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My partner and I do geek design stuff. After a bunch of hateful comments about using AI as part of the process, we decided to do a whole new thing, fully done with digital art but no AI, design themes in the same style but a new setting, following the same poster style.
Since I'm from Murica, I know about American poster styles. But my partner is Canadian, and she's all about Canadiana, so the decision was made... do a Canadian set.
I think they came out pretty cool. A whole series of Magic the Gathering lands in the style of Parks Canada posters of the same period. Fully human designed... but sadly, nobody digs her style, even though it's all legit ?.
I think they're pretty sweet, so you get to see them. Enjoy a little blast from America's Hat.
I hope you have a great day!
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain,
-ML
EDIT: Thanks for the front page love! Shoutout to @athenacanuck on the Canadiana, she's working on other lands as well. We do these as prints on our etsy @ https://www.etsy.com/shop/OwlandCraneCurios for those interested.
It's been fun showing stuff off, and thank you all for your kind words. Hope you have a great day!
RenaissanceFaireMan
Eh.
Yufer
I am also from Canadiana and i enjoy these.
JumpBaconSpy
Those are fuckin neato! Too bad I dont get to play much commander, I have a deck that could use a full dual set.
houpbajoup
Calgary blizzards aren't that cold - the real cold days are dry. Not enough moisture in the atmosphere to form snow!
TheBlueMuppet
- That guy in shorts in winter
Housemaster
The whole "woe is me" form of self advertising seems to overshadow the actual art.
AfterTheRainComesTheRainbow
Right? Did anyone say they don't care coz OP is from Canada?
GraceMcClain
I loathe this "AI" shit with a passion. Actual art, done by a person, will always get my upvote.
MidnightLibrarian
Awesome. Glad you upvoted this art that was done by a person, and read the full post!
MackinawPeach
As someone who looks at anchor points all day everyday I have to ask. Image Trace?
AthenaCanuck
Image trace followed by a *lot* of dicking around with handles and anchors to refine the lines where I needed that. Also lots of colour work
AthenaCanuck
Also, apart from one image, they’re based on my own photographs of the places.
einstoll7
Get ready for OP to mute everyone they disagree with
Canadianidiot86
I would totally want some magic cards with Canadian wilds on them. They don't call my province supernatural BC without a reason!
MidnightLibrarian
Well, we do have the duals on our shop and triomes soon!
kjtodd11
It’s a wonderful art in Canada, and therefore, the world
valormorghulis
Don't worry, AI art isn't really art so you're good. Keep doing what you're doing.
putcleverusernamehere
Looks great, but don't understand the "Canadian nobody cares" comment
optimusgoose
Not AI but Ai?
DammitCarlYouCantEvenSee
AI "art" is not actually art
AthenaCanuck
Good thing you read the whole post and discovered that this is art by a human artist?
Number1Sir
TsunamiWombat
hello fellow - humans. I am here to share - product. Please enjoy my sympathy story and engage with product.
MidnightLibrarian
Ahh yes, I must be a bot because *riffles paper* I make things.
TsunamiWombat
this sounds like something the machine uprising would say
goflyblind
JasonFretz
Should have read the desc first, I was looking at them like "Hey, these are all the same names as MtG dual lands..." But they look amazing!
MidnightLibrarian
Haha, that's kinda the idea! Art that blends in as a poster but also has the elements there.
OhGardino
Extremely cool.
QueefMalone
Canuck you talkin' aboot. That's awesome my fellow Canadian.
civ6hotseatletsgo
Previous MTG lands you posted are AI art, these are probably painting over/filters on AI-generated 'photo' landscapes. Imgur is bad at this.
AthenaCanuck
As the (very human) artist who made these images, a hearty fish slap to you, sir.
rambot
Fellow Canadian. I think they're great. Some people just shit on stuff cause they're just so full of shit. It's not you, its them. Literal
ITellBadPuns
@BotDrawA all of OP's Canadian art, but better.
BotDrawA
@ITellBadPuns Here's your drawing of a "all of OP's Canadian art, but better."
ITellBadPuns
Now, I don't normally throw around the word "masterpiece..."
BotDrawA
@ITellBadPuns Here's your (experimental extra) drawing of a "all of OP's Canadian art, but better. by San
resworn
Not Canadian but love it.
chrisinvisible
Neat! Now an AI is going to steal it. Seriously though, nice work.
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
I love these. They remind me of the old CP Rail travel posters from the 30s and 40s.
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
And if you would ever consider doing CP Rail travel posters of post-apocalyptic hellscapes, please let me know.
AthenaCanuck
100% I’d consider doing those! Shoot me a message maybe?
Lomish
I care, great work from a fellow Canadian :)
datester35
Looks great! Nothing wrong with using art AI though, especially for concept work.
leroy666
Me, too.
DeathCup666
same! great work!
PineappleLoopsBrOether
OhIfIMust
I care, too. I don't want AI to start taking over ART of all things, ffs!!
AthenaCanuck
This is… actual artist-generated digital art?
forResearchPurposesOnly
Nice! …Side note: no need to dis AI. Wasn’t that long ago that ‘digital art’ was considered total garbage. “Not real” esp. Photoshop/inkjets
Josieandthebeans
AI art is also threatening the already harsh artist market. So many artist friends are seriously worried about its impact on their jobs.
AtleastIvegotthatgoingforme0
Most of us are losing our jobs to robots no matter what we do for a living.
MidnightLibrarian
Meanwhile my art friends are busy making art and some use and some don't.
MidnightLibrarian
The amount of hate comments I get for using AI as part of my process is astounding. So, that was the reason behind the note. They will hate
HedonistBeard
The web is full of content creators and they feel their jobs are threatened, so they throw clogs at things rather than try to use it.
MidnightLibrarian
Yep. Ned Ludd is strong in those unwilling or unable to try new things.
AtleastIvegotthatgoingforme0
It is not a forgery unless it is identical.
MidnightLibrarian
On AI renders or people just using AI as a jumping point, but strangely no support when, ya know, 'reap art' happens.
MermaidLullaby
The issue is that AI art generators function based on stolen artwork to create what they create. It's not that the tool is bad.
ruferto
i dont see the difference between that and using something as a reference really. especially these days where you might have to look 1/2
ruferto
really damn hard to figure out what was used as a reference 2/2
DarkeKai
I think its better this way, sure theres less skill involved in artmaking with ai, but it allows almost anyone of any skill level to use it
DarkeKai
Creativity is the limit and not your ability to make the art
MermaidLullaby
The issue is that these algorithms are trained with STOLEN artwork. Most artists don't hate AI art, they hate the lack of ethics behind it.
datester35
Nope, same as a human seeing artwork and being inspired by it. AI is just much better at learning quickly.
FluffyKittyLover
Thats why they spend all their time whining about it replacing their jobs etc right?
tarnok
Exhibit A of someone who doesn't understand English words like "stolen". It's copyrighted artwork and that's vastly different
PowerToAllThePeople
Stolen? How so? If I paint a painting of a painting what was taken? Most artist I see talk about it taking their job
tarnok
NOTHING IS STOLEN, PLEASE SHOW ME THE MISSING ARTWORK
ReaperCDN
THANK YOU.
RunanD
¹AI uses stolen artwork to make artwork which it then trains itself based on user input to become better from, increasingly making the
RunanD
²original artists more and more obsolete with each iteration. And this is BEFORE we see it massively capitalized upon. We could easily see
RunanD
³bots using user inputs to train themselves off each other with increasingly fewer humans necessary, massively impacting the artists who
RunanD
⁴actually have physical needs and experience cognition. Neural networking without ethics (like the ability to pull your work) is
Override9636
I think AI art is fine as long as you credit the sources you use. Like in academia, you always cite your sources, otherwise it's plagiarism.
Dracology
Both impossible and would then logically require human artists to do the same, which would also be impossible.
kombuchaguacamole
If that’s the case then artists also need to credit every painting they’ve ever looked at.
ReaperCDN
You get downvoted for stating a fact. I draw from reference. Did I "steal" what I'm looking at and drawing? Nope.
ReaperCDN
What's the difference between that and using references? I draw from reference. The drawing I make is mine. That it's based on something /1
ReaperCDN
else is irrelevant. We didn't steal what we saw, we drew our vision of it. 2/2
AtleastIvegotthatgoingforme0
Rappers sample music to create Hip Hop. They are not afraid to be sued for creating something that sounds really good. I like both.
NegimaSensei
A lot of artists don't have the capital to hire a lawyer and sue someone. Even the small battles can be a Pyrrhic victory.
UnBobaLievable
Because the AI uses their copyrighted works as training data and reproduces it without their consent.
ReaperCDN
This doesn't address the point I made. You just said, "It's different when AI does it instead of a person."
LicensedAdHominem
The machine doesn't do anything but a permutation. Using a reference to more accurately materialize what already exists in your mind ⤵
leperoutcastunclean
Guess what: real human artists are trained with STOLEN artwork.
forResearchPurposesOnly
100% . As they say, good artists borrow, great artists steal.
NegimaSensei
There's *inspired* by artwork and then there's *claiming* *stolen* artwork.
tarnok
Yup, it's influenced by copyrighted material but it is not stolen
ZebraCockSandwich
100% The AI is doing exactly the same thing regular artists do when they create. As an artist, I like to use AI to get ideas, then 1/
ZebraCockSandwich
I refine and redraw it to fix any flaws or change things and recreate a new work in my own style based on the AI images. I work 2/
ZebraCockSandwich
traditionally so I recreate the entire thing from the bottom up. As much as we'd like to claim our ideas are original, they are all 3/
emptyology
"hey I marked this! So everybody should care and tell me how awesome I / it is ?" guess what kiddo, nobody cares about mediocrity.
emptyology
Just post your work and go. No need to give us your sob story about how nobody validates your stuff.
MidnightLibrarian
It's okay bud. Let it all out.
FegNiwtons
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
BadPunsAplenty
I dig it very much. I'm also a fan of National Parks art. I'm on theUSA side of the Great White North/'Murica line.
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Hypnoticcow
Awesome!
MidnightLibrarian
Thanks!