If we’re all eating from the same trough, surely what comes out the other end is the same, too?
Category: Making
A bunch of potatoes
If a monoculture of potatoes makes crops less resilient, what does it mean for a monoculture of illustration?
An act of defiance
Is there are point to making anything when computers (or someone else) already has?
Watch to the end
Are we complicit in providing ‘addictive’ content, dressed up as ‘art’ or ‘good marketing’?
The secondary job
Am I a software designer who practices art ‘on the side’ or is it the other way around?
Artificial intelligence and art
Are artists under threat from generative artificial intelligence? Or is the ‘competition’ we see just misunderstood?
Like a machine
Should artists aspire for robotic-like accurate and consistency like those who are the best in their sport?
The craft of digital drawing
The problem with digital art is that there’s always a piece of software between me and the work, but maybe that’s what makes it a craft?
Extending the antenna
Where do ideas come from? How does one make something from nothing? Perhaps it’s about recognising the importance of a state of receptivity?
Old cheese
Just because something takes a long time, doesn’t mean it’s old, slow or worse. In fact, in the case of cheese, it may be better.