Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Just a quick photo before we leave

He was my favorite to play so far! Great work as always!!

🍫 #edalog

this serve from the vmas ✨

despite his best efforts 😔

#art

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#sketch #art

Before -> After

🌸 (Made some changes to the previous design that I like much better so I'm reposting lol)
#characterdesign #conceptart #art

Glad to hear that! it was part of the inspo haha

Mirror Mist Knight 🌸

#characterdesign #conceptart #art

Always 💖

Don't make me tap the sign

Honored to be on the wall 🙇‍♂️

Hiiiii I will be tabling at Lightbox Expo for the first time this weekend! Find me at table 506! :D

Check out my catalog! I’ll be tabling with @diansakhuart.bsky.social

Here's where I'll be and what I'll have at Lightbox Expo this weekend!

For the first time ever, I'll be tabling at LBX this weekend. Feel free to come over and say hi (Here's a gold foil sample)

가시덤불의 그대
#illustration

[oc] Meet the lovely cast of Dead Pacific (2021)

#KasuyOC #DeadPacific

All New Pokemon Adventures! Really had fun redesigning their outfits. Really proud of Ash's Magikarp cap and Snorlax shirt lol and the fact everyone has custom pokeballs! I really love the original anime!
#pokemon

Original character and artpiece from sssantine

Hi im on bluesky baby

Lewis #edalog

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