mountainlaurelarts

It is frustrating to a lot of artists to have a computer generate more beautiful art than they ever could imagine. I understand, totally. I spent all these years practicing painting and a robot can do it better cool.

In my case, nowadays, the art creation process itself is the purpose. If it comes out with something that people like, great. But for me, it's the time taken to listen to music, feel some emotions, piece together the subconscious symbolism of my inner mental state. I have noticed that when I do art commissions and requests, and even art that I feel like I should be doing because other people will like it more, eventually I lose the joy of drawing that pulled me to art in the first place.

So if someone wants to toy around with AI to get a picture they like, whatever, that's their deal. I do worry about less commission work being available to those who depend on it - but the value of human-generated art will be respected still, I think. I don't think AI can completely understand, yet, very specific things that some people have in mind for commissions and have it actually come out like what they were imagining. I dunno, maybe we're just not there yet.

And, to tell if something is AI generated: look at the symmetry. The overall big-picture symmetry will be there, but detailed symmetry is missing. At least right now. Also, it usually has this weird grainy texture.

Though I haven't been posting much on here as I used to, I'm still drawing very regularly. For the last year or so I was doing anthro commissions nearly exclusively, mostly reference sheets, and posting to fur affinity. For several personal reasons, artistic and otherwise, I've decided to make it a point to move away from that kind of work. I've been able to get some freelance design work that pays better as well so I finally have a chance to do more personal work. Though, I do have to- like always - explore what my art is and what it means to me. Though I am doing a lot of DnD now, lol.