blackshirtboy

The AI stuff is so exhausting. I'm sorry, I know every artist has been complaining about it. Well now it's my turn. I should be allowed to complain too. I'm not a complete luddite, I fully believe that generative ai can have a place in the creative process, but the way that it's being used as a replacement for the creative process, the way it puts the focus on sheer quantity over quality, is just very terribly depressing. I've had to unfollow more than a couple accounts over this, and one time even had to ask a gallery owner to remove an image because it had been very clearly fed on one of my old sequences. So many accounts now with gallery pages in the triple digits, containing nothing but walls of AI slop. There is no guiding eye behind these images, no creative flair, no intent. It's just a deluge of machine hallucinations churned out from the mill for the purpose of just making more. The really depressing part is those galleries who have pages and pages of this slop, and then

Stream Sale Results (ending early) I have decided to end the stream sale a few days early. This is mostly due to a schedule troubled by unforeseen issues and sudden commitments (I certainly didn’t count on a city-wide power outage on the very first day!), but also partly due to the plain fact that thinking I could maintain the level of effort and energy required in a stream for two weeks was maybe a little too overconfident on my part! So the stream sale will not continue, HOWEVER! I do plan on opening commissions soon, so those disappointed that I was not able to get to your requests are free to resubmit for a full commission. This also will not be the last time I do one of these stream sales! I was nervous to return to them again after so long since the last one, but I was extremely relieved to find that they can still be fun. Though again, in the future I likely will not go longer than just the one week. So thank you very much to everyone who took part! I’m sorry it had to

THANK YOU!! to everyone who bought stuff in the sale! I know that over the last couple years my comic production has slowed quite a bit, and so it means a lot to me that there are still folks who are willing to support me through the comics! Truly humbling and heartening. The next comic, a new Beyond story, should be coming out soon!!