Do you remember that Aussie sword guy who used to talk about medieval weapons?
And, like, he seemed pretty good at talking about swords and shit. He seemed to have a good grasp of the history and tactics. He'd analyze movie weapons for their realism and that was fun. He did demonstrations with real weapons. For a time I really looked forward to his videos popping up in my feed.
He seemed like a harmless sword-fighting aficionado.
But then I guess he wanted to spread his wings. So he started down an anti-woke path. Giving questionable critiques about media and feminism. He started defending boob armor by showing historical examples even though most of those were decorative and not battle ready like in the games.
Then he admitted he was a fan of The Daily Wire.
And that was disappointing.
I missed him nerding out about swords, ya know?
Well, Shad decided to spread his wings again.
He has become...
*bad French accent* An artiste.
You see, he types words into a little box. Then a little robot does a google image search and steals a bunch of art. Then that robot reconfigures that art to be nearly indistinguishable from the source material. Well... aside from the occasional artist watermark.
Whoops!
A.I. art is very difficult. Sometimes when you type words into the box you get a woman with 5 lopsided anime tiddies. Or 20 fingers on one hand. It takes time and effort and experience to type in the perfect magic words so that you get something close to your imagination that doesn't belong in some sort of Lovecraftian horror ripoff.
For example, check out this cool "pirate hat" I asked A.I. to place on my head.
Clearly, I am not skilled enough at typing words into a box to get a proper pirate hat.
It. Is. Not. Easy.
I heard someone say you have to type things in a box for 10,000 hours before you start getting truly masterful generations.
I mean, you can't type "marathon runners" and expect that to actually work.
THIS REQUIRES SKILL, PEOPLE.
And I am a lowly amateur. I can only dream of becoming the box-typist Shad has honed himself into.
The thing is... Shad is very upset.
He is upset that you don't like his "art" and he is ready to die on this hill.
So... before he croaks on a mound of bullshit, he has something to show you. He has created something truly brilliant and when you see it, he is convinced you will validate his considerable efforts.
Before I show you his "Not. Easy." artistic masterpiece I'd like you to sit with what he has said for a second.
Ruminate in the verbiage.
Process the ideas and points of view presented.
Digest his plea for you to accept and love his hard won battle after typing words into a box to manifest his imaginings.
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Have you sat?
Ruminated?
Processed?
Digested?
Okay, here it is...
I'm not sure I digested this well.
I'm sure there are a lot of other things to digest in this piece of... uh... something... but the thing that I can't get past is how authentic it is, you know?
Like, it's so truly authentic to bad comic book art that if you had told me he'd actually drawn this by hand, well, by golly, I would have believed you. It has -- for example -- the truly authentic 'feet too tiny for the legs they are attached to' as well as the 'legs attached to seemingly random points in space which bear no resemblance to the way that human legs attach to a body,' the 'shirt which somehow cleaves directly to the surfaces of her perfectly-symmetrical balloon-round boobs,' the 'hands disproportionate to the body,' the 'sword taller than the girl with nonsensical, blade-weakening "blood groove."' Heck, even her piercing on her ear is in the wrong spot.
I mean, you can't say it isn't authentic.
It is a truly authentic example of exceptionally shitty comic book art.
I'm convinced. I mean. This has made a convert of me. Maybe "AI" art isn't that bad after all, if the best of the best "AI artists" turn out such, uh.
Authentic.
Pieces.
(of shit)
I think what's funniest about that particular... piece, is that all the mistakes ARE authentic.
He drew the girl and photoshopped in a picture of a lizard and a picture of a church and had the image generator "refine" it. And all that "ai art skill" didn't fix the tiny feet, the lopsided pigtails, the misaligned hands, the awkward posing, or the floating spherical boobs. It just made her less expressive and gave her a nonsensical school uniform and a sword with a curved handle.
So this tool that makes art for you requires you to make the art yourself first and does nothing to improve the technical aspects of what you've already drawn. Incredible.
I'm crying laughing.
