chum fanart of Captain Jersey Devil by @draculas.dog! you should read chum at chumstory.wordpress.com

an illustration of a superhero, Doctor Phantasmagorie, waving his hands around mystically. Beside him is a quote: "Please get my good side", attributed to "Mister Phantasmagorie". His good side was not got.

@draculas.dog's Doctor Phantasmagorie (this is not his good side)

Happy impenetrable birthday in-joke to @draculas.dog!

im fascinated with the structure of a 24-page comic issue which is so incredibly sad because i think it's possibly one of the more obsolete ones in the modern day

handbasket salesman: (eyeing my bucket) surely you're not going to hell in that old piece of junk?

me at gdq: so what ive done is i've held down the b-button so mario runs faster. i think we have some time to read off donations

IT'S TOO LATE/TO LOVE YOU NOW
#kentuckyroutezero

Last night we let Joe Pera talk

Is it too late to become known as "The Hawk Tuah Girl"

ive gotten into the habit of taking photos of heavy duty vehicles when i see them while walking which has been great for building up a reference journal but has the unfortunate effect of making me feel like a slackjawed moron when i do it while people are around

i got people offering me thousands of dollars for tips and secrets

they're calling him snackrunner on account of how he is so small

and now set your eyes upon this dope-ass drawing of him by the fantastic @chaseburns.art!

Gone Fishin'
#alien

An illustration with a title logo reading "Godzilla versus the Mog Monster", in reference to "Godzilla versus the Smog Monster". The kaiju Hedorah is mewing (the jawline exercise), showing off a sleek chin. In the bottom left corner, Godzilla seems ashamed of his own bumpy, round jaw.

This isn't canon as Hedorah doesn't have a jawline, nor even a jaw to mew and mog with. But we can still dream.
#godzilla #hedorah

man, i have been away for a hot minute huh. check it out--a new guy has hit the jackrunner scene! and there should be a new jackrunner comic coming out some time soon, but dont let hank know i told you that. Rafi won't be in it, anyways.

many many days late but peep the TCAF haul. i <3 toronto

The other day I was watching a talk and the slides were illustrated using generative AI images (one that looked like a painting, the other like a drawing). These slides were on the screen for 20 minutes or more and so I found myself studying the illustrations closely (the first time I've examined an individual AI image for so long!). It was fascinating to try and work out what it was that made them recognisably AI-generated and to examine their visual aesthetics (how they actually look, regardless of how they've been made). At a glance, they were quite attractive and it’s possible many casual viewers wouldn’t realise they were AI-generated—although it was instantly obvious to me and others in the audience; they just had that look. But what is that look? What are those stylistic quirks that told me this was made by a machine? The longer I studied them, the more I felt there was something really tentative and noncommittal about the mark-making, as though the artist was constantly bluffing, trying to make it look just convincing enough—pixel by pixel—in contrast to the intentional mark-making of a human who knows what they're trying to draw or paint (even if they’re not nailing it all the time). There were whole areas that could have been anything: notably dark, smudgy, or unclear, as if to cover up that the artist has no fucking idea what to put there.

Also, there was no sense of focused attention: for a human artist, parts of an image are more important and meaningful, and their mark-making is (intuitively) organised around those. Elements and details are foregrounded, rendered with care and conviction; while others provide them with support, or recede—even disappear—altogether. The AI has no real sense of what matters in the image (because there's no awareness of meaning at all) and so it's loathe to leave space empty and tends to fill every square centimetre with something, and every detail is rendered with the same level (or lack) of attention. It made me think of a (fake) mind-reader or psychic, who puts out a flurry of vague statements, watching to see which ones get a positive reaction, adjusting what they're saying based on our reactions, bluffing that they know what they're talking about even though they're really only filling a blank space with an illusion of meaning, just convincing enough to get away with it. The end result can be visually compelling and persuasive, but I'm struck by that underlying lack of conviction and awareness: the tentativeness, the sense of bluff, illusion, fakery. It's in the very surface and texture of the image. Of course, who knows what AI art will look like in a few years (I'm guessing some of the output will be better at hiding the bluff, while a lot will look even more soulless and fake—but really, who the hell knows!).

Forgive me, but the other day I saw a talk that had some AI-generated illustrations and I ended up staring at them for ages, trying to study them *as art*: their mark-making, aesthetics, surface qualities, etc. Curious to know if my observations match yours? (Sorry I don't have the images to share).

Requiem For Our Youth (pages 1-5 / 37)

FUCK!!!!! YES!!!!!!

passion of the mojo -- character from @meatmanuel.bsky.social

old digital art... a character i designed with @meatmanuel.bsky.social

you know its bad when you hit the GagaOOLala zone

Various design concepts for a younger male superhero, mostly in yellow and black. A chest logo present on all of them is a simple gravestone shape with a lightning bolt hitting it. One design depicts the gravestone as being labeled "CBK" for Come-Back Kid, the character's alias. Two other notes across the designs read "maybe add headphone bands?" and "they should call him 'Ceebie.'"

A superhero dressed in yellow and blue turns to face a robot flying at him in the air. Above him is text reading "CBK meets his greatest foe yet..." and the superhero is saying, "Oh no! Soviet super-scientists have invented and sent a robotic facsimile after me—the one known as ICBK!"

Some design concepts I tried making for @meatmanuel.bsky.social's superhero, the Come-Back Kid. I like some of the elements in here (especially ICBK, who unfortunately probably won't live on as apparently Come-Back Kid gets abbreviated to "CK" and not "CBK.")

New study casts doubt on theory that we should meet up over drinks sometime

a peek at my swag

O MY HEART #myart #fearandhunger

hopelessly addicted to yummy snacks and delicious treats