Being sold AI images at Dragon Con is like walking into a Michelin-star restaurant and being served a week-old frozen block of 2-minute ramen noodles.

Degenerate art.

If he was so great, then why were the orcs taking the hobbits to Eisenhower?

My first illustration of 2025! ✨️ I’m hopeful this year will be incredibly productive. #illustration #bandedessinée #frogs #fantasy

Public Diffusion Private Beta | Source.Plus Search, curate, and enrich media collections for AI training using the Source.Plus marketplace. Safe, consenting, high-quality training data. Public domain datasets for model fine-tuning.

So do it. Here is such a model source.plus/public-diffu... - Wait for the release and use it. Why are you using things built on IP infringement? This isn't a digital vs trad conversation. All the models now are using people's work without consent. If it was research purposes why is it forprofit now?

Eventually there will be free oss models that are better o3 that will fit on our smart watches. It's inescapable. But it remains true that the initial tokens were created from our data, without our consent, without payment, and are used to replace many of us. That is why people are unhappy with llms

Put my post in chatgpt and ask it to explain it to you

We made the training materials that AI companies used to build their models. Plus, these models are behind pay walls. So telling writers and artists to pay for a tech they helped build without their consent which is simultaneously replacing them is going to be unpopular. The contract stinks.

Thanks!!

A book cover depicting a powerful sorceress carrying a staff standing in the forest about to cast a spell

A book cover depicting a sorceress holding a staff looking up in awe at a rift opening up in the sky above. A blurb reads, "Dive into a world of magic, romance, and rebellion against a tyrannical evil god"

A book cover for "Reborn" by Emmie Mears, depicts a powerful sorceress casting a spell. An elf in the background observes.

I can show these now! Three book covers I did for the "Aurora's Rift" series written by the multi-talented @maigheach.bsky.social Planning the "rift" going around the book and above the character was a fun challenge.

Giving Bluesky a try. Here's my latest sculpture.
#voodoo

Hello.

Hello friends, I’m going to make a go of it here at Bluesky.

Thank you!!

QRP with your skull art ☠️

Thank you!!

Thank you!!

I will still try to publish my work on my own site, and then link to it from BlueSky. I don't want to make the same mistakes as we did with FB, IG, Twitter etc. BlueSky is wonderful now but they can change their policies whenever they want.

Allright Blue Sky! Lets rock!

The ~90-ish artists from GenCon 2023

GenCon 2023 Art Show was a great experience! It's a lot of hard work but worth it! I hope to see everyone again next year!

Painted statuettes. A skull, robot head, octopus head.

This batch of hanging wall statuettes is done! I designed them in Zbrush, printed them on a gkTwo, and painted them w acrylics + FW Ink.

Can I blatantly self-promo here? Today is the last day of a sale at my print shop (inprnt.com/gallery/tristan_elwell/). these are my bestsellers, but there's plenty more there.

Thank you!!

Some of my favorite work ✨

omg! what happened?!

Fables Cover #159 for DC Comics

Getting better engagement here with ten followers than *there* with 3000+ followers.

wyvern rider flying around a medieval city that is on fire

This was a fun illustration to work on

Not loving the image compression! I'll post this again with a link to a higher rez version.