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3 months ago
This month of august I have to take out a bit of pressure, mostly doing sketches to not let the rust sink in. The image with Sora and Delilah https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61764831/ has basically taken up the entirety of July, which I hadn't expected. I can address a few things regarding that.
https://x.com/TriasTheDinoArt/statu.....13074560393293
https://x.com/TriasTheDinoArt/statu.....13389926010967
These two X-posts demonstrate my documentation (I made more) of how the painting came about. You may notice that I took inspiration from AI generated trash for Sora's pose, same goes for Delilah. I wanted to see for real if "AI can be good as reference". I cleaned up the weirdness, because I know a little bit about how poses and anatomy work. However, the progress slowed down drastically with the background. The slop doesn't contain any single element I couldn't tackle myself, especially when it comes to messing up lol
I can say with absolute certainty though that the whole of it doesn't add up and if you THINK it does, you're being led astray by your eyes, because -by god- I gave it my best shot. I couldn't make sense of how to "clean" the background elements and bring them together and, eventually,
DigitalKaiju and 
Legionbeast basically whacked me back into consciousness with a newspaper, revealing to me that the AI-slop is messing with my brain.
So I ditched the slop stuff entirely from there on out and began constructing the background all by myself, with a number of (REAL) references for the plants, as well as the buildings, while simultaneously working with a new set of brushes to get a more oil-feel.
Before you worry, I got the slop from a free generator on a website only financed by ads, which I block, of course. I haven't paid anybody, I didn't feed the beast by uploading anything into it either; if they sink, greet the bottom of the sea, I don't care.
I suppose the best takeaway I can backhandedly recommend is that these slop images I get to see when I hit the generate button, is an overall vibe I can appreciate, which then creates new images in my mind. A couple of those may be worth working out, but was AI necessary for that? Absolutely not.
So here you go, I gave it a fair try and I haven't changed my opinion. It's trash, it's a disgrace, it still only works as "good" as it does because the datasets consist of stolen property and its value ranges below junk food. Avoid it, especially if you're an inexperienced artist who wants to improve.
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Regarding the commission stuff https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10353667/
I'm still getting requests every now and then, but as you can see, there is also still a big group of people waiting and very patiently so; they come first. In September I plan to do 2 more commissions from the list, then resume work on the comic for probably 2 pages (I will see how good of a flow I can achieve, maybe it'll be one or more than two).
Also, please do NOT use my commission Discord ID at this time, as I only use it myself when I actually actively work on commissions!!
If you have questions about subjects that aren't quite clear in my guidelines or other things, please poke me on my server, which is open to everyone https://discord.gg/QFnhgaZYec , you won't get shamed if you ask for clarifications or anything and you may even get the answer you're looking for from my mods or other members in case I don't see you or if I'm not around in that moment.
I also share doodles and streaming notifications on there, I don't always post a note here on FA when I go live, which is another reason why I invite you to check out my discord server.
whew, another wall of bla-bla from yours truly, Trias~
https://x.com/TriasTheDinoArt/statu.....13074560393293
https://x.com/TriasTheDinoArt/statu.....13389926010967
These two X-posts demonstrate my documentation (I made more) of how the painting came about. You may notice that I took inspiration from AI generated trash for Sora's pose, same goes for Delilah. I wanted to see for real if "AI can be good as reference". I cleaned up the weirdness, because I know a little bit about how poses and anatomy work. However, the progress slowed down drastically with the background. The slop doesn't contain any single element I couldn't tackle myself, especially when it comes to messing up lol
I can say with absolute certainty though that the whole of it doesn't add up and if you THINK it does, you're being led astray by your eyes, because -by god- I gave it my best shot. I couldn't make sense of how to "clean" the background elements and bring them together and, eventually,
DigitalKaiju and 
Legionbeast basically whacked me back into consciousness with a newspaper, revealing to me that the AI-slop is messing with my brain.So I ditched the slop stuff entirely from there on out and began constructing the background all by myself, with a number of (REAL) references for the plants, as well as the buildings, while simultaneously working with a new set of brushes to get a more oil-feel.
Before you worry, I got the slop from a free generator on a website only financed by ads, which I block, of course. I haven't paid anybody, I didn't feed the beast by uploading anything into it either; if they sink, greet the bottom of the sea, I don't care.
I suppose the best takeaway I can backhandedly recommend is that these slop images I get to see when I hit the generate button, is an overall vibe I can appreciate, which then creates new images in my mind. A couple of those may be worth working out, but was AI necessary for that? Absolutely not.
So here you go, I gave it a fair try and I haven't changed my opinion. It's trash, it's a disgrace, it still only works as "good" as it does because the datasets consist of stolen property and its value ranges below junk food. Avoid it, especially if you're an inexperienced artist who wants to improve.
~~~
Regarding the commission stuff https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10353667/
I'm still getting requests every now and then, but as you can see, there is also still a big group of people waiting and very patiently so; they come first. In September I plan to do 2 more commissions from the list, then resume work on the comic for probably 2 pages (I will see how good of a flow I can achieve, maybe it'll be one or more than two).
Also, please do NOT use my commission Discord ID at this time, as I only use it myself when I actually actively work on commissions!!
If you have questions about subjects that aren't quite clear in my guidelines or other things, please poke me on my server, which is open to everyone https://discord.gg/QFnhgaZYec , you won't get shamed if you ask for clarifications or anything and you may even get the answer you're looking for from my mods or other members in case I don't see you or if I'm not around in that moment.
I also share doodles and streaming notifications on there, I don't always post a note here on FA when I go live, which is another reason why I invite you to check out my discord server.
whew, another wall of bla-bla from yours truly, Trias~
I wish you the best of fortune getting back on track o/
Thx again!
Even so, I’m glad you’re taking some time off for yourself. Keep being awesome. :3
https://civitai.com/models/1339787/trias
If you wanted to clear out some of that slop that is using your work to train models.
Its nice to see you start to get back on track. Lessons learned.
Well, "lesson learned" is a bit much, more that I now have some more direct hands-on experience with it, strengthening my anti-stance. Me referencing AI slowed me down for about 2 days before I went on doing the background of the image, so it was a tiny thing overall, the bg was just extremely complex.
A shame most of them would rather disrespect you than commission something real that was delivered by your hands.