It would have been so much easier to write a prompt and receive my starter pack image in one second. Instead, I thought about what I wanted in mine and worked on it long enough to decide I didn’t want to be boxed in. So I escaped from the box. Basically, I’m sad and infuriating to see AIs stealing artists’ rights by copying their art (Studio Ghibli knows something about this), and to make people believe that creating a drawing or any image can be done by prompting an AI with text for a result in a few seconds. Where is the pleasure in taking the time to hand-draw your image? Where is the learning from making mistakes, from wanting to start again and again?
Art and visual creativity are not just a result but are above all and primarily a practice.
