With all the recent notions of art being replaced by machines, I'm reminded of this wonderfully gentle comic by Lynda Barry.
With all the recent notions of art being replaced by machines, I'm reminded of this wonderfully gentle comic by Lynda Barry.
Super wholesome! ๐
One of the trends I've noticed with AI generated art is an almost confident lack of consistency. You'll find details change or are completely removed from one image to another. Clothing patterns changes, accessories disappear or appear. Facial details vary to a sometimes alarming degrees. Landscape details and background items are inconsistent in nearly any group of related images. And yet, the technical output is almost flawless.
With human drawn comics like this, it's how the artist is trying to recreate the same basic image setting and not caring that it deviates a little bit that makes it feel organic. The imperfections make it so much more charming than anything a computer could shit out. And the clincher is the very human flood of emotions that last panel generates. This little handrawn comic makes me feel more positive emotions than a thousand AI slop images ever could.