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"A good artist would never lose to AI, if you're afraid of AI taking your income then you never deserved that money to begin with" - some guy on reddit Also hate to burst your bubble but glaze and nightshade barely work, even on sd 1.5 models (Which are years old at this point)

great timing, i just disliked a video that popped into my feed because I realize past the 5 minute into was 20 minutes of ai generated photos and it made me so sad

Time for a new career art majors.

its a process of demoralization, evolve or die as they say, we are not dealing with well meaning people who appreciate and value human creativity and thought, you either accept it or gtfo. thats the choice we are given. ai will fill a great void coming soon, by design, right on time. we have to value humans more and value the people in our lives and appreciate their skills and talents, its sad that things are being devalued and dehumanized, but the path of accepting ai and being exhausted and giving in to the soulless trash it wants to endlessly titillate you with is the worst thing we can do, it will cost you your mind and soul.

i do feel there is a lot of wasted potential for AI. veering into art and movies is not productive

Thank you for providing resources too!! I’ll check them out :))

I felt that last statement. Good things could have been done with AI but they dumped billions of dollars on crushing starving artists. How insecure are these tech bros?

Have faith! The revolution is coming soon

We are all cooked. Ai is the final human invention

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I've seen plenty of "improvement over the year(s)" where I think "I liked their old art more" and you know what I do about it? Nothing. If they are happy with their art, that's great! And I think it's honestly pretty entitled to want someone to stay in a specific style that they aren't happy drawing just because you prefer it.

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Just gotta say I just found you through the art lore video and I’m watching through your catalog and I really enjoy what you do. Minimally produced yet clean short opinionated videos where you just express your feelings to the audience. Definitely a hidden gem imo

this channel is so underrated!

Rad vid. I could listen to her talk about _anything_ Subbed

Love the vid! Also what a crazy situation omg, it's wild that there's people out there who still think they won't ever get caught for tracing/stealing art. It ALWAYS comes back to bite them in the arse (rightfully so) 😂

What an underrated channel. I LOVE listening to stuff like this when I draw.

My sketchbook is only filled with finished pieces cus of my autism i can't leave my drawing unfinished or not perfect I'm scared of white on the page 😭

i say all the time that i miss when sketchbook tours were tours of sketchbooks and not art books or portfolio books or whatever. i remember a decade+ ago when a sketchbook tour would show thumbnailing and trial and error and doodles etc etc, and now the only time i see that are in "look at my suuuuuper old sketchbooks" or "this is my *ugly* sketchbook" type videos. the "ugly" sketchbook used to be just a sketchbook!! but then social media grew and grew, and it started with artists showing their like... art school application sketchbooks, and then extrapolating off of that into more and more art book styled sketchbooks, and something so beautiful was lost. and i see younger artists aching for it! and they've made up the ugly sketchbook to fill that need, because it really is a *need* imo. and i look to the future and i can see one where the "ugly sketchbook" is just as curated as a "sketchbook" is now, but slightly differently with planned "doodles" and perfectly placed and arranged "practice sketches", and i hope that doesn't happen because it would break my heart a second time.

I understand where you're coming from. I do think that sketchbooks are mostly a tool for trying new things and drawing, but personally, I think that having a chunky sketchbook is part of the fun, experimental enjoyment of art. I don't really see anything wrong with it, even when sketchbooks in media seem more beatified and whatnot. I take those for inspiration to try new things rather than a social sketchbook requirement. plus sketchbooks to me are also like your own little time capsule and can be used as a way to record the events of your life. so adding a few receipts here and there, it can just be a way to say "Look at what I bought" idk, thats just my own opinion. ,')

Art shouldn't be about competition. I really like your videos. It seems like a lot of work to make videos like this and I'm glad to see people like you making them even without a giant audience!

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I feel like a lot of these chunky and fancy sketchbooks on social media are made with the idea that someone else will see them. I’ve had this before, where I would subconsciously write things next to sketches, or sketch stuff that would only matter to other people who’d want to look in my sketchbook. While I do still sometimes write ‘ew’ next to a drawing I don’t particularly like, I do it so much less frequently because I’ve realized these books are just for me.

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i got all my art info from the internet, so until now i thought a sketchbook was another way to say personal artbook or just art book

feeling...drawn...must like the video... In all honesty I've been really digging going through your videos. Definitely feels like you should have at least a thousand more subscribers than you currently do!

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I dunno, I think it's a nuanced topic. I don't think it's anyone's responsibility whether a hypothetical beginner will feel discouraged upon seeing their sketchbook (not saying that that's what you meant ofc). and about whether or not chunky sketchbooks can be considered a sketchbook if there's less drawings... well, if a book has mostly empty pages and only 3 drawings in it, does it stop being a sketchbook? I don't think so. I think people can call it whatever they want 🤷

As far as the chunky sketchbooks go, I don’t see any issue with them assuming you’re using mostly recycled materials and not just buying stuff to essentially waste it- there actually is another name for this kind of activity though and that’s junk journaling! Kinda wish people would call them junk journals instead of just sketchbooks if they’re doing more “junk” than “sketch” lol but that’s just my personal opinion

I think they are really quite wonderful, art isn't just drawing and painting. Even if they don't realize it and are referring to it as 'chunky sketchbooks' they are literally turning their sketchbooks into found object sculptures which is cool as hell. Its great to see artists experimenting and having fun like this especially the younger ones they will only benefit from it. If they ever go to art school they will love and have a great time when they get asked to incorporate found objects into their work.

is this not just scrapbooking? whats wrong with calling it scrapbooking?? why did they choose sketchbook as a name when they already have a name (scrapbooks)???

I started tapeing paper over sketch’s I don’t like looking at. I don’t hate my old art I see them as learning experiences, at one point in my life that was the best I do could and I was happy with that. I like my progress so I add over to my sketches to have new learning experiences.

i think people can present their art online in whichever way they want, but calling a fully rendered illustration "a sketch" is just wrong and can be actually harmful for beginner artists who yet have no idea what purpose a sketchbook should serve, so i fully agree with you on that! still tho I personally also enjoy gluing stickers and some random things in mine just for fun (and to make it "pretty" yes) and it actually helps me not no tear up a whole page when there's the smallest thing i hate and can't stand looking at lol so i just cover it instead and move on to the next page. trying to make it "chunky" on purpose seems kinda unnecessary to me tho.... but yeah I see your point and I think it's valid and reasonable

I think that everyone in the world could benefit from worrying about labels less and just enjoying the creation and experience of art ! Fun stuff

i dont even know why they'd call a book full of finished arts "sketchbook" when it's not, it's more like art book. i mean the word sketch in sketchbook means "a rough or unfinished drawing or painting, often made to assist in making a more finished picture." as Google says. also when these art creators says to not be afraid of making bad arts in your sketchbook while they make the masterpiece arts, like how's that gonna help lol.

I mostly make my journals chunky. My sketchbook is mostly just sketches lol. I do tend to mod podge pages together if theyre absolutely horrible to look at though lol

i think 'scrapbook' is a better term. i mean, it's called SKETCHbook for a reason, but it's up to the owner of the book

i don't know what half of this means because i'm autistic and don't have tiktok. but everyone should just do what they like to do so that we can all have fun

ngl adding random crap into my sketchbook makes me more motivated to use it and is fun for me to look at so idc if other people do the same 🤷‍♀️

I started to feel bad about not being able to make a chunky sketchbook like the ones I saw around, at most they end up bloated because I like to stick stickers, pieces of things like glass, oder drawings i made in diferents papers for tests and etc, but never one of those gigant schetbooks i saw on social midia 😢

i love chunky sketchbooks.

It’s kind of weird to me. How are you supposed to make finished pieces or improve if you never actually sketch? I have a few friends who make sketchbooks like this irl and i just don’t get it 😢

I used to view my sketchbooks like this. I would get so overwhelmed from spending 30 minutes on one pencil sketch constantly erasing to make it "perfect". I was also so worried about composition, how much color i was using, and that my sketchbook wasn't "pretty enough". After being inspired by some other artists, I realized my sketchbook is meant for practicing, bad drawings, and making mistakes. I started drawing pretty much only with markers, fine liners, and highlighters in an attempt to fight that perfectionism. And holy crap it worked. I started filling pages much faster because I couldn't fix every little mistake and I became less afraid to draw new things because well there were already so many mistakes in there. I'll use sticky notes occasionally (for the drawings I REALLY don't like) and it adds so much character to the pages. If you had told me a year ago that I would love drawing with permanent ink now, I would have called you a liar yet here I am having an absolute blast with cheap pens and highlighters. It's only been a few months of me doing this and I've already noticed huge improvements! I sketched with a pencil for the first time in awhile and I noticed i never even used my eraser and the sketch looked great! My line confidence has gotten so much better and all the playing around with alcohol markers has made me better in that medium too. I'll paste things in there occasionally too, but I don't worry about making it a scrapbook masterpiece. So to any other artists reading this, look at your sketchbook as something you have no obligation to. Make bad art, try new mediums, draw anything and everything, practice and have fun! My mindset on how I view my art and my experience making said art has greatly improved because of this. (Saying this to remind myself as well) Just remember you don't have to show your sketchbook to anyone if you don't want to, but I was so surprised at how many people thought my messy practice art was amazing. You're always way more critical of yourself than anyone else. Your work is awesome and so much better than you might tell yourself. Getting better takes practice and patience. They say we all have 10,000 bad drawings in us so the sooner we get them out the better!

I sort of think everyone's overthinking it. Unless you have a specific mandate from a school or job, just do what you enjoy. Boom. Besides, in terms of being 'sketchbook tour' worthy, the art is important but also so is the comentary. I've clicked off videos of the coolest, most eclectic chunky sketchbooks because the comentary was so dry and dull, I've been enraptured by sketchbooks of crappy pencil doodles because the artist sounded so passionate. And my two pence on the naming thing is I think trying to enforce categories could get difficult and also just silly quickly, most books are not 'one' or 'another', and besides 'art book' already has a different connotation.

I really wanted to try this, by the practicality is uhh. I cant bring it to school, I dont get to draw at home often even at the weekends. I just get sleepy once I return from school recently. This feels more like a scrapbook at times. This is cool, but im kinda concerned idk how to explain it. We need to like differ the types of ntobeooks stuff like sketchbook, artbooks, scrapbooks.

Thank you for saying it! The curated art book tours were SERIOUSLY putting me off using my sketchbooks, and killing my motivation to keep learning watercolor

This is really well said, thank you for making this video! The nuance you approached this with especially by the end of the video is really refreshing to see, instead of this usual "this is WRONG and people who do it are BAD" dramatic stuff I often see it art videos (unfortunately ^^;;). I appreciate that you make it clear that people who are doing this aren't doing anything wrong necessarily, just that it's not really your cup of tea and that you think it should maybe be called something other than "sketchbooks". Super glad it showed up on my recommended :) Also I wanted to say thank you for the proper captions, it's really appreciated!!

I think it's really fun and creative. I don't see anything wrong with making cool chunky sketchbooks. A sketchbook can be anything you want it to be. If you want to stick crayons and trash and activities then go for it. If you want a sketchbook that's just for practicing and doodles then that's also fine. No need to judge anyone for their sketchbooks no matter what!

Everyone's definition of sketchbook is different, and your way of sketchbooking is different from others. It's creative, and it's art to them! It may not be art to you but it is for them! Chunky sketchbooks are aesthetic for some because its satisfying and not for others! Sketchbooks can be sketchy or more final than others. The problem is, that people compare themselves and their skill levels so its very uninspiring for some, but we need to learn that its fine if we don't have that same satisfying art style. So, I wouldn't say that these sketchbooks with lots of things stuck in 'isn't art' or is a 'waste'. Its their way of being creative, there's no specific rule that makes things 'not art' because in the end, we are all different in many ways in the ways we express ourselves etc! I appreciate your outlook on this! ❤