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An Overdue Weigh-in on Adobe's Recent Fiascos

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As a professional artist who's used Adobe's products for decades, I felt it was time I offered my 2 cents on Adobe's recent PR, legal, commercial, and philosophical dumpster fire, involving problematic verbiage in their Creative Cloud subscription Terms of Service relating to Adobe's alleged right to potentially utilize customer data saved to the Creative Cloud to (among other possible things) train Artificial Intelligence models. In the second half of the video, I talk about alternatives to Adobe software that I know at least a little about firsthand, and I touch on recent developments that are still unfolding regarding Adobe's Creative Cloud, the Terms of Service, Artificial Intelligence, usage of customer data, and the US Justice Department. Other YouTubers who've covered this more comprehensively: https://www.youtube.com/user/gamefromscratch https://www.youtube.com/@rossmanngroup/videos -------------------------------------------- Software Alternative

Justice League X Jujutsu Kaisen (Crossover Parody Animation)

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    In this dreadfully rushed animated skit, after the loss of the Justice League's resident mage, Batman makes the mistake of recruiting Satoru Gojo from Jujutsu High. Presented in 1:1 format, because I don't feel like asking people to turn their phones on either app! ;P If you like this video please be sure to hit like and let me know in the comments... And who knows?  Maybe I'll whip up a sequel or two after my recently deceased computer is fixed or replaced.   ...BTW, feel free to donate to help that happen faster:   https://account.venmo.com/u/Chrisoconnelldotnet   #batman #superman #justiceleague #jujutsukaisen #satorugojo #yujiitadori #animatedparody #crossover #fanart   Superman is owned by DC Comics, Joanne Siegel and Laura Siegel Lawson. Batman, the Justice League and other associated characters are owned by DC Comics and Warner Bros Discovery (or whatever they're called this week).   Jujutsu Kaisen and it characters are the property of Gege Akutami, Shue

Art by the Coco - Art Vlog: I let A.I. mangle my artwork AGAIN.

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In this video, I take another crack at seeing how analog artwork from my previous videos gets reinterpreted by various Stable Diffusion models with minimal prompting. From questionably rendered anime, to robots, to dragons, check out what AI software made from my paintings and illustrations, and let me know which pieces you love or hate. Also, sorry about some of the audio. I had both a cold and mic issues that were tricky AF to fix in post. -------------------------------------------- AI Software Automatic 1111 - https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stab... AI Models Am i Real - https://civitai.com/models/49463?mode... Dreamshaper - https://civitai.com/models/4384/dream... Mistoon_Anime - https://civitai.com/models/24149?mode... Protogen v2.2 - https://civitai.com/models/3627?model... MonsterCoffeeBang! Mix - https://civitai.com/models/118271/mon... LoRAs Robort - https://civitai.com/models/68641/robort Animal Mecha - https://civitai.com/models/187628?mod... IronCatL

Art by the Coco - Art Vlog: Watercolor Experiment Revisited

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In this video, I continue to reacquaint myself with watercolor painting, as I attempt to modify the means by which I duplicate my illustrations, this time with artwork featuring One Piece fanart and a Halloween zombie. -------------------------------------------- Art supplies shown in this video: Bianyo Mixed Media Paper Pad - https://amzn.to/3RXrKX7 Daler-Rowney Watercolor Paint in tubes - https://amzn.to/411FBi5 Acrylic White Paint Pens - https://amzn.to/41Hsy62 Strathmore Watercolor Paper Pad - https://amzn.to/3tpc3il Newbested White Watercolor Paper - https://amzn.to/46BMlo7 HP LaserJet M110w Wireless Printer - https://amzn.to/3sYLbp0 Black Sharpie markers - https://amzn.to/3R5ADfS Phoenix Watercolor Paint Set - Available at various job lot and dollar stores, because I'm still a sucker for the occasional budget art supplies. ;) #watercolor #inktober #illustration #artist #watercolorpainting #artvlog #zombies #onepiece #art #fanart #kuzan #artsupplies #

Art by the Coco - Art Vlog: I let A.I. mangle my artwork and...

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In this video, I share what happened after I decided to put some of the artwork from my previous videos through through Stable Diffusion Automatic 1111 and turn it all into A.I. art. From questionably rendered anime to the even more surreal, check it out and let me know which ones you like or hate. -------------------------------------------- AI Software Automatic 1111 - https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stab... AI Models Am i Real - https://civitai.com/models/49463?mode... Dreamshaper - https://civitai.com/models/4384/dream... Mistoon_Anime - https://civitai.com/models/24149?mode... Protogen v2.2 - https://civitai.com/models/3627?model... Western Animation Diffusion - https://civitai.com/models/86546?mode... #illustrations #artist #artvlog #angelart #artificialintelligence #stablediffusion #automatic1111 #aiart #digitalart #artwork #wolverine #computergraphics -------------------------------------------- Intro Song Southbound by: CreatorMix.com Background S

Art by the Coco - Art Vlog: Watercolor Experiment

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In this video, I reacquaint myself with watercolor painting. I decided to paint some of my Inktober illustrations, but I didn't draw them on watercolor or mixed media paper. So, I had to improvise a little to make it happen. -------------------------------------------- Art supplies shown in this video: Newbested White Watercolor Paper - https://amzn.to/46BMlo7 HP LaserJet M110w Wireless Printer - https://amzn.to/3sYLbp0 Black Sharpie markers - https://amzn.to/3R5ADfS Daler-Rowney Watercolor Paint in tubes - https://amzn.to/411FBi5 Phoenix Watercolor Paint Set - Available at various job lot and dollar stores. #watercolor #inktober #illustration #artist #watercolorpainting #artvlog #angelart #artsupplies #fineart #analogart -------------------------------------------- WTF is Inktober: https://inktober.com/ -------------------------------------------- Background Song: Reflections Artist: Owl Nest Music by: CreatorMix.com Video: https://youtu.be/YCG5EM3WPQk