I'm puzzled by the end of this topic. Take years to learn how to draw, thousands hours to practice, again, again and again...
and...
seeing the IA doing better, faster without any abilities needed...
I'm not sure if I am impressed or depressed...
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Let's not discuss AI-generated pictures here, okay?
While an interesting subject, there is so much to say about it that it deserves a whole thread (if not a whole forum!) for itself.
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I didn't create it, but this is a link to a photo someone took that made the news. Definitely some potential ArM uses.
Ontario photographer captures massive wave that looks like 'the perfect face' | CP24.com
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@Red-Shadow-Claws
יפה. אתה עושה אדפטציה לעולם של ארס מג'יקה, או רק משתמש בחוקי הקסם כדי לייצג בית ספר לקוסמים סטייל הארי-פוטר?
The Watching Tree is one of the eldritch faerie lords from my second campaign. His shtick is surveillance, secrets, and control. He owns my character's love interest, so that's less than ideal.
He's also literally an eyeball tree, so there's that ¯_(ツ)_/¯
(This drawing was a collab with one of my patrons).
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In an alternative story, Okeannos ex-Tytalus, the parens of Tethys is dead. Tethys ex-Tytalus, after a Twilight, has a mythic blood of zmey who is now revealed... She has also a young apprentice, Nahari ex-Tytalus. Her apprentice suffers of a major lack of confidence after have raised by infernalist. Tethys, contrary of the traditional Tytalus education, is a protective mater.
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(in my artstation : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g8kPme )
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Nix recently sacrificed her left eye to The Watching Tree, who needed it to make a key for his freaky eyeball door. She gave it up so that Ramon, who was meant to sacrifice his, wouldn't have to. In a moment of dark intimacy, Ramon removed her eye with a blade.
Later, when Nix got it back, the iris had been transmuted into fire opal, and she decided to make it her Talisman
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Deidre, a woman with a scarred face and a painful past. She asked Klyrion to elope with her, and he accepted
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Some years ago, Ileana ex-Tytalus, who will known later as Tethys ex-Tytalus, faced to her first big mistake on her education. A season when his parens traveled, she made angry a Zmey, allies of the covenant, by sending a message. A night, she was called on the main gate of the covenant, the Zmey was here for her. Rafiq is a clan leader, an elder Zmey with the appareance of a lava dragon. Without having the choice, and without her parens, Tethys faced to Rafiq on the sommit of their walls, with a loyal guard Ashram, the primus not so far.
The meeting who will follow was a masterclass of diplomacy and etiquette for the young apprentice who kept this as a precious memory.
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Unfortunately, my primary campaign (where I play Lilium) is dead in the water, so it's unlikely that I'll be making any more art of those characters. 
My secondary group (where I play Nix) is starting up again, and we're gonna rotate it with another new campaign, where I plan to play a Bjornaer Gyrfalcon. I don't have a final design for her yet, but I did make a concept portrait:
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Tried to make Aubert of Avranches for my first crusade game, have had a hell of a time with chainmail. Nightcafe's AI database was primarily trained on knights wearing platemail.
The only way to get the sword even remotely correct was to just remove the hands. It's a lot of work. I got a Nightcafe membership for cheap over Black Friday... It can still take an hour or ten if you are picky and have something very specific in mind.
Kaldus ex Tytalus
Mirabelle of Avranches, or Xerxephina filia of Kaldus of House Tytalus
The trouble I've found with nightcafe, or other AI art generators is the rather sexual nature of the database. I kid you not, I actually made VERY indecent pictures by using words like "chaste" or "covered." Had to use a very carefully worded negative prompt to not get huge cleavage - a big no-no in the medieval ages as only prostitutes at the time bared cleavage in public. The neckline in this picture would probably still be quite scandalous for the time (1100 AD).
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Attached are some additional characters I've recently made using NightCafe:
Lucilla of House Flambeau
Beatrice of House Flambeau
Velkonia, Princess of Damascus, wife of Prince Aubert of Damascus
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Can ya'll not post any more AI content on my topic? It's trained on images stolen from artists like me, and it's basically put me out of a job; moreover, it consumes massive amounts of freshwater and is terrible for the environment. Hire an artist, or draw your character yourself. I'd much rather see a stick figure made by someone who is passionate about their character, than a "polished" piece made by a computer. Show me your love for the craft!
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Mara your work is lovely, thank you so much for posting so often here.
This is a piece I commissioned of my Bonisagus, who was initially trained as a Bjornaer and has an owl heartbeast, but was claimed by a Bonisagus to help in the lab (and maybe reveal her House’s mysteries to her over-curious parens). Her Hermetic name is Striga Fontanae
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I'm totally agree with what you said. But I cannot disagree with @Naunakht. A person used an image picked on google or pInterest for his personal usage, that could be fine. I do it, because it take long time to made an image and I can't do it for all my NPC and places. Usage of generative IA in the same context is globally same way. Using images made by other to illustrate your PRIVATE game.
But two things :
1- never forget that you don't own these images . You don't have any licence or right to use it for 90%.
2- Even with IA generative engine, you didn't have created these images. Don't publish them as your creation, please. This topic is about art created, not image generated. The work, the process, the emotion, the passion, the time... all these things are the heart of Art and all are absent with IA generative.
IA generative engine makes images, not art.
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The fact your message sounds like AI generated advertisement in its wording, and the fact you edited the message you quoted to add text that also sounds like AI generated advertisement and includes a link to an AI generating website hidden as a supposed quote, combined with this being your first post, makes me think you are an AI bot spamming this thread for advertisement. And that goes against everything this thread is about. So I have reported your message as spam, and would advise everybody not to follow such a maliciously inserted advertisement link.
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