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Design journal:

Did a decent job of making a video and a good job of gathering images. Today maybe just another day. But we move forward. Stoked on the idea that I could be continuing to get better at the skills I need to improve upon.

Wrote a decent song w my lil bro today. So much work before it’s actually good enough I think. Still fun to be on the way.

On the brink of starting my typography quest. Also on the brink of moving over to the Seattle side of things.

More work to be done. Will continue on tomorrow.

Design review:

Gametape from Friday

The ideas on friday started with me wanting to make a god mode jenny holzer level video type treatment. what could you do with text that felt so good that you wouldn’t question the words as you received them. i still think this is an awesome one to quest toward. and it’s one that i see savemymind working toward. and i still feel like i could do it better than its being done in some ways.

i think i have more love for words than most people currently.

but ultimately i pivoted, in part because when you’re high you’re not keen to learn new shit necessarily. if you know the shit a little bit that helps big time. because then you can make little creative mistakes. but new things feel daunting and the idea of doing a whole getup felt daunting at the time.

i should make it my goal to do 2 of those this week though. would be sick to start getting reps, even if we’re at the end of this current 3 month cycle. i think i have gotten way better at posters. i think i still have some small elements to work on. for example, the guiding of the viewers’ eye. i think i should be able to have a list of 5-10 things and know for myself that the viewer goes to 1 and then 2 and then 3 etc. That is still a skill that i am lacking.

Another thing that was wild because of this attempt, it was like 9/10pm when i fully locked in and almost immediately i went into nap mode. this was in part because i had gotten high early and had lots of convos w people. convo w ronan, convo w parents. it is rough that i don’t normally see the world as creatively and freely as i do when i am high. i’d love to learn to push myself to learn more that way. my favorite people stay in a space where they are grateful for the moment and creative within it. joy-filled.

so i woke up real early maybe like 6am or earlier and got to work on a piece. i had had the textured background and initally i thought about leaving it as it was. but im stoked that i pushed and added some new to it.

cool takeaways i had from it. 1) i am good enough now , because i know how most textural elements work, to add highly detailed elements to a highly detailed bg and have em both bang. 2) there are certain patterns where if you crop them to a certain silhouette they approximate the shadows / nuances that a proper illustrator would give them. i was stoked with this piece that i could take a piece that was maybe half complicated and put a textured piece on top of it and it made the silhouette sophisticated enough that i was stoked on it.

i think in general the piece was hugely lacking in meaning. what was it about. what did the words say. why? i would love to start more / as many as possible pieces from now on with the consideration of , this is about relaying the grand idea. what is the grand idea. falling into technical rabbit holes after you know what you’re shooting for rocks. falling into them before hand leads to shit like this. especially when you’re on a time constraint.

in general i consider this one a raising of the tide. this is what my new bottom looks like, more or less. which really excites me. my hw from this.

make 2 type videos this week (as physical as possible)

start from the grand idea on the next piece

Did some cool work on AI songs today. I feel like our goal as humans in 2025 is to use these tools to be maximum helpful to speaking our truth. I really want to spend 3 months on “grand truth”-ing at some point. I really want to spend 3 months on hand drawn lettering. I really wanna spend

Main things I take away from looking at images today. What is a photograph vs what is a design? My inclination is to make everything feel photographic / illustrative and not make space for info. Good designers know when to let up on the gas to make space for info. That being said don’t delete the clouds (your fav part) just bc someone else said you should.

In general though I think I should try to make more space within illustrative frames but leave that space emptier. And or make the text more sauced. I think about the modern dog poster where they are doing hand drawn 3D text. A brief aside there but in general I think that idea is cool. Doing things that you would do in blender but doing them hand drawn. Kinda lit.

Because before that I was pretty purely relying on how the text sat on the image.

You get some energy from that but blank ish space highlights the edges of that space so well. And it does the same thing of actually making space for the info, so you can more clearly trace the text hierarchy. When there’s a ton of shit going on it’s harder to guide people’s eye. A cool idea on that wave. Maybe go through and make a piece hyper legible first (color overlay everything, make it all feel hyper guided visually) then go back through and see how much muddling you can get away with. That feels inspiring to me.

Another thing that I still really need to learn is how the Eddie mandelll’s of the world do the handling of information involving superscript / subscripting text. There’s something there where subscripting a piece of text adds a whole other layer of nuance to the type and it also feels new / unfamiliar. Only day this bc I botched a poster today involving that. Really wanna understand the balance of info before I’m done. And I want to get more process ideas too. Like oh ok it’s this part of my process now what’s my procedure here. A good procedure encapsulates a good search for the right question. A bad procedure tries to apply the same answers you used before, to no avail.

Design journal march 19

Idea i had while looking at images today:

maybe a couple ideas. i think there are different ways for a poster to become the highest level of goated.

one of those is just an awesome image. seems like hassan rahim is always thinking about this. how do you make an image that lasts. another option here is making a poster that feels like a product. having the type super large, for example, makes the poster feel as though it is imbued with the energy of the type.

this seems more like packaging, but i would argue that there are posters out there with this energy. posters that are mostly about achieving the feeling of product.

one of my favorites is a combination between the two. a poster with enough imagery and enough moving type framework that the

the main goal is obviously to make a poster that is so good that it goes on someone’s wall (and/or in someone’s memory for a very long time). It would be cool to do a catalogue of that. what kind of work makes it there. i don’t think that work is just about doing things new. I think about the crystal zapata poster that she posted. And she said she accomplished her goal of making someone she would want to put on her wall. in her case it was inspiring bc the poster was surpsiingly bare, combined with beautiful found / fashioned typography out of plants.

hyperspecific and simple. That’s a nother thought in general for me in design. Make a poster that is as simple / uncrowded as possible. How do you make it as great as possible within that framework.

i think in general i need to start moving toward product. start by putting a blank sheet of paper above your bed and ask yourself what should be on it. man i love that. that should be my first sesh on friday. finding my grand idea for a piece of paper above my bed. fuck yea.

Design journal Mar 19

Has a cool interaction w sethy today that gave me hints as to where my limits are as a designer.

One part is that I hit a certain amount of imagery in a scene and I sort of cap out. Sethy suggested adding a campfire and Ronan suggested adding a river. Both of which made the guy better.

Another thing that I am lacking is. With a piece where you have an excess of subjects / information / depth of image, controlling the viewers eye is more important than ever. A lot of sethy’s edits were about changing the main color of the type, making it the first thing the viewer sees. As opposed to what I have currently, where the type blends with the bg.

Another one of sethy’s suggestions that I need to consider was the alteration of the clouds in the background of the piece. Like maybe they were too illustrative and distracting before. I think this is a good example of how I need to be able to let go of the thing I liked, to see if there’s anything on the other side of that. Sometimes growth

Comes from following your excitement within a piece. But once you are nearer the end and you hit a walll, You have to let go of what you’re afraid to lose. Until you do you will sit and move around pieces that don’t matter forever.

Last lil bit. I need to understand the rules that sethy abides by. I’ll text them about their instincts overall on the piece in general. If I don’t understand theirs. Then I don’t understand where I differ and I don’t understand the dissonance between us. I do think in general that I try for depth of image very often and sethy’s are often more 2D.

Another thought is that I should reach back out to nic supa. I still think the work that guy makes rocks. Will message him tomorrow.

Design journal Mar 18

Pseudo game tape but also just thinking about design for awhile

Cool that when I get high I wanna turn off notifications. And turn off attention spent on crypto.

This last grind on design was insane. Started on Friday, slept in my chair Friday night, went all thru Saturday. Slept on the couch on Saturday. Cool that I want this shit more than ever. Even tho it seems like all these jobs are evaporating fast af. Playlab posting all these projects they’d like to make but no one will help them make. Metals.us posting all this old work. Seems like design people are really hungry. Maybe I should look for a job at an AI place instead of at a marketing agency. Man working at Lila Sciences would be so cool.

Need a goated path. A lot of these other paths seem to be closing up.

Stoked to be getting better though. I should reach out to Lance and ask him what I should do.

Still need to learn a new skill. Read a Mira Joyce blog today about how many different 3D softwares they understand how to use. Fucked me up. My skills are still mad limited. Would be worth having a sesh w Ronan even just to think on what that skill would be. What skill would open the most doors. And involve me in the most exciting stuff.

Getting high caps out so fast. But it does benefit until it caps. I get way more ambitious. I have visions of the person I know I want to be and I know I can bring them into reality. The tough part is when you spend a bunch of time high you shrivel and you don’t notice. You spend all this time alone. Lowkey weed is the drug I used to carry me thru my 10,000 hours tho. Made me feel less lonely.

These next couple months I need to make as much money as possible. Gonna save up for the move. Love you. You didn’t do great today, outside of looking at images, let’s do better tomorrow.

Design journal march 13

had a cool little breakthrough listening to a podcast today at work. it was by some of the artists that made miniatures for lord of the rings. They were talking about these 2.5 size of life statues that they made of new zealand soldiers from WWII. what i took away from it was the importance of the idea being the most important thing.

they called it the grand idea. they did not start working on the rest of the piece until they had the grand idea in mind. it kinda fucked me up. but i love it. and it’s so true. you need to be saying something really true first. style follows that. execution follows that. the skill is to figure out what it most important / most beautiful to say and then figure out what tools to use to say that as purely and as beautifully as possible.

thus far i have been starting from style almost always. *get high and look at AI*. to start from the grand idea makes it so that everything else becomes in service of that idea. And i think that’s how things like Rudnicks first midjourney covers happen. Things that are beautiful both in idea and in execution. you could see those covers and think wow what the fuck. and then you hear that he was one of the first people to test out MJ and it hits on a 2x.

Huge breakthrough for me, even if it’s ideology wise instead of technical. still have so much work to do technically it is unreal. lol. another day tomorrw.

Design journal

March 12

Looked at a lot of images today. Didn’t move forward on AI shit I need to. Was looking thru so many instagram designers today and it’s amazing to me how many of them have interesting / cool details all bc they’ve figured out how to operate AI programs better than others.

What’s a small goal for me to chunk down my AI learning ? What’s something where if I made it I could be like cool that’s sick.

I’d love to make old beautiful grain photographs correspond to awesome poses. Let’s shoot for that tomorrow. And then maybe firefly to learn how to upscale the shit.

Design journal

tuesday mrch 11

Sick effort today. learned quite a bit about automatic1111. i am on my way. tomorrow i want to look at regional prompter more. i learned a lot about what they could be used for today, need to refine that effort tomorrow. but lit.

Proud of my efforts today. except in the late part of tn i paid too much attention to crypto. but looked at a bunch of images w my phone off. got some new ideas. stoked on the direction of things.

need to keep updating myself. these things do not happen over night and nothing happens just because you wish it was so. when nick dap updates himself he goes so far that it feels like magic to watch it. i want mine to feel like magic too.

Game Tape Review Monday March 10:

Just woke up from a long ass nap. Feel like i am still in the dream. stoked to get to work. okay. things i think about friday to start. broad.

I love that i wound up mqking a video. Love that i was pointed in the right direction, the direction of making things for some purpose. For the film festival. Really cool instinct there as well. Let’s look and see where i started.

a lot of it was just trying to figure out where / how i can use all of these old cool photographs that i had accrued. and i wound up finding my way to micro fiche and that part turned out good (not great). it was good because the combination of the plastic with the scanner made the light of each individual square more nuanced than the original photo. for some of them it made it feel more like an illustration.

which was interesting. i like that it felt photographic. i think that it lacked a subject for the photo and or a purpose for the squares. why are they separated? maybe then it could go harder in its execution. another thought is that i should ask claude what are alternate versions of photographs through microfiche.

cool ideas i got from claude. scratch / fold the microfiche. what happens then? could also be multiple different microfiche stacked. could use a light behind the photograph. could scan through colored plastic. Print image onto transparent sheet and then stack that in front of real opaque image behind it. cool i like those vibes.

i think overall i like what i worked toward. my AE workflow was slow bc i never truly mastered it. would love to improve at that. Love that my tastes are sharpening. just need my skills to be in better practice. and need my imagery to go harder. and need maybe one more level of specificity to take this from a spark to a jolt.

Design Journal mar 6

Disappointed in myself and my efforts today. I want to be great. I did not act like that today. I allowed my need to please others fuck with my ability to get things done. I let making money fuck with my life quest. You don't get two shots at these things. It's one and it's done. Saw a lady working at a little diner in the middle of nowhere today at lunch. She was the server and she was like 70 years old and doing a remarkably bad job. You do not want to be like her. Being stuck late in life because you didn't do your job when you were young. Do better tomorrow.

Design Journal 3-5-25

On Quirking Small Elements

In looking through posters i fiound one example that really inspired me and made me want change not on

In posters, not only can the small elements be made to be beautiful. But they can also be made to be unconventional. And while the beauty element is an important first step, the ability to make them unconventional is what makes your piece have a truly different voice. and i think up until tonight i hadn’t considered that i should be trying to accomplish these information problems beautifully but also idiosyncratically.

i think before tonight (and tbh also tn, i just woke up to this lol) i was just focused on making it all fit, instead of making it creative / weird.

the example here that i love is that the information is uniquely sorted. first it is in order of 1-3 which is already atypical. i think most people would want to avoid doing that because it emphasized that the openers were less important. The second of these is the sizing difference between Flaming Lips and Archers of Loaf. and no other differences. same font. no italics. just a sizing difference and the leading between 2-3 are much closer to show that they are on the same line more or less.

Man i am so stoked when i get to the point where all the textural / beauty elements are banging and personalized and the information organization is also banging and personalized. Going to be pretty fucking exciting i think.

Design Journal 3/3/25

Gametape from Friday -

Initial Thoughts:

this one felt less dynamic than the first one. and in general i was less stoked to use AI again than i was the first time. the coolest thing would have been to make it a video it was just difficult for the first time i made a vid in a long time to be under pressure on friday. That should be a goal for this week. Figure out the ways in which i can start to making interesting video. Whether that’s printed or aftereffects or ai or all the above.

That’s one thing i was writing to myself today. That i need to find a way to use all of these strengths at once. Instead of cordoning myself off to a certain zone.

Another thing i was thinking about today was, maybe my lack of a personal relationship with type has kept me from fully connecting with the vectored shape element of design. I should ask sethy over text what they think i should work on just in case. would be cool to get another take on it. ONE VERY SPECIFIC MOMENT I KNOW I HAVEN’T UNLOCKED: when someone’s like”welcome back to dafont dot com”. I assume that’s where you get so stoked on the shapes of fonts that you can create your own versions of their shapes and make them bang?

another random thought, would be super cool to make a comp bang video. an iconic composition in addition to an iconic image. and it’s all moving.

OPEN UP MJ:

i started off this one with the realization that a dollar bill origami goes super hard. and i was trying to make a version of my own. realized part of the way through that, i could get way more reps if i just ran it in MJ.

looking back now at the images i do still think that the image i chose hits the level of new world i’m hoping for in a subject. what might have been lacking is the rest of the design. like maybe if i had a way to express myself through typography i would have been able to boss up on this piece more. or if i had improved upon the composition. i think part of my problem in these situations is that the image always comes first and so the frame surrounding the image always feels less in control than the image itself. My fav comp bang posters have organizational compositions so loud that they are pretty much the first thing that one notices. i need to build my deck deeper of comp bang posters i love and then try subbing the image i love into those compositions and seeing what happens. i like that vibe way more and it feels way more unprecious.

Crazy how up until now i haven’t at all moved with this freedom in mind. Another vibe i can do along with this is to take my favorite images / subjects and sub them into the compositions until i find the right vibe. Straight up on some kanye sampling. Being unafraid of making a total copy to start.

Another element that would have been awesome would have been if i could get different elements built out of different types of papers. I really could not execute on that and i wonder how much of that is me needing MJ to improve vs whether i could have done it if i hadn’t tried to force it to go my way. Maybe i should have built the elements in different images and then combined them myself. Rather than trying to get MJ to do all the work for me.

I like that i tried to do a mickey mouse flip. that’s a cool thing to attempt.

interesting how much pain i feel about this one. maybe that’s because of how much i was excited about the attempt versus the actuality of what i wound up with. and i think a lot of that lack of execution can be brushed up to me not having a personal expression with the typography. Composition is sort of like the drums of graphic design. I want to have god mode drums. My drums are a dead-last consideration currently. I don’t think about what compositions mean at all currently. Because in large part i treat every poster like it was a photograph that i just made. Let’s work on learning about that this week.

and then type is like the vocals. and similarly im afraid of leaning on vocals in any meaningful way. (which is wild considering how much the medium in general relies on type) for example i think about the 2amclark poster i saw this week and how much it relied upon having just a simple banging typeface. if you get that piece right then the rest can be much easier if you want it to be.

Takeaways:

this week i want to zero in on one of my weaknesses:

composition, type or video. i could also open up comfyui and see the vibes there. cool. journal about this and ask claude about it tomorrow.

Make the Most out of your life.

design journal 22725

I am getting closer. I have meetings with my housemate everyday to talk about what today would be like if we did awesome. I call Ronan, I do the same with him. And the last couple days have been closer to awesome than many days previous. What i want to talk about here is how the mundanity of life can extinguish your dream. I stopped getting high maybe 6 months ago and it had a similar effect. To get you to stop thinking with ambition. To stop expanding and ignore your own shrinking.

I am close. Someone said you can only go down 100% once, but you can go down 99% an infinite amount of times. I feel like that. I have been here before, 99% there on the way to making myself fully into the person i want to be. But never feeling like i nailed it. What keeps me from it?

I think in part it is my obligation toward others. Most people i know with ambition as big as mine can turn their empathy off like a light switch. I am not so good at that (and tbh could stand to improve at it).

Another part is my inability to baby-proof my grind when it turns to 11PM after a full day of working. My phone needs to be off there. My laptop needs to be closed.

Otherwise the ability to do this day in and day out gets drastically more difficult. 11PM is my battleground ( i need to be in bed) and 6am is my battleground ( i need to be out of bed). I war with myself in these places. It is because i do not know how to properly rest. No one in life has ever felt peace or fulfillment or true joy scrolling on a phone. Scrolling is hollow and it eats at you in ways you can’t see.

Design wise i need to make something to the best of my ability tomorrow. I hope i can take something from this pile of ideas that’s been building up. I hope more than anything that i can have fun doing it. This whole thing is a gift. And while i need to honor that gift by keeping myself from slipping day to day, if you forget to enjoy the gift when it’s in front of you then what the fuck are you doing all the work for. Let’s do our absolute best tomorrow.

Design Grind 2-26-25

Did a pretty good job of getting to work early today. Just hit a huge wall in attempting to learn about node based programming. 8GB RAM vs 16GB RAM is a huge diff. Still think that the nodes could be an almost foundational breakthrough. If i could really understand those then i could go on a walk and think about how all the different pieces could fit together. (mad lit)

But some cool ideas i had while working constuction today. The first is (and i should ask claude about this) referring to a pod i heard of Matthew mcconaughey. He talks about his relationship with a script for a project and how, depending on the state you are in you might get different ideas for what you should do in each scene / moment. My idea, following from this then, is that maybe the people who are able to cultivate the most ideas (and i would argue in *David Chase* voice that the most ideas leads you to the best ideas — “make 5 that would work before you pick your one”). I wonder how i can become someone that can cultivate the most different states within themselves. And still remain productive. I could induce schizophrenia and be mad goated at having voices in my head. Not exactly what I’m looking for.

Another sick idea i had today, many film photographs have the date that the photo was taken burned into the photograph in the corner of the frame. These are almost LED screen esque letters. Would be really cool to combine letters like that with medium format painting esque images. Need to think on what the ultimate form of that guy would be.

Another vibe is that im super grateful to begin to be able to visualize a whole poster / video concept and to know that it would bang if i were to properly enact it. i didn’t used to (as early as two months ago) have this super power. And im so stoked to have it now.

One thing that i would love to learn more about is how to take highly specific photographic backgrounds and make text / other images fit into those. Maybe i could even make these ambient spaces video rather than just still image. But the ultimate goal to me is depth and specificity. I think any photograph of me walking down my house’s road at night provides more specificity than almost all posters I see.

Saw a poster that someone had made for the Dallas Mavericks and everyone was like yo this is sick. And i thought it was dogshit. Sick to be levelling up taste. The hour of images everyday is really changing how my brain works.

One other thought i had on posters today while staring at a lot of them. Some posters have a powerful image (meaningful, textural, hopefully both) but most of the ones with a powerful image don’t have what i would describe as a thorough or complete composition. These types of compositions make posters feel more like a product than a poster. Larger than just another poster.

This is a poster that is nearly goated. I just dont think the image of the women’s face punches as hard as it could. But the layout of the text, the different rainbow-esque colors and the flowers up top all combine to make a god mode foundation imo.

Thus far i would guess that i am firmly in the “cool idea, lacks product level execution” camp. By the end of this next month i really want to break out of that camp. i really want to contribute in the tradition of great product along with great ideas. Both. Dropping bomb on their heads. Tomorrow i should look at what makes a great composition. And how that can be translated to video / sculpture.

Design Grind 2-25-25

Okay so the goal today was to work on updating my skillset. And i did a decent job of that. i went into today with the goal of learning about how nodes work, in both touchdesigner and in filter forge.

The shitty part is that on my laptop doesnt have the necessary RAM. so i may begin scheming on a mac mini in order to get the necessary RAM.

I want to learn node based programming. Whether that’s through touchdesigner and/or ai. So cool that comfy can do node stuff and AI stuff simultaneously. Tbh filterforge might be able to do node based ish so i could start learning about how that works like tonight as opposed to waiting for whatever thing.

this entry is going to be short because i did a good job in doing this research and im proud of myself for getting this far. let’s get up early tomorrow and do this shit again.

One more thing. a positive note. im starting to have ideas about designs for posters / videos that i know would bang if executed well. just the idea, exactly as it is, executed well would bang. that’s new for me. i used to have an idea and it would lack. i think over these last two months i have looked at enough great posters that things are starting to coalesce. Yippee. Back to work.

Gametape Review - 022425

Taking me a minute to get here but lit to keep it up. Proud of the work i put in on friday. Deadass woke up at 9PM and got to work and finished the shit at like 9am next day.

Any other thoughts on the general process before i get to it. Proud of the ideas in it. Proud that it felt more like a 2025 piece than some of the stuff i have been making in week’s prior. a lot of those felt like they were locked into some old version of myself. old ways of doing things, old printed processes, and product that was limited in its scope accordingly.

was just looking at ell.yot’s poster before this. taking the same format and then stitching it into the tag of a shirt. i feel like he fully embodies my movie or sculpture thesis. I cannot wait to contribute on his level.

Just bought Peverse Optimist by Tibor Kalman. stoked to read that guy. realized while listening to a magnus karlsen interview that the people that are the kind of goated that i want to be love this shit more than anything.

okay. starting off. i knew from the beginning of this night that i was exhausted by the idea of printed. and so i pivoted. was a good start. and tbh a cool part of being high. you are the right kind of lazy in that state. (the hard part obviously is that laziness begins to spread over time, from productive to anything but productive and so you have to be extremely careful w it)

cool thing to realize about AI is that it is all about how specific of a lens can you ask for. if you just ask for a drawing of a car, you get a bland car. if you can ask for a 1980’s illustration of many different car stickers then you get highly specific versions and several different reps per image generated.

In my first images generated (first 10-20) i just got a fuckload of reps, walls of images. Some of them interesting. mostly i was just stoked to be able to get that many different ideas at once. and that some of them were cool.

It was like this until i found my guy. and realized that he looked like he was holding a lightbulb. And that he was just cool. i like when ideas within designs are a bit meta and break the fourth wall to the viewer. this seemed like a cool way to work toward that.

proceeded to add lightbulbs around him and the imagery felt new and different together. But also did a fuckload of edits in order to arrive at the lightbulbs. lots of pikachu esque guys. i think i did a good job not getting dismayed by half-done shit. or shit i had seen before. i just kept pushing until things were exciting. and then after they were exciting they were tiring. i was like. oh fuck now i have to spend the next 5 hours finishing this shit. and i did my best.

i would love if i had tried to make it move. or to light up somehow. no idea how i woulda done that. or it woulda been cool to try and make it feel more real almost. not sure how that would work. but i had ideas that were like that today. clearly digital objects / images placed harshly into the real world. so the contrast is evident. coulda gone harder with that on this one somehow. the lightbulbs look quite real but the little anime guy for sure does not. Would have been cool to make that more pronounced. Also would have been cool to give him more space. This image is banging for how sick the idea is but the composition is like basically unfinished lol. Really should go back and polish it this week. make sure all the lightbulbs have a banging image of their own and make sure that they are no longer in the way of the lil anime man. the words on the lightbulb graphic should go way harder. the texture on the bulb graphic should go way harder. lots of things to level up on. Just realized that i should be playing with textured bevel way more these days.

Was so cool to see some of my heroes like it on insta. Life is so lit. this guy can be way better. Questions coming away from this.

What are ways for me to utilize my textures while still having it feel 2025?

Should i be using AI other than midjourney to do this? it feels like the control on MJ is almost there but the almost was really fucking me up throughout this process. 50 edits of the same image, each of them failing type shit. Google that tomorrow. That can be my hour maybe. Optimizing my AI processes. i looked at rembagram’s patreon yday but should do that again. Crazy how much less cool it is to see the inside of the AI design process instead of just receiving the result.

What is the most efficient learning i can do to optimize myself?

How much do i need to improve my skillset vs how much do i need to improve my fundamentals?

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