Someone edit that into a joint please
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If I were on my computer I'd do that immediately. Perhaps I'll remember later
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This meme feels super pretentious, nobody is using AI to generate images because they're scared of drawing.
It's the interest to effort threshold, for most people the interest in making art is less than the effort it takes so they just don't.
AI image generation provides a facsimile of that by generating images with basically no effort.
I feel like this is pretentious because it fundamentally misunderstands its target audience just to lecture about skill.
Edit: it's also incredibly cringe to self insert as superman
nobody is using AI to generate images because they're scared of drawing.
That is a lie
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I dunno, it feels like some amount of the wanting ai to do it comes from knowing that it takes actual effort and maybe practice and there’s maybe a bit of fear in feeling bad because yours won’t be good enough on the first try.
Maybe some people do just undervalue art and the effort it takes but it seems like a lot of people want to feel like artists but don’t want to be bad at it by trying and failing.
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When I draw I draw because I wanna draw. I wanna do the motions, create something, basically express myself in a way.
If I use AI it's because I want some art, quick and dirty, right here right now. Sometimes later I do my own version, which is shittier, but again, then it's about drawing, not about wanting a picture.
I have no problem with folk who use AI images for their personal use. Just A) Don't pretend it's yours and B) Do not use it commercially
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Who is this for really? Like people who are here, presumably hate AI, and to the person the meme targets, this is obviously just condescending while simultaneously minimizing the amount of work that goes into actual art.
minimizing the amount of work that goes into actual art.
Idk I read it as a sarcastic way of telling someone to draw and see how bad they're without AI
How is that an argument though? I don't think I've seen anyone say using one tool made them good at using others.
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Lol the upset people itt are EXACTLY who Superman is talking to
What's even better is that Superboy Prime knows he's in a comic book and would 100% be encouraging people to draw.
an famous artist I knew gave me some advice
just draw what your mind's eye sees. You can make it happen exactly as you see it in your mind if you focus on that mental image and stay true to putting it on the medium. If it doesn't happen at first, it just means you need to practice. It will happen if you stay true to yourself and what you see in your head.
This has real "draw the rest of the owl" vibes.
The "mind's eye" (if ygu've got such a thing) doesn't really work that way. You usually don't have a fully formed image in your mind.
Your brain will leave out stuff without noticing that something is missing. Also: you can't really get proper proportions from your "mind's eye". Also: what you're imagining usually also shifts a bunch.
IMO, much better advice from an art teacher who once told me that this is their response to when people say that they can't even draw a straight line: "Don't you have a ruler?"
Start with just drawing basic shapes. Then think about how you'd turn things you see in the world into those simple shapes. Practice doing just that. Spend a day just drawing curves the way your favorite artist does. Look at how they use color or texture in a drawing that you like.
Talent is simply an applied interest in something. Learning the how and why something works and then building the muscle memory to do it yourself.
And for one more trick that blew my mind when somebody first told me: a ruler works just as well on a tablet or screen as it does on a piece of paper.
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interesting, I have aphantasia, and drawing/creating is how I can see things from my imagination.
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…the rest of the fucking owl
I thought he was holding a blunt in the thumbnail lol
AI has its place in art, but it's limited.
I'm a professional underwater photographer, and AI upsacling and noise removal are excellent tools for me because they serve as technological solutions to technological problems. I put a lot of effort into planning, framing, lighting, etc, but noise and balancing resolution and exposure (higher pixel density on a sensor results in less light reaching each pixel) can have a huge impact that's unrelated to the art itself.
When the best solution aside from AI-powered retouching is to spend another 40 grand on better equipment, the AI isn't taking away from me as an artist. It's giving me the ability to improve my art more affordably.
That's cool, but it sounds more like a useful tool for your work. If we're talking about artistic merit, upscaling and noise reduction isn't getting you there.
Clients expect a clean, high-res image because they're paying for it, but no one has ever been a great photographer just because they had a lot of megapixels.
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This is literally true. Sure, your memory might tell you that you suck at drawing, but that's what it is about. A lot of it mental. You might not be able to draw something perfectly and if you draw a face, oh boy will it look like shit, but can you draw a stick? Can you draw an apple? How well can you draw an apple? How can you improve on that? Artists sure as hell didn't start out the way they are now. They have histories on their art, look at their progression. And be sure to know that they had to work up the courage to share their art and didn't do so after years.
You're a human. You developed to do this kind of stuff. You had to learn to write, so you did. If you like writing you even learned to do it well. If some random ass guy can learn to draw with their foot, then you can learn to draw with one of the most precise evolutions of the animal kingdom.
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