๐จโ๐จ Art Class in the Future
Hello class, today we are learning how to sketch. Our model for today is Yasha, the champion of our school in contortion and our most posable model! Now let's all politely ask him to take one of his best poses!
But Mrs. Brush, this pose looks so complicated, can he even hold it for 40 minutes so we have enough time to sketch it?
Don't worry Jimmy, it won't be that long. 4 seconds, more likely! Now grab your phones and take a good picture. Nice! Now we're going to do some quick simple sketches...
Oh I know! We'll have to sketch while looking at our phones! It's so smart and modern, Mrs. Brush! So he will not need to hold such a difficult pose for so long, and drawing from the phone is much easier!
That's right, Stevie, now put down your pencil and grab your precious iPhone. Open your photo editor, go to Filters, then Sketch...
Good, very good. So close to the original! Look, at this rate you will become a great artist very quickly! Now you can run and show your work to your parents if they are still not convinced that art school was a great investment for their money! ๐
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Fantastic... I love how she is standing on tiptoes with her feet so as not to lose her balance and the calm pose she has while her legs make the effort.
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So glad you enjoyed!! All in a day's work for Mr. Gum-Gum!
Another extraordinary fold. Very well done.
Sorry, I actually just don't have the right brain to set goals and actually reach them, I pretty much always tend to start something and then deviate and get into a completely different direction than planned ๐
Oh and I'm happy you liked the fold! In the end, a good fold is all that matters, plus I think some clothes actually make his legs look nicer ^^
I think it's just next step, not somehing truly new. When photography was invented, when digital editing was invented, when 3d rendering was invented, every time traditional artists complained that it will replace them all. However each time it didn't - because you still need an artist to understand what to draw and how it should look. New instruments helped, but not replaced real author - maybe you will not need to learn how to use canvas, pencil, paint and brush, but you still must learn to get picture composition and to understand what you are depicting and what emotions you want to show.
AI artists use that to put together their own images that are nothing but collages of already existing artworks that were scanned without permission, and that's the main drama here. AI is good at collaging pieces that blend well together but it's really bad at *generating* anything that doesn't exist in its database, so technically it's not generating anything at all, merely blending and collaging chunks of image data.
Noobs who run the AI click on things and think the AI *generates* a whole new pic for them that never existed before, but they're clueless of the fact (and the developers don't tell them) that the pic is made from parts of already existing pictures, sometimes two or more pictures are blended together to conceal their source. In essence, AI art is nothing but Frankenstein's monster put together from parts and organs from a hundred different corpses and then reanimated ๐
Of course, you can be a skilled artist and make those collages with AI more professionally, you will even have a feeling that you're adding your own ideas, some emotions, a composition of your choice, but it's just putting together a "new" ideal human being from parts of dead bodies carefully selected from the morgue... When a true human being is born, they grow from a single cell, that we can call a true process of generation, but blending together existing pieces of already adult humans is nothing but a monster... ๐ช
I'm glad you liked my countryside explanation of AI, but I have to admit I don't know how it actually works and I think only mathematicians know for sure ๐
I talked more about it using existing images and how people enter a prompt and go "wow I created a picture of a native chief with a painted face!" They think it's generated, but just try adding Emma Watson to the prompt and you'll end up with images that are pretty much stylized/modified copies of her popular photos... This means the native chief was also a modified copy of some existing photo, you just don't know the source, and this creates a false impression that you created it. It's like going to Google Images, looking for something and thinking that you're creating all the pictures just because you've never seen them before, and they were "born" only after you entered the text in the search bar :D
The more you work with the AI, the more you see that it's just a bunch of photos it's trying to stitch together. All the people, furniture, plants, mountains, decorations, etc are based on existing images, which is clear when it makes a forest with 5 trees, and all these 5 trees look like clones. So it didn't learn how to draw a tree, only scanned it to inject its copies wherever it fits... :P
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Phew, I wish I could stand behind him to see a different point of view ^^