Renee Clark
Hello, I'm Renee. I'm a retired 3D animator and mixed media artist. My education focused around illustration and graphic design. My passions include mixed media art and gardening.I enjoy using a variety of mediums to create art including acrylic paint, watercolor, ink, clay, wool, even concrete!
Greeting card available for purchase at Greeting Card Universe
This card design was meticulously illustrated by hand, using a Wacom pen, tablet, and computer graphics software. Every stroke of the digital pen or brush was drawn by me. The card was illustrated using old school, early traditional computer graphics methods (no AI).
Learn more about my cottage garden at www.happyhencottage.com. The mission of Happy Hen Cottage is to share my experience with small-scale landscape and garden design, incorporating Permaculture methods into the design wherever possible. My family cottage sits on 1/4 of an acre, in an urban setting, 292 feet above sea level, coastal zone 8b.
Contact
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Inquiries may be sent to the email linked below.
Statement About AI Images
First, and foremost, AI generated images are not art. They are created, by machine, using datasets that were scraped, through the internet, from art that was created by traditional artists. In short, AI models were trained on stolen artwork. Artist copyrights were infringed upon and the artists were not compensated. Artists did not give permission for their artwork to be scraped and the scraping was done without their knowledge.Fewer artists are being hired as more companies rely on AI generated imagery. As someone who held a career as a commercial artist, I am saddened that artists today will have a more difficult time finding careers in the field of commercial art due to corporate adoption of AI. I did not own the art that I created as a commercial artist, the company that I worked for did, but I was compensated for my work. I was able to pay my mortgage, buy food, pay for needs and wants, etc. while having a career that I loved.I support efforts to disrupt the unauthorized training of AI models, and hope these and future disruption efforts will provide a level of protection for artists to feel comfortable showcasing their art. Refer to the links below for more information.University of Chicago, The Glaze ProjectNoML ProposalFree AI Agent, Bot TrackingA Community Effort to Identify and Block AI CrawlersAnother bone of contention is that AI has a heavy energy footprint, yet society still relies on carbon-intense forms of energy. I am a gardener who utilizes regenerative gardening, with hopes to heal nature in my small part of the world, while huge data centers are literally draining finite resources from the earth.While AI may be useful, I don't agree with the methods that are currently being utilized to build the datasets to develop AI models, or even to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).~ Renee Clark