Vaghauk

Coming back to check on my old gallery here on DeviantArt and according to statistics people sure clicked a lot of times on my paintings ... in the last 10 years or so. That is nice and I am happy that my pictures have been seen by fellow humans and if there are some that got inspired to grab a pencil and create some art themself it would be excellent. And Wow I see that my art has been been trained. All my work (and probably all the work of my fellow deviants) has been integrated in the most popular AI text to image generators so now everybody can make pretty pictures with no effort at all! And some extra lucky people even make a tiny bit of pocket money! They just stole all or our hard work and it is gorgeous! Hallelujah! A new era of endless pictures has arrived! What a plot twist! Am I special now? Does it mean I am a real artist now? ... uh? To be honest - I always knew that I was just feeding the machine. All this time I was just feeding this THING. Still feels weird to

september 2015 Viva DeviantArt folks and all you visitors ! first of all i have to send a big "thank you !" out there for every last one of you people that visited my Deviantart site in the last years. this is going to be a long post that i wanted to post for along time. so here comes my story : when i started my gallery here on deviantart little did i know about online art communities, digital painting or anything like that.little did i know how many people would come to visit this gallery and see my work.it is overwhelming to look at my gallery stats - so many visitors i would have never ever imagined to have my work exposed to so ma