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Atharva Lotake
Atharva Lotake
India
I am an art student trying to sharpen my fundamentals.
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Lainy
First off, amazing job! Second, I'm not too scared because there is one thing an AI can't do and that putting soul and emotion into a piece. An actual living, breathing, human's work hit different than something that is generated around parameters. If anything I think AI generating work will help in getting work done faster WITH the artist painting over and manipulating what was generated.
Atharva Lotake
lets hope for the best!
Kristian Nee
Hey @Atharva Lotake! I've also been playing around with AI art and I've been incredibly impressed. I've heard a lot of the same fears that you noted below, people's jobs are at risk, or who owns the images themselves? It's a really scary time, and I would be surprised if every visual artist isn't thinking the same thing. That being said, I believe that in spite of it being a very powerful tool, there will be room for artists in the future. I believe that mainly because it is fundamentally a tool. Painting directly might be easily replicable, but that doesn't mean change the fact that choosing what to paint is also an incredibly important part of the art creation process. I was talking to @Scott Flanders about this and he brought up a good point. Artists are the ones who will be able to feed in the prompts to make interesting images and do interesting things with the tool. As technology has progressed there have always been naysayers against innovation. The same thing happened when photoshop started developing as a painting tool, or when instead of making your oil paints out of burnt umber from the ground there were just people who made the paint for you. Sure there might not be concept art jobs in the future, but there will still be a need for idea generation and image making. The composition, anatomy, color and value skills your learning will still be useful in 1000 years, that's why they call them fundamentals.
Atharva Lotake
If there won't be any concept art jobs in the future then why bother learning the fundamentals and dreaming of an art career? Am I wasting my time pursuing an artistic career if there won't be any art jobs in the future? Should I just give up and study to become a Doctor, Engineer, or Lawyer? These are some of the questions that haunt me @Kristian Nee.
Nils
What scares you in particular ?
Atharva Lotake
Also I am confused about the rights thing. I mean who owns the image? is the AI stealing images without the artists permissions ?
Marco Sordi
Great study! The gun is amazing. For 360 degrees turnaround head I used to use this kind of references. Hope it helps.
Atharva Lotake
thanks!!
Atharva Lotake
@Juan Pedro Ramos Ponce Here's What I have to say about your piece. I hope it was helpful. Btw, Loved your piece! Great job! PS Next time you ask for critique just check the ' Post as Help Request' box so I can directly comment on it. Anyways have a good day!
Juan Pedro Ramos Ponce
Thanks for the comments and for the paint over.
Juan Pedro Ramos Ponce
Thank you so much for taking the time to do a paint over. 
Atharva Lotake
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AI Art?
Hello, there guys I recently tried this Ai image generating program called DiscoDiffusion and I am impressed and scared at the same time. I got the image that wasn't quite there and painted over it quickly. Here's the final result. I would love to hear your views on the piece and thoughts on this new technology and the future of artists. Thanks!
Atharva Lotake
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Rotated Objects
Hello there guys! I recently saw Moderndayjames video on building a visual library by doing studies of rotated objects. Here are my studies for that. Any feedback on perspective proportions and anything else is welcome. Thanks !
Marco Sordi
Asked for help
2022/7/21. Good evening everybody. Figure drawing from life at my art school today. It took me almost 2 hours to draw it as close as possible to the real proportions. Knees Friday m this angle are very complicated. Thanks.
Atharva Lotake
for a proportion study it looks great!
Marco Sordi
2022/7/17. Good evening everybody. I've always loved borderline female characters. From Snow White's stepmother to Catwoman, from Elphaba from the musical Wiked, to the very recent Jinx from Arcane through Elsa from Frozen. I don't really know why. I find them all incredibly beautiful and strong but also very maternal and with an irresistible sensuality. Do I sound weird? However, among vampire ladies, witches and demonesses, one of my favorites is Lilith from the video game Diablo. This is a small tribute to "Benedecta Madre", Mephisto's beautiful daughter, Lilith. Conte B, charcoal, white charcoal and charcoal powder on smooth paper 42x29 cm.
Atharva Lotake
looks great! keep it up!!
Luke Ng
I struggled with Identifying the brachialis in the models, especially on the medial side of the arm. Also, I'm not sure if the brachialis and the deltoid are supposed to attach to the same location of the humerus. It looks that way on most ecorches I've seen though I could be wrong. Any Critique about my anatomy or general drawing is greatly appreciated
Atharva Lotake
looking good! keep it up!
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