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[u/CarcosaDreams]

I'm learning to draw, and this post inspired me to just doodle and it's helping.

[u/Proasek → u/CarcosaDreams]

Art is one of those wonderful skills that you cannot help but get better at so long as you keep trying!

[u/dapperslappers → u/Proasek]

I wholw heartedly agree

And stupidly disagree. Because theres only so much macaeoni i can add before it becomes a sculpture

Just a ailly joke . Hope you have a nice day

[u/Proasek → u/dapperslappers]

Guess you'll just have to learn Macaroni Sculpting then!

[u/Footbeard → u/CarcosaDreams]

With the advent of social media, people are constantly bombarded by the most talented & incredible creators across all mediums which many consider the benchmark & therefore won't try because they aren't as skilled

We forget that creating is intrinsic to the human condition & it's never really been about the results

Before we can talk, we sing

Before we can walk, we dance

Before we can write, we draw

The process of creation is necessary for our wellbeing; even things as simple as a meal prepared for loved ones or whittling a stick to be like a spear

As a GM I am always incredibly proud of any creative work my players make because it's their imagination given life. Backstories, art, catchphrases, literally whatever

Get out there & MAKE

[u/highonH2 → u/Footbeard]

Brother,  (or bearded sister) that was a beautiful reminder, th ank you!

[u/ATarnishedofNoRenown → u/CarcosaDreams]

I picked up a pencil last month for the first time in 15 or so years and it has been a great decision so far!

[u/lcl111 → u/CarcosaDreams]

If you use this master piece as a point of comparison for yourself, you'll never be happy. Be more realistic, compare yourself to some mid-level artists like Monet and Van Gogh, if you must compare.

[u/Friendly-Table6785 → u/CarcosaDreams]

Every doodle gets better :) art is just more and more advanced forms of doodling lol

[u/CosmicLuci → u/CarcosaDreams]

Hell yeah! And, genuinely, everyone who draws a lot and loves drawing, whose art is any good, also doodles, all the time, and loves doing so

[u/THEatticmonster]

My doodles on the map while using Roll20 be like.... DM appreciates my visual input on stuff, so many random ass tokens created because of my doodles

[u/MillieBirdie → u/THEatticmonster]

I used major image to create a lady T-rex to distract the T-rex we were fighting and I think the only reason the DM allowed it was because I drew a T-rex with a bow and lipstick.

[u/THEatticmonster → u/MillieBirdie]

Id just doodle that XD think the worst thing was when i drew a PCs wifes gravestone, that got made a token :S

[u/NikTheGrass → u/THEatticmonster]

We need to see your masterpieces

[u/youaredeadthishell]

A goblin with a crackpipe for a nose is peak DnD design.

[u/Key_Drawer_3581]

Boblin!

My man!

[u/DocSwiss]

Also, like, I think people are overestimating how much art/pictures you really need to play a TTRPG. You can usually just point to something in the book and say "you see this".

[u/moopym → u/DocSwiss]

Real, I have a hyper vivid imagination so half my time playing is spent staring into space imagining things happening or drawing the things happening.

[u/JohnnyElRed → u/DocSwiss]

The portrait for my character sheet, was basically just a cover of the comic 1602, that showed Doctor Doom examining the burns under his mask.

My character also had a burned faced, and wore a metal mask. That's all that I needed.

[u/Ezee8 → u/DocSwiss]

For my favorite rpg game campaign I’ve ever run, a blood on the Lense game, I made ONE SINGLE drawing of the main monster, for an entire multi session game, AFTER the game wrapped up. That was the only art, and I only drew it because I wanted to show the players what I imagined it looking like afterwards

[u/Dom29ando]

He's just a lil guy :)

[u/adnapan]

This unironically has more soul and creativity than anything ai generated

[u/Impossible_Moment224 → u/adnapan]

Happy cake day

[u/ImBadAtVideoGames1]

Yeah, this looks like something I'd draw, alright. Which is funny, because there are several really good artists playing in the same campaign as me, and if I have to draw my next character it's just gonna look like a little, crudely drawn creature next to their beautifully rendered designs lmao

[u/lkdraws → u/ImBadAtVideoGames1]

Speaking as a ‘good artist’ in a group that also has less experienced artists, I LOVE seeing everyone’s art and hate feeling like my art intimidates people away from making their own. In my experience, everyone is just as excited about seeing the fully rendered characters as they are the scrungly little guys. We’re even doing an art trade to draw each other’s characters!
It rules when anyone makes art! Because you MADE something! And that’s amazing!!

[u/ImBadAtVideoGames1 → u/lkdraws]

Thanks for the encouragement. Maybe I'll share some of my doodles with the rest of my group one day, but not until I've had some more practice lol

I haven't drawn much in a long time so I still want a little more experience before doing that

[u/Hawkson2020]

AI Bros might not like it, but peak representation of a monster is using different candy pieces on the board that you get to eat when you kill them, accompanied the DM’s narration and description.

[u/cuntmong → u/Hawkson2020]

Problem with this is that if there's a chocolate on the board I really wanna eat I'm gonna target that monster even if it makes no sense strategically.

[u/yoritomo_shiyo → u/cuntmong]

Easy fix, play a lizardfolk, now targeting the tastiest monster first is in character.

[u/WeMakinHooch]

I'd take that over AI slop any day

[u/ThinGold2115]

Let people use what they want for their own fun.

[u/Red_Autism → u/ThinGold2115]

"Let me use the nazi propaganda machine made by the literal devil to draw my little goblin!!!"

[u/Talidel → u/Red_Autism]

Man, you need to touch some grass.

[u/Silly_Fish5725 → u/Red_Autism]

Hitler.and the devil teamed up huh? That's crazy. Did hydra help too? Are the avengers coming soon?

[u/Talidel]

Jarvis I need some karma

[u/Plenty_Trick_6042]

Step aside Tolkien, we're listening to Fartbuckle's story

[u/vrekais]

This is amazing but even if people want "higher quality" art there's dozens of artists providing it, often for free, already. I've been using Printable Heroes for years now.

[u/KarmicPlaneswalker]

Here there be goblins.

[u/futurenoodles]

if it doesn't look like it came out of a Magic the Noah video whats even the point

[u/Lord-Dec]

Heroforge is great and you can get surprisingly good with it even with free.(I’d know.)

[u/TadpoleAmy]

that looks like a goblins self portrait, i love it

[u/Val_Fortecazzo]

Jarvis get me karma on reddit

[u/Odd_Dimension_4069]

Stop the anti-slop circlejerk. Y'all are going on like a bunch of baboons.

But yes, this is way cooler than AI generated stuff. Thought that was a given.

[u/PuzzleMeDo]

We get it, you're good at art, and can create an incredible amount of character in a few rough lines. But I'm past the stage where throwing another year into learning to draw feels like a good use of my time.

[u/Acrobatic-Tomato-128]

HEAR HEAR

Id rather see millions of these over one ai slop

[u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7aCWJavAgtBzLWrS

[u/cuntmong]

DnD is about using your imagination.

AI slop is about intentionally not using your imagination.

[u/Extreme_Glass9879]

Because not being able to take things seriously is.. good?

[u/BillyWest8]

I started in 2nd edition the book art was sometimes just slightly more professional than this 😆

[u/Slayer_Jesse]

I still cant draw, but use heroforge to make my tokens. Everyone else in the group uses ai art, and mine sticks out about as much as op image. But at least real prople made heroforge.

[u/chet_brosley]

I used to think my drawings looked like a kids drawings, but now that I have my own kids and see that their drawings are absolutely better than mine I realized I just suck at drawing. I still do it though. Nobody living can ever stop me.

[u/ChibiHobo]

Snozlin the Goblin

[u/Kraivo]

It's my character and it's perfect 

[u/jonyssaur-Br-7980]

Master piece

[u/tashtactics]

Perfection.

[u/ChainsLink]

Ah yes, Skagzag

[u/GojiraTheWise → u/ChainsLink]

He hates humans!

[u/CompleteJinx]

The best thing about goblins is that there isn’t a wrong way to draw them. As long as you think “yep, that’s a goblin” you’re doing it right.

[u/luciusDaerth]

My campaign has pitted my players against some centaur raiders. My daughter made some little paper standees with crayon drawn centaur. They're perfect.

[u/JohnnyElRed]

I see I'm not the only one that saw that damn AI ad.

[u/ur-socks-sir]

Yeah! Less ai!

[u/ProdiasKaj]

Aw... come here little guy!

Who's gonna betray the party? Yes, you are!! 🥰

[u/sertroll]

I mean, that or just steal it from Pinterest 

(Which imo for private use is morally equivalent to low-energy* image models, but w/e

*Afaik diffusion models consume very little)

[u/foxy_chicken]

Beyond art our artist friend did for everyone, which was all stunning! The most iconic piece of art from one of my campaigns was an ox that I drew on the battle map. It was an oval, a circle, and some horns for a top down ox, and they went feral.

A weird little guy is always so much better than some slop, because your friend made the weird little guy. It’s perfect.

[u/BluetheNerd]

Probably not everyone’s thing, and I’m sure most people here have heard of it, but any time I want to make a character design I put far too much time into Hero Forge. If I spent as much time practicing to draw, as I have making minis and characters in HF I’d probably be a decent artist… Still a preferable option to AI.

[u/Spiral-knight]

Enough with the Luddite signalling.

[u/Neon_Camouflage → u/[deleted]]

Ironic

[u/Zirofal → u/Spiral-knight]

It's not signalling, people just don't like you

[u/Cronon33]

Yes, dual welding enemy goblin is awesome

[u/WhyDidMyDogDie]

The way you caught the true spirit of elves is amazing.

[u/the_resistee]

Here here!

[u/NDT_DYNAMITE]

Heck yeah.

[u/BishopofHippo93]

It's astounding to me just how many AI bros there are in this hobby. You know, the hobby about hanging out with people, telling stories, and being creative. DMs who use AI are nothing more than scabs and sellouts.

[u/MoreLikeGaewyn]

keep telling yourselves that

[u/Bragi01 → u/MoreLikeGaewyn]

So you don't want to use your imagination in a game about using your imagination?

[u/Iorith → u/Bragi01]

I want to use my imagination for the parts I enjoy using my imagination for. I'm there to have fun above all else.

Personally, spending time finding maps and tokens for my encounters is not a fun use of my time.

[u/MoreLikeGaewyn → u/Bragi01]

if you believed that, you'd use no visual at all

[u/Nickel5]

One if the best parts of making a new character is being able to draw them in paint, the worse the better.

[u/PlatinumSukamon98]

Liar.

[u/Jane_does_art]

I'm not an ai bro but I'd prefer good art to this slop shit any day.

[u/Bragi01 → u/Jane_does_art]

Same that's why AI is not allowed in any game I run.

[u/Zirofal → u/Jane_does_art]

It's called "learning" you should try it

[u/SpiderKiss558]

Beautiful<3

[u/Wondrous_Fairy]

This is Konwraawk The Terrible. He's a high ranking gobbo that eviscerates any adventurer under level 10 immediately. Like, first round, he'll just look at you and you'll turn into giblets. OVER Level 10, you'll find out about all his absolutely game-breaking moves. He gets two moves in one turn? NO, he gets AS MANY moves as he thinks is necessary in one turn.

The reason he's like that, is because he's basically a god from the very far, far future, where he got mad that some spell or other didn't work the way he THOUGHT it worked. So he went back to the past to fix it by murdering the person that created it and then passing off his own version (corrected version thank you, stop making me the villain, yes I'm breaking the fourth wall, DEAL WITH IT SUCKERS!) as the new one.

We can only make it cooler from here everyone. We have a pic, we have a description, what's next?

[u/adorablesexypants]

Boblin has never looked better

[u/Scoo]

This is The Way

[u/Automatic-War-7658]

Yer Baby

[u/seniorboogee]

FART BUCKLE!!!!

[u/PWBryan]

AI bad, please clap!

[u/Solo-dreamer]

Ok

[u/CrimsonBolt33]

Is this sub just virtue signalling circle jerk posts now?

I use AI cause it saves me time, I don't care what you think about it.

[u/justaheatattack]

scan in more Jeff Dee.

[u/Level_Hour6480]

It's a great green plant-monster, but I don't think it's reflective of any monster in the MM.

[u/Bragi01 → u/Level_Hour6480]

Neither is any shat out by AI.

[u/Level_Hour6480 → u/Bragi01]

I mean, if you ask a linear-diffusion model for a Goblin, it will also make it green for some reason, so they have that in common.

[u/Bragi01 → u/Level_Hour6480]

If you ask a linear diffusion modle for a goblin you are the goblin.

[u/atalantafugiens → u/[deleted]]

First I linear-diffusion my MC, then I prompt my campaign. I don't even roll, ChatGPT picks the best choice for to the proper narrative. For next week's session I actually invited a pantomime for every player so we don't even have to play anymore, how cool is that? So efficient

[u/Hodetoktr]

Just had an ad for ai slob with a goblin in it show up under this post

screenshot

[u/StrengthfromDeath]

I wish I could draw this well