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Laura Dunnings's avatar

Since it’s still summer can we draw some undersea life..or some colorful tropical birds!

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Beth Spencer's avatar

These are great ideas! I've been wanting to practice drawing birds. I wonder if I can talk my father-in-law into taking some photos at the zoo with me while he's visiting!

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Laura Dunnings's avatar

That sounds like a very fun way to spend the day! I’m sure your father-in-law is a fantastic photographer! Enjoy your time together 🙂

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Jenni Macklin's avatar

How incredible are all these badges??? Normally I’d suggest we draw dogs, but we’re going to be drawing some very soon in the upcoming session 😂 I really like Laura’s idea of colorful birds as well!

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Beth Spencer's avatar

Yay! Thank you, Jenni! <3 Dogs are always a good idea!

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Teresa Barroso's avatar

Amazing to see all the badges together!!! 🤩 We could make like an online zoo tour, drawing different animals as we were visiting a zoo together...quick sketches because we want to see the majority of the animals when we go to the zoo 🤗 enjoy your well deserved break Beth! 💛

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Beth Spencer's avatar

That sounds really cool, Teresa! I plan to spend lots of time at the zoo in September so I'll have plenty of practice and images! Thank you so much for the well wishes and great idea! <3

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Denise Holmes's avatar

So many amazing badges! Love it, Beth!

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Beth Spencer's avatar

Thank you, Denise! Your badge makes me so happy!

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Cheryl's avatar

Just upgraded to paid and looking forward to the Dog drawing session. Love the badges 💪

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Beth Spencer's avatar

Thank you, Cheryl! I look forward to drawing with you and have a DM with some info and links coming your way soon! <3

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Emily Kaminsky's avatar

Fantastic post. The whole scroll was amazing. I hope far off in the future someone human finds this scrolling list of badges and celebrates the efforts we made to retain and protect human creativity.

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Beth Spencer's avatar

Thank you, Emily! I LOVED your badge and the ones from the wonderful artists from Nakivale Refugee Settlement. Thank you so much for sharing the project with the important work you do.

I feel like the next step is to find ways to give less to the corporations that are rewarding the use of AI. I'm not entirely sure what that looks like. Maybe trying to get off Instagram as much as I can. I'll stop paying for that ridiculous blue check to "protect" my account from whatever might come after it. I'll NEVER click an ad. It's hard to know what will help, but I feel like we can do so much when we put our brains together! :D

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Emily Kaminsky's avatar

It's a big beast to tackle for sure and I think inevitably the AI wave is going to overpower. Always the question becomes what can the individual do in the face of the wave? Just like with climate change, I feel like we are in the mitigation stage not the turn back the tide stage, unfortunately. I try to mitigate the AI wave by encouraging people who are writers and other influential people who want images to go with their writing to partner with artists as opposed to seeking the quick fix of AI images. Knowing a bunch of artists who are eager to get their work seen helps with that cause! Also, with social media, it's so hard to turn the other way (or turn it off) because it's literally the only thing that is connecting folks who need connection like the Nakivale Artists with the outside world. Conundrums!

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Anne's avatar

I vote for submarine life too ! for all those amazing badges, I'm not on instagram, and suppose not only me !? I'd like to see more of them ! would it be possible to share all this ideas on substack or other gallery ?

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Nadine3892's avatar

What a bevy of beautiful badges 💕🤓!! So inspiring and I agree that AI art is soulless

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Carol's avatar

What a lovely way to celebrate your brilliant challenge! You’re right, computers don’t emote, and don’t worry if nobody likes their Substack post😊

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Debbie Starrett's avatar

You are amazing Beth and I am so proud to be a minuscule member of your fan base. Look at what you did?!! You launched a movement from your platform and united a plethora of independent artists!! What a beautiful thing. It’s like a great big artistic spark to unite our community. Yayyy YOU!! Yayyy all of us!!

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Beth Spencer's avatar

Thank you so much! You're a very important member of the creative community, Debbie! ❤️

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Holly Surplice's avatar

I love listening to you talk about this Beth, you say such thought provoking things and it warms my heart. The HI movement is just the best! 👏👏👏

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Charlotte Hamilton's avatar

This is all so true!! ai doesn’t read and subscribe!! 🩷 we are the creators! Thanks Beth!

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H Maria Armijo's avatar

Great video, loved being able to see all the badges!!!

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Beth Spencer's avatar

Thank you, Maria! ❤️

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