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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ human. i draw. am mostly here to scream about whatever fandoms i'm in [ https://maskenjager.carrd.co/ ] [ https://maskenjager.etsy.com ]

there are so many reasons for people to not pick up the pencil right now and to give up on making art. So if a desire to draw Garfield smoking a blunt, or the need for nsfw old man yaoi, is what made someone lift their pen today, that's GOOD.

there is a whiff of "fanartists are lesser artists" in the air tonight, so let me be so fucking for real about it and explain why this isn't true and makes me mad.

one thing the ai era makes me miss is really shitty bespoke photoshops you used to get just the lowest effort garbage imaginable made by people who have opened the program three times in their entire life, but it had some charm to it and now they just generate the same bullshit as everyone else

i can't reply to each QRP critiquing what i wrote but i am genuinely glad it's brought up debate/concern about how we look at art. for those considering it in good faith, thank you. there's no point arguing with willful misinterpretation, but i did want to respond to these common points for now:

Solaire 🔜 GATEway FATE 🐏@solairelunaire.bsky.social · 2mo ago

thinking about the popularity of so many "redraw trends" and plagiarism of compositions by all sorts of artists (it comes up often for gposing but 2D artists do it too). i have to sum up my discomfort with it as follows: it's artists treating other artists the same way A/I treats art as data

thinking about the popularity of so many "redraw trends" and plagiarism of compositions by all sorts of artists (it comes up often for gposing but 2D artists do it too). i have to sum up my discomfort with it as follows: it's artists treating other artists the same way A/I treats art as data