I Like This Sketch. Busted It Out In 15 Minutes During A Meeting. I Hate That My Mindless Sketching Yields

I like this sketch. Busted it out in 15 minutes during a meeting. I hate that my mindless sketching yields better results than when I seriously sit down.

Anyways, hopefully I can expand this to a finished piece!

Trying my hand at my Spirit Animal Roddy. Hate his face, but pushed through just to get some coloring practice. I like his right hand and legs.....time to keep practicing!

Glad a doodle during a meeting turned into a finished product.

Well, looks like Drift sketches were popular. So here's my latest "Teams Call" sketch. Love that my job doesn't require turning our cameras on so I can doodle while listening to seemingly endless meetings.

First LL Drift. Just sort of winging it.

The irony is not lost on me that he’s a robot djhfhfjdjd

More versions and rant under the cut vvv

Woke up in the middle of the night to find out that an official cover artist for Skybound comics, Francesco Mattina, used AI to make his cover. He is apparently known for crappy things like this within the comic community. And next, Brian Tyree, the voice of D-16/Megatron in the upcoming TF:One film was seen wearing what was likely stolen art on a jacket he wore to an event.

I am not the only artist who will say that I’m sick and fucking tired of this shit. I hate that our livelihoods are being threatened and that there are people out there who genuinely believe AI art is ‘real art’ or that it’s somehow ‘better’ than human made art.

I hate that people never credit us and that we get paid unliveable wages, the stereotype of the ‘starving artist’ should not be a reality, but for many of us it is. I shake as I type this out because I’m genuinely so enraged by this type of content and the growing usage and implementation of AI into our daily lives. AI was never meant to replace us and should never replace human work.

The one thing this has inspired me to do is create. I made this piece, as silly as it is, because of the rage I have in my heart and that truly says something that AI could never even hope to replicate. Through my artistic process making this piece alone, there were so many human intricacies I did, like noticing details on the reference photo that I hadn’t seen before and incorporating them as I drew, or colouring outside the lines, fixing incorrect proportions, accidentally colour picking the wrong shade of blue for the shadows because I was working on a multiply layer and so so so many more human habits and mistakes and techniques. All things that while they can be an inconvenience, is what makes my art human, is what makes it unique and what makes it mine.

I will always support real artists and I will always stand against AI and the mistreatment of artists.

Be distracted during Teams meeting and doodle.

First Prowl and I love him.

I've been reading a lot of Jazz/Prowl fics lately. Shout out to Crimes in Crystal and Mistakes and Mistakes Until.

Real quick Drift! Figuring out my style. Figuring out quicker sketching and inking processes. Still want to focus more on figures before finalizing subjects. It's hard for me to just doodle/sketch and not try to keep adding more.

Attaching the drawing process really helps me so I hope it helps someone else as well. Any tips or critiques are very welcome! I'm literally coming off of zero formal training!