Struggling with the whole AI thing as a comic book guy. I don't see much difference between AI and what is called comics art these days from mainstream publishers. It cycles back to why I don't work there anymore :). If you respond to the touch and feel and look at your drawing in the moment you're not making the icon the "reader" wants. Your stopping them from entering into the "world" of the comic by asserting the presence of the artist creator as a voice in it.
For a reader what matters is the brand/character/story for the creator what matters is the making and how it reflect their self. In comics at least, you may have to kill the self to be the brand so I'm not sure there's any space left for creators in that universe.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I was never cut out to draw other people’s characters and I do wonder what role AI will play in art forms with consistent repetitive conventions.
No, I don’t know Sillman’s work. Very cursory view and especially the iPad animations seem to play in contemporary arts constant battle with the need to noun everything by using the verb of process. As an educator and illustrator nouns and product are unavoidable and kind of the point. I don’t distrust utility, I just wish our knives were sharper as Illustrators today.
Struggling with the whole AI thing as a comic book guy. I don't see much difference between AI and what is called comics art these days from mainstream publishers. It cycles back to why I don't work there anymore :). If you respond to the touch and feel and look at your drawing in the moment you're not making the icon the "reader" wants. Your stopping them from entering into the "world" of the comic by asserting the presence of the artist creator as a voice in it.
For a reader what matters is the brand/character/story for the creator what matters is the making and how it reflect their self. In comics at least, you may have to kill the self to be the brand so I'm not sure there's any space left for creators in that universe.
thanks for making think this through.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I was never cut out to draw other people’s characters and I do wonder what role AI will play in art forms with consistent repetitive conventions.
Have you seen / read Amy Sillman On Drawing.
No, I don’t know Sillman’s work. Very cursory view and especially the iPad animations seem to play in contemporary arts constant battle with the need to noun everything by using the verb of process. As an educator and illustrator nouns and product are unavoidable and kind of the point. I don’t distrust utility, I just wish our knives were sharper as Illustrators today.
Maybe a little reductive viz Sillman. She is not an illustrator may not be of interest. https://youtu.be/BLOgc466nRk?si=URsdY2R1sL7PEH3R
Thanks for the share. No attempt at all to minimize Sillman’s work or project. Great list of verbs on drawing in this talk.
Thanks Joe I wasn’t getting a good read on your comments. Just to say Eyedrop Weekly in the Inbox always a treat.
Thanks so much Ronni!