Sneak peek of my illustration for https://news.1rj.ru/str/thefellowshipindie 🌛

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Ciao, non è facile condividere tutto questo, ma ho davvero bisogno di aiuto.

Sto affrontando una grave emergenza economica che mette a rischio la mia permanenza in Danimarca e la possibilità di laurearmi in una scuola d’arte. A causa di disabilità e mancanza di reddito, al momento non riesco a coprire nemmeno le spese essenziali.

Ho lavorato per anni per arrivare fin qui, e perdere tutto adesso sarebbe devastante.

Ho aperto un GoFundMe per riuscire a superare questo momento critico. Ogni aiuto o condivisione è davvero importante.

Grazie di cuore a chi potrà dare una mano.

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Hi, this is very hard for me to share, but I need help.

I’m currently facing a serious financial emergency that puts my ability to stay in Denmark and graduate from art school at risk. Due to disability, lack of income, and accumulated debt, I don’t have the means to cover basic necessities right now.

I’ve been working for years to get into this school and build a future here. If I can’t get through this period, I risk losing my studies, my housing, and my legal ability to stay in the country.

I’ve set up a GoFundMe to cover essentials and survive this critical moment. Any support or share genuinely helps more than I can express.

Thank you for reading and for any help you can offer.

Link: https://gofund.me/207ff364a

As I'm seeing studios admitting they've used generative AI for concept art, I'm going to say that the whole point of concept artists' existence is to gather informations, do research and add their own experiences to the designs they create, something that can't be done through AI. Although some may argue that it's a hypothetical "good use" of generative AI, let me tell you: it's not. Concept art did NOT need AI, nobody ever asked for that. AI *could* potentially be used for repetitive tasks like drawing the same background in a million other povs, for comics for example, but even then, we already found a solutions eons ago to that. Nobody needed AI.

Going back to the concept art topic, I would argue that a good third of the concept artist's job is the research going into every detail, so speedrunning that part defeats the whole purpose in my opinion, and leads to eventually bleak characters, poorly planned worldbuilding, and as we keep going it'll also lead to racist stereotypes (already VERY existing in AI generated slop) and pretty much all the same visual features scattered in various medias.
Your human experience MATTERS.
The human mind could never be replaced, do not let a computer do the thinking job for you. Have fun, make mistakes, make great things, and enjoy your experience.

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Merry Christmas! 🎄
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