Watching the Champion's League final, all I could think every time Courtois blocked another shot was, "damn, Germany doesn't usually have this difficult of a time getting through Belgium".

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He’s using a better AI than the one built into IG I’ll give him that

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There might be some AI elements used, but after looking thru their Instagram I think it’s most likely mediocre to okay photoshop collages of open source (or ripped) baroque and renaissance paintings. As a designer who works primarily in photoshop, I’ve seen worse but I’ve definitely seen better. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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There is absolutely no AI used in their art. But what a compliment that people think so. Their work is digital collage, illustration and paint. You can learn more about them here:

I confirm with all the artists that they are not using AI before I collab with them. At the moment I have no interest in working with artists who use AI.

Also sorry to be the one to tell you this, because you are clearly of high intelligence, but “mediocre” and “okay” are synonyms. So they cannot be used together in the context of a range.

And while we are sharing this beautiful, educational moment together and you fancy yourself a Photoshop aficionado, you will be delighted to know that Welder Wings' work has been featured in Photoshop ad campaigns.

Post a link to your work and portfolio. Would love to see it. It must be incredible if you consider Welder Wings's art to be "mediocre to okay".

Hey @BRINK thanks for the response!
While this artist duo is definitely proficient in photoshop, there are a few things that stand out to me in their work that make it feel like it’s not fully realized.
So all of this is just my opinion and a quick critique of the works not the artists.

First with these being digital collages you’ve essentially got the entire internet at your disposal, so to reuse the same clipped asset multiple times in the same pieces feels lazy. Especially like the example below where the skull is the only thing added to the landscape painting.


There are a number of pieces where the composition feels pretty clunky. Regarding the photoshop aspect there are a lot of really soft edges with floating elements and and content aware tool “ghosts”. These ghosts are where the content aware tool leaves a weird blurry/soft looking edge and in some cases it leaves a blurry mash up of other elements from the canvas.





These types of things can make a photoshop job look a bit sloppy or amateur.
I did some research on the artists but couldn’t find any process about where the paintings they use for collage come from. I know you said they paint, so if that’s true they should showcase that aspect of the art to lend it a more unique artistic feel. I’d hazard you to claim they aren’t using AI, like I said I don’t know their process but new versions of photoshop have a built in generative AI function. With them being Adobe Photoshop highlighted artists I’d be surprised if they weren’t encouraged by Adobe to utilize their new tool.

Okay and for myself… you seem to think that since I criticized this art I was implying that I’m better or smarter. That is not the case whatsoever. I actually don’t have a website or a current portfolio, but I did grab this example of my work. I made this in 2016 but I felt like it fit well with this conversation.
This is a pattern I made in photoshop using a bought vintage painting and then I hand painted gauche elements for the fruits and spiderwebs. I make prints & patterns for apparel for a living so this is different work than the artists above but it’s the same process. I work at Nike, not in SB but this happened to land on SB product in 2018.





Anyways, good luck with your venture. Oh and fuck off with the grammar policing, no one likes a cop. ✌️

Durability on those Tyshawn seems to be so so

Was going to snag them, I like the colorway, but when Dave at bluetile said “painted leather”, they became a hard pass.

I don't doubt Dustin could put up some more good wins, I just think his life would be better off getting into commentary or something like that.  He's a likeable guy in a sport filled with douchebags.  I hope the UFC gives him the Forrest Griffin treatment.  It's gonna be sad seeing what happens to some of these guys who took way to many blows to the head.  I fully expect to see Sean Strickland dead or homeless in 15 years.

Oh yeah Don Frye too.  I started watching MMA again after revisiting all that old UFC and Pride shit during the covid lockdowns.  Frye's fights are my personal favorites.  His personality is memeable and great.

He had a lot of great fights, but this one sums up early UFC pretty good.

I think we have our first photos of his chrome dome!
Looks pretty good honestly