Quelfabulous

UPDATE:  My art will remain in storage until further notice. I love deviantART but I'm not ready for a platform that condones AI art as anything more than a moodboard/experimental medium kept in quieter channels. I find it extremely disingenuous to have it appearing in galleries beside art created by skilled artists in our industry on a shared platform.  And the old, "well, people are gonna do it anyway" isn't a helpful sell. The issue here is proximity and consent. The impression I got today from the announcement and twitter space interviews both was that nobody read the room, truly listened to what artists (suppliers of this data) want, and the vibe check failed.

So I am going to exercise a cardinal tenant of the internet:
Don't like it? Don't interact.

I am sad that I feel this way for a site that I grew up on. A site I was so happy and excited to be sponsored by, and I sincerely hope that my feedback is heard kindly.  There are many people here both staff and mutual peers that I adore. I  hope for something better to come out of this mess. I cannot ignore how exhausted and scared I am. It gets harder and harder for me to post my stuff to galleries for fear of these surprises. I was hoping deviantART would continue putting ethics first before trends. But I was not convinced of that today in anything that was presented.

I'll be keeping my subscriber content up for now since it is not material that AI generally wants and it has always been in my heart to try and help a fellow artist with resources. But I am definitely taking a more firm step back from posting art here for the time being.

Where you can find me: https://linktr.ee/Quelfabulous