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All matters of AI aside, I think it’s sad if you wound up harassed by anyone for any reason, or if you were ever made to feel ashamed or obsolete for your artstyle. You’re a great artist who’s done great work, and I’ve never heard of you doing anyone wrong. If you had offered those free art lessons a couple years ago (back when I had more time and interest), I certainly would have taken you up on them. You can ask Rocket Lawn Chair about that if you think I’m just humoring you.

However, you should understand that AI artists/editors/enthusiasts are not a monolith. Some of them are trolls, some of them are zealots. Some of them are narcissists who feel empowered by a tool that gives them art superpowers, and they just want to show off. However, having spent a lot of time in and around these communities, I think the great majority are just ordinary people who are innocently entertained by the new tech. Others, like craft (the artist of this image, and who I know internet-personally), devote hours into each piece and are constantly trying to do new and unique things with the medium. People like these, as well as their friends, are going to wind up hurt in just the same way you are now if you go out of your way to denigrate their art or paint them as simple villains.

Anyway. In the end, I just want to wish you the best. I hope you can find a way to reconcile with the AI and human art communities and continue to produce the unique work you’re known for.

Thanks. I did some color work of my own (in between generations, to alleviate the inevitable color drift from too much inpainting, and at the end, to my own personal preference), but if there’s one thing AI art is already superhuman at it’s color theory, IMO.

I made something of an attempt to fix the tail issue early on. This is one result of mockup + inpaint:

but in the end I couldn’t be bothered to go through with it. When you prompt for too much butt stuff, it will inevitably try to erase anything that gets in the way of that—it has a sometimes crude understanding of emphasis in general.

Anyway… I guess I’ll just see this like I see the “eyes clipping through hair” trope in anime :p

It’s about half due to my fine-tuned model (just a Dreambooth on some favorite pony art of mine), half due to generic prompt juicing. I have some of my favorite modifiers here, and I find that the PA Works + Photoshoot in particular works wonders. Simply adding “3d” to the negative prompt (and positive prompting for e.g. “2d graphic novel illustration” for good measure) makes it crazy smart and talented with illustrated stuff.

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