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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

this right here is why i love punk. so many punk bands with shitty technique, but damn if they don't tend to leave it all onstage

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

blink-182 have always been the lousiest performers (minus travis obviously) yet they still sell out arenas because they bring a good time with good laughs. and i dont care they arent "punk enough" inb4 anyone says that

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

"not punk enough" people don't get that music genres are pretty artificial and there have always been bands that straddle genres. doesn't make them any less of either.

or they are just looking for an excuse to complain. complaining's fun, i get it.

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 75 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I’ve been inspired to do more art that’s just ok because of souless AI

A watercolor I did recently

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)
[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Thank you. Here’s another I did.

An alien religious icon

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago
[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

These are cool.

Do you have a place where you upload your stuff to? If you do, with your permission, I'd like to add it to my can library of fresh wallpapers, so it would show up in my laptop and phone background when a new one gets uploaded.

It's this project: https://www.amazingdomain.net/

Note that the Android app can't be downloaded right now, but I have my own test version.

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t. I mostly just show my stuff to friends. I only recently started using watercolors. What is a good place to start uploading?

I also need to get better scans these are just photos with my phone and bad lighting.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I've seen people putting up things in all sort of places so I'm not positioned to make a choice for you.

You could do a separate Instagram/tik-tok etc account or even personal one.

Or imgur/mastodon account, or a social service you don't currently use.

Or a new sub in your favorite Lemmy instance. And many more ways to do it.

[–] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I really like this one! It speaks to me and I'm getting a lot out of it. I see reflections of self, of chaos surrounding it, of the divine nature of being.

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

Thank you for your kind words. I have been accused of being an agent of chaos more than once haha.

[–] from_D4rkness@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

These are great pieces, thanks for sharing. I encourage you to make more. Real human made art is a hot commodity!

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago
[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If art is simply a "commodity" then machines could make it cheaper.

I don't think art is just a "commodity". I don't think it's value is simply in being traded and sold.

[–] from_D4rkness@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Good point! The word commodity isn't the best word to describe art, so maybe a better way is to just say that 'I think that the perceived value is on the rise, because of a human reaction to reject the capitalist's attempts to transform the collected stolen expressions of human artistic achievements into whatever meaning the wealthy desire without the need to pay those who made the "generated" art possible.'

please excuse my wordiness, I am procrastinating and got lost in this reply accidentally.

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think that is the way to go anyway. Time is a circle, which means after the ai trend hits its peak, people will want genuine art.

This is the time to practice and share with like minded people to hone your skills so you are ready when you needed.

BTW there is a artshare community. Post your stuff there.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/artshare@lemmy.world

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

heck yes, great space art!

[–] 5in1k@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you. All the bright colors and metallics are paints that I made myself.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

As someone who is into fountain pens and fountain pen inks... I can definitely respect that.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

My short stories may not be amazing, but at least I wrote them.

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 day ago (5 children)

There is something especially charming about genuine amateur art.

When you can tell exactly what they intended to depict, but couldn't quite get there skill-wise adds something to the piece as a whole.

I love when people want to express some idea they had, so much that they're willing to put themselves out there, even though they know that the final work is not as good as it could be. To say nothing of the separate joy of following an artist and watching their work improve with time.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Oh yes you can have an amazing original idea, but lack the skills or the time to make it a timeless art work. A piece of the artist's soul is in there since the first doodle, and it's a privilege to get to peek at it.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

We've been doing it a long time (this one's at least 40,000 years old):

It's like a perfect opposite of slop from the garbage dispenser we made to murder truth with.

Like, you can sort of know a person through it, reverse engineer relationships between ideas that existed in the artist's mind, even if it sucks.

The slop is usually blandly pretty and barowue as fuck, and it's way easier to add tits, but...

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[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel this. I'm making a shitty web comic, but at least I care.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

would you mind linking me your webcomic? i love webcomics and bet i'd love yours

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

did you draw page 4 yourself or drop a picture in an ascii art converter because either way that's gorgeous

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 13 hours ago

I used Unreal to make a render, then the converter

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

thank you! i'll be diving into it either tonight or tomorrow.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Yeah it’s absolutely pathetic how much slop people are willingly consuming.

Let alone the ridiculous attempts to justify the use of these plagiarism pumps spamming the internet. Or the ones that see themselves as “seizing the means of production” fucking laughable. You aren’t a rebel using Ai, you are just another tool being used by the parasitic owning class.

Any Ai apologist can go ahead and block me.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

What blows me away is how much of it is so obviously AI but people seem to just not notice. You do see it called out from time to time, especially on Lemmy, but in the wider Internet it's much more common to see people just engaging with it.

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[–] krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dude. People are playing solo D&D with goddamn AI.

Fucking depressed the hell out of my night, so I had to scream it into some void.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Some expect this to results in a return of the third place. As the internet will get filled up with bots and slop, every movie is heavily written and produced with AI, people will look for something more genuine and go back to just hanging out offline.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lack of third place is more of a carbrained North America issue than AI slop issue

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Hey now, it can be both.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This implies people will avoid AI

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 points 1 day ago

I think it's called slop fatigue. After a time, many people get tired of the low quality stuff and look for something better, but the easy to make slop drowns out the good stuff. Of course there will be a part of the audience watching whatever.

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[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

Of course it would be D&D. Playing something more interesting would require commitment to a perspective.

Paranoia would be more thematically appropriate, of course.

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[–] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah. i absolutely suck at art. I don't have the imagination, the skills, nor the perseverance to do it.

But using "AI" to do that? It would make me feel even worse because I wouldn't even make anything

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

One of the best manga there is, One Punch Man, started as a webcomic with art that probably any random person could draw.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Actually, he started one punch man, in part, to get used to a new drawing tablet. The artist has less dexterity than others in their field, but an intense, nuanced, and impactful understanding of how to panel and focus and weight. They’re terrifyingly seasoned in visual storytelling from the get go, but certainly aren’t as capable as other professionals. But even then, they can take their time to produce an effect that is haunting. A lack of detail is a detail in its own right. While someone could draw their early work, they’d have a difficult time conceiving of it.

Just read the webcomic recently, and my major takeaway was never to take your capacity or lack thereof as anything more than a motivation to improve as a human being interested in participating in society. Which loops back to the post, and seems more pre-meditated than I meant it to be.

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