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kradeelavI've been thinking about (visual) art styles lately.
for the longest time i felt insecure about not having a "de facto" inking/coloring style, but in some senses i've always felt people who pigeonhole themselves to a specific style are also shooting themselves in the foot by prioritizing profits vs genuine learning.
even to somebody as truly skilled/gifted as kim jung gi, i've also noticed that (other) bottom feeders who seek profits always seek to emulate artist's styles who are somewhat one-note with style; you see this with every AI engine wanting to replicate his work or loish's. it's easier both computationally, and also in the sense of 'maximum return for minimum investment'. they're big names, and people buy their work for good reasons.
one tangent is that i'd like to future-proof myself in a thoughtful long-term way given AI. always been about future proofing; this whole site was me future-proofing myself in 2018 for exactly the kind of social media / surface web fallout that went on in the last two years.
kind of hilariously, i've accidentally already done... this... by starting to accept more "hard kink" collaborations on the down low (currently doing a yuri vore page), and naziexploitation is another obvious one. hard kinks (not just your softcore pinups) feel like a legal minefield when it comes to the kind of, mm, corporate computational power that's starting to be the norm when it comes to mainstream concept art.
i'm not naive enough to assume the computation can't do it, just that it's a natural social/legal friction against $big_corp consumerisim, the same way that lolisho has become a third rail when it comes to that art being on sites at all. i've noticed that the community with hard kinks is a lot tighter and a lot more word of mouth. you get a reputation for being kind and knowing how to render certian things and headspaces, the people will find you. (the side benefit is that kinksters have always been like this purely out of survival; the infrastructure afforded to vanilla artists often don't exist for us - i don't see that changing.)
backing out of that tangent, i think what i'd love to see for me in the next year is solidifying styles for certian mediums. i'd like my 'doujinshi inking' style to look somewhat like cousins to my 'animator's thin line style' versus painting, and to also have a lineart+color style that fits seamlessly with both. cousins in the sense that a human can tell that the same artist did it, but that the work across different mediums are still their own thing and don't easily accept a one-size-fits-all box.
feel like it still affords a goodly amount of cross-medium learning, while still working towards iconic touchpoints (body language, dynamism, stuff i've always put a focus on).
for the longest time i felt insecure about not having a "de facto" inking/coloring style, but in some senses i've always felt people who pigeonhole themselves to a specific style are also shooting themselves in the foot by prioritizing profits vs genuine learning.
even to somebody as truly skilled/gifted as kim jung gi, i've also noticed that (other) bottom feeders who seek profits always seek to emulate artist's styles who are somewhat one-note with style; you see this with every AI engine wanting to replicate his work or loish's. it's easier both computationally, and also in the sense of 'maximum return for minimum investment'. they're big names, and people buy their work for good reasons.
one tangent is that i'd like to future-proof myself in a thoughtful long-term way given AI. always been about future proofing; this whole site was me future-proofing myself in 2018 for exactly the kind of social media / surface web fallout that went on in the last two years.
kind of hilariously, i've accidentally already done... this... by starting to accept more "hard kink" collaborations on the down low (currently doing a yuri vore page), and naziexploitation is another obvious one. hard kinks (not just your softcore pinups) feel like a legal minefield when it comes to the kind of, mm, corporate computational power that's starting to be the norm when it comes to mainstream concept art.
i'm not naive enough to assume the computation can't do it, just that it's a natural social/legal friction against $big_corp consumerisim, the same way that lolisho has become a third rail when it comes to that art being on sites at all. i've noticed that the community with hard kinks is a lot tighter and a lot more word of mouth. you get a reputation for being kind and knowing how to render certian things and headspaces, the people will find you. (the side benefit is that kinksters have always been like this purely out of survival; the infrastructure afforded to vanilla artists often don't exist for us - i don't see that changing.)
backing out of that tangent, i think what i'd love to see for me in the next year is solidifying styles for certian mediums. i'd like my 'doujinshi inking' style to look somewhat like cousins to my 'animator's thin line style' versus painting, and to also have a lineart+color style that fits seamlessly with both. cousins in the sense that a human can tell that the same artist did it, but that the work across different mediums are still their own thing and don't easily accept a one-size-fits-all box.
feel like it still affords a goodly amount of cross-medium learning, while still working towards iconic touchpoints (body language, dynamism, stuff i've always put a focus on).
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Date: 2023-11-29 09:10 pm (UTC)totally also feeling you with small comics exploding into new sprawling projects... why does it always happen like that XD