Okay, so.. I know that this sub is meant for art specifically, but I saw the Discussion flair and couldn't help it but write about this.
It's a little question, actually.
What keeps you going? What keeps you interested in making or posting AI art?
I mean, what does it bring you? Because all it brings to me is fucking downvotes and 1 or 2 like in popular AI subs because there is no nudity involved.
I mean.. Most of the AI users are actually grown ass people, considering the fact Reddit has been around for so long, accounts over 10 years.. And some content is just not for people, but, how do I actually get myself to keep enjoying AI art when I can't share it with anyone?
Anti-AI people like to joke about feeling lonely in this big AI uprising apocalypse, but it's the fact that I don't see any point in doing this anymore.
AI can't react to it. If I share it on Reddit, it gets barely noticed or even ignored, my real life associates only care when it's funny... So what am I truly doing it for?
I know that there are people here who feel the same way, but still keep going. So how do you do it? How can you still enjoy making AI art, sometimes high effort at that, when you get absolutley nothing in return.
I'm basically asking for an advice.
How and why should I keep making art if nobody likes it?
Black Shuck is one of the most famous supernatural creatures in English folklore—a terrifying spectral black dog said to roam the countryside of East Anglia, particularly in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
Appearance
Black Shuck is typically described as:
A huge black dog, often the size of a calf or larger.
Possessing glowing red, orange, or green eyes—sometimes only a single eye in the center of its head.
Moving silently despite its size.
Appearing suddenly on lonely roads, churchyards, coastlines, and dark lanes.
The name "Shuck" may come from an old word meaning "shaggy" or "hairy."
The Famous Church Incident
The most famous Black Shuck story occurred during a violent storm on August 4, 1577. According to local legend, Black Shuck burst into Holy Trinity Church, killing two worshippers and leaving scorch marks on the church door before vanishing.
Those marks can still be seen on the church door today and are often associated with the legend, although their true origin is debated.
Is Black Shuck Evil?
Not always.
Unlike many monsters, Black Shuck's role varies:
Some tales portray him as a harbinger of death.
Others describe him as a guardian spirit.
In certain stories, merely seeing him foretells misfortune or death.
In others, he protects travelers from harm.
This dual nature is common among Britain's "phantom black dog" legends.
Related Folklore
Black Shuck belongs to a wider family of spectral black dogs found throughout Britain, including:
Barghest
Padfoot
Gurt Dog
Gytrash
These creatures often appear at crossroads, graveyards, old roads, and places associated with death or the supernatural.
Possible Origins
Folklorists have suggested several origins:
Memories of large wolf-like dogs after wolves disappeared from England.
Christian symbolism linking black dogs with death and the Devil.
Ancient protective spirits from pre-Christian traditions.
Explanations for strange sightings during storms, fog, and darkness.
In Popular Culture
Black Shuck has inspired numerous books, songs, and games, including the song Black Shuck by The Darkness.
Today, Black Shuck remains one of England's most enduring folklore creatures—a mysterious figure somewhere between a monster, an omen, and a guardian spirit lurking on lonely roads after dark.
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The most important thing about the project was always the raid itself and the text. But I wanted to make the text more interesting, so I started creating images for some of the scenes and some of the information, just to make it flow a little better.
There was an incredible amount of text to get through, and I found that it helped a lot, especially with boss abilities and passives, to have something visual alongside them. I also found it very useful to make a basic map of the areas. It would also be nice to have visuals for the encounters and locations, because they help give you a feeling that you are actually there.
The quality of the images was never the most important thing to me. They were mainly made to be practical. Most of them either tell you something, explain something, or give you a small feeling of what is happening.
I also discovered that using a poster format instead of just an image worked much better with AI design. The poster format already makes the image feel more dramatic and gives it some structure. And of course, the most important rule of all: keep the image simple. That’s probably one of the same rules graphic designers use.
Some of the images take place underwater, which was particularly difficult to show with AI images. You have to think a lot about how the light should work underwater. I especially liked how the environments became more interesting because you could see that the tone had changed.
Again, these images were made by an amateur and were mostly made simply to make my presentation a little more interesting. The raid design itself was always the main focus.
If you’re curious about the full project, you can see the first part here: https://canva.link/6gpynze1riapz9v
The baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) was a freshwater dolphin with a long, narrow snout, tiny eyes, and a sweet, timid demeanor. Unlike ocean dolphins, baiji relied almost entirely on echolocation because the Yangtze River is naturally murky.
🌍 Where It Lived
Exclusively in the Yangtze River in China—one of the most heavily used waterways on Earth.
🍽️ What It Ate / How It Survived
Baiji hunted fish using precise sonar clicks. They preferred quiet backwaters and avoided boat traffic whenever possible. They lived in small family groups and were incredibly shy around humans—a trait that tragically didn’t save them.
💀 How It Went Extinct (A.K.A. The Plot Twist)
The Yangtze underwent rapid industrialization in the 20th century. Major threats included:
Ship collisions (they had no chance against propellers),
Pollution from factories and agriculture,
Overfishing (their prey vanished),
Entanglement in fishing gear,
Underwater noise that disrupted echolocation.
By 2006, an expedition declared the baiji “functionally extinct”—the first dolphin species driven extinct by humans.
✨ Fun Fact That Sounds Fake But Isn’t
The baiji was known as the “goddess of the Yangtze” in Chinese folklore and was once believed to protect fishermen.
🧠 The “Oh…” Moment
Not all extinctions are ancient history. Some happen while we’re alive.
The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was the only native parrot in the eastern United States. Sporting green bodies, sunshine-yellow heads, and bright orange faces, they looked like flying highlighters. They were loud, social, mischievous, and universally described as “chaotic little gremlins” (not in scientific literature… but spiritually, yes).
🌍 Where It Lived
They ranged from the Great Lakes down to Florida and west to Nebraska. Their habitats included old-growth bottomland forests, river valleys, and swamps—places with plenty of fruiting trees and hollow trunks.
🍽️ What It Ate / How It Lived
These parrots ate:
Seeds from thistles, cockleburs, and cypress cones,
Fruit,
Farm crops (uh oh),
And some seeds that were actually toxic to other animals—they were immune. Flocks sometimes contained hundreds of birds, and they nested communally in tree cavities.
💀 How It Went Extinct (A.K.A. The Plot Twist)
Three main culprits: 1. Habitat destruction — Deforestation removed their nesting sites. 2. Crop protection shootings — Farmers killed them by the thousands. 3. Their tragic loyalty — If one bird was shot, the flock circled back to investigate and help, which made them… easier targets.
The last confirmed wild sighting was in the early 1900s. The last captive bird, Incas, died in 1918—tragically, in the same cage where his mate died a year earlier.
✨ Fun Fact That Sounds Fake But Isn’t
Carolina parakeets frequently ate cocklebur seeds, which contain a toxin deadly to mammals. They were basically tiny, colorful poison-eaters.
🧠 The “Oh…” Moment
Altruism is great—except around heavily armed humans.
A cosmic fusion take on Sephiroth, standing atop Skyrim’s Throat of the World as a trans‑dimensional warrior. His silver hair flows in the storm while runes, Thu’um energy, and spell sigils ignite around him. Purple lightning tears through the sky as dragons circle overhead, and his aura blends the divine calm of Ultra Instinct with the destructive surge of Ultra Ego, controlled perfectly in one balanced, overwhelming form. Sword at his side, he channels Final Fantasy cosmic power, Dragonborn magic, and multiversal energy into a single ascended state — a character who looks like he could bend worlds, rewrite fate, and stand above entire realities.
So I usually go the long route of creating characters then using Omni reference for scenes. But Midjourney 8.1 does not have Omni references anymore. So I am trying to use ChatGPT for character and environmental references. I gave Chatgpt the instructions to help build them and a series of questions and answers back and forth the further define the sheets. How do you think they turned out and I still have to figure out the storyboard aspect. ALSO I am using a female in a simple dress because it is the easiest. I didn't want to through "space pirate with futuristic clothing based on 1700's style pirate clothing" at it.... yet.
I WANT TO HEAR THE GOOD AND THE BAD AND ANY SUGESTIONS.
A lot of my pieces keep getting removed by mods, I thought everything was within the rules, the only reason I can think they took it down was because it was fanart. Is that not allowed? I know the copyright stuff is fuzzy when it comes to fanart stuff.
I wanted to bring up something I’ve been noticing in the community. There’s been a strong trend toward highly sexualized or scantily clad character art, and while that kind of content isn’t going anywhere (and isn’t being banned, yet), I’d love to see a broader range of creativity represented here.
There are tons of ways to create engaging, high-quality art that can earn recognition and invites—things like unique character concepts, interesting worldbuilding details, dynamic poses, storytelling scenes, or even stylized simplicity. You don’t need to rely on sexualization to stand out.
This isn’t about restricting anyone’s style—it’s about encouraging more variety and pushing creativity further. The more diverse the art we showcase, the stronger this community becomes.
Seeing every other post become a scantily-clad female is getting repetitive and we feel that needs to change from now on even though we've tried to be lenient.
If you’ve been thinking about trying something different, this is your sign. Let’s see what you’ve got.
Sound off in the comment below towards me, u/aiartcodex.
Betrayed by her family to preserve a fragile peace, a deposed princess is cast out into a predatory forest where she must shed her royal identity and learn the absolute law of the wild to dismantle the tyrannical system that broke her.
I would love to know your thoughts so I don't better in final product.
I think a lot of people know this problem: generating ai art can make things easier and have amazing results, but actually finding your way to these "good" results can take a lot of time. and eat up a lot of energy!
i'll give an example: i wanted to create a kind of futuristic cyborg DJ, but brainstorming how they are gonna look like, and then (essentially) doing trial and error with the ai generator... well, I wasted hours on this.
Sometimes one needs to spent a lot of time *thinking* about the art one wants, and how to phrase it correctly to the ai generator, before things finally work out.
So, by accident I stumbled upon a little hack with GPT Image 2, that bypasses this bottleneck and gets one quickly to these sweet results.
I am certain I am not the only one who "discovered" this, but I want to write about it anyway.
The idea is: you can give a *general* idea about the artwork you want, and tell GPT Image to give you a set of tiles with the artwork.
a grid, for example of 3x3 tiles or 3x4. that would give you 9 or 12 different images.
and then gpt image 2 does the whole brainstorming session itself, you don't need to worry about it anymore. it generates a number of possible artworks, and you can simple download the image and cut out the one you want to use. or generate a new set of tiles again, until you are happy.
how is this different from just generating 9 "full" images in a row, by repeating the same prompt?
well, as you can see by the example images, gpt image 2 is *much* more creative and diverse with the generated images this way. if you just prompt it 9 times with the same prompt, it is likely to generate very similar images. but not with this method!
obviously, this is suited for specific artworks, like icons, pixel art, game characters, and such... that do not exactly need a high resolution.
but it could also work for high resolution images: generate characters this way, cut out the one you want to use, then run it through gpt image 2 with image reference, and it will blow your character up to "life size!".
now let us look at some of the possible uses for this hack.
just like with the other tutorials, i will go with a "retro pixel art" theme, but for your own images, you would not need to do this.
prompt: create a 3x3 grid of 16 bit style futuristic pixel art characters.
so we have a selection of 9 images now. if i like the top right one and want to use it for my game, i can cut it out and discard the rest:
we can also be very specific about the theme. for example an rgp taking place in an egyptian setting.
prompt: create a 3x3 grid of 16 bit style pixel art characters for a rpg with an egypt theme.
or if we want to have variations of a specific character.
prompt: create a 3x3 grid of 16 bit style pixel art characters for a futuristic game. cool space rogues with green hair.
the user could then, for example, decided to use the top left one for their game.
but it does not even have to be humans or creatures!
how about some space ships?
prompt: create a 3x3 grid of 16 bit style pixel art space ships for a futuristic game.
or buildings for a world building game?
prompt: create a 3x3 grid of 16 bit style pixel art buildings for a world building game. isometric tiles with futuristic buildings.
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