Description

An original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing by 100% certified real physical human artist Nina Paley.

This project (formerly called Hundred Dollar Drawings) started in 2016, years before Artificial Intelligence/Large Language Model-generated art. Once a rare, precious, in-demand skill, drawing may live on as an entertaining novelty. Monkey make picture! Amaze your friends with marks on paper made by actual physical molecules of ink. You can still see the image even if the electricity is turned off! No power cable, screen, or other device needed. Is it magic??

You give me a little prompt (preferably 2 words, but I’m more flexible than I used to be) and I draw whatever I want based on that, then send you the original. You want revisions? Use AI. You want a real human drawing with all the mistakes, misunderstandings, and disappointments that implies? Order here!

BONUS: This human is a free culture advocate so places no copyright restrictions on the work. Reproduce to your heart’s content! Use commercially, make money! No rights reserved! Copying is an act of love.

NO REFUNDS. You get what you get, even if it’s hot garbage. This is why AI is popular: unlike human artists, it will perform endless revisions without opening a hole in its soul that makes it want to die. Because AI has no soul and can’t die! Hooray! Still, we pen-wielding homo sapiens possess a certain animal charm no Large Language Model can quite capture…yet.

Note: Artist may reject prompt and issue full refund at her sole discretion. In the unlikely event that happens, please use AI instead. It’s a godsend for us persnickety fussy difficult artists that once struggled to say “no” when we just didn’t feel like drawing. That’s the upside of being rendered obsolete: no guilt!