#all art is art

[flightyquinn]

AI Haters, Please Read to the End

I see people celebrating every time something bad happens in the AI art world, and that makes me very sad. Because I am partially colorblind, and have ADHD, clinical depression, and other health issues that I'm less comfortable talking about. Because I can't work, and rely on family for housing and government assistance to afford essentials. For someone like me, the barrier to entry on art is high. I'm never going to own a drawing tablet, I can't get professional lessons, my focus sucks to the point where it's hard to follow tutorials no matter how much I want to, and even if all of that could be sorted, my own eyes are against me.

But I still have ideas. I still have pictures in my head that want to get out. Characters that want faces, scenes that want to be expressed, and the like. I'm still creative. I just can't properly express that creativity. Nor can I pay someone else to express it for me. However, I can tell an AI what I'm trying to depict. I can tweak the settings, make small changes, spend hours on end generating and re-generating, tweaking and re-tweaking, and making small edits that are within my power to do, until I have a picture that satisfies my need to bring the thing in my head to life. That's not "stealing". It's not pushing a button and letting the computer do the work for me. That's me having my own ideas, and trying to use the tools at my disposal to turn them into something that other people can see.

Plus, there's one other thing I can do. This is a picture I generated with AI that I'm actually quite proud of.

And do you know why? Because it started as this.

I fed my terrible MSPaint rough as hell doodle into an AI, and told it what the picture was supposed to be. And I tried again, and again, and again, until I was able to refine the result into something that I was happy with - which took a whole lot more than just pressing the button again, let me tell you.

This is my idea, from start to finish, and my shitty art became something that actually looks halfway decent. Yeah, I'm aware of the wonkiness and AI jank. I know the jawline's weird, his eyes don't match, and there's something up with his ear. It's not perfect, but it's a whole lot better than what I could do on my own.

Look, when it comes to stopping the commercialization of AI art, I'm right there with you guys. Fuck corporations that want to replace their whole art department. Fuck people who want to impersonate other artists, or take commissions to turn someone's description of what they want into a prompt. Hell, fuck the people who take the first result they're given without trying to refine it at all!

However, I don't want AI to die. AI is an accessibility option. AI is a tool that lets me go from saying for years, "I wish I could have art of my first D&D character, I have so many fond memories of him." to having that one picture. It lets me stop stealing every time I want a character portrait for a new TTRPG that I'm starting up. Because you know what? I don't have the ability to be a "real artist", and I never will. There's too many barriers for entry.

...and my situation is mild compared to what some people have to deal with. Sure, there are people who find ways to make traditional art despite disabilities, but that's an exception. It could be the rule. Why shouldn't it be?

As far as "theft" goes, I have yet to hear one explanation of why it's okay to use references, but not AI, that didn't boil down to "it's different when we do it". And what about collage? Is a collage art, or is it "theft?" What about sculptural works that use reclaimed objects? They didn't create that. They just decided how it would be arranged. Hell, what about pieces like "The Fountain" for that matter? That's a big problem I have with all this hate. If you applied the same standards to other things as to AI, then there's a lot of things that currently are art we'd have to say aren't any more.

If you have a problem with AI, why not work to make it better, instead of trying to deprive people who rely on it for self-expression of a creative outlet?

[sharonleeimageweaver]

Creating original art from scratch using a base image that you create yourself by generating a silhouette...

Step One - create a Silhouette "base image" using a simple set of instructions (dark silhouette, female, head and shoulders, messy long hair flowing, precisionism, hyperdetailed, beautiful, mysterious, hyperrealism, incredibly detailed.)

Step Two - Save, Download and reupload as a base/start-up image.

This time use a more descriptive set of instructions, for example -- beautiful, long wavy billowing silver hair, snowflakes, icicles, sparkling, glowing, photorealism, precisionism, hyperdetailed, beautiful, mysterious, hyperrealism, surrealism, incredibly detailed, iridescence. Etc

Adjust strength and guidance to determine variation between images.

Add or remove descriptive information.

Experiment.

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Created using-

[churroach]

Looking respectfully

(EDIT: fellas, it’s really not that deep. Anyone starting beef over this stupid drawing getting blocked, i dont care to argue with people who come and judge me (a stranger) in bad faith. A bit dissapointed that this joke post is what’s getting the most attention but alas that’s the internet for ya i guess.)

[arson-jellyfish69]

AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok

[sabertoothwalrus]

everything is fine now except it's not cause I still feel guilty about it

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

[apocalypsegay]

i don't think he clicked through

[almondpiglet]

ppl were drawing mikus from all over so heres habesha miku and her lil twin sibs rin and len!!

[aimasup]

Favouritism

Bill get a hold of yourself man

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[noodles-and-tea]

B plot where Mabel joins the fireside girls

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[sharonleeimageweaver]

Imagine this in a modern day setting

“Nowadays copies of paintings by famous artists are often dismissed as second-rate objects because they are not 'autographed’. This affects their place in the literature, where they may at best merit a footnote only, as well as in the market place. Artists themselves did not share this negative attitude, and copying formed an essential part of artistic training for centuries. In copying, the student learns the method of the artist; his or her manner of approach, the mixing and gradations of colour. So important was this process of learning through emulation that only upon demonstrating a mastery of the coping of engravings, of statues and paintings, would the student be allowed to join life drawing classes and eventually progress to creating works of their own design. When the Louvre first opened to the public in 1793, so central was this practice that it set aside five of every ten days exclusively for artists to study and copy its collection. Degas is recorded there in the late 19th century diligently copying masterpieces by his favourite artist, Ingres. He also did a full-scale, careful copy after Poussin's The Rape of the Sabine Women which now in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. The list of famous artists whose documented admiration of, and copies after the Old Masters is endless; Landseer after Rubens; John Singer Sargent after Velasquez; Henri Fantin Latour after Titian and Veronese, Géricault after Caravaggio and earlier; Watteau after Titian, Van Dyck after Tintoretto, Matsys after Raphael, to name but a few. Link to complete article-

https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-artists-who-learnt-from-the-old-masters

[eggsistential-breakdown]

Okay, but hear me out -- what if his parents weren't usually red and blue?

[saracastically]

finishing touches 🧶

[trainwreckgenerator]

a face you'd find on the side of a milk carton