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do you post AI art or did you make it
It's a mixture, I've been making art for about 10 years now but some of the more recent ones are incorporating AI. I'm currently combining older methods and techniques with AI to come up with some new and cool results. It still ends up taking tons of time and effort but I can get ideas out from my head much quicker and better now. I do get overly anxious and a sense of imposter syndrome because I'm not entirely doing things by hand but I've been trying to get over that. I've had a few people be negative or dismissive about me using it but I don't think they understand it's not as simple as me writing a couple of sentences to instantly get some masterpiece. I have a lot more I've worked on but I've just been too in my head overthinking it to post because I feel irrationally guilty? I mean most of my work is photographic except I've painted over them with a Wacom tablet in Photoshop which was also enough for me to feel the imposter syndrome and avoid making things. So yeah I am still super conflicted because I have a few hundreds artworks I've made throughout my life and then I have these newer ones using a blend of digital painting and AI to better assist in my process but I get anxious because I don't want it to discredit everything I've done but I also know with these new tools it's going to be harder than ever to keep up unless I use them. It really isn't worth me spending 30-40 hours on a single artwork when no one really cares and I'm not getting paid for it either, just sitting alone in my room suffering and forcing myself to make a single artwork for what? I actually had someone accuse one of my artworks as being AI made before I even used it until I showed them the earlier versions and the slow time consuming process. Like I am a bit cut up over AI because I spent so much of my life learning art and making sacrifices so I'd have the time and space for it.. but it's an adapt or die situation for digital artists. These AI models do keep getting better though so whilst not there yet it does make me debate what things will look like when they are good enough for you to simply ask it to make you an artwork of whatever you want and for it to instantly pull out a masterpiece. I find that scary because what is there left for me to do? What is my purpose in it all? Would that even be my own self-expression? (The overthinking list goes on and on lol) Perhaps it's just an ego thing though and the accessibility gives more people the means of self-expression which they previously did not have the opportunity. I guess the only part that worries me is that I put so much time, effort and thought into everything that the idea of someone dismissing or disregarding it is quite hurtful. (which tbh is the reason I barely post) All I really wanted to do was make cool things and have people go "wow, that's so cool, how did you think of that? How does your mind work?" as opposed to "Nice AI artwork". So yee TL;DR Mixture of AI but all my older stuff is done completely by me. I'm working on putting together a portfolio/collection of older works just so I can have some distinction there.

I spent almost 6 months working on/off with this and it's uh something lol? (experimental ig) I was using an earlier text to speech model and inputting my lyrics I wrote into it and building a song around it which was the biggest and most time consuming headache ever tracking all the different vocal takes and complex intersecting beats. The next one I do is definitely going to be a lot more simple because I don't have the sanity to sit there for a ridiculous amount of hours just yet and this song feels pretty weird and niche too so yeah idefk. Lyrics: I've heard the bones you carry are an acquired taste How many do you have in your body I have two-hundred and six, (give or take) So please don't break them
Broken bones are such painful things, So let's break the sticks with stones Or maybe…
We can collect them Lock them in a box, Throw them off a cliff, Freeze them in the Antarctic
Anything that comes as cathartic If there's no sticks and stones There's nothing that will ever hurt you We can strip the walls of colour, If the brightness hurts your eyes
No more reds, no more blues, just a grayscale sky, In a muted world, where emotions gently lie The vibrancy of greens, they all turn to gray, Disfigure the world to our own array
I think I'm getting bored, on my own accord All this black and grey, has nothing to say Maybe we can paint our shadow so it can pretend it has purpose, Hah stupid shadow, imagine having purpose
Deflect these thoughts in the prism of my mind, to project a prison to my kind
Yeah well I'm one of a kind and I'm stumbling blind, Perfect time to throw your stones and beat, beat, beat me with your sticks… Except I'll just do it myself.
Break, Break teeth on the glass of a façade, I'll run and ruin my own parade Then bite down hard with broken shards Then gurgle blood and stutter
ugh, what is it you want me to say because I don't care or have anything to say
I think I'm getting bored, on my own accord Fuck all this black and grey, has nothing to say Let's paint my shadow purple
PURPLE, P, for Purpose, hooray, let's make my day Cause I think I'm getting bored on my own accord (imagine having purpose)
I'll bite down on my tongue hard, with broken shards. Swirl the blood around, like a centrifuge Break it down to the bare essentials Spit it out and ask you if I have potential
If it hurts your eyes we can peel all the paint away

Timeline of being woken up by some human breaking into your home to take candid pictures of you like some creep Impressed/10

First Zora Mint - ˷ᵈ͠ʳᶦᶠᵗ˷ˢᵒᶠᵗˡ͠ʸ˷ Created over hundreds of iterations in Stable Diffusion and then further touched up in Photoshop. The reflection is hand painted in PS and depicts the hemisphere of a dark globe. https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x72d18e62ae76706d931ddf3b7865e71e2a24f6a0/1?referrer=0x7F2da54a26a363276cffad8f976dCFB7469AaDe8
oh don’t mind me, just relogging pictures of some early scene days with cringey captions. :^)

Only you can put a real smile on my face oh don’t mind me, just posting pictures of some early scene days with cringey captions. :^)
idiovoidi - putrid fruits https://open.spotify.com/track/1EQvRNqkoHAHtY6KbLjw62

Lyrics: In the worlds apart, our souls play their games Memories like tendrils, Bury into hills of the mind In time roots begin to surface just more to bury Putrid fruits and flowers that never bloomed
There lays a sense of sweetness in those rotting fruits Mouth open wide like I don't care if I die Like the rancid mush is all in my head I'll always remember, those tears that were shared
Now we're just echoes of distance twirling the void Two souls intertwined, with half a world apart Our minds were really what was needed to depart Underneath the surface, we could not repair
Oh, echoes of distance, haunting my mind We danced on the edge, but couldn't find our way Now we're left with the silence, the emptiness inside Echoes of distance, echoes of love's decay
Very cool blog! I like the way you capture the world around you. ^^
Thank you so much! it means a lot. ^^ (On a side note I just realised you format your sentences in the exact same way as me haha)

Nature is always watching, observing, perceiving.

Been forever since I’ve used my eye, need to take a ton of pictures of people’s eyes to use for my images to add some variety.

Back to some pretty colours, now more vibrant and saturated than ever.

Been posting more lately which has actually motivated me to do more art and finish off older stuff. Actually one of the reasons I didn’t post consistently was because I didn’t want to feel obligated to post and for it to become a chore, funnily it felt like a chore when I was barely posting.
(Also I didn’t want to post all my best work and then cover it up with average work with less time spent on it)

Just a few mushrooms growing peacefully on a log. :)

An ever flowing stream of eternity.

Yeah lately I've just been melting and morphing faces, I've got a few more to post for whoever tf likes whatever my style is at this point.
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Yeah I don't even know what to think or feel at this point..

I guess I'm never going to get through my backlog of older art so maybe I just get over myself and post the more interesting newer stuff. I've made a bunch of really cool art lately that feels quite unprecedented in scope so I'm excited to share it. This is one of the more basic ones I did but still cool.