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Note About AI (Patreon)

Published:
2025-03-31 12:44:06
Imported:
2026-06

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It’s not a tool, it’s a magic wand. It gives the illusion that you can create without effort, but it has no consciousness, no intent, no vision.What I’m fighting against is the irresponsible use of it, the disrespect from big companies… and above all, the arrogance of some individuals.

AI doesn’t have the ability to create, and those who rely blindly on it, even less so.For the past 4-5 years, I’ve consumed AI-generated images daily, study how it evolves and how it affects my craft. Because you need to know your ennemies to fight it. And one thing has remained the same: it’s getting more technical, sure, but it never invents anything.

I’ve even seen people train models to imitate my style. And despite their efforts, not a single one of those images looked even remotely like what I create.Because what I do doesn’t come from an algorithm — it comes from ten years of experience, research, failures, personal choices, and human emotion.

Seriously, i have digged more than 5000 images to find the best result with my name, here they are ( Only SFW, don't worry )

And honestly, does theses shit look like my work ?????

 ( If my art look like this, please tell me so i'll quit now )

The few interesting AI images I’ve come across were made by skilled artists who used AI as a base and then repainted 99% of the piece using their actual skills. That’s when the image had meaning, a vision, something truly new to offer.But those cases are a microscopic minority in a flood of soulless content. Its like 00000001% regarding the billion of Ai crap generated every day, soooooo....

Because the soul is always missing.Creating an image that resonates is still a daily challenge, even after a thousand pieces and my ten years of hard work. So how could someone who’s been clicking on prompts for 1 or 2 years expect to take the place of artists who’ve built their craft through vision, study, and emotional depth ?

Games like Hollow Knight, Hades, Cuphead, GRIS, Ori, Hyper Light Drifter would never exist without artists who had a strong artistic direction and a deep, personal vision.

Every time there's a major AI update, I see young artists panicking, wondering if they should quit, thinking it’s over. But again and again, I see the same thing: artists keep going.If I had to speak for myself :I’m grateful to see my Patreon growing, more commissions coming in, and to notice that many AI-driven projects struggle to hold people’s interest.And I’m not the only one, I see the same pattern among many artists I follow. Their follower counts are slowly but steadily rising.

Even NSFW artists, who are probably among the most impacted by AI — still receive strong, growing support.Why ? Because people aren’t just looking for something “sexy.”They’re looking for intention, for a perspective, for a soul behind the image.

And I see it every day with my own supporters. My Patreon backers are excited with every WIP I post ( thank you for that ) They subscribe to receive unique, hand-drawn posters.They could generate their own images. They know that.So why do they choose mine ? Why do they prefer my human imperfections over the smooth, empty perfection of AI ?Because they can feel there’s thought, emotion, and love behind every brushstroke.Each piece I make has value because of that.And that’s what people crave, real stories made by real hands.

REAL ART LOVERS AND SUPPORTERS HAVE STANDARDS.They don’t want to eat McDonald’s every day, at every meal...They crave something that’s cooked with care. Something that stays with you, not just fills the feed.

Ok now, just some beautiful Artworks, with incredible style, and tell me what you see, tell me what you feel, did you really think that an Ai, or an human behind it with zero art knowledge can produce such artworks ? ( article continue after this )

https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/086/510/668/large/don-nun.jpg?1743389600

 

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4N35nL

 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5WOPr8

 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oJB6a4

 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mA1nb8

 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/PmDNbB

 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/gRGyvm

 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/GvEkEQ

 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mA32Z1

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/DLxqny

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/BXEq1D

 

So, took me just 5 minute to found them, and i am sure it took you less time to understand what i mean now :)

So don't stop create, never, there is always something new to bring on the table., and its the only way to fight againt's AI

Love on you, love on your art.Thank you to everyone who takes the time to read this message — and a huge thank you to everyone who supports my work, whether it's through likes, comments, kind messages in DMs, or just sharing what I do.And especially to my Patreons, who allow me to create every single day. ❤️

P.S.For those shouting that artists are “gatekeepers,” let me say this clearly: you’re just lazy.You’re hiding that laziness behind a tired excuse.

There has never been more free and open access to tutorials, tips, courses, brushes, timelapses, tools, all shared generously by artists around the world. Most of it is free. And more than enough to learn.

No artist has ever stopped you from pulling your fingers out of your ass, grabbing a pencil or a brush, and learning — JUST LIKE THE REST OF USE DID.

Artists aren’t some secretive cult guarding ancient techniques.That’s just a fantasy you cling to so you can feel better about not trying.

Art is accessible. It’s for everyone.The only difference is:It takes effort.

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Comments

Dubya

Especially in the NSFW scene I hate how much AI has taken over. As much as I can I support real artists out there. That’s why I’m subbed here to you. This is absolutely worth my money and I’m so glad that people like you are still out here making beautiful art for us.

Anato Finnstark

That's very very kind to hear, thank you very much for understanding that

Goldbarsch

I can't stand people who call themselves ai "artist" it's like saying you're a pro racing driver to Max Verstappen because you played a racing game before, not even a simulator or smth

Jesse Berg

I mean, I can see the connection between those and your work, but no, they're not the same, and they aren't equal. I want to say they look like someone less skilled trying to imitate you, but that's not quite right. They are derivative of your work, but they're missing something. Call it soul, call it emotion, maybe it's just understanding of the subject material. I think that may be it. You have something you're trying to say, and these don't. I came here after seeing your work on a particular character, and you really seemed to get her. You had captured something about her that spoke to me. The AI ones don't really seem to be saying anything, and to be fair, they aren't.

5devilz

Those AI images don't even compare with your art. They have always that ugly gloss on them and don't look good. Truth be told, for my insta posts, I use sometimes a little bit of AI, but I really don't like it. Also, did you see? The second AI image creation appeared, it exploded on Pinterest. You can't find any real art anymore.

Ute

The AI "works" you posted are nothing like your stuff. They're very very bland and boring, to be frank. The composition seems lazy. You can tell someone just used prompt "portrait of xyz" so it's mostly a straight frontal piece. Meh. No soul behind it.

Le'Lorinel

Your style is absolutely unique, I mean there are artists with similar style like few years back NIXEU and WLOP but they always have this little signature, something human which is impossible to copy. It's difficult to describe what I feel when I look at your art, but it's definitly a human feeling. Is it what you want to make us feel? Who knows. Thank you too Anato, for your efforts, for your fight everyday against this crap. I'll never get tired to gaze at your masterpieces.

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David

for me the images made with AI are disturbing and soulless. if people keep them for themselves it's fine but stealing other artists' work and making money from it is disgusting and immoral. Ps your style is unique and inimitable nothing to do with this garbage

Anato Finnstark

And i totally agree with that, this is question of standard...

CommanderTom101

Didn't read the whole text, because of time reasons. But i want to say a few things. I think using AI to get inspiration is fine, aslong as the person usng it does 90-99% of the work. And I personally dont like the flood of AI slop, wether its SFW or NSFW. It makes work much easier, but it removes the soul of the work, the sweat, the failure, and emotions from the work. Thats one of the reasons I really like your Art, its so unique that no one else could replicate it. What I want to say is that nomatter how good/bad someones art is its still lightyears better than AI "Art".

BlueZorya

I always wanted to create, whether to draw, to paint or just create something with my two own hands. My parents always said I would starve as an artists, so they led me down on a path they thought I wanted for myself. I think its not a surprise that it didnt worked out, but I found my way after many years of fight with my myself and depression. I'm happy that I found my way. But creating somehow always found a way into my life. And as an adult I never wanted to get back to drawing because I knew I would be shit, because I only learned drawing for a year, and I was horrible. But as I was at the end of my twenties, I was like.. F*ck it, I want to draw. So I restarted on digital mediums, and its trials and errors. For starters I had to learn how to even draw digital, and I was like.. I definitely never gonna draw humans, thats the hardest part... And I definitely never gonna draw nude people, because thats even harder. Guess what I enjoy the most? Drawing nudes. Am I good? No. Do I get better and learn something new with every piece I make? Yes. Does it bring me joy? Yes. Will I continue to do until it turns my mind off and brings me joy? Hell yes. Art is not just about presenting something that looks "good". (Especially that we have different taste, and "good" is interpreted inside everyone differently.) Its also the joy of making something with your own hands, looking back what worked, what didnt worked. Knowing that you figured it out. And seeing all of these in the end product. And AI is never gonna know what all of things mentioned above means. (I also think that many AI art actually look shit.)

Anato Finnstark

You understand every thing about art then, you understand the main goal of it, so kudos to you, and happy you take this décision ❤️

Derek

Your style is really unique and those pictures you put up as an example are nowhere near your style. Your art is sooo much better and like you said. It screams of intention, emotion and hard word. I’ve yet seen art like yours. And because your art is so unique and extremely gorgeous and stunning is the reason why I support you on here. (Also because of your BG3 art but I LOVE everything you put up here) Please keep doing what you do!!

Katie Buttons

i’ve still yet to see AI make art that even shines a light to what some of my favourite artists (you included in that!) have created, and will continue to create.

Parker Trotter

I've heard it said how nuts it is that some folk seem to have fallen into this weird trap that has convinced them to, as a society, we should use AI to replace artists. Instead of leveraging AI and automation to free up more people to create art themselves.

Astreyoth

I want to give my two cents on the matter. I want to start by saying that I look for emotions in art. It can be joy, sadness, power... lust or eroticism. The list is as long as the spectrum of emotions and feelings is complex. If I decide to hang a painting or a poster in my house, I want it to convey something, beyond being simply beautiful. Or that I want to say that that certain thing, for example fictional character x, is important to me. and knowing that behind that drawing, painting or whatever, there was a process of creation that led the artist to create that work in such a way that it can resonate with my being... it's simply wonderful. Along with art I have another passion which is DnD. Me and some other friends have also created a Discord server and opened it to the public, we are about thirty people now (all free). Every week the staff group (dungeon master), including me, brings 3/4 sessions overall. Given the frequency with which we bring sessions and the amount of NPCs we use, since we are in an open world, we ALSO use the images of the AI ... but they are for common NPCs: like the umpteenth tavern keeper. Like the common NPCs of MMOs that are the same ... that there is no need to convey an emotion. If instead I want an important NPC, that I want to convey a feeling or emotion, then at that point I start looking among the artists I follow for something that could be good ... and if I have the possibility, because I don't always have it, I commission the creation of that NPC. (all free). Every week the staff group (dungeon master), including me, brings 3/4 sessions overall. Given the frequency with which we bring sessions and the amount of NPCs we use, since we are in an open world, we ALSO use the images of the AI ... but they are for common NPCs: like the umpteenth tavern keeper with a full beard. Like the common NPCs of MMOs that are the same ... that there is no need to convey an emotion. If instead I want an important NPC, that I want to convey a feeling or emotion, then at that point I start looking among the artists I follow for something that could be good ... and if I have the possibility, because I don't always have it, I commission the creation of that NPC.

THE.M IDK

I wouden't call those or any Ai images that I have seen perfect. Ai images are the eject opposite of perfect they are sloppy, lazy with no detail(love) Even if one day a computer makes perfect images, Has emotions and creates an image of a person it will still be worth Nothing in at list My eyes. I 'm currently studying in computers and game development and I can tell you for 100% that any emotion that robot/computer puts on an image it will still be from a lines of code CREATED by A HUMAN.

Beepo

"ten years of experience, research, failures, personal choices, and human emotion" This is such an important point! Art is about the expression of humanity. Why would I care if some computer can imitate that? I do not care if its good or bad. It has no humanity to express. Only the ability to imitate the expression. The beauty of art comes from the person behind it. Anyone trying to recreate the expression of humanity through algorithms has lost sight of what it means to be human. Thank you for staying true to yourself and your craft! I am honored to support you

KingR17

That's not even mentioning the ethics of AI either. This just objectively discusses the function of AI and its lack of quality/intent/purpose. AI is also built off of stolen copyrighted artwork, which they've in turn been trying to use to replace or profit off of the work of other existing masters of their craft. AI can't be copyrighted, and it's simple enough to see why. An AI is effectively a glorified search engine with a built in blender. It combines all of the work it has stolen and spits out what you get from the ingredients provided. It doesn't create, it regurgitates. AI "prompters" similarly don't create anything either. If you search for an article on google, does that mean you wrote the article if you found it? No. Even if you're generous, you could only say the prompters are commissioning someone else (the AI) to generate an image. Prompters are not artists. At *best* you make a parallel to a client *commissioning* an artist. The only problem of course being that the AI can't create real art, it can only search for something it stole from others and hope it's close enough to what the prompter asked for. AI has been developed by using research exceptions to the copyright laws around the world, however they're not *supposed* to be able to use that copyrighted data directly for profit, and yet that's exactly what has happened. Unfortunately, the laws are wholly unprepared to protect against this massive theft, and the cases we do have in place trying to fight it are basically trying to fight a legal battle for which there aren't any laws in place to argue with. We're already gaining ground on the copyright side of things, and we've won a few cases already, but that only solves individual instances of theft and compensation, not the greater issues of regulation and stopping the companies as a whole from profiting off of stolen work.

Dagrik4923

Not even close, keep slaying with your art 👍

Valmann

AI, to my point of view is a tool. Which can be handy. But should not be a finality. What i can say can be percieved almost as mystical and all but.. AI Art has no soul. I can see it, i can feel it. No artist put a bit of himself on it. When you create something, all the tiny details that you learned by the past, all the tiny mistakes you do, the choices of color you pick.. All of this is because you learned and have your own taste for some stuff. A machine don't like anything. A machine don't think, it calculate. A machine don't get angry, don't love, don't cry. It doesn't comprehend what he make. It's all algorythms. At best, it can imitate but it's all fake. My take is we can use it to make the base of something, seek for an inspiration or tiny inconsequential stuff. But human hand should have the last word on it. Otherwise.. If art is removed from humans, it's less of what define ourselves as human.

BlueZorya

Starting to draw was one of my best decisions of my life. It pulled me out of bad (really bad) depressed life periods many times. And its safe to say it saved my life two times even. So hell yeah, I gonna keep going, and enjoying the hell out of it, as everyone should do who creates.

Vlčák

Liked your analogy with processed foods. My own cooking tastes better bcs I made an effort to make sonething for myself from quality stuff I spent time searching for and putting together.

Steven Tryon

Heh. You are talking to a life-long computer and network geek who turns 75 in June. I shoot old film cameras rather than having the digital algorithms magically produce the perfectly soulless perfect picture.

spencer

Thank you for this. I really needed to hear this right now. It can be demoralizing looking at the AI art that feels like it’s infected every part of my life. This post was the little bit I needed to keep creating and drawing.

Connor W.S. Fineran

AI is a tool meant to automate certain functions. It is NOT meant to be a replacement for art. AI cannot think. AI cannot feel. AI sees the world purely as data and algorithms and is often controlled with the interests of capitalists in mind. And most importantly, AI cannot express an experience of being human. Art at a fundamental level is an expression of humanity. Anyone who claims that entering a prompt into a machine that produces an imitation culled from work that other actual artists who worked for years and years at their craft are, frankly, idiots. AI cannot make art. Humans can. End of story.

Dieter

Not even close. And i like supporting someone who actually put time and effort in their art. Might be a little to the party but yeah

5devilz

i know exactly what you mean. But i‘m not lazy, just too old and my interests lie somewhere else. as a result I get frustrated very fast and lose interest. But i have mad respect for those who stick with it.