a little place to call my own (art and fashion blog)

 Hello dear readers and friends, it's Friday and that means it's time for another FRIDAY FASHION ILLUSTRATION feature.  I don't post every Friday, but I do my best to keep the tradition going. I started this feature years ago!  Today I'll share two portrait sketches in my 'fashion illustration' style. The medium for both of them is watercolour pencils on paper. As you might know, I often turn to this medium when I want something done quickly. It's not a medium I've mastered, but I do enjoy it.  When it happens that I don't have the time for art, I make sketches. Sometimes  a quick sketch can lead you places. Sometimes it is a dead end. You never know until you try, don't you? Anyhow, quick sketches might be all that I'll be doing in foreseeable future.  In my last post (on Friday), I wrote about protecting one's art against AI.   Not that I'm an expert on the topic, but it is an issue that deserves attention. I might write more about ...

There's a lot of talk about AI created art. However, AI does not  technically create art. It just copies it from the input provided by humans. The way it works is that it stores numerous images and then reduplicates them. Makes me think of those paraphrasing language apps that allow students to cheat on their essays with less risk of getting caught. As a teacher, I know something about those. As a teacher, I'm also down in bed with high fever third time this month! I love kids, but they are germ carriers or this professor calls them- germ factories . There's  silver lining to my illness, though. I managed to write  a proper blog post. Feel free not to comment on it if you don't have the time to read it. Yes, being sick and all, I decided to dig into the depressive reality of AI generated art theft.    I'm not going to into the debate or whether AI art possesses a real  potential treat to human society or not, because that's not what this article is about. ...

 Hello dear readers!  It's Friday and that means it's time for another post in my regular blog feature titled- FASHION ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY. As the name suggests, this feature is all about fashion illustrations and art.   In this post, I'll share fashion illustrations that are particularly dear to me.   Yes, today I'm resharing with you some of my favourite fashion illustrations. Do you have any favourites? Let me know in the comments. My last post in this category was titled AUTUMN AND WINTER INSPIRATION and published on 7th of October. I'm back with another collage sharing my fashion art. MORE FRIDAY FASHION ILLUSTRATION POSTS: https://modaodaradosti.blogspot.com/2022/04/fashion-illustration-friday-spring-vibes.html   April 2022 https://modaodaradosti.blogspot.com/2022/03/fashion-illustration-friday-winter-to.html   March 2022      https://modaodaradosti.blogspot.com/2022/02/fashion-illustration-friday-stanka.html  February 2022 h...