Weekly Update

Another Monday!
How are you doing my beautiful people?

It's still a bit too early for me this morning. I forgot to go to bed last night :P so this will be a short one.

As you all know, I've contacted a company that had approached me right before my surgery with a few contract possibilities. I'm giving them a few business days to come back to me. But I'll understand if they don't. A year is a long time, and this particular year as been hard on the illustration industries.

I am not an anti-AI guy. I'm more of a "it's a tool" guy. In fact I'm considering using it in some form for an idea I have ( not for the art part ). I don't really consider the "theft" as the real problem for AI. We all learned by copying other artist's work. Although, I am conscient of the fact that AI aren't persons and that they can do it instantly and in volumes never even imagined before. So... It is not a one to one comparisons. Also, in term of action, I am all for the plurality of methods. And I can see value in attacking the AI industries at the "birth" level. If it can't learn, it's can't create. That makes sense to me.

Anyways... I think the real problem of AI is in its usage and in the damage it's doing in the work force. And let me tell you, in the illustration industries, it is devastating. I know a LOT of freelance artists that are suddenly out of work whiles the publishers they where working with are still releasing just as much book and produce as they already where. I'm sure we will all adapt to this new tool. But as for this particular moment, it is an issue where friend's livelihood are at stakes.

I really wasn't planning to go there this morning, My brain just ran away with this :P all I can says is: I am LUCKY to have you all.

Being neuro-divergent myself, changing my ways is difficult for me. I "consider" a lot of things, a long time before making a move. If I was still only depending of freelance contracts at the moment, let just say the last year would have been really hard to get through. And I'm not even considering my surgery. Without you, I wouldn't have made it. Period.

This is why, even if I am looking at other income options at the moment, my priority is still with you all. I owe you much. I'm not about to turn my back of this little community.

But enough about this.

This week:

Nomather the circumstances, I need a little change of pace. I'm running out of idea for the Car Wash. So. I'll start with a pin up, which should give the editor 2 or 3 days to get back to me. And on Wednesday, I'll make a decision regarding opening shop for commissions. It always feels like double dipping for me, and it takes time away from our big projects, but I try to rationalize this by thinking that, for you at least, it's content none the less.

See you all soon!
Alx