I had a different art piece to post today because tonight is the Presidential debate, but I think I’ll leave that one for another day. This image I created is more calm and centered and that’s what I think we’ll need after tonight.
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So, when I was a kid I had this thing about statues coming to life…
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Need to do all the creepy hand portraits now. AI art is advancing so fast the creepy hands will soon become a nostalgic moment in the past like pet rocks and bell bottoms.
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I finished two versions of this piece because I wasn’t sure which one was better. This is the closer version:
The closer version would probably work better on social media, but I really like the wider version a lot better, especially since I’m trying to design my artwork to be printed big (poster size and larger.)
Part of me resents feeling like I have to constantly cater to people looking at stuff on the internet aka on their phones. It really messes with my head when I’m trying to make creative decisions. I think I have to actively resist the temptation to reduce everything to the least common denominator of what will get the most likes when viewed on a small screen. It’s extremely limiting, not just because of the composition but also the subject matter. What will get an immediate reaction so you get the most likes? Subtly is lost and everything starts to look the same.
Social media really messes with your head.
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This is another image where I tried to get something in the style of a 1930s SciFi pulp magazine cover. It looks like the 30s especially with the orange background, but I think the robot looks more 70s. I like it anyway…
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For this image I was going for something in the style of a 1930s SciFi pulp magazine cover.
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I’m sure many would reject this AI render because the hands are all screwed up. The machine has a hard time with hands because it’s learning from pictures and it doesn’t really understand what a hand is. Hands look different depending on what they are holding in the training images so the machine gets confused.
For me the hands praying in this image is the point. I’m fascinated by the way AI can make something so creepy and wrong look relatively normal at first glance. She also has hair coming out of her eyes. One piece looks like it’s a disconnected continuation of a shadow on her forehead.
Great art happens at the edge of the medium you are working with. Finding those edges is the true work of the artist.
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit – all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them. — Brian Eno
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