cobaltplasma

DeviantArt has been one of my art homes for a very long time and I'm both sad that I feel like I have to migrate away and upset for the reason why. I absolutely cannot condone DA's fervant support of AI art, pushing it at the top of their home feed, even for pieces that haven't garnered many 'favorites'. It flies in the face of every person on this site that has endeavored to better themselves through practiced work, perseverance, and grit in order to refine and hone their craft. From amateurs to professionals, every single person who has strived to improve their craft deserves better than to get pushed aside by prompt-based generation. I remember when I first dabbled in MidJourney, I thought it was such an amazing, novel piece of technology, and wondered where it would go. Once I discovered *how* the AI was developed and future iterations of it along with other image generators, however, I couldn't use it any more, not with a clear conscience. Seeing DA double and triple down on

Been absolutely swamped with work the last few days, I meant to post this up on the campaign page but just didn't get around to it. I figured since the campaign is funded, and a lot of the cool kids do it, I'd add a couple of small stretch goals :) Nothing major I think, if funding hits $700 then I'll include a mini art print (4"x6") and if it hits $800 then I'll add in a spitpaint version of one of the hero cards for my Fields of Eleria card game; Camathus' illustration started off as a spitpaint, so I thought that might be something cool to shoot for hehe. Still can't believe this is gonna be made :) http://kck.st/4b87Tfq

I honestly didn't expect this, thought *maybe* I'd get to 25%, maybe 33% at the end of the first 24hrs...but my zine is fully funded, it's gonna be made, and that's insanely exciting! http://kck.st/4b87Tfq I didn't even think about stretch goals because I thought I'd hopefully make funding at the 11th hour and that'd be that, but now.. well.. I guess I'll have to see hehe.