promotional image for April Ghouls, a horror themed outdoor market
We'll be at April Ghouls this weekend! It's our first outdoor market and the weather is looking good!
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IMO, it's a disservice to the creative community as a whole to be against gen AI for your medium of choice, but not for others. I believe creatives need to be a unified front against the devaluing of creative effort and time.
It reminds me of the authors who are staunch anti-AI for writing, but are fine using AI generated art for their book covers. Just because you see your effort and time as higher value does not mean it's okay to devalue the effort and time of other creatives.
It was such a small thing, a blip in the video, but I was so bothered by it. I doubt that he would be okay with AI being trained on his video editing style, or his footage, Even if gen AI can't create his physical carvings, it still can harm him as a content creator.
I don't think it was intentional, but that admission has colored my opinion of him as a creative now. If he devalues photographers, even stock photographers, and photo editing where he doesn't see harm in using gen AI, what other gen AI is he okay using?
This is a creator with high production value in their videos. A creator that likely has photo editing skills and the software to do so. It would have taken no time to just photoshop the kid's art into the picture. But he used AI to do it for him instead.
For a bit in his video, he took his child's artwork and showed a picture of it hanging in an art gallery and claimed it sold for thousands. He then admitted to using AI to put his kid's picture into the gallery.
In a wood carver's video, he was talking about pricing his carvings and how he thinks there's value in the time and skill and not just the final product. He cited those abstract paintings we all know that look like they take minimal effort, yet sell for thousands, and how he wouldn't pay for that.
It is so disappointing when an artist in one medium says that there is value in an artist's effort and time, but then admits to using generative AI for something that is not their main medium of choice.
Follow the money, they don't care if it's coming from legitimate artists or not so long as they get their cut.
We have taken steps to remove our content from Ko-fi and are now offering our commissions on #VGen which takes a much stronger stance against generative AI in creator spaces.
If you read the whole statement you will quickly find that @ko-fi.com has taken a position of fence sitting. Their excuses for allowing generative AI to be platformed on their site are wishy washy at best and lack any actual accountability or responsibility as a business.
I volunteer at an aquarium and people constantly mistake the zebra sharks for nurse sharks, so I think nurse sharks are a more well-known species to the general public.
But I would like more people to know about epaulette sharks cause they go for strolls on the beach 🦈
We're going to be at April Ghouls in Athens, GA. We've got a special discount code you can use to get $5 off your ticket if you buy before midnight today. Join us for a spooktacular time!
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Oh hey, we ended up getting our artist profile on #VGen! Commissions, including our spring couples sale, are now open over there! vgen.co/BorderBreakers
We're all set up and selling at August Video Gaming Expo!
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Bench press it
We'll be at Augusta Video Gaming Expo this upcoming Saturday! Come on out and say hi! www.borderbreakers.art/conventions/...
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I cast a hex of "cut that shit out" on your illness. Hope that helps.
Alternatively, Guns and Roses from Baccano BUT THERE ARE NO GOOD GIFS AASHGSLAKDHGKSADH
QTP with an anime that has an awesome theme song.
I second kitty.
All set up at DaggerCon!
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It can feel like an uphill battle for real #artists to get the respect they deserve for their craft. Each step we take is still a step. Never back down.
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A young mage practices magic in a massive library filled with griffins.
I didn't like how harsh the light is, so, uuuuuuh, here.
An original character practicing magic in a massive library filled with griffins
I. MADE. ART.
(You can vote for this entry in March's VGen challenge next month!)
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A silly little guy
An example of just how messy rough sketches for a scene with three point perspective and multiple subjects can be
Me: giving my partner a hard time about how messy the roughs for our comic pages are
Also me: trying to decipher my own scribbles for a single illustration
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We're going to be tabling and doing some panel presentations at DaggerCon next Friday-Saturday (Mar 13-14)! Drop on by to say hi! www.borderbreakers.art/conventions/...
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In case you haven't been following @pepperandpals.bsky.social, sadly, Mango passed last week.
I still have Rebel Mango stickers at events for anyone who donates to Amanda until they run out, as she's still paying off the vet bills.
Please keep her in your thoughts and send good vibes as she grieves.
Do it. I'd be shocked if they looked at someone successful in the independently published comic scene and deemed them ineligible for a table at the event. Indie publishing IS a huge part of today's comics/webcomics industry after all. And you're a content creator to boot.