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They nailed the smile way better than the other one.
It doesn't even look like the same dog. And where are the flowers coming from? What is this supposed to be, bizzarro world?
I don't think that 2nd place drawing is necessarily repeating the same dog.
The addition of the flowers gives me "tattoo of a pet that died" vibes, which makes the 2nd place drawing feel much sadder than the first place drawing.
Oh man I remember the debates around this being really illuminating. Like some people really don't see how heart can outperform technique
I mean it's much more popular now than it ever would have been otherwise. I'm going to say that even in a hundred years it's going to stand above its contemporaries.
The story is just so human.
potato jesus ✅
Here's some of mine. I might go back to making more.
Gut pull is S tier
i love gut pull
gut bisect
These are great
Almost ~~gutted~~ busted a lung over "gut pull". I think the shitty art enhances the humor.
please do
I always imagine that Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff will be looked at by people 1000 years from now the same way we look at old art with weird babies and ass trumpets.
Truly high art
I'm sad that I forgot about Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, but I'm happy to see it again
This is actually a really good point. Culture paved the way for the sheen of hyper "detailed" AI art (many of the details fall apart on close scrutiny, but I digress) by making it seem like "amateur" art is bad while "professional" art is good. So that means if a tool comes along that supposedly makes it so you can sidestep sweating over your amateur art and go straight to pumping out the professional-looking stuff, that's a win. It's good to question this assumption.
Yeah like hyper realism. Just print it bro (I don't like hyper realism, there is no creative part in it IMO).
There were lots of similar discussions when the camera was invented, turns out it did take the job of soullessly copying things in paint away, but got used as a tool by artists.
There is no art in AI and will never be, but as it gets better it will be used as another tool for learning etc I guess.
I'm not sure what you're driving at. It's true that the rise of photography had an effect on painting such that styles which moved away from realism became the norm for a while, but long since we've seen a shift back to realism and a continuation of detailed portraiture or landscape illustrative techniques among some artists.
My point simply is that people who lack the technique/talent to create "fine art" have come to believe their work is of no value, which I find upsetting because I'd much rather look at "bad" human-produced art than generated slop with the superficial appearance of fine technique.
You're completely correct IMO, I was mostly blurbing about an event similar to AI. Back then you could finish a painting elsewhere thanks to a snapped photo, today people can prompt up a specific scene and train off of that one. IMO it's just tools, but you're right, some people believe they are artists just because they "prompt" up a hashed copy of the masters.
this post is NOT free of homestuck
You can't escape the Homestuck
Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff is a stone cold classic.
The sock ruse was a........ distaction.
flip it turn ways!!
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i mean he's right but he probably shouldn't have chosen examples by actual artists trying their hardest to make something ugly as sin.
That art was made with meaning and soul, no mindless soulless machine can ever do that
Let me introduce you all to: Sassy the Sasquatch. Made entirely in MS Paint.
You fukkin' druggo.
Whatchutalkinabout?
AI "art" is just soulless. Everything is too clean and perfect, assuming it doesn't churn out some uncanny shit.
Who is dankey kang?
Brutalmoose: Must go quick!
get a load of THIS hornses ass
Oh my gog
It keeps happening
And it never stops
Does that mean my art has a place in the world ?
Yes.
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