I'd recommend Tim Urban's (of waitbutwhy fame) new book, What's Our Problem. It's a deep dive on a lot of these things in the last decade and how we ended up where we are now.
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It's credited to Jason Lyon
Since it seems there are multiple Jason Lyons out there, thought it might be good to link directly to their portfolio: https://www.jason-lyon.com/
noahbradley commented on DALL·E now available in beta openai.com/blog/dall-e-no... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Surprised by the lack of comments on the ethics of DALL-E being trained on artists content whereas copilot threads are chock full of devs up in arms over models trained on open source code. Isn’t it the same thing?
There are a few of those discussions going on in artist's circles these days. I imagine they'll get sued for doing this, but it'll probably take a very famous artist or a hell of a class action suit to make it happen.
noahbradley commented on How to Draw Animals (1930) dessinoprimaire.blogspot.... · Posted by u/ddtaylor
It's crazy how little has changed in drawing styles since the 30's. Those books look like something you could buy today (or at least find on the internet, I'm not sure if people still buy drawing books)
I'd say a whole lot has changed in drawing styles. There just happened to be a fairly accessible style of drawing that these sort of books teach which has stuck around well. It can be a nice intro to art and at least starts you thinking about how to construct your drawings. But yeah, once you move past that it's fairly impressive how much things have changed/evolved in drawing.
OT: does anyone know any groups for making the opposite switch (tech to art)?
Art is a pretty broad category. Any particular sort of art you're interested in?
noahbradley commented on Ask HN: Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch? · Posted by u/autotune
It takes decades to get professional good at precision physical skills.
That's not to say you won't be twice as good of a drawer as you are now, in 2 years of serious practice.
But if you're measuring yourself against people who have spent their entire lives working on a thing... it's going to take some time to get to that level.
Decades feels a bit long, from what I've seen/experienced. I'd say if you're dedicated you can hit a professional level in 5-7 years.
noahbradley commented on Ask HN: Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch? · Posted by u/autotune
Yep I have already emailed them for more info! Hopefully they have weekend classes...
Good luck! Art is a hell of a fun pursuit and I hope you have a good time with it. The long periods of boredom and frustration lead to those moments of bliss as you make things you're proud of and you start to understand what you're doing.
It's an endless road but it's a damn fun one.