Coaching / Mentoring / Training

Suppose you’ve discovered that you have a passion for creating your own digital art and illustrations. Perhaps you’re also interested in creating Artificial Intelligence (AI) art and illustrations.

First you must learn how to bring your inner visions out into the physical world you live in by using technology. There is a direct and no-cost way to do this. You do not need to pursue a college or university degree to excel in creating and distributing your art worldwide. You simply need to turn to the correct person who can actually help you succeed:

You can connect with Las Vegas artist Madeira Desouza for free coaching, mentoring, training from him to help you on your way towards creating your own personalized digital visual works. He has been active creating digital artworks for worldwide distribution online since 2007. Now he is offering these no-cost educational services as his way of helping new generations of artists succeed by building upon best practices and proven success strategies.

This section of Male Gallery Vegas shares details about what you need to advance the creation of your own digital imagery.

What you will need to get started: The Las Vegas artist has used a free, downloadable digital art app for many years now. The app is known as DAZ3D Studio.

Note that the artist has purchased downloadable digital assets necessary to create visual works using DAZ3D Studio. Those two things—the free digital app and the digital assets you pay for—both are essential for image creation.

Be sure that you start by watching a short YouTube video about the app known as DAZ3D Studio which the Las Vegas artist Madeira Desouza uses. This app is one you can choose to use as well, but this app is not the only one on the market today.

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You need to be born with certain, specific talents to be able to use these tools, but the coaching, mentoring, training in digital art from Desouza of Vegas is available to anyone who is serious enough and willing to invest a certain amount of time, money (paid for digital assets to third party vendors) and physical and emotional effort.

Here are the required talents with which you have been born that are necessary for producing digital and AI images with success:

** Aesthetic: create visually appealing shapes, colors, lighting, stage and cinematographic composition in a scene produced using an app

** Narrative: conceive of fictional characters who demonstrate behaviors and experiences that will be credible to target audiences

** Technical: translate what’s in your mind through your fingers into a digital device using an app It may be beneficial for you to learn tactics and techniques in creating digital or AI images through classroom or online instruction or training. However, you do not need to pay for a college degree just so you can produce digital or AI images. You can boost your skills and gain new skills if you can observe and emulate best practices of people whose works you respect and who have influenced your own creativity.

Financial Costs: If you expect success as a artist without spending any money on particular “tools of the artist’s trade” then you should walk away right now and attempt something else in your life. Very little worth having professionally is ever completely free of charge. One major exception to this rule of real life is: It is possible to find someone who has attained success as an artist who can provide you with no-cost coaching, mentoring and training for emerging artists. He is me: Desouza of Vegas.

Mission

Madeira Desouza of Male Gallery of Art Las Vegas is on a mission to make positive changes in the way people create digital visual works including AI renders.

Vision

Madeira Desouza of Male Gallery of Las Vegas wants to bring about a world where people can express themselves effectively in creating digital visual works and AI renders.

The artist uses many digital assets he paid for to help him get the job done of successfully creating his unique renders of highly masculine men.

How I Make a Man

Watch this short video called “How I Make a Man” (under 10 minutes.) Age restricted 18+ due to brief fictional character simulated frontal male nudity. Discover many secrets of digital art creation normally known only to artists:

Artificial Intelligence Imaging Artificial Intelligence (abbreviated as “AI”) as I am using that term here in this commentary of mine refers to the use by human beings of computers and apps to perform mathematical computations and make content decisions in ways that have seemed possible solely for human minds. That “other” aspect of AI is far more important to our species compared to considering whether AI images are preferable to creating 3D digital renders. The very best coverage and analysis of AI as a threat to our species that I have ever found was researched and written by Tim Urban and I urge you to read his commentary carefully and do not dismiss it when you think about the near future. Creating illustrations (also called 3D digital art) using computers and apps first emerged during the 1990s. I am one of many digital artists who since 2007 has used a computer and an app (DAZ 3D Studio) to create the photorealistic images of men for which I am known. Two decades later, the creation of full-color photorealistic images using online AI platforms bypasses the need for a human to make particular artistic and content choices required to produce 3D digital renders. I use and can genuinely and honestly recommend a handful of AI apps: Mage.Space, Dream Up (part of the DeviantArt platform) and Adobe Photoshop. I caution everyone about rampant censorship in AI apps, however. Very often AI apps are programmed to prevent a human from creating exactly the kind of image that they want to create especially if that image includes human nudity. My main concern can be stated in the form of a simple question: Why do we humans need any algorithm to monitor whether we put clothing on a fictitious human figure that we create? Think about that. Body immodesty is a strictly human problem. You either are stuck in body immodesty or you can choose to move beyond it in your creation of imagery. You do not need a machine to validate your human failings. You should learn to think for yourself! I created an image of a shirtless cowboy standing in the desert using AI versus using 3D digital rendering software. The man in the cowboy costume does not actually exist. That character in the image was selected by AI, not by me. Also you will notice that the desert in the background resembles Monument Valley in the United States. In reality there is no actual desert on Earth with those specific sandstone buttes as depicted in the image. I mention this because it was AI which chose to depict those imaginary sandstone buttes. I as an artist had no opportunity to agree or disagree with the choice of what gets depicted in the background. That sidestepping of an artist making choices is what I as an artist see as the single biggest drawback of today’s online AI platforms. You can think of this as an AI app having “a mind of its own” and AI using their own “mind” so that I as an artist are sidestepped from using my mind to produce what gets depicted in the finished product–a photorealistic image I created an image of body parts after a bloody battle also using an online AI platform. The choices made by AI (not me) were to show multiple instances of a men’s heads separated from the rest of their bodies in ways that might happen during a military skirmish. It is definitely very creepy to look at, yes. In that image you can also see that AI made choices to depict the male death fetish in post-battle body parts of the men including their hands, legs and torso. This image demonstrates rather vividly how AI images can be photorealistic and also at the same time highly impossible in the physical world. Do men in the real world have more than five fingers on their hand? AI seems to think so. This kind of “faulty thinking” is an aesthetic drawback when using AI that I as an artist do not want to accept. I sincerely believe that it is a lot of fun to “play with” AI online platforms. I encourage you to have fun with AI as well. But as an artist, had I wanted to create a photorealistic image of shredded men’s body parts on the floor of a forest I would have done so myself using 3D digital rendering instead of AI which made aesthetic and editorial choices that I did not agree with.