the judge. Also offered to run over the judge with his motor boat if the trial didn't go their way

Foolish: Got exposed for sleeping with the defense prior to the trial, did a 180 and decided to prosecute against his team

Tilin: Egg (got called in for Jury Duty)

Bonus

Roier: Mariana's sole lawyer, who had to go against 5 attorneys as part of a seemingly loosing battle considering his client was the one who committed egg murder. Held his own quite well with counter arguments that gave his client a fighting chance. Truly, the underrated MVP of the trial

i love the genre of art click bait thats literally just "dont draw bad"

also i hate how the clothes? on the right are drawn like just draw her naked at that point