“It’s Too Early, I Don’t Want To Wake Up!!” (pt.1) From 2016! Link To Higher Res/full Images

Here’s the full comic called “生き甲斐” (ikigai) I made for my senior project in high school art class. You can view it in 300 DPI high res. by clicking the link in my bio! IG shits on all of the effort I put into details by butchering the image quality lol. Side note: Idk why but my art teacher Ms. Money was rly cool and just let me draw whatever I want 🤷‍♂️ P sure she said “Just make a comic about what art means to you”. I still feel this way btw except now I have more health problems : ) Thank you for reading 😣💙 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv_OQC1g-cG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vo1cbam6xi9z

I really think THE single most surprising false truth that was revealed to me in adolescence is the classic “bad people lie and cheat” statement.

By age 17, it was basically rammed into my head really hard that a lot of people we on the surface believe are “good” are subject to doing all the stuff that “bad” people do, and a lot of people who are mistreated and shoved to the side are actually really good people with bad curb appeal who just get misunderstood.

But yeah - I absolutely am still shocked by how many “good” people I’ve met who just openly cheat in relationships, manipulate others, steal things, lie, used to bully - all sorts of shit.

It’s just a bit unsettling to think about how most of us have secret lives in one way or another, yet we feel so ashamed of that aspect of our nature that we just push our society’s false truths onto the younger generations. It just makes them feel responsible and guilty for things that most people frankly have for many, many years been unable to master in their lifetime. https://www.instagram.com/p/BvSuSvFA10M/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n4h648t2nlk6

Sushiboy

For just $40.00 - Printed via dye sublimation on what is apparently polyester, but it's so soft and breathable even in this Miami humidity。 - Designed by Luke S…

For just $40.00 - Printed via dye sublimation on what is apparently polyester, but it’s so soft and breathable even in this Miami humidity。 - Designed by Luke Stuart。 - Photography by Alex Lopez and Luke Stuart 。 Please machine wash on cold and keep him away from dryers to maintain print vibrancy。

What Do You Think You’re Doing? by Kaiser Caimo

Part 3 of 4.

(Part 1 here)

An aggressively ugly digital zine about making art. Available in full as a pdf for free/pay what you want here: https://gum.co/lUpii

前によりもっと近くだね Closer than before 🌱

I’m just about to get out of bed today; just trying to stay on top of my health but nonetheless, there is more to draw and more to prepare for before AnimeNYC. I will really look into hiring a couple artist friends as assistants for my comics after NYC. Even for screen tones and Black fills. I’m not sure how payment will work considering I don’t make a living yet, so maybe we can plan a Kickstarter release. I don’t know… all I know is: I realize my limitations and have to do my best despite, and I have friends who can help but I need to make it worth their while. Drawing has been really… exhausting lately. It takes a lot from me, and it’s not just drawing in itself; but circumstance. Unfortunately, life currently consists of MUCH more than “just drawing.” I wish it was so.

#drawing#art#illustration#manga#light#光#orange#cute#girl https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp40SrQAG54/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fgftvhxyekfl

Me offspring Happy Spring

late 2016

...With Gettyimages and Adobe; two of the most scummy companies in their fields; bringing out their own paywalled AI trained on "ethical data," (IE, officially licensed from the mountains they own) I hope we can use this opportunity to step back and stop talking about the AI art debate in terms of copyright and "theft" and more in terms of corporate exploitation and labor rights.

Because, like, the results will be the same with regards to jobs if megacorps end up using Adobe's or Getty's model in the way they'd use; say; Stablediffusion and Midjourney; without a labor pushback they'd still use it to kill jobs.

And even with the "compensation system" they talk about, which they'll conveniently use as an excuse to keep it paywalled and closed-source, I bet you my bottom dollar they're talking about a Spotify-type model. Which, if you're familiar with the music industry, you do not want a Spotify-type model.

The difference is, if Stablediffusion gets sued out of existence, you won't be able to access the tool without a paywall. And both Adobe and Getty Images have very high paywalls.

Whereas Stablediffusion, by contrast, is very much open-source and free. A lot of people run it independently online for anyone to use and if you have a PC that can run it, you can use it offline; no strings attached. Which means you can do it and tweak it as you wish, doubly so if you already have art skills.

And it's awfully suspicious in this state that Getty is in a lawsuit to try and kill SD over the "stealing" claims in a way that would leave their product as a paywalled monopoly at their whims with no Open Source alternatives.

Like... at the very least don't get played by their talk of "ethics," because even if they're licensed, in my eyes they're far less ethical than SD I'd assert, due to creating a precedent for putting this technology behind a corporate walled garden in a way that keeps other creators from using it while still killing traditional artist jobs dead if we don't push back as a collective labor force.