thomastapir

Sooo Everybody seems to be Talking About teh AI, and obviously people have strong feelings about it one way or another. I understand and appreciate the arguments--or, more to the point, the emotional responses--on both sides, and sympathize with most if not all of them across the board. All I can tell you is that for me personally, it's been a tool that's finally afforded me the chance to produce images approximating to some extent what I see in my dreams and imaginings, and that for the first time in decades I feel something like a sense of creative satisfaction rather than chronic frustration and disappointment. To illustrate, this screenshot of thumbnail images from my art tumblr archive page represents only a tiny fraction of what I've done with Midjourney over the course of the past month: If you like what you see and would like to see more, please follow me on tumblr at And if you hate me for selling my soul to AI, that's cool too, though it probably won't change what I'm

Here's a question for my artist friends who read comics and especially for cartoonists and other comics creators. I've noticed an interesting trend in comics recently that I've tried to illustrate here with these two [VERY ROUGH] faux comics pages depicting the same generic scene--a man and woman arguing in a hallway. The setting and nature of their argument is irrelevant; I just wanted to illustrate an otherwise static scene in which the "action" consists of dialogue and body language (posture, gestures, etc.) rather than any overt, dramatic motion. In the first take I tried to depict such a scene the way I've always been told one "should"