Oh look, I know that couple from somewhere! They don’t look like having fun, but you never know
Edit: In all my many years on earth I never knew they were supposed to be father and daughter. To me they always looked like a couple. Thanks for correcting!
couple
depicts farmer and his daughter
oh boyyyy
*Banjo music starts playing*
Yeehaw!
They’re from Iowa, of course they’re not having fun.
Maybe that was true 14 years ago.
American Gothic is a 1930 oil painting on beaverboard by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood, depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home.
couple
daughter
Hmm…
She’s just dressed really frumpy. Makes her look older than she is.
That’s because people still call the potato quest boring.
I guess the AI trained off of this? Cause it’s definitely hand-drawn, but it’s so generic that for a long while I was doubting that
Calm down, mister art critic. And educate yourself beyond the boundaries of your tiktok window
I guess that’s why I’m the 3rd person to say that in this thread alone
Poe Tay Toes!
Seriously… It looks like slop. So the question is, is slop pivoting to this artist? Is this artist’s work the ultimate, most desirable on the earth?
This artist’s comics are often explicitly anti-AI. They’re the one with the “avian intelligence” comics where the AI character is always malfunctioning and/or getting the protagonist into trouble.
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1130/the-first-dose-is-free
You’re letting AI affect your opinion of good, community focused artists like Revoy. Try not to.
I personally wonder if one aspect might be that the hand lettering mimics the slight irregularities of ai lettering.
Apparently I am not clear: I like the artwork and joke that ai is trying to mimic it. And - truly, not to discredit the artist - slop really seems to straight up copy this style completely, including color tones etc.
Fair enough. I misunderstood “looks like slop” - but I see it didn’t necessarily mean what I thought.
He just does manga-style cartoons with colour and shading. The manga style is insanely popular with loads of sample data for models to train on, and shading them is no extra effort for an image model.
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This is definitely not the least effort. They could’ve not done the shading between the folds of the clothes, skipped the whorls and swirls on the shovel handle, all sorts of things.
This just seems low-effort now because AI really did prefer this style, and stole it, but this took so much more effort than you’re giving them credit for.
This is exactly why artists hate AI, it doesn’t undervalue their work directly, it gets real people like you to undervalue it. Don’t let AI determine your opinions so easily.
I think this gives off AI vibes precisely because it’s a high-effort comic strip, drawing wise. Normally, comics aren’t high-effort, and this feels sus because “you really put this much effort into making this simple joke?”. Like, the joke is fine but drawing effort is disproportional.
It takes him 10+ hours for a four panel comic, so I don’t know what “least effort” means to you.
