Hey guys
So for the past few months, it’s been obvious that my updates in Celeste are all but nonexistent. Besides me just slowly losing interest in graphic-making, I’ve been grappling with the dilemma of AI art. I look up artwork to use, and it’s almost nothing but AI art or art that I can’t figure out whether it’s AI or not. I’m staunchly against using AI art, and I frankly don’t have the patience to ethically source artwork to use in my graphics nowadays unless they’re direct faceclaims of always existing characters. I know fanart can be AI generated too, but at least it’s more likely to be actually drawn vs generated. My free time these days is so limited, and I’d rather put it into fanfics, drawing, and working on an actual novel I’ve been working on developing for a little while now.
I’m going to try to finish making the graphics for this current batch so I don’t let everyone who’s waiting down, and afterward, I’m considering closing Celeste and finally ending my graphic workshops in general. I want the workshop to close with a bang though, so I think I’m gonna do a special project for my last set of graphics in the workshop, though I’ll think through it more as it comes closer to the time.
