A call for Peace between AiArt users and Artists

 

Here's an idea I had - for artists worried about AIart.

And I do mean professionals with high skill and modern knowledge of digital tools:

Posted from my DeviantArt page

Lands of Far and Near - scenery background with Midjourney and NovelAI

 

On making land - a brief introduction - Midjourney focused

We think if we create a world we imagine it all from our own minds but we really construct it from what we know with the goal of what we want.  Just as the AI uses lessons learned from countless pictures so too does the human mind construct its reality and fantasy from what it has learned and experienced.  Therefore even the wildest of fantasy has some construct in reality.

If you want this to create a new world - the designer of the TTRPG be it a Dungeon Master making a new campaign or a designer making a product to sell - then you must describe it.  Not detail to detail but the feel first then the breakdowns.  This series of tutorials is to help you and is just beginning!

How to Commission artwork from a real human artist

 This is Maxx Feral writing this and most posts here.  My buddy who does the "Mature" stuff is a bit bitter because juggling the "Orange Sun" / "Far Tomorrows" project art commissions became a bit of a burn out. 

https://fartomorrows.blogspot.com/  - for main TTRPG project

He handled the illustration commissions so I could focus on the stories, lore and rules.  He had more problems getting artwork done for the RPG than he had getting some starter fan art for his Grindhouse Gonzo and extreme works...  According to him there's some kind of network keeping artists away from "Indie" projects.  Comics but especially the TTRPG (Table-Top Role-Playing Game) genre when it comes to independents.  It seems that many of them get approached and advised or threatened - that they will face violence, cancelling or at least some kind of soft blacklist if they work for companies outside the main "Traditional Publishing" venue and especially the TTRPG.  A good professional artist wanting to be the next Elmore or Otus could create a brand identity a new company could get and that would be competition.  Something the "Free Market Capitalists" want to CRUSH.

So the purpose of this is for some background and guides on working with should you need a real human artist - my buddy's got some sour grapes but we've also worked with some nice ones and wish to give things a go