I Don't Really Do These Types Of Characters Anymore But I Felt Like Re-drawing An Old Design From 2021

Welcome to: some of the favourites I found in last year's sketchbook

I don't usually fandompost here but I just binge-readed TPOH these past few days (or what there currently is of it) after hearing about it from some posts I seen

My GOD. Currently going insane. In a good way

Sorry for the rants lately. I don't wanna be too serious. Here's some Jared and his buddy

Excuse my handwriting; the speech says "He fell asleep — again."

Here, have Tone getting tossed around by this guy's speech bubbles.

MORE doodle concepts

Here, have sad old men

"Kalenne" (first) and "Maizze" (second)

My god. I have this one world/story I wanna make a webcomic about so much but the timeline is SO BAD like it's not even funny. Way too many missing details in the worldbuilding and plot holes and contradictory stuff... agrrhgg

This is why I started making flow charts for my plots. It helps me realize everything I messed up. Me consulting my flowchart to make sure my story is coherent

Ok change of plans he'll look like this now. Just gotta clean up the colours + shapes and such and boom

More character concept

Will probably make the shirt colour more saturated + make the purple darker.

This is part of a group of characters I'm making for a webcomic idea I might make at some point! Though it will require more planning and probably better dedication skills than I currently have.

it's not 'AI art has no soul' because soul is subjective and creating art is not necessarily a divine spark of inspiration, sometimes human made art is empty of feeling and meaning and that's okay.

it's not 'AI art is ugly' because human made art doesn't need to be pretty, it's still art, no matter if you're starting or if you intentionally make ugly things. It's still okay.

The problem, with AI art (besides the copyright theft, the environmental issues, the artists losing their jobs..)

The problem is that

AI art lacks INTENT

When a human makes something, every part of the creation is a decision made. Why this line, why this color, why this word, why this stitch, why this note.

They may be good decisions, bad decisions, it doesn't matter. The end result is something with thought, and this is why we appreciate art. There is the surface, and underneath, there is an ocean of decisions made by the artist.

AI art has no intent.

Yes, they will type prompts for a general idea. And they will pick a result.

But there is no thought about poses, colors, lines, backgrounds, details, negative space, lighting, texture, framing, etc.

Becoming a good artist means to understand these decisions and align them to make the result you want.

AI art will pick through millions of those decisions made by other people and will stick them together without meaning or reason, so they lose their intended purpose. This is why people think AI art is empty, that it has no 'soul'. Because there is no thought process behind it.

We should stop comparing human and AI art by using words like "better" or "worse". People will always have different opinions.

But as a human, I am more interested in things made by other humans, because I can observe all those tiny decisions, I can relate to some, be surprised by some, dislike some, it's all good.

Art is people communicating.

AI art has nothing to say.

Shaded version! And a couple revamped colours. PS. I really enjoy re-using other parts of the palette to do the shading....

Some more info, too — his name is Palace and he's a detective/investigator type guy running around doing crazy stuff with his wife and new best friend.

Cube guy.... music/band teacher helped figuring out this guy's colours.

I apologize if the whole LIMBS thing is hard to visually understand..