Is AI Art Stealing Pixels?

Yes, I can’t deny that AI art can look great. But it feels wrong to me to take credit and ownership of an AI generated piece. You’re borrowing an algorithm that in itself takes literal pixels from other art pieces and mashes them together. Randomly. Photobashing and Kitbashing exists, yes. But I think AI goes […]

Art Style

Looking back at a lot of my previous sketches, I think they are all still consistent no matter which brush I use. For better or worse they tend to converge to the same shape language. As for any piece that I render fully, the ‘styles’ can be wildly different because of a lot of reasons. […]

looking at the Art of lack

I finally burned out from my Gaming(TM) rush for the past five months – since building the pc rig. Started with doing a paintover for a meme, then got some more push from the Hololive Alternative PV. Just the right inspiration to get going. I saw that Suisei had a hashtag for her Alt fanarts […]

Ref Time – In Control

Atey Ghailan. 365 Days of Sketching, “Path of Miranda”. Visual story telling at its finest There’s no text anywhere about it, but you understand the story of the girl and the robot through lighting, colors. Balancing loose brushwork and crisp shapes. https://www.instagram.com/snatti89/ Yun Ling. Lasso painting before it blew up. Again, a consistent character and […]

Ref Time – The IG Roundup

Michal Sawtyruk. Just discovered him a while ago on my feed. Those night scenes are real fresh with all the textures in the lighting against pure black. In contrast to all those crisp shapes.https://www.instagram.com/michal_sawtyruk/ Ahmed Aldoori. LIMITS Art Battle Champion. I’m a long time fan of his, I was there on his tournament run and […]

Hacking Art – Lasso Auto-Fill Painting for Photoshop

2022 Update: Modified the the Setup script to use a new folder (PluginLasso) on your Photoshop folder to avoid conflicts with other Photoshop versions. The Lasso is one of the elusive tools that I really want to learn to use better in my art. There’s just that certain quality and flavor that comes with the […]

Looking For One Lost Art Blog

As I was looking for more references for future blog posts, I remembered the old community-slash-movement that I got into when I was starting out. It was The Art Hacker by Wootha in 2017. It was a series of blog posts and tutorials that then grew into communities on different networks. I found a link […]

Ref Time – Wild Shapes

Halil Ural. Looking like a blend of classical and digital. The sepia undertones that glow. Shadows that flow through the entire composition. And the brushwork is the ideal that I want to have. You can still see the individual strokes. How the abstract shapes are cut out. The use of sharp and lost edges.https://www.instagram.com/halil.ural/ Amir […]

Hacking Art. Criticism and Jargon.

“Nice shading.” Trying to get back to the swing of things, I started posting on art communities again. I saw a comment like that and it got me thinking about how art can be described, especially when asking for feedback. Being able to just name or describe an abstract concept is already huge step in […]

Hacking Art. Education and Shortcuts.

Art Education has changed over the hundreds of years. First there were the few chosen Masters and Apprentices. Later, the classical art schools. They still exist today but modernized and adapting to the tools of the digital age. The biggest change, one that defines most of our generation, is the Internet. Easily shareable media has […]