Mike-Amir El Frangi

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Hornet with the Witch Crest (pencils)

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

playing around on the costume design~ about to conclude the whole vis of this character. comms WIP~

Hey! I decided to make a short tutorial how to polish your sculpt , I hope you will find it helpful🫡

So many details, I love it!!

Commission: Michael Moorcock’s Elric!

I made these two guys that are coming in the next patch! Yayyy!

Another one from a while back, this was based on an @ianmcque.bsky.social sketch, sculpted in #zbrush.

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba.

I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share!
🔗 launchgood.com/1948

Hi everyone! My name is Colleen Larson, I’m a Senior Character Artist at Naughty Dog. Been in the games industry for 8 years now, and had the privilege of shipping The Last of Us Part I and II among others. Jumping to this platform and see if it’s a little more friendly than some other apps. Cheers!

Damn man, love your stuff!

Hi There😁I'm Marco, an Italian Character artist working at Forge Studios
artstation.com/taffuz

Older ghoulish doodles 🦇

Here is a step by step tutorial on how I painted a fur material! ✨ Works in any software that has gradient maps & only requires default brushes.
Feel free to share around!

Breakdowns for 10 different materials, FREE on my stores, link in bio!

#painting #2Dart #illustration #material #tutorial #art

A message to creatives. 🤍

Shetches part 4

Sketches part 4 #characterdesign

You are my favorite dude

Hi all! I'm Han, I do 3D Character art by day and some 2d art and other shenanigans by night! I'm currently working as an artist at Airship Syndicate 🌼 #3dart

beetle creature - concept art by Dave Greco

mudskipper creature - concept art by Kaylee Gifford

Hi there! Here is some of the stuff I did for WoW The War Within! You can see more on my artstation, link in bio!
#handpainted #warcraft #stylizedart

I uploaded more of my work for Wayfinder! I had to make a set of Farm houses for our area called "Frostmarch", both intact and destroyed. With that came some R&D for chunky hay roofs.
You can see more variations of these houses in my breakdown:

www.artstation.com/artwork/Gvv56B

Winter drink 🦋✨

shirou savage print done~

Congrats king!

RAGE

An imp and a pumpkin head character meeting a conjoined long bee in a bright hive.

Spare a spoon of honey?

#art

Cut-Cut-Cut-Cut

Le boss est là😎

Bonjour madame

Hey Bluesky, I realized I didn't post here yet! Here's a glimpse of what you can find in my portfolio ✌️