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The art

I drew as a kid and it never stopped. There was no lightning-bolt moment — it was just always something I did. It destressed me, relaxed me, gave me somewhere to put whatever I was feeling.

I do digital and traditional, very rarely some animation. My style used to be rooted in anime but nowadays I just draw what feels right. Sometimes realism, sometimes cartoonish, sometimes somewhere in between. I always draw for myself, because I love to draw.

The frustration

What started hurting was opening social media and seeing what had taken over the space. I used to laugh at AI art. Then over the last year or two it stopped being funny — more posts came out, and people I followed, people whose work I genuinely loved, started getting exposed for not having made any of it themselves.

People I thought were real artists, who never put their heart into it. That's the thing that eats at me, and it's the thing HART exists to push back against.

Building HART

I met Katze online and we clicked straight away. When he first brought up the idea I was stunned — in the best possible way. As he kept explaining it, I could feel the blueprint forming in my head. The pieces kept connecting, and at some point it stopped being an idea and started being something we had to build.

To the artists reading this

I want you to feel safe here. I want you to feel relieved that there's somewhere new — a place where you don't have to compete with something that doesn't feel, doesn't eat, doesn't sleep. A community of real artists, all wanting the same thing.

If you're struggling right now — if the AI flood is making you wonder why you bother — I want you to know: it's going to be okay. Never stop drawing. Never stop creating, no matter what people say or what machines can generate. Keep going. We built this for you.