I do believe that there is good in this world. I think many people fall into hatred because they've given themselves nothing to live for in their own lives, so corruption feeds them an evil purpose. I truly am in love with this world and everything in it. I cook and imbue my recipes with love because I love to share food with people. There is so much despair but so much more hope than anyone realises. I can go to parks and see families sharing food with one another, I can go to cafes and see baristas making latte art just because it makes customers smile, I can see restaurants in cities open their doors for people to keep warm in the rain and I can see the real joy that it brings when I gift people my food. I do believe cooking and baking are what sets humanity apart. Because it's what brings us together.
Sorry if you've already answered this or are tired of the AI questions, but as someone who struggles with morality based anxiety, I struggle with the possibility that I might've read an LLM generated fic and bookmarked it. How do you (or others in your circle of followers) deal with the paranoia from a readers perspective?
I look at this the same way I look at the possibility of a fic I read (or any art I consume) being made by an artist whose real life moral compass does not align with mine (not talking about the contents of the fic they create but their real life moral compass that has nothing to do with their fic, like the possibility of them being homophobic or racist).
and I am not saying this to accuse anybody. what I mean is "the artists whose art I consume are strangers, and there is no way for me to know who random strangers are, therefore there is no way for me to know if I'm unknowingly consuming/supporting art from a person I would have wanted nothing to do with if I'd known them".
so I've always separated the art from the artists. I don't have to know who the artists are or what kind of people they are. I'm only here for their art.
I guess you could say "but this is different because someone's real life moral compass isn't portrayed in their fic, but someone else can read their fic and suspect it of being ai-generated". but from how I personally see it, I don't think there's really any difference because, unless the author themself says their fic is ai, there is... no way for anyone to know for sure.
and also, I choose not to let the ai paranoia take away the joy reading fanfics gives me. if I suspect a fic is ai, I may continue reading for the benefit of the doubt, or I may quietly click away. but if I'm just enjoying a really good fic then I'm not gonna stop and wonder if it's ai and if I'm unknowingly supporting an ai-generated fic. reading fics is something I do as a form of self-care. so I refuse to be consumed by the need to check and doubt every single thing.
is it possible that I've unknowingly supported ai fics? yes. but it's also possible that I've unknowingly supported human-made fics that were written by terrible people. because these people are strangers. and you can't just avoid interacting with any stranger (be it online or in real life) or their art forever just because there's always a possibility of 1. them being bad people and 2. their art being ai-generated. you cannot realistically avoid that. so I've made peace with it long ago.
@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!
I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.
If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.
Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)
A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.
But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!
By simply adding a few more lines, we can add a pair of eyes and a mouth. Maybe even a little triangle nose! Or half circles for ears. We can now draw a face, which provides a basis for all sorts of expressions.
These simple additions can allow us to explore the wide range of human emotion and individuality.
This may seem like the basics of the basics. But that is what we want! In order to get to the point where we are able to draw complex, elaborate representations of humans and objects, we will need to start with simple shapes like lines and circles and build our understanding from there.
For instance, lets give our stick person some cool new features, such as hands and feet. I chose little squiggly circles to represent hands, and triangles to represent feet.
We can go a step further and modify the body of the stick person to include shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. These parts of the human body are quite complex in real life But here, all we need to do is add a few simple lines and dots to our stick person.
The lines provide some additional structural elements to our stick person's body, which are the shoulders and the hips. The dots indicate the points of articulation - elbows and knees, the places where the arms and legs bend!
Now we can use our stick person to show us an even wider range of human movement, action, and expression.
Our little drawing of a human being is evolving! All it took was adding a few more lines and shapes here and there.
By elongating some of the existing lines and making the head an oval instead of a circle, we can give our stick person proportions that resemble that of a real life human.
By this point, we have managed to add more complexity to our stick person simply by using our ability to draw lines, circles, and other basic shapes!
These basic ideas are the building blocks that will enable us to create more complex shapes.
The next part may be a considerable step up if you are absolutely new to drawing, but I have decided to include it in order to show you how complex objects like the human body can be built from shapes that are a bit more complex than circles and lines.
For example. Two ovals and a rectangle can be combined to create a cylinder.
Six squares can be combined to create a cube, or a box. Here, each square is distorted slightly depending on which way the cube is facing.
Note that the back faces of the cube and the bottom of the cylinder are hidden. These shapes allow us to visualize that which should not normally visible.
A sphere from all perspectives can be represented by a circle. But we can make it more like a sphere by adding lighting and shadow if we so desire.
Cubes, cylinders, and spheres are examples of 'solid shapes' because they consist of 3 dimensions.
Lets see how these solid shapes can be used to compose the human body.
By stacking three cylindrical objects, we can create a torso. Two spheres have been added to form shoulders, while a smaller cylinder forms the neck.
An arm is an alternating sequence of spheres and cylinders connected together. Note that the hand has been simplified for this example.
We can apply these solid shapes to the rest of the body to give us a more recognizable representation of the human form. It doesn't even have to be perfect. And just like that, our stick figure now has a silhouette that is unmistakably a person!
In the above examples, notice that we kept the stick person at the beginning while building up the shapes and solids around it. This is because the stick person serves as a guide for positioning the body and its various parts -> also known as posing.
You can do the same thing to everyday objects! Here, I drew a wine glass by stacking these three dimensional solid shapes.
The cup and its contents are two ovoid shapes that were cut in half. The stem is a very thin cylinder shape. The base is a cylinder with a slightly wider bottom.
Solid shapes help inform us how objects and parts of the human body may appear from different perspectives.
For example, a sphere can be used to demonstrate how the human head appears when looking up or down, turned to the side, or tilted at an angle.
With these examples, I hope I have managed to convinced you that if you can draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can draw a person! You just have to train your eye to recognize the simple shapes within complex objects. Try it with everyday objects as well! Or even your favourite media! A drawing subject can be as simple or as complex as you envision it to be.
Once you have mastered that, there are many aspects of drawing you can explore from here that may require you to seek additional resources or a fellow artist's advice.
Last of all, remember that drawing is an iterative process. Even if you draw something correct the first time, you will need to draw it again and again to get it right all times! And by making small changes like the ones we explored in this tutorial, your drawings will gradually transform!
I hope what I've demonstrated here are enough to provide the basics of how to get started with drawing objects and people, and also to help refresh more experienced artists. :) Hopefully I didn't go too off topic with what was requested, and let me know if there are any more questions I can answer.
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