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Painting Process Breakdown

Robert Hunt

This month I thought I would share a little painting process. This is a painting of Arctic Explorer Frank Worsley* that I did as preliminary work as part of a project I'm working on. I start by doing a very loose sketch to lay out the composition I do the same to rough in the position of the facial features I start adding some transitional passing values and modulate the colors in the drawing. most…

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No, Fan Art Should NOT Be Compared To GenAI

David Palumbo

November 5, 2025 - In a very recent article posted to this site by Arnie Fenner, an equivalency is made between AI generated images and fan art made by conventional methods.  It’s a short piece and I’d direct anyone interested to read it rather than having me summarize. When I saw this, I was both surprised and disappointed.  While I understand that many folks hold low opinions of fan art, I’d hope that there is at least a clear distinction between works born of one’s genuine efforts versus images generated by an automated computer program.  Whatever subjective opinion you hold on the importance, creative merits, or even legality of fan art, it flat out is not comparable to genAI slop which has no human author. I wanted to share my own thoughts on the nature and realities of fan…

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