Happy 2026

Hey all. I hope you all made it through this year ok.
2025 has been a turbulent year for artists. With AI being shoved into every orifice of everything, it's become harder to tell what is or isn't plagiarized slop.
One must ask if there's any escape to this or are creative fields just doomed to be fundamentally shittier and less worthwhile for the rest of all time. All so corpos can hire less workers while wrecking the environment too. What rancid technology. Fuck AI and capitalism.

But anyway, I shouldn't dwell on it too much and just keep drawing. Don't let ai spoil it for you. We'll draw out of spite if nothing else and maybe things will work themselves out sooner or later.

As for me, I haven't had much to show this year but it doesn't mean I haven't been working on it. Those preview pics I've posted are only single panels from bigger pages I haven't shown on IB yet and I'm pretty proud of the full thing so far. I plan to have all 6 pages sketched sometime this year (hopefully early on) and will then begin finalizing them.
While I don't really do resolutions, for 2026 I do want to try and stop taking a month break after every upload. A week is fine but I'm not beating the slacker allegations after a month. If I at least started a page soon after the last I'd probably be almost finished the comic by now.
If you're in my server and get the impression I'm being sloth, feel free to remind me lol.

Okay, here's hoping for a good 2026.

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WozWerth

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Happy new years

circuit

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Happy new year, you evil little lizard~

Vrabo

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Happy new year!

I'm someone who plops a background I just find on google images with slight manipulation to make the character fit on top of it. Nowadays, I have to double check to make sure the images I grab weren't AI generated, which is annoying...

At least AI will never take away the fundamental joy of the act of drawing, because AI gives you the outcome of a process, but as an artist, you get to experience the actual process itself... AI can't give you that experience lol.

I used to worry back in ~2023 that AI will eventually get to a point where artists will be completely replaced, which caused me to get into game dev, cause I figured AI wouldn't be able to create literal games. At least not ones with pure intent, you know? But now with RAM shortages, it looks like we'll get to a point where the idea of owning your own hardware might become a thing of the past, or reserves for mostly businesses... like it used to be in the 1950's or something... except we might see a rise of "cloud based PCs" where you'll literally have nothing but a screen that connects to a data center and *that* will be "your" PC... which is pure nightmare fuel to think about.

I hope it doesn't get to that point, I'll never participate in it if it happens, just like how I've never participated in any streaming services or corporate subscriptions either.

But yeah, happy thoughts lol. Here's hoping, and doing whatever we can in our own lives, to make this year better than whatever 2025 was.

MorisuZone

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Happy 2026

Soulfear

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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As a designer - I'd recommend you to comply, however dystopic it sounds. Not in term of abandoning drawing and creativity but in term of trying to use AI at your work (or at least, give it a try). I used to worry as much as you are. But then it hit me - AI won't go anywhere. (Though if AI bubble pops - it may become less affordable). So I should try to use it to raise my efficiency and you know what... It did help. It helped me to focus on making stuff I like doing by hand, while stuff I don't like doing - can be imprinted by an AI... Though I know it sounds lazy from me.

But if you don't want to - its understandable. The fact that you enjoy the full process - shows you as a real artist. The one - that might be that rare, elite one. It's like with the programmers: the good ones - became slightly more efficient, while still performing most tasks personally. It's the bad ones and the newbies, who really benefited from AI, as instead of being incapable - they gained the ability to create at least something, that will work at least somehow. If this approach will prove to be beneficial for businesses - then we'll see a damn shitshow in the near future. A lot of crappy content. But eventually two things should happen (according to the history): First - AI will become somewhat better as developers will get their feedback and focus on improving performance at the tasks, that generate profits. Second - real art will become much more elite, like handcrafts. So from my experience - I can recommend you to look at your work process critically and think - if you are good enough to become an elite or if you have some performance issues, that might be improved by an AI.

Anyway, I thank you for all the good arts, it's your ideas, that will never get replaced by a machine, your natural taste and (perverted) creativity, that machine not only is incapable of replacing, is not even capable to comprehend. I hope to see more in the upcoming year. Happy 2026. And may Devil have mercy for the God - abandoned us.

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