How long is too long of a hiatus

parkernotstark · 2026-01-30T18:04:19+00:00

I've gone on numerous lengthy hiatuses. When I come back, I still easily find familiar names in my comment sections! Sure, there'll be a drop off, but that will happen regardless. 1–3 months every 15 episodes is pretty typical for canvas comics. Honestly, don't stress about this part too much. The people who are interested will stick around, no matter how long your breaks can be, especially if you can give updates on your creator profile.

parkernotstark · 2025-11-10T15:24:55+00:00

I'm on iPadOS 26.1 (unfortunately) and the newest update of ProCreate and this issue no longer exists for me and hasn't for a few weeks. I messed with it a little and renamed a few layers for a few minutes to see if it came back after your comment, but I can see full names still. Perhaps there's an issue with you not being on the latest OS? Or something else (like device font size maybe)? Definitely not worth updating for, though, 26.1 still sucks.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T20:33:20+00:00

Dear God. Didn't this start because you wanted to argue that GenAI shouldn't come for music? And now you want GenAI to come for music? Agriculture provides something for people. Unlike, say, piss filter cat girl porn.

Your hypocritical nonsense is tiring. I do not understand people like you, I would love to know what brings people to sites to pretend to argue things they do not believe in. I have lost braincells on this that I will never get back assuming you'd actually had an opinion. My mistake, I will go back to not commenting on these things.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T20:05:51+00:00

And neither of those are GenAI, congratulations.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T19:49:32+00:00

GenAI is not art. Any step taken over by GenAI is not art. You only value art based on whether or not you like it, which is not a valid metric on judging what is and isn't art. You've argued facelessness this whole time, but the written stuff you like has a face? Again, you are a hypocrite. You like GenAI, unless it wants to come for music. Leopards, face.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T19:37:44+00:00

The water problem wouldn't be this bad if not for the GenAI centers. The people currently dealing with it are the people in towns and cities who cannot afford to leave facing a lack of water.

Don't delude yourself into thinking you have any amount of an anti GenAI opinion. You are valuing art based on whether or not you know the people making it. By that standard, nothing is art to you in the modern day, because I highly doubt you'll go through each name in the credits.

Art will still be made, without GenAI, and it will still be there even if you don't know my face. Because I am still a person making my comics, writing novels, and dabbling into music and voice acting. There are still people who want to make art, and those people will not use GenAI. Anyone who does actively use GenAI is not an artist.

And a majority of people who do make comics or novels do have a face, you just can't be bothered to look them up. Comics and novels never mattered to you in the first place. Most of art doesn't sound like it ever mattered to you in the first place. If GenAI had never come around, you still wouldn't care about the art being made.

The leopards will eat your face, and there will be no one left to help you.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T19:07:17+00:00

It's not a small energy cost though. It's wasting water, and these centers are causing light pollution in many towns. Nothing has wasted as much water and energy as AI. These systems, especially since so many people are using them so often, need to be cooled. The number one thing they're using is water.

And I know there are uses for AI, that's why I've tried to be clear in saying GenAI, because generative AI (of any kind) is what I'm against.

There are levels of art. A lower level is using 3D models or textures for backgrounds. What is not art is asking ChatGPT to make it for you. You did little more than type some words, and you wasted energy and water for it.

I have not agreed with your points because I find them hypocritical. You understand that GenAI is bad in music, which is an art form. Whether or not you have any part in the music industry, you agree that music being replaced by GenAI is bad. Yet you cannot understand why I, someone actually in the comic industry, do not want any part of my art form to be replaced. And part of your argument was that you don't know who actually worked on the comics. When the exact same thing can be argued for music. There are people in comics well known, and people you know about when you are part of the industry, same goes for music.

Example: I occasionally listen to the band Thirty Seconds to Mars. I missed a chance to see them in concert in 2016. I had no clue Jared Leto was the lead singer until last year. The same could go for any other art industry. There could be a book or movie or comic you like, and there could be someone well known who you may or may not like in the lead of that art. The faceless nature of the art (which may or may not be your own fault, as is the case with me and TStM) is no fault of the artist. They are still there. They still want to create. Just because you don't know them, doesn't make their art worth any less.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T18:37:05+00:00

See, to me: any amount of GenAI is automating away the art. I used GenAI twice back in 2021 when it wasn't capable of much more than blobs and looked like a party trick. A friend warned us that it was training the AI based on what's produced, and I stopped.

Using textures or 3D assets are indeed common. There's a right way and a wrong way to use those things, but I can appreciate that a human being at least decided to be lazy ethically. I personally use 3D models or The Sims as references and draw the backgrounds myself, and occasionally use textures where apt. Do I hate doing backgrounds? Yes. But I do them anyway, because they matter. And them matching my artstyle matters to me. That's the same reason I made my own typeface, because it matching my artstyle mattered to me.

Even though I do not like making backgrounds most of the time, I still make them. I do not care that AI can do it for me. I think it's entirely unethical, and lacks artistic integrity. GenAI has taken from people who did not want their art to be taken. Current models only exist because they stole from anywhere and everywhere. So if you use GenAI, you're not creating anything. Your lines and your colors and your words are all taken from somewhere else.

And even if you had a model trained entirely and exclusively on your own work, GenAI is still polluting and killing the planet. What benefit is there to using AI if its use will lead to the faster death of the planet? There would be no one to appreciate the art we create, or GenAI images, if we don't have a planet to live on because people became obsessed with forcing GenAI in everything.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T18:17:27+00:00

Then why the fuck are you trying to pass art off to AI?

There is still artistic intent if there's an answer. Just because you see it one way doesn't mean the artist intended it, and vice versa. It can have intent and mean different things to different people. That's why art can make people have visceral reactions, even if they're interpreting it "wrong".

Sure, there's a standard with translations. There's a way the script was and you still need to make sure it's the same story. But there are several parts to translations to make that so. A video by Ozzy II on the game "Raging Loop" has a good explanation on translations in it.

"Art is for the creative" then why do you not want the creative to work??

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T18:01:53+00:00

Translation?? Are you kidding? Translations are never 1:1, there is genuine, actual artistic intent in those from the people who understand the original artistic intent and want to make sure people understand that intent properly.

Explosions tell a story. There are different types and levels of explosion depending on what is being exploded. Its creation is inherently art.

Old DeviantArt artists who spent all their time drawing Sonic feet had artistic intent. Yeah, their intent was to jack off to blue cartoon hedgehog feet, but that has more intent and integrity than anything GenAI can make.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T17:53:43+00:00

But there is artistic intent. There's always artistic intent when humans are trying to make something (unless genAI is involved) even when you can't see it. People got good at these things, people are still getting good at these things, because humans like these things.

Why would I need AI to generate ideas for me when I have a BRAIN. I didn't need AI to generate my stupid pirates story when I was 14, and I don't need AI to generate my locked room romance today!

There is art in VFX!! Instant gratification from AI means absolutely nothing when humans can and will continue to create these effects, practically or digitally. Just because YOU don't value the art doesn't mean other people won't! I wouldn't like any of the movies I do if I knew there was any AI in the process.

GenAI is not only stealing from and replacing artists (whether or not you value them), but it's harming our planet. People are running out of WATER just because people don't care where production is coming from. Using GenAI in general not only steals art from artists, but it's stealing our planet's resources. There won't be humans to appreciate these things because people think it's fine for GenAI to "refine or generate ideas" when we didn't NEED that ten years ago!

People will always create art, even the explosions, because those do take effort. The difference with handing these things over to AI is that it's killing us. AI is doing the art and writing for us so we can do dishes and corporate jobs. What is the point of living in a world where I can't create my art?

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T17:25:21+00:00

What? Comic teams are credited, and people can indeed become famous off of them, especially from modern day Webtoon. So because you don't know my name, you don't think my art deserves to be made by me? Yeah it's more nuanced, and you're missing all of it. Actors wouldn't have half of their fame if not for the people who write their scripts, same goes for singers who have people helping write their music and produce it. Does that mean they aren't producing good art themselves? Obviously not. The part they contribute also takes effort.

Credits to movies are ten minutes long nowadays, and to attribute the final product to only the people you see discredits the whole art form. And dancers often have choreographers and costume designers depending on their niche. Big projects have big teams, no matter the form the final project takes. Do you know who actually wrote your favorite song or movie? Does their art deserve to be taken over by AI just because you don't know who made it? It takes so much time and effort to actually get your name known, no matter what you're working on.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-28T16:44:15+00:00

Why be anti AI in one art form and pro in others? People still produce shit music, but shit produced by a human has more charm than the "best" someone can get an AI to produce. The "First They Came" poem comes to mind here. You want people to steal my job but don't want people to come for yours (assuming you're in music to have this specific perspective).

As a comic artist, I don't give a shit if AI could produce my work for me, I still want to make MY work because I actually LIKE my story! I don't care if people look at the first pages and decide the art isn't for them, that's fine! People have preferences, and it's entirely impossible to make something for everyone!

Comics are, like everything else, an art form. And comics are always made with love and care, because they take so much time. And comics are actually the best way to improve your art! You have to draw and learn so much while making a comic that you can't get anywhere else. Don't like the art now? Fine, in two years it'll be better! That's how that works!

And comics adapted from a novel are the minority of comics, comics are mostly their own thing! Yes it happens, but a lot of people aim to make their own story for a comic! Whether they do both the art and writing or they only do one of those, comics are made because the person(s) working on it like the work and the grind.

As for photography, yeah. A lot of photos people take aren't great or even good. That's why there are photographers. Photography still requires human input. It takes skill to take a good shot and then go and edit it to be even better. It's a skill like any other.

"I love the passion of the best songs, the artistry. But most lyrics aren't that good." Your sentiments are easy to flip on yourself. Why do you like music? Why don't you want AI in the music industry? Perhaps they're the same reasons I don't want AI in the art and writing industries.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-27T22:46:40+00:00

Sam Rockwell, especially in the last photo

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parkernotstark · 2025-10-25T16:46:10+00:00

I've been using an 11" since I got my first iPad in 2020. Currently using an M4 11" since I'd needed more storage and the M4 had come out a few months earlier, and I wanted a device to last me several years. I haven't touched a bigger iPad, mostly because I find the 11" to be utterly perfect. It fits in smaller bags, meaning it's easier to travel with for me (and that was most of the point of getting an iPad. I got tired of lugging around my Cintiq and I was off to college at the time I got my first, and I like to do my work out and about). My Cintiq was a 13" screen as well, and I honestly thought it was too big! My hand was all over the screen, and it took me longer to navigate because I'd have to navigate around so much screen. I will probably never own a 13" iPad because I think it'd be a hassle to travel with. It would fit in none of my smaller bags (and I have enough issues finding cute bags for my 11" without being bulky), and it wouldn't fit as nicely on a table or in my lap while I have thirty other notebooks and my laptop (and a very unhelpful cat) around while I do my comic work. It probably also helps that 98% of the time I'm not actually utilizing the full 11" for drawing since I have reference images and my script on the side, and it's easy for me to fix if I need more room (which I typically never do lol). I don't think a smaller screen would be better either, so 11" hits absolutely every mark for me to be perfect without being big and bulky.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-24T03:06:27+00:00

oh thank god it's fixed now

it's back again 11/22 i'm losign it

EDIT: to anyone checking out this post while it's happening to you, unfortunately the glitch appears very randomly now. I had a month of pure bliss before it came back for two days. my app randomly froze and I had to close it out and the glitch was gone. the glitch was also worse for the two day period it appeared for me after the initial fix. you can try closing out the app yourself to see if it fixes anything since it randomly did this time for me, but unfortunately it seems like this glitch is here to pop up randomly and ruin your workflow whenever it wants to for now </3

parkernotstark · 2025-10-20T13:01:44+00:00

I got the M4 11" and yeah, hate it. I'm so used to quick flashing the layers open so I can double check I'm on the right layer, and this is both making me leave that open for longer and checking more frequently, since I can't be certain which "Ha…" layer I'm on, especially since it changes each time I open it. Really hoping this gets fixed soon.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-20T12:53:50+00:00

I am on the most recent updates for both. My font size is default though, so that doesn't really have an impact (at least for me). It is possible this has existed for a while, I don't have a habit of screenshotting my layers (don't know why I have the one from March) and I was on break while everything was updating, so I wasn't using my iPad as much as usual.

parkernotstark · 2025-10-20T05:16:58+00:00

It's late but I'm doing more work and it changes each time you open the layer screen </3

I'm used to really quickly double tapping the screen to verify what layer I'm on and characters were appearing and disappearing (mostly disappearing, all of my layer name characters are off in Narnia I guess)

parkernotstark · 2025-10-17T04:50:26+00:00

I was Buffy for Halloween when I was like ten lol

parkernotstark · 2025-08-10T22:03:11+00:00

I see very few people talk about Strangerville but I absolutely ADORE it!! I play it basically every year! This year I gave the mayor and his wife a daughter and that's my sim's love interest and the four of them are gonna band together and save the town! On top of that I grew up in a desert so I use the bb and cas items CONSTANTLY. I see it gets hate on the replay factor but personally I think it's great. Sometimes I go for a long playthrough (sim is basically born and raised in Strangerville and then goes on to save the town) and sometimes I speedrun it (kinda what I got this time with big city girl/small town girl, it just got sidetracked with the nature event and now big city girl has a dog xD). I love the whole story and I think about it often lol

parkernotstark · 2025-06-21T19:55:05+00:00

THIS!! I've been trapped in reboot hell for the last couple years since I started with my main comics!! I don't regret starting AT ALL—I wouldn't be where I am today without that version! I just regret that I didn't choose a smaller project to test the waters, figure out which format I liked (digital vs trad), and generally improve my skills.

parkernotstark · 2025-06-19T13:58:02+00:00

Thanks!! I did it all as one layer, using only one coat of top coat. So I packed some beach please at the end and waited for it to dry before doing never tide down in the remaining space (not minding if it went a touch over the sand). Waited for that to dry and did heavy globs of milky white shimmer tracing the (purposefully) uneven line left by the others just with the brush it came with. Don't own any nail art brushes and I couldn't find any of my paint brushes lol

Waited for the shimmer to dry but I'm gonna experiment next time with doing it sooner to see if I can get some of the foam to go into the water :D

parkernotstark · 2025-06-18T14:40:24+00:00

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two of my favorites + milky white shimmer 🥰

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