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Posts by Erika
Ordovician doodles
A kind of triggerfish actually, just the color is similar to parrot fish
sketchbook acrylic markers fish for a change!
It's the same in Verona (northeast Italy), the whole downtown is paved with countless ammonites, it's so cool! I just learnt looking up a picture it's called red ammonite marble (ammonitico rosso)
Late night cassowary painting. #sciart
Beipiaosaurus + sinosauropteryx (which should be smaller I think)
Why does China have the best dinosaurs
Beipiaosaurus + sinosauropteryx (which should be smaller I think)
Why does China have the best dinosaurs
Shocked to see some artists saying that using ai slop as reference is ok. It's really fucking not. Not only are you still using the mashed-up uncredited work of the rest of us artists, but it degrades your whole visual library because it hallucinates. If you do this I do not respect you
My partner just unwrapped this sketchbook he got in a shop in Shanghai where we got some random art supplies and... It has a handle?? Why? And why do I love it?
A friend of mine did a machine learning project like ten years ago where they taught a program to detect invasive plants from drone images. We did not call it "AI", we called it machine learning. Calling it "AI" now is trying to legitimize chatbots and other bunk by roping them in with real science.
Variations of the jawless prehistoric fish Sacabambaspis
Sacabambaspis (I couldn't decide which one looked best π)
#fish #prehistoric #paleoart #SciArt #doodle
An orange garibaldi surrounded by very strange fish
I heard drawing a fish helps with art block. I guess it worked?
#fishtheory #garibaldi #doodle
A digital painting of a bird, in profile, sitting on a branch. He is hunkered down in a way that makes his body a straight line. His face is blue, his collar black, his eye and underbelly yellow. The back of his head is white, his wings green, and the tail cyan. Around him are the muddled blues, greens, and browns of foliage. He sits on a broken branch among a twist of them.
This month's #BirdWhisperer is a Green Jay, another little dude i had no idea existed.
(Bird ref from Keishpixl, additional background ref from Nancy Johnston) π¦’π‘ #art #birds
Therizinosaurus, for the sake of keeping up random drawings on my tablet instead of doomscrolling.
I had no idea what colors to use, then I remembered my favourite illustration of them (the one in All Yesterdays) has them black. Very convenient since I was out of time anyway π
Oh HELL yes! π₯
OpenAI is pulling the plug on their AI video generator Sora, and with it goes their deal with Disney to bring AI gen to Disney+.
OpenAI seems to be in serious financial trouble, what a shame π
A Steam AI Generated Content Disclosure The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: AI-generated voiceovers for ingame characters. This is a indie no-budget production. Sorry :-'(
I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this.
The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all!
Games don't need VO to be good!
By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!
The flower for youπΌ
I took a photo in a museum specifically to remember to do this u_u
A firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla) on some rocks. I'm definitely feeling more confident with watercolors lately, I'll probably just end up being overconfident and screw up the next one XD
Some quick (no ref) Yutyrannus. I really wanted to give it fluffy feet like a ptarmigan
Aaaaa <3 pheasants are great
I drew a dino pheasant years ago exactly bc a friend sent a photo of one saying it looked like a velociraptor
More dino sketches!
For Banan or for science? π
The Bright Future Update lands on Tuesday, March 31st
I want to try and get into the habit of just... drawing with no pressure? I sketch and study all the time but never draw a thing for the sake of it, nevermind color it or digitally x_x
I'd be happy even with just more boring side poses in the void like this tbh
Some quick (no ref) Yutyrannus. I really wanted to give it fluffy feet like a ptarmigan