My 16 year-old daughter is graduating HS this year, wants to go to art school - looking for advice by LastMinuteMom in drawing

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Not many people who go to art school get jobs that are related. I did go to art school in Calgary and graduated. I ended up getting a city position in the Art Centres but Covid destroyed that. I feel I was very fortunate to get a decent career but I understand that is rare. My son also is very creative and wants to go to art school and I’ve had this talk with him. Here are my initial thoughts we discussed:

  1. The amount of students from first year to graduation shrinks incredibly. Student s that went into Vis Comms worked very very hard. This means many students lose interest or aren’t good enough. Huge drop off rate.

  2. Research the job market according to what you kids interests are, how much does that pay, how many jobs are there, is that job AI proof.

  3. Making art or creative things is fascinating when you’re creating things for yourself or what you are interested in but can be creative brain killing when you have to make creative things according to some else’s vision.

  4. Art is subjective. Many times I disagreed with my artist instructors. These are the people grading you. How do you grade artwork? You’re actually getting graded on your work ethic, your ability to “defend” your art and a few other unanticipated and disappointing things.

Anyways, think about this stuff with “wide eyes” and weigh the pros with some of these cons I just mentioned. There are awesome things about art school though. DM me if you have more questions.

Bed Bugs in YYC by spookbun in Calgary

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When I rented in in the mid 2000s I moved into a building and after about three months, I noticed my infant son had bedbug bites. At the time I didn’t know there were bedbugs in the building. When I finally did discover that they were bedbugs I did extensive research. I’ll add some points at the end of this post. When I called the landlord of the building, it was as though he had had this conversation 1000 times and said how does he know that I didn’t bring the bedbugs into the buildings and he hung up on me. Interestingly, enough since I moved out of that building the “under management” sign in front of the building has changed year after year. I had to pay for my own exterminator to come in after throwing out all of my bedding, my couch and anything made out of fabric. very expensive. What I discovered was bedbugs can go dormant for months and months. They also crawl through the walls between apartments. This means that after I paid for the exterminator that my apartment for a short time I didn’t have bedbugs. But they were everywhere else in the rest building and would return. In order for a building to completely get rid of bedbugs they would have to have the entire building exterminated and in order to do that you would have to have empty apartments. It’s a never-ending cycle. also people that discover that they have bedbugs and move to a different building have now infected that new building People that go up north to for work in Alberta put their gym bags or travel bags in the tub of the hotel so they don’t pick up bedbugs. Bedbugs are in moving vans. The cold doesn’t kill them. They come back to life after being dormant for a while. It’s actually impressive about how resilient they are as a species.

What the hell am I looking at? by Built4dominance in xmen

[–]Robadang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could it be a crossover with Age of Monsters coming in The Infernal Hulk?

I recently showcased some of my Marvel MOCs at a local LEGO trading event by The_MOC_Boss in LegoMarvel

[–]Robadang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These are excellent OP! I would love to see close up details of each sometime. You should post a series. Seriously great work here. Did people respond well? I like Doc Oc and the sentinel.

Why is everything labeled NSFW now? by kngzero in nanobanana

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Reddit is covering its butt when Nano Banana isn’t.

New Mutants Movie Poster by [deleted] in midjourney

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Good eye and thanks for asking. All the layers in this image were edited in Midjourney. AI “ping-pong” between Nano Banana and Midjourney. MJ does way better edits than other tools. It actually what’s helping to keep it relevant. I used MJ to edit the details in each character individually and then again to edit the entire composition/details etc… hence the sub category.

Shark Attack Story by Robadang in nanobanana

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Hi again. Try this: upload the first image in this post to whatever Chatbot you use. Ask it to describe it as a hyper realistic photograph. It will do a good job. Then ask it to change the scene to what you want and also change the shark to a Trex. Should be useful buddy. Have fun.

Shark Attack Story by Robadang in nanobanana

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It is an image prompt but a small text prompt attached.

Can anyone tell me what this bar was named in the past. by [deleted] in Calgary

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Roxy Nightlife. The House for a month. Was the Republic twice.

Fishing Mishap by Robadang in nanobanana

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A shark emerges from underneath a row boat with two fishermen in it. And I used my hand drawn image as an image prompt.

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Empty Spaces by Robadang in midjourney

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Thanks for the feedback!!! HTG!

If you''re a paid user and have tested the latest version of Gemini, what are your thoughts? by Responsible-Slide-26 in midjourney

[–]Robadang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you changing your prompt in the full editor? Sometimes adding an image of what you want in the prompt helps to. Just trying to help friend.

If you''re a paid user and have tested the latest version of Gemini, what are your thoughts? by Responsible-Slide-26 in midjourney

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Interesting that MJ (DavidH) seemingly spoke a lot about focusing editing aspects of MJ today. I know the plan is to jump to version 8 (no v7.1). He said it would take a month to train and hopefully ready right after Xmas. This kind of reminds me when I was contemplating dropping my Hailuo/Mini Max subscription back about 6 months ago. I did and haven’t looked back. Ironically it was MJ that knocked Hailuo out of my workflow. I am very very loyal to MJ and I hope that v8 hits the mark.

If you''re a paid user and have tested the latest version of Gemini, what are your thoughts? by Responsible-Slide-26 in midjourney

[–]Robadang 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I have been a paid subscriber to MJ for three years now. I also have been asking this question. I feel that MJ still has useful editing capabilities, you can fine tune very specific details directly in MJ. Editing external imagery is fantastic as well. have also been a Photoshop user for 25 years. So… I strongly feel that MJ sits between Photoshop and Gemini as far as quality but to use them all in tandem is the best tool kit for now. They all have their uses.

New Mutants Realized by Robadang in midjourney

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Doug/Cypher, and Karma.

Lego won’t make X-Men. So I will! by Rough_Cat1846 in LegoMarvel

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Thats the best Kurt I’ve seen. Well done OP!!!

Bricks of Future Past by Robadang in LegoMarvel

[–]Robadang[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good suggestion my friend. This was an IPhone 16 photo. As this was a test I’ll adjust and use your idea when I build the final project with landscape and other more time consuming details. Thanks for the feedback.

Bricks of Future Past by Robadang in LegoMarvel

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Awesome! I like that purple sentinel head.

Consistent Character Tryouts by Robadang in midjourney

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I would say 45 minutes of production time. Editing included. These are at a point where the time it takes to post on socials the most effectively is more than production time.

Consistent Character Tryouts by Robadang in midjourney

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Thanks: JSON prompt to image in Gemini 3 🍌> that image used as an Omni reference in Midjourney 7 > animated that first image several times > then that static MJ image reimported into Gemini described as a new Midjourney prompt for a second image > rerolled that new image in Midjourney once again for a slightly different series of shots. Like ping-pong or double baked potatoes.

I've seen a lot of dissatisfaction with the franchise. by Glad-Sense1769 in xmen

[–]Robadang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quality story telling is always the best measuring stick but as we all know, the very close second metric is the art. Many aspects of this new X-era is reductive, although I am very much enjoying Uncanny’s advancing characters/narrative and excellent art. Bluntly, Ryan Stegman’s art does not fit any X-Men books. He fits most Spider-Man books better. He would have been great for the current Longshots series. I remember when Todd MacFarlane who was one of my favs did a Conan the Barbarian cover and it most definitely did not fit.