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🌞 The Golden Cincher

This is one of those that's not my cup of tea, but I'll be damned if I'm not super impressed. That pose is horrifying to me - I had to pop my back in sympathy while writing this - but is so masterfully done. And the story...

You're really, really, really, good at writing lore. I don't know if this will make sense, but there's kind of a "way" to write lore. It's not done like a normal story... I can't explain it. But you're brilliant at it. You always have been.
-tbj

The idea was to make the best boy from the tribe of super bendy boys 😂

The lore isn't new, they were up to the same thing in Tribal Treatment and that's almost 10 years ago! But I tried to add some new ideas in this one so they use this golden cincher to mark the best boy :3

👨‍🎨 Art Class in the Future

It's the serene look on his face, contrasted with his legs stretched clear to his tiptoes, that makes this awesome. Also, that cute little package.
-tbj

Thank you so much! Gotta love that combination as well ^^ Heard somewhere that the greatest level of mastery for a circus contortionist is when they learn to stretch their lips into a smile while stretching the body, so to speak. Meaning once you can do complex things like it's nothing, that's the top level...

💦 Waterbender

This is a new look for Yasha... And I like it. The whole picture is calming. You chose the perfect shade of blue, his facial expression, even the pose is amazing. It would clearly be extreme for a real person to pull this off, but you make it look so effortless and relaxing.

I love this.
-tbj

I'm very glad you enjoyed it! :D I swear I'm starting with the same 3D model but I guess things like hair are also flexible... And Yasha has so many pictures that it's more fun to try different hairstyles after all these years! :P

🌴 Benduti

I don't care that it's not totally original, this is cool. A good artist doesn't discount tools, and I love that you're always up to try new things.
-tbj

Well a good artist doesn't cut pieces from existing art and glue them together... The AI algorithm essentially does that... But it's a nice feeling to finally see the scenes you always imagined but never had the skills to do, like landscapes...

🌤️ Celestial Body

The oil-painting style is perfect for the subject! The finished work looks very much like the work of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and that would fit the 1869 date, too. Not sure if that was intentional or not, but it works.

Also, a big, big "thumbs up" for being transparent about the AI image generation. Though, in your case Yuni, "some overpainting and fixing" probably means a lot, lot more work than any of us could imagine.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau is my favorite 19th century French painter, and using his name was one of the first things that crossed my mind to try... Back then, AI was hyped a lot for its "ability" to replicate famous artist styles, it was weeks before the drama started, so back then I actually believed that AI was able to honestly reproduce this painter's style... Well, later I learned more about the algorithm, then we got this drama about illegal training on copyrighted images, using artists' names and other sorts of neuro-vandalism...

These days my AI stuff is way more neutral but I wanted to start sharing my AI art from the beginning, just so it's more chronological and shows how it started...

⛓️ Brother Yasha

WOW <3

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Fascinating! I can't take my eyes off this!

So glad you like :D

This story definitely sparked my interest in monks! I wonder what crazy "contortions, squeezings, and piercings" they have to put their bodies through to repent their biggest sins! I'd say that some deserve to be put through the most extreme bone-breaking poses, the tightest corsets and be punctured by the most skewers possible all at once! No other way they could repent without doing this!

Oh that sounds like what they would do if someone got a demonic possession by some greater demon! Too bad for them it would probably attract even more demons just to watch the show 🤣