John Welding ~ Drawing

Last post I mentioned that I used Ai in making this latest Chuffin' Billy strip. Generating Ai images using Microsoft CoPilot sounds grander than it is but it is something I want to talk about. I love hand drawn comics and e verything I know about the medium has been learnt because I loved the escapism from reality that hand drawn comics in the seventies', eighties' and nineties brought me. To me Ai generated artwork is synonymous to someone flicking through a magazine, with no intention of buying it. Fantastic images are perceived as hyper reality and easily forgotten leaving very little for the viewer and nothing for the maker. But, the ability of a computer to generate an image that encapsulates what you are trying to communicate is... impressive and it can be used. So where is the Ai in Chuffin' Billy episode three? Page Three Frame 1 – bob, billy and mick are sat around a table in mick’s canal side house.   Eric is curled up on the floor. There’s a bottle of wh