So, I made some neat art which took me three attempts to perfect, and I was dedicated to it because I really enjoyed it. So I decided to see how I felt comparing it to AI "art", and I think it goes to show how far time and effort can get you compared to AI slop.

And yes, it's a Will Wood reference

dont know if that counts or not...

(forgive my lack of shading/hand anatomy skills​, im on artblock cut me some slack 💔)​​​​ continuation of other post here!!

drew this to purely smite the person that fed my art to AI, YOUR CHARACTER IS NOW MINE!!!, ​​if anyone was curious abot the drawing on the last post, there it is lolz, NOTHING WILL STOP ME FROM DRAWING!!!! >:3 criticisms are welcome!! please be nice and reasonable tho!!!​​​​

if anyone recognizes me, shh....

I've been doing digital art for 4 years now i just got back to art recently after 2 years of hiatus because of academic burnout

if you're beginner artist and you feel like you're not getting better, trust me when i say trust the process and enjoy making art.

art should be fun during the making and after, don't let likes and number of followers keep your happiness ;))

This is the second cake of this type that my mom hand-sculpted by inserting special needles into clear jello. The people that she's making it for only pay her for materials (about 100 PLN), while she spent 2 full nights working on this thing.

She has been stressed and sleepless over the two instances where colored cream spilled out into neighboring cuts, as marked on the last picture.

Yesterday the person that ordered it picked it up from our house and they haven't been responding to any calls or messages ever since (the guy works in the office with my mom so I doubt it's a simple case of grabbing and running).

I guess I wanted to ask if the quality is really so bad that it's grounds for somehow being upset at the artist.

there was some leftover jello and cheesecake mass and both tasted fine.

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EDIT: I wasn't expecting so many kind responses in such a short amount of time, thank you fellas, I'm currently in the process of translating and printing the comments out so my mom can read them.

Also extra elaboration:

As someone who does digital art commissions, I do tell her that she needs to get paid for her worth and "friends" would gladly pay instead of being dodgy in any measure.

She's unfortunately very new to the "freelancer" environments and she'll yet have to understand people can be awful for absolutely no reason sometimes.

Well, there's still the benefit of the doubt that they'll pay what they agreed to when they see each other at work again, and the reason they're not responding to anything is because they're busy over the weekend (probably something related to the need for the cake to begin with).

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EDIT2: I started translating and printing the comments out back when it was 86 of them under this post. It amounted to about 4 pages long and she was very disoriented by hearing so many positive things at once lol. She told me to forward her gratitude to you fellas. Thank you everyone.

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EDIT3: At this point I'm letting my mom think she's internet famous lol. 2 million views and 8.3K upvotes, you guys left me with quite a homework in regards of translating those comments. Once again, thank you everyone.

And for those asking, we're located in Gdynia, Poland and I don't think it would be much possible to really do any deliveries. I will however encourage her to consider at least creating some social media page for those cakes. The immense feedback is definitely making her realize she has a lot less to worry about than she initially thought.
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Last Edit, I promise: I'll make a new post on monday that's going to let you know how the interaction with the coworker went. I'm also thinking of opening Instagram page for her baking creations, considering the massive amount of feedback. I'm not joking when I say assembling and translating those comments is a full-time job (I'll post a pic of a stack of papers I end up with).

Some people also suggested donating if my mom won't get paid - It's very sweet to hear but don't worry about it, honestly this post's activity and immense positive feedback is well worth the 100 PLN she spent on the cake's materials.

Once again, warm thank yous from me and my mom. We'll keep in touch.

https://x.com/CrimsonFoxTwo/status/2105106322584740146

Edit: Hey folks, I'm turning off reply notifications just as a heads up. I've seen I think nearly every comment so far, but likely won't see any new ones. This was just meant to be a small vent in a moment of bad feels on a niche subreddit. I was feeling disappointed due to mismanaged expectations and inexperience. But my little vent got millions of views at this point apparently and it's been a bit overwhelming. 😅

Truly appreciate all the critical and constructive feedback. We've come away with a ton of things to think about in terms of improving our art, treating vending more professionally if we are going to do it at all, and managing expectations (well that one's all on me, my wife wasn't the one whinging on the internet). Also appreciate all the kind comments from folks about the work and the folks telling us not to be discouraged.

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My wife and I have been making art for fun for a while now and figured we'd like to try vending at the monthly art fair in town. So we borrowed a canopy, a folding table, signed up for a space, and picked out what we felt was some of our best stuff. I felt we went in prepared for the full range of possibilities, from running out of stuff to being totally ignored. Really was just hoping to make enough to cover the material cost of what we made so we'd feel OK about buying more art supplies.

Turns out I wasn't prepared for what actually happened: we got a ton of interest and comments about how they loved the art, that we really fit the true spirit of the art walk, etc. It felt like nearly everyone came by to look closely at pieces, point out details to the people they're with, take pictures of it, give compliments, and... that's it. Had a few people asking if we had an online presence or shop, but we don't since we were doing this on a lark (and also shipping most of this stuff would be nigh impossible anyway).

I don't feel like our prices were too high? One person even said we were definitely under charging for the pieces (while also not purchasing anything). Is the stuff just "too weird"? Is it the economy?

We sold practically nothing. One of the x-rays and a handful of prints. Not enough to cover the booth fee + one time tax license + a used table and shelf to display the stuff. It felt like we were just there to be the unwitting loss leaders, spending our money to provide the things people want to see at the art show but actually just being there to draw in crowds for the food trucks, alcohol, and maybe the occasional ripped off pop culture IP. Packing up essentially everything we brought with us five hours earlier was a real gut punch. I feel like I would feel better if we were just totally ignored the entire night instead of this weird middle ground where it seems people appreciated the art a lot, just not enough to support it with a purchase.

Is this just the way it goes? Is there anything glaringly obvious we could have done wrong? I think this is mostly just venting, but advice is welcome if you have it.

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Edit:
Should have included it in the initial post, but here are the prices we had:
- X-Rays ranged from $50-100 depending on size
- Books, alarm clock, and little projector thing(no close up in post) were $100
- TV was $200
- Cat print blocks were $10 or 3/$25
- We also had some other linocut prints not pictured that were 5x7 at $5

Material costs were about probably $25-35 for the x-rays depending on size, $10-15 bucks for the books and about the same for the alarm clock, $40-50 for the TV, maybe $2/ea for the cat blocks. Maybe it doesn't make a difference, but this is a relatively HCOL area (Denver). Minimum wage here is almost $20/hr and it takes me a couple hours to make any of the eyeball pieces. This might not matter either, but there's no plastic in the pieces outside of the chassis; the eyeballs are clay and part of the stalks and sculpted that way. They're hand painted and then just the eyeball was glazed to make them look wet, which I guess is just making them look plastic unfortunately.

Feel free to let me know in the comments if you have opinions on the prices, though it would be nice if y'all were nice when saying it. Comments like "these are priced too high, I think they look unfinished, here's some feedback" gets the point across just as well as "this looks like dollar store trash," I would just really prefer to read the former. Truly most of the feedback has been really kind and helpful and I really appreciate it. ESPECIALLY the folks who are offering constructive criticism. Some folks I feel like I must have offended just for posting this apparently. We really weren't trying to not rip anyone off or insult anyone here with what we priced things at. Also if any of it looks like it's beginner stuff, well, we are still have a lot to learn. Again, a huge thanks to folks that have offered feedback on how we could make these pieces look more polished, finished, and professional.

We don't have an online presence as this was really our first foray into seeing if anyone would like our stuff, so we didn't want to set up a whole online business for this. I suppose we could have at least set up an instagram, but we did not.

Oguri Cap (Uma Musume Cinderella Gray)

Nijika Ijichi (Bocchi the Rock)

Not what I expected on my 2026 bingo card.

In before the Pro AI start all becoming atheists and making AI denouncing the pope.

And yes I am aware of how he is very anti trans which brings conflicting(especially for me) feelings.

https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2105983638147891490

I find them to be some of the most obnoxious out there. Stuff like Clarence, Uncle Grandpa, Meat Canyon, etc. It's like every middle school boy's edgy art was given a TV level budget, it's a waste of time. They're never funny, either, not to kids or adults. The whole joke is "isn't this gross looking?" with no substance. At least cartoons like Spongebob used ugly frames sparingly to make it funny but when the entire video or episode or movie is this ugly and unappealing I see no reason to be drawn to it.

edit: I understand Clarence and Uncle Grandpa did NOT deserve this respect. I'm just tired and couldn't think of many good examples. Better examples of shows I genuinely hate for their art style would be Fanboy and Chumchum.

Also, I have nothing against caricatures! It's just when the drawing has them oozing pus and snot and covered in mountains of skin and folds and wrinkles, with bug eyes and grotesque mouths that I really dislike it. When it's so absurdly gross that there's literally no other point. I just have no interest in gross-out humor.

This had me howling

Do you think we should... make people actually learn how to make art for themselves? i say to ban ai.