It's the reverse: AI took my style. I’ve shared my art since over 20 years online, and unfortunately, my work became "prime source" for early training data. Especially since I release the full resolution online, layered, and my comic is open-source. Reminder: generative image AI went public after 2021. It's easy to find many artworks of me before that.
Youtube: Speedpaint from 2014Yes, because of the constant accusations now, I record every step of my process.
Mini Fantasy Theater timelapse directoryI just love to experiment and use new brushes, tools, and workflow. It produce sometime very different results. Check my early episode of Pepper&Carrot, it was always to just renew the pleasure to paint.
Blog: My brush presetsThat's because I don't use a character sheet, it restricts my creativity. I just let characters grow and change over time depending how I imagine them. And for missing stuff, my work is fast-paced with tight deadlines; mistakes happen.
Behind the scene: Monthly reportsYellow tones creates a nostalgic feeling, and it was always a part of my art. I'll continue to use it as I think it's an authentic part of my art. The AI took it, maybe because many movies also use it, video games, photographer (golden hour).
Portfolio: An illustration from 2005Sorry, I don’t always succeed at art, and making mistakes is not exclusive to AI. I worked a lot on myself to accept those imperfections as a sign of authenticity and post anyway. But also, I'm always training to try to get better at art.
Study: AnatomyIt's not the prompt, it's a transcript. It describes the picture for accessibility, it helps non-English speakers with auto translator and people with bad-network or vision issues. It's an habit I took since 2017 thanks to the Fediverse, where writing ALT text is always welcome.
Mastodon: My profileI post weekly comic yes, every Wednesdays, and it's truely a challenge. It's 20h and more that I pack each starts of weeks per Mini Fantasy Theater, often ending at 4 or 5am. It's hard. But thanks to this habit, proprietary social medias's algorythms are pushing my work to new eyes.
To take inspiration, I just read my TL, tech forums, communities and I no need more information to understand the challenges and tropes about AI.