Ella Villa (Spectre) 🌙

Digital artists, share your first digital art and year vs. now

Before I got a drawing tablet, an old friend of mine taught me how to navigate photoshop so I could color my sketches 🥹

2011 vs 2026

𝘛𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘭! 𝘛𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘭!
𝘏𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦;
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨.
𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭
𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦,
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘯ú𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘭

My own rendition of Beren calling out to Luthien using Pre-Raphaelite paintings as inspiration 🌟

#lotr #fantasy #elf

Need to post more often here! 😅

Here's my entry "Calanthe" for the V Rising vampire art contest, she made it as a finalist, which got me a few free DLCs 😆

Will also be opening some portrait commissions soon ❤️

#art #vampire #vrising

Here's the GIF process 💖

𝘛𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘭! 𝘛𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘭!
𝘏𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦;
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨.
𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭
𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦,
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘯ú𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘭

My own rendition of Beren calling out to Luthien using Pre-Raphaelite paintings as inspiration 🌟

#lotr #fantasy #elf

finally got to watch Frieren again, didn't like the opening song at first but it has grown on me and i've been playing it on loop ever since 😅

man pokemon go has taken over my life i need to hard reset my priorities

Hoping to save up enough to sign up this year or the next!

Idk how my old post got a bit of traction today but thank you for sharing it!!

Man I missed portfolio day :((

Obsessed with the environment ugh cant wait to play this

No studio will ever generate 4 options and be like one of these is perfect. They will generate hundreds/thousands driving up executive indecision and take just as long. The actual problem is not how long artist take, its leadership not knowing exactly what they want. AI will not solve that.

Well this stings a lil bit

Dawn Angel ✨

Strong, a hulking green super mutant, sits on a the dead body of a post apocalyptic raider while holding a skull. He is in front of the boston common at bight. His gaze is filled with a yearning to learn. Empty milk bottles are scattered around him.

Strong, the Brutish Thespian
Ad Colin Boyer
#MTGxFallout

The other fallout piece and one of my fav characters in '4 :) Again not sure if I can show process, but I had a lot of fun setting this up in game. The milk bottles and book bite were my idea for easter eggs

Cosmos

Glad I deactivated my x account right before they introduced that dumpster fire feature

There is no AI used in Blue Prince. The game was built and crafted with full human instinct by Tonda Ros and his team at
@dogubomb.bsky.social.

It is the result of eight years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity, and we are extremely proud of what Tonda has achieved.

1/5 Seeing some tech/ai slop accounts online claiming that AI has always been used in games, pretending GenAi is a part of that, when its absolutely not.

Yes, AI has always been a part of games in: NPC behaviors, Data Mining, PCG’s (Procedural Content Generation) etc

All different from GenAi!

Bro this looks so cute, like a diorama. I've already had some rough understanding of normal maps but seeing them used like this looks super cool.

Will be watching this game development closely 👀

Swen Vincke @LarAtLarian Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI. We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do. I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists. We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison. I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more: https://gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-embraces-machine-learning-for-tasks-that-nobody-wants-to-do/1100-6531123/ We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.

This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

Concept art of Rosalind Lutece's wardrobe and outfit construction from Bioshock Infinite, drawn by Claire Hummel

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-"

wrong

I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI

get good

I have such a weird relationship with Linkedin

I cant stomach the self-glazing and AI infested ads but I love doing the minigame dailies lol

photo of yours truly surrounded by eight of my artworks, most of which are fantasy and or gothic/whimsical

My #artvsartist this year!

I'm pretty happy with my output, but my sense of time is wildly out of whack (the cover from March feels like last year... the cover from June feels like yesterday, lol) Probably just a reflection of the state of the world tbh.

#artvsartist2025

I'm looking for concept artists or illustrators working in gamedev who would like to share thoughts or comments (anonymous or attributed) regarding the use of GenAI as a reference tool in their process.

If that's you, DM or email me! Details in bio.

I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

Like man, my career only exists in the way that it does now because a production designer was googling "realistic pokemon" and found me. If he could have just had a machine spit that out, I never would have gotten a job. This is a major issue hitting artist discoverability.

I mean this AI stuff is NOT cheap. When companies start using AI it bleeds into everything for faster outputs until it gets "polished" over to make that expense worth it.

'The use of generative AI has led to some pushback at Larian, “but I think at this point everyone at the company is more or less OK with the way we’re using it,” Vincke said.' larian employees blink twice if you need a lifeline