Leo Val - commissions open / looking for work

Painter, musician and writer.
Dm me for info on commissions.
Worldbuilding 'Jester's Tear' (Lovecraftian Epic Fantasy)

[Pixel Mixers (10th anniversary album: Out soon !) @Pixel_Mixers]

How have you been enjoying the album so far ? :)
Any track(s) that stood out ?

[Fredrik Häthén's Cool 2024 Tweets @FredrikHathen]

Hey all artists - you should stop posting your art here. Twixter is now actively stealing your stuff and training AI on it.

At the very least, Glaze and Nightshade everything.

Not that I expect anyone to see this, but still

[Adam Barker ~ COMMISSIONS OPEN @Satans_Masque]

Survived another year on this accursed planet and so I am once again requesting those sweet sweet likes, comments and retweets 👁️👄👁️

[Romeck @RomeckArt]

Heyyyy
I'm reposting my old work AND new work on bluesky in highres, twitter will from now on get mega ass quality.
Thanks to smuck, be mad at him.
Btw the ez link is my bio (:

[Nekro @NekroXIII]

🚩Hi guys, I feel terribly helpless about everything that is happening in Spain and I needed to do something.
I have opened a charity sale of this digital download. All benefits will go to those affected by floods and other causes.
Link in the first comment⬇️
Please share🙏🏻

[MeKenzie Martin Art 🎨 @Dm7755]

Boo! 👻 For those of you celebrating Halloween, I wish you a very Happy Halloween and to make it even more awesome, share a combined still life and imaginative painting! 💀

Oil painting on 24 x 30 cm canvas.

#oilpainting #halloween #art #stilllife #purple #orange #skull

[GeneralFang15 ❁ SWITCHIN BT BSKY @GeneralFang15]

ONE LAST RETWEET OF THIS EMERGENCY COMMISSION NOTICE!
After October 31, the limited discounts will be gone, and a new Commission Sheet will be on. If you're still interested, leave a DM for queue, TQ

Thank you everyone for offering your assistance during my hardest times!

[Leo Val - commissions open / looking for work @Mind_Waker]

@GeneralFang15 @Pixel_Mixers Well done on this artwork!

[GeneralFang15 ❁ SWITCHIN BT BSKY @GeneralFang15]

Me 🤝 @Pixel_Mixers

Delivering the #GoldenSun meal to all.

AVAILABLE NOW ON YOUTUBE.

[Zhillustrator @zhille]

See you in better places. I'm Zhillustrator on both.

[Leo Val - commissions open / looking for work @Mind_Waker]

@fredskov1 Move to email? :D

[Leo Val - commissions open / looking for work @Mind_Waker]

Guess people are migrating now a lot due to the new terms. Though as an EU citizen they shouldn't be able to do anything about my posts but knowing the owner he don't care.

[Bradlynn @BradlynnG]

Victor the Blacksmith's Son.

I've always wanted to paint my favorite game character, Victor Saltzpyre from @Vermintidegame.

Portrayed in his youth before joining the Witch Hunters and exposing Victor to the cold-harsh world of Warhammer.
Hope you like it!

[Christopher Cant @ChrisCantArt]

ART REVEAL! Something I painted recently for the @binding_broken edition of ‘The Dragonbone Chair’ by
@tadwilliams, and art directed by @PetrikReads

The Siege of Naglimund! Had an absolute blast painting this.

[Jon Lam #CreateDontScrape @JonLamArt]

This is how’s it’s going for Midjourney in the Andersen VS Stability/Midjourney lawsuit

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Hi Wren, Hollywood concept artist here. I don't think that's a fair comparison. Firstly, you can't really omit the copyright issues, they're fundamental to the tech and problem. OpenAI even admits their AI wouldn't work without taking copyrighted content. It's not fair use, in large part because it forces people to compete against their own work.

But, let's say you try to ignore the copyright issue (which is hard because we're talking using people's work without consent, credit, or compensation), the automation aspect is a massive sticking point.

It's not simply a tool, it aims to automate key aspects of creativity. The blue sky periods on productions are disappearing, I made 43% of my typical income last year, less than the first year of Covid. I was also offered a less than entry level rate on a gig that heavily used AI in their deck for a major production. In my 15 years in this industry, that's never happened.

45% of 800 artists I polled report having been asked to touch up AI, or use it as reference. That's lost work for artists.

Companies and people are using it to cut costs, not make artists lives easier. Teams of 4 will be expected to do what teams of 10 used to do. People in games have been laid off, and the remaining artists forced to use AI to pick up the slack. Find @bcmerchant 's Wired article on that.

This is all because copyrighted works have been used without consent or compensation. AI companies have inserted themselves as middlemen to gobble up not just the taxi or book selling industry this time, no, but all industry, especially creative ones. Even a model like the one Lionsgate is having trained isn't ethical in the slightest.

Every artist I know has been hurting for work these past 2 years, young artists are giving up on their dreams, people losing their homes, and dropping out of entertainment and art altogether, all because of AI. It's not a tool, it's a replacement and it's causing irreparable damage

I was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about it if you're interested. I've been very involved in this space and have spoken at FAccT and CVPR, and am co-author on 2 papers critical of AI, one with the Glaze and Nightshade team at the University of Chicago. I'm in the trenches and we're telling you, it's bad out here. It's just exploitation all around.

I'd be happy to discuss it further with you if you're interested. You should come to our Glaze and Nightshade panel at Lightbox in Pasadena in 2 weeks.

https://t.co/kKwq4WX3x5

[Leo Val - commissions open / looking for work @Mind_Waker]

@Psamathes Still on 6 because 7 was so slow to open and I wasn't too big of a fan of the new UI.

[Curtis Holt ☄️ @curtisjamesholt]

Charan spent a long time working on this - it's a brilliant collection of procedural tile patterns with a massive number of parameters, and practically limitless variety.
#b3d #blender

[Leo Val - commissions open / looking for work @Mind_Waker]

Doing a long art stream today https://t.co/7HLOqcFyQu live now.
Finishing up a piece and then starting a new one.

[Leo Val - commissions open / looking for work @Mind_Waker]

Hey, I've been back to streaming a few days now and it'll probably continue for a while https://t.co/7HLOqcFyQu