Painting of the day (watercolour) / Slike dana (akvarel)

June 15, 2016

POST UPDATE 2024

FRIDAY FASHION ILLUSTRATION: FANTASY

Let's TALK illustration.

Sometimes I illustrate items that I actually wear.

Sometimes I illustrate my own outfits.

Sometimes I illustrate other bloggers.

I HAVE ILLUSTRATED THIS LEATHER JACKET TWICE! HERE & HERE

Browsing my archives I realized that I have illustrated this leather jacket at least twice before. Moreover, counting the post today I have illustrated this pair of high brown boots four times! Is it me or am I starting to wear the items I have illustrated more often? Do you think that's possible? Perhaps illustrating them creates a sort of visual fashion memento in my head.

SHOULD YOU USE A REFERENCE WHEN PRACTICING FASHION ILLUSTRATION?

Is reference important? Should I drew with a reference or from imagination? My answer would be that you should do both. When I wrote about ten ways to improve your fashion illustration skills, both drawing with and without reference made my list of tips. I said that drawing with reference is important because it not only teaches you how to draw what you see but it also teaches you to look and pay attention to details. Similarly, drawing without a reference is important because it teaches you to see with your mind's eye. Both is important to challenge yourself.

Friday Fashion illustration has been a regular feature one my blog for a long time now. I was late to discover the dangers of AI art theft, so I suppose the damage is done with the art I posted. I will try to be more careful in the future and post less.

INTERESTING TIPS I FOUND ONLINE FOR PROTECTING YOUR ART AND PHOTOS AGAINST AI

#1 ARTICLE I RECOMMEND: AN ARTICLE NAMED 'HOW TO PROTECT IMAGES FROM AI ART GENERATORS'

THIS ONE IS WORTH CHECKING OUT, ESPECIALLY THEIR TIP ABOUT USING A SITE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO CHECK WHETHER YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS OR PAINTINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN USED TO TRAIN AI?

#2 ARTICLE I WANT TO RECOMMEND: HOW ARE ARTISTS FIGHTING BACK AGAINST AI ART THAT COPIES THEIR WORKS?

One thing I especially appreciate about this article is how it introduced me to Glaze. It is a computer program that makes it harder for AI art generators to steal your art by making slight changes in it. To include a direct quote: "Glaze is a tool to help artists to prevent their artistic styles from being learned and mimicked by new AI-art models such as MidJourney, Stable Diffusion and their variants." source: http://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/index.html So, I definitely learned something from this article. Another great thing is that a top of the article you can read the summary (perfect if you are in a hurry) but want to see what the article is about:

# 3 ARTICLE I RECOMMEND: 4 WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR ART- The third article I would like to recommend has a number four in it and I'm all for it. From these four tips, my favourite one is not posting your art on social media. This is not just about AI theft prevention, but about artists' right in general. If you post your art on Instagram, everyone can use it without your permission and just link it to Instagram, Tik Tok or whatever social network you're using. Technically, the content belongs to them.

#4 ARTICLE I RECOMMEND: AI WILL MAKE HUMAN NOVELS OBSOLETE

#5 ARTICLE I RECOMMEND: THIS TOOL COULD PROTECT ARTISTS FROM ART THEFT