Male Humid Climate Gnome

gome

Columbo walking into a pool fully clothed and then drinking pool water.

The Most Crucial Game, season 2 episode 3 (1972)

Was working on a trail and now I'm stuck drawing with light - both forward and backward in time. Fun!

Will probably tone it down later, too bright.

Also, new area inspired by Moria from LOTR.

Example art from Tumblr users @poltergrease @teenageclown @randomationality

Gnomes out and about

I believe everything should be offline, I believe that every time something that is not your internet browser (and I'm being generous here) should have a big red alert that says THIS PIECE OF SHIT PROGRAM NEEDS TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET AND REQUESTS YOUR CONSENT TO DO THIS SPECIFIC THING, and you had to touch a big red button and it would disconnect as soon as you close it.

This is true but also, people who use AI typically do not want something new, they want something that already exists, but in a lesser form they can claim ownership over. The primary use case of AI is to plagiarize, to reorder someone else's work, no matter whose, and put it on a leash.

The more you understand AI, the more you realize that it can't replace artists. It just can't. Even using the AI to make something requires being a creative human with an idea. Generative AI literally runs on a data set, it cannot conceptualize things that do not already exist -- or even things that DO but aren't in its data. And honestly, sometimes even the best models have a pretty hard fucking time conceptualizing things that very much do exist in their data set. The whole concept of creativity revolves around being able to conceptualize a unique idea that lives inside your brain. Being able to regurgitate things that already exist and being able to flesh out a fully original idea are completely opposite things. Even when you are prompting an AI model to generate something that you thought up, you have to explain it in terms of things that already exist so the AI can create it from those pre-existing pieces. If AI existed in 1930 you could not ask it to generate an image of gollum, because Tolkien did not create him yet. Do you see what I'm saying??????

No part of these descriptions contradict each other

There are exactly two types of "gnome" that exist in the collective conscious.

One is a whimsical little guy that smokes his pipe and lives in a mushroom. they are lovely, they are your friends, you have tea with them.

The other is effectively a eusocial nest forming rodent with the wherewithal, malice and thumbs to utilize vietnam war era tactics on you.