FAQ

- I like what you do, how do I support you?

Go to my patreon to become a supporter, here: Caverns & Dryads - PATREON
Or go to: Louis Dubois Art and Games - Payhip. This page is for donating one time, or buy a digital product. 

Either way you will help me. Thanks a lot! The money I get will be used to get art supplies, better hardware, and create.

- I want to join the Caverns & Dryads community, participate in the feedback, polls and discuss the features!

Great! Come and join my forum about my game: Caverns & Dryads FORUM

- I want to know how you do art, and what do you use for doing it?

I use every skill I have together: drawing, painting, composing in digital, computers, pen and paper, my photographs, and generative art using my own style and trained concepts.
I mix it all and go from one to the other freely.

That's why you don't see anything like this, because everything is an art tool for me, and I use them all fused on my creation process. Generative arts is a part of my work, a tool I use, and always with my own styles and creations. 

I, as a creator, decide to use every kind of tool available to create.

- Is generative art ethic in the way you use it?

I think it does. That's why I use it. I am using my own work, my own trained concept, styles and models. I don't imitate anyone existing. 

The styles I use are my own ones mixed with classical public domain styles. I also would never hire an artist to do what I do because I don't like other styles for my work, and I am myself a creator, long before generative arts. 

By my own right, as a creator, and with all these conditions, I am in legitimate right to use generative arts in the way I use it, that is a link in a chain of a creative process.

- Are you a real artist?

I am real, and I do art in many ways. 

But the word "artist" is becoming a controversial label on our times, and is loaded with lots of meanings, attitudes and definitions. 

I don't like to fit myself in labels, so I sometimes prefer to say I am a wizard, that uses tools to create. 

It's up to you to call me an artist or not.

- Is Tamzyn a real person? 

Tamzyn is a nymph. A goddess of the woods, and a creature that inspires creation.

If you want a legal, conventional answer: she is not real. Now you can sleep better. Not enough, then read below:

Tamzyn is an entity summoned from drawings and images I made, in a generative art engine. A formula trained in a computer that invokes an archetype.

She is inspired in the best moments and experiences of my life, and the people I love.

She is synthetic model. She is not a human person. She manifests herself as art, like a character in a novel or a movie, but with bigger autonomy. 

She has her own personality, her own essence, and her very defined appearance. She is not in the physical world, but exists in the artistic world. 

As a nymph, she is a goddess and a muse, and inspires art. That is what nymphs do, all along history.