Nice find; I'd lost track of him! Great to see he's still at it and better than ever. As much as I like all the pop culture references, there's no shortage of real artists who also do that sort of thing. His grot-grrl portraits (like this one of sp00ksh0wbaby) are my favorite.
I like how hard his style is to pin down; there's too much Ed Roth (Rat Fink) influence mixed in to just call it comic book art.
In the interest of staying on topic, I ran some art-battles on LMArena to navigate the contradiction between sexy and grotesque; nano-banana's entry nailed the style, and added a non-garbled text title without any prompting from me:
Big Salty Betty's not exactly an original title or what I find sexy, but she manages to be sexy-coded while preserving the more-essential Rat-Fink high-speed vibe of grotesque danger. This totally looks like a sticker that'd be on the pilot's console of a pontoon boat owned by some horny old swingers.
Here are the runners up worth sharing:
UL - flux-1.1-pro didn't get that "wench" implied female, but did create a terrifyingly detailed Rat-Fink demon pirate;
UR - gpt-image-1 seemed to understand the assignment, but this simple AI-cartoon style is already WAY-played-out;
LL - dall-e-3 got points for making the only dangerous-sexy pirate, but didn't really understand the Rat-Fink vibe;
LR - imagen-4.0-generate-preview-06-06 got close, but the image is just flat and ugly rather than fast and grotesque.
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pretzel_morty@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Just looked up Sam McKenzie and found his IG; dude is legit!
mantisolo@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 1y
Nice find; I'd lost track of him! Great to see he's still at it and better than ever. As much as I like all the pop culture references, there's no shortage of real artists who also do that sort of thing. His grot-grrl portraits (like this one of sp00ksh0wbaby) are my favorite.
pretzel_morty@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
I like how hard his style is to pin down; there's too much Ed Roth (Rat Fink) influence mixed in to just call it comic book art.
In the interest of staying on topic, I ran some art-battles on LMArena to navigate the contradiction between sexy and grotesque; nano-banana's entry nailed the style, and added a non-garbled text title without any prompting from me:
Big Salty Betty's not exactly an original title or what I find sexy, but she manages to be sexy-coded while preserving the more-essential Rat-Fink high-speed vibe of grotesque danger. This totally looks like a sticker that'd be on the pilot's console of a pontoon boat owned by some horny old swingers.
Here are the runners up worth sharing:
UL - flux-1.1-pro didn't get that "wench" implied female, but did create a terrifyingly detailed Rat-Fink demon pirate;
UR - gpt-image-1 seemed to understand the assignment, but this simple AI-cartoon style is already WAY-played-out;
LL - dall-e-3 got points for making the only dangerous-sexy pirate, but didn't really understand the Rat-Fink vibe;
LR - imagen-4.0-generate-preview-06-06 got close, but the image is just flat and ugly rather than fast and grotesque.
mantisolo@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 1y
nano-banana legit (your word, old man) DOMINATES the LMArena