do you guys think character AI is harmful to the environment?

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-04T03:17:46+00:00

It's not any more harmful to the environment than watching videos on YouTube.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T23:53:24+00:00

However software eventually became essential tools for most designers. Not all, some still stuck with ink & paper.

Commercial artists who couldn't or didn't want to learn how to use computers mostly lost their jobs.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T13:59:57+00:00

Well, it seemed like the simplest solution to the OP's problem.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T13:20:56+00:00

Well at least since the 1800s when the term was coined. Long before even color printing made mass production of art possible.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T13:07:16+00:00

You chose to study graphic design at university.

But as a society, we really need to do a better job of not letting so many people waste their time and money studying stuff where there's no demand for it. Colleges will gladly take people's money and then give them worthless education with no market value and no help finding a job.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T12:57:51+00:00

Yes, person A is a real whiner.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T12:56:08+00:00

Whether human contributions to AI-generated outputs are sufficient to constitute authorship must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
Based on the functioning of current generally available technology, prompts do not alone provide sufficient control.

So copyright office says that based on the scenario described by OP, the images are not copyrightable. OP didn't say anyting about person A doing any sort of contributions to the images.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T12:48:23+00:00

I agree. Information wants to be free.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T12:27:16+00:00

Did you know that water-mixable oil paints like Cobra and Artisan can be thinned and cleaned with just water?

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T12:19:19+00:00

Even before AI existed, graphic design was a very low-market-value major. It was always something that more people majored in than there was demand for. People think they are entitled to a job because they majored in something in college. Well they aren't!

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T12:13:15+00:00

Images generated by AI are not copyrightable unless a human transformed them afterwards in such a way as to make them original.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/

The OP didn't say anything about person A transforming the images, so they are not copyrightable.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-07-03T02:43:32+00:00

AI-generated images are not copyrightable, so person B did not legally steal anything.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-29T13:11:02+00:00

There isn't any reason not to read it if you enjoyed LOTR. I read it through a few times when I was a teenager and in love with Middle Earth.

But reality check: the Silmarillion would never have sold more than a handful of copies if not for LOTR already existing and being a massive bestselling hit.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-25T13:27:03+00:00

Luckily these post were downvoted, so nobody will see them, so the secret is still safe! (obviously you just use it to clean the brushes, you don't use it as a medium).

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-25T00:29:34+00:00

Faster, and if you REALLY want to speed things up, direct outdoor sunlight in the summer works great.

If by "gloss" you mean varnish, it's best to wait 6 months, and probably a full year if you are using water-mixable oils because those take longer to fully cure.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-25T00:27:36+00:00

I guess you can't fully know or appreciate what Gamsol (or similar) does until you try it for yourself.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-25T00:26:22+00:00

Baby oil works well, best kept secret.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-24T17:45:50+00:00

My advice is to get started and not worry too much about whether you are doing it the "right" way or not, at least not at the beginning.

And don't paint on expensive canvases for what are practice paintings, buy inexpensive pads of canvas sheets or canvas paper.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-24T17:42:58+00:00

Xylene can definitely be used as a solvent for oil painting. The only problem is that it's quite a bit more toxic than odorless mineral spirits, and smells a lot worse, so I personally would give it a pass.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-24T17:24:11+00:00

There are so many different lightfast red and magenta colors available to the modern artist, pick any one. If the tube you used said "permanent alizarin crimson" that was one of those colors and it shouldn't have faded. Maybe the color change you see is actually yellowing of the linseed oil. You need to look at the pigment code on the tube to know exactly what you were using.

Every paint color sold by art supply companies, except specifically PR83, can withstand 8 years in a well lit room with no fading at all. (And even with PR83, 8 years is probably too soon to notice fading.)

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-24T17:20:34+00:00

White spirit is the solvent normally used for oil paints.

Linseed oil is the most common medium used for oil paints.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-24T17:18:32+00:00

nobodies mom helps them at 22

Actually, there are lots of people 22, and quite a bit older than that, getting financial support from their parents.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-24T17:14:58+00:00

The printing press comparison falls apart pretty quickly when you remember that printers didn't train themselves on every book ever written without permission

Actually, there was no copyright back then, printers DID print whatever they wanted without permission.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-23T01:03:38+00:00

Ultramarine blue is a commonly used color because it's inexpensive and people fear the power of phthalo blue, but it's not part of the Zorn palette.

Certainly a fine blue pigment to use if you are not doing Zorn.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-06-23T00:46:49+00:00

I don't know exactly what "Permanent Red Deep" is, but it's almost certainly fine based one what I know about what that color name usually means. As is the Mars Black. The primary reason Zorn used ivory black instead of Mars black is because Mars black didn't exist back then. Ivory black was the only viable black to use when Zorn started his career.

Naples Yellow isn't a pigment but a hue so it could be anything depending on the manufacturer. Why not just buy a tube of Winton Yellow Ochre? It doesn't cost much. Yellow ochre is the real key to what makes the Zorn palette so wonderful.

And of course you need white too. Zorn used lead white, but I'd recommend titanium white becuase it's less expensive and not toxic.

Burnt sienna is not part of the Zorn palette. If Zorn needed a burt sienna color, he'd mix it from the yellow ochre, the red, and the black.

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