Well Tuesday didn’t go according to plan at all. I started behind and sort of stayed there. I half inked two pages (so maybe one complete page) and now this morning, I’m staring at two half inked pages that I have to finish before I can even start today’s work.
On the plus side I did put addresses on the envelopes for people who’ve bought print copies of Terran Omega, so should get those signed and stuffed in to envelopes tonight for posting first thing tomorrow.
Kept thinking yesterday that UI had nothing to blog about and then I’d think of something but be far away from the keyboard and so nothing got recorded.
Run for the Hills
Went for a run yesterday. Currently at week 3 day 3 of coach to 5k. I’ve clocked Cto5k a couple of times now, getting to the end and finding myself pushed right back to the start. (Or at least the near start).
Doesn’t matter. The important fact is I’m out every couple of days for a run.
The unbearable trauma of memory
Is it weird to be haunted by embarrassing memories of your youth? and if that youth happened in your thirties? (and sometimes forties?) you feel like by your 30s you should no longer be saying stuff that is immature and stupid but then you think back and realise oh god, what was I thinking.
Maybe this is the perpetual shame of humanity. The original sin, isn’t Adam and Eve eating the apple, but some deep part of us that feels shame at every moment and holds on to it for all time. It’ll be gone in 10,000 years. No one will care, but at the same time your brain goes “what a dick head”
Slop out
Been thinking a lot about AI/art. Separating art from artist, etc. I’m sure it’ll surprise no one to know that I’m pretty much anti generative Ai for art. But I admit to some grey line thinking. Like the recent Corridor Crew video where they trained an ai to pick out people from green screens, making that part of the process easier. Was that trained on data stolen from books/art? no. They generated their own very specific data to train it on. Will it remove a job from someone? I mean maybe, I guess, the low level tech guy cutting green screen away from people? But actually as far as I can tell that simply stops that same tech guy from doing something interesting.
So, there’s definitely areas where machine learning (let’s use that less loaded term) is useful. I know I’ve said in the past, train a machine on flatting colours and make that a feature in clip studio – though as others have pointed out that actually is often the first paid work of many colourists, flatting is a low pay job, and it’s a grind, but it’s often the way in to a career as a colour artist in comics.
I know, when it comes to generative AI, I feel somehow cheated if I read or see something that’s “good” and it’s been ai generated. Let’s pretend that the gAi stuff is actually indistinguishable from an artist (I don’t think we’ll ever reach that point, but certainly for the sake of argument). Well, I don’t think that feeling of being cheated will ever go away. I think it’s like your an archeologist and you find something – some piece of art or literature – and it’s 40,000 years old. Well, the excitment isn’t in the quality of the finished work (though that is often the case) the excitement is in the fact that a human being produced this thing, these marks, this texture, these series of scratches that have intent.
If you were an archeologist 4000 years from now and you stumble across a piece of Ai art, no matter how good, what’s your reaction going to be? Pretty sure it’ll be dismissed as just another example of the slop of the period.
Anyway, that’s my brain emptied. You may continue your day.
