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Yvan || He/They || 25 || Netherlands 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨

My partner made an order for some proxies so figured I'd do a test print (one foil one not) and I'm very happy with how they came out! The DA2 set's rough draft is done (~500 cards) and I started work on DAI the other night!

A photo of two custom printed magic cards

I would add that the purpose of art is to reflect the world and the culture in it. mood/reference boards has to be of the world to discover and reflect the world. You can't comment on something that isn't there. If you're inspired by the fake and detached, you're mirroring nothing.

Karla Ortiz@kortizart.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts:
When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge.
You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be.
Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history.
You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired.
Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.