Touching Base
Added 2024-06-29 12:35:50 +0000 UTCObviously as many have noticed, my stylings have been a bit different lately, and that is just changing things up a bit in hopes to recharge some for my more usual works that I know the majority of you all come here for. Quicksand has and always will be the main focus that I started with, and I fully intend to continue with that theme... especially we do have Sinktember coming up again, thinking this year that I am going to try for a different lovely each day... I have more than enough.
That being said, several things have been hampering my creativity... some IRL... but also sadly one major one online... AI... "art" is subjective... and I don't want to give AI works that title. For me, the proliferation of it... especially on "Dev-AI'nt-Art" is just soul crushing... for every singular piece that looks good... there are 10,000 pieces that are utter shit and yet people just deep throat that shit and love it.
For me, and I would assume many others, that is soul crushing. AI is to the quicksand community to me is the same if not worse than "Glue some gears on it and call it steampunk"... Yup, you just go toss some prompts into an app and you get vomited out a piece of crap that may be decent.
Many may think that DAZ isn't actual "art" either, but unlike AI, I have to take time to pose, think about composition, script, etc. Why should I keep doing that though when people just seem happy with letting AI destroy actual heart and soul artists and creators.
I want to thank, from the bottom of my heart... EACH and EVERY one of you who have been with me on this journey and supported me and continue to do so. You all mean the world to me to have this fan base in this community to keep me going. I wish I had more creative energy to give you content more frequently here. Sometimes I also befall the fallacy of not doing "something at all" because I don't feel it is "something epic"... I know many would love to see a huge 10 frame set each week or month... but also many of you would probably even be happy with a single image of a lovely at any depth sinking once a week... the inherent flaw in personally trying to be perfectionist.
The journey isn't over yet, so don't worry, I'm not hanging up the hat or anything, just needed to rant a bit.
Again, thank you all so much.
Comments
keep up the great work! quality over quantity!
Mad Max
2024-07-01 12:25:01 +0000 UTCI've been dabbling with using AI to generate images for several months, and it's helped to stimulate my creative process as someone trying to use them as a springboard for short stories, while at the same time it's also been scratching a very specific personal itch that currently isn't being filled by anyone else out there. But I have to agree with you that it's disheartening to see quality being sacrificed over quantity. I'll admit that it was a lot of fun at first, but I look back on the thousands of images I've generated and saved, and for the vast majority, I can't believe that I thought they were acceptable back then. I've become a lot more critical and perfectionist since then. On the other hand though, it's made me become more curious about picking up Daz, and creating my own characters and settings, so that I have more control over the output, rather than leave everything to a machine, with all its whims and uncertainty.
65sinking
2024-06-30 09:27:06 +0000 UTCYeah, been pretty concerning watching people throw the creative process to machines.
SeanSupreme
2024-06-29 17:52:28 +0000 UTC
