non exhaustively: unlike drawing, fig sculpture has faded out of art edu; ~0 market/prestige for it rn so v little incentives; photorealism and trad materials dont match well; recognizability of celebs prevents needed abstracting; digital sculpting skillset doesnt translate well;
Mar 27, 2024 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
it’s really hard to explain to the americans that the french are like racist racist towards the portuguese
not like fellow white people racist like they are towards the belgians. racist racist
May 6, 2023 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
AI image generation mistakes tend to be the perfect opposite of beginner drawing class mistakes: photo realism is hard but you’d never give a person 7 fingers. that’s the advantage & inconvenient of having logical models of things rather than working purely from visual signal!
teaching ppl to draw from observation is more than anything teaching them to see *without* these models, teaching them not to draw the plate round and white as they know it is, but to instead look at its actual shape and color in their field of vision and to replicate that
May 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
my dumbest most overconfident thought is that i could write a good novel if i wanted to
like i v much know that’s not true but deep down i’m like hey i def could
2) some AI stuff looks human-made because it looks like lesser imitation of historical artistic styles ull see in a bad café 
