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From Drawing Setbacks to Visual Novels: My Artistic Journey

Autumn

I have done hardly any drawing over the last 16 years. I was borderline obsessive about it all through high school, but, ya know … stuff happened. Criticisms happened. It was easier not to.

So here I am, 16 years out of practice.

My drawing:

ChatGPT’s version:

I know that with a good eraser and lots of patience, I could improve my art skills. Part of me feels like the AI took my developing style and turned it into generic anime.

But I don’t care.

I’ve decided to put together a mock visual novel. I might have mentioned this before, but I’ve never tried script writing and I’d like to give it a shot. VNs only require character art and backgrounds, then you get to run wild with all the dialogue and implied actions that you desire, and for someone like me who never felt comfortable going deep with descriptive prose, it sounds perfect. With the help of AI, I figure that this is a very doable project for lone little ol’ me.

What can I say, Hatoful Boyfriend put this in my mind years ago.

So, no, this particular sketch won’t be used in my mock VN — I was mostly experimenting with ChatGPT to see if it could help in the art department, and I’m satisfied.

I don’t know what my timeline will be, but I am excited for this project.

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Phone Wallpapers

Autumn

This is one of those moments where I wonder if I’m supposed to be more tight-fisted and controlling of the content that I produce, but meh.

I’m learning how to use Canva, and it’s been good practice to use my AI pictures to create wallpapers for phones. Shown above. Feel free to download for personal use. Maybe remember my name if you’re feeling generous. As far as I’m concerned, these are educational/experimental images, not something that I intend for hella profit(!). Though … if you try to use them for your own hella profit(!), I will come after you. Just sayin’. Hur hur.

All in good fun, of course. Everyone knows that no one reads blogs anymore (except for you and me). 😂

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ComfyUI and AI as an Art form

Autumn

ComfyUI

So, I’ve been resisting the urge to rant about how AI art is really blossoming into its own medium, and all of the alarmists out there are the equivalent of people ranting against the invention of the printing press back in the day — mostly because I don’t think I could maintain a polite tone.

Deal. With. It.

No, AI is never going to replace your experience as a human. I can’t even fathom what makes people think that’s possible …

So if you want to create art with pencils, brushes, or photoshop, you will still be able to create art with pencils, brushes, or photoshop. That’s not going anywhere, and plenty of people will still happily watch youtube art videos. Face it, art has never been a lucrative career path for the huge majority of artists throughout all of history — that’s why “starving artist” is a stereotype.

Me? I like creating art with words and AI.

The above screenshot is the user interface I use for Stable Diffusion, which, as you can see, is far more complicated than typing in, “magical Autumn forest”.

All of those settings in all of those boxes mean something — they are the difference between a beautiful picture and something totally broken — and ComfyUI lets you go even deeper than that.

I’ve spent the last six months learning how to write prompts, because the order of the words and even the punctuation in between them matters. I’ve also been learning what all of the settings do. Most of this only has a little bit of documentation because of how brand new the technology is, so the majority of my knowledge has come from trial and error.

Fails include:

And pretty soon here, SDXL 1.0 will be released and I’ll probably end up re-learning it all over again, ha ha.

It’s great though. I thoroughly enjoy AI art and the process of creating it. Not so thrilled with how many people are reacting negatively to a new technology, but go figure — people freaked out over every single technological advancement in all of history, and it didn’t stop the world from changing anyway.