I am genuinely trying to get better at art. I’m not there yet (likely never will be), the lying machine is still better than me.
The context:
This is my sketch.
And this is what the ai output.
I like to think I poured my heart and soul into it. I know there are people who will tell me that I’m terrible for using ai at all. I’m also sorry if this is the wrong community to ask this question (ask reddit would delete my post instantly if I tried to post there).
Again, is this slop? I am not an artist. I drive a forklift real good, that’s my skillset. So if I were to use the ai upscaled version for my book, well, I’m asking for opinions.
The first image is your artwork.
It represents your slow but steady progress in your hobby. It may not be what you want yet, but it is still a stepping stone on your journey.
The second image is a compilation of your artwork and the stolen efforts of millions of unpaid artists, their works unceremoniously ripped away from them and sold as a tech company’s product without any compensation to them for aiding building such a machine. It isn’t art.
Keep at it, yo. Art is a frustrating hobby at times, but enjoy the learning.
Making the sketch felt nice, and I’m enjoying being able to show it to people and say I did art. I keep rereading this thread, and all this validation is going to help me keep going.
The example you provided isn’t upscaling. Upscaling is the act of interpolating pixels to increase the resolution of a bitmap image. What you’ve done is had the AI color and shade in your sketch.
Frankly, it’s clear from the sketch that you have some great foundational skills. I don’t really understand why you would stop halfway and let a computer steal the learning and practice opportunity from you. It’s like a carpenter building a piece of furniture and just stopping before sanding and painting it.
I used the wrong terminology, but I see what you mean. Also, the more I look at the ai version, the less I like it. It looked great last night when I was drunk though.
What the AI did isn’t something you can’t do with practice. Besides, you probably wouldn’t have put the belt buckle on the back of the pants. Believe in yourself and work at it.
ai also really fucked up the hands. The more I look at it the worse it gets. It looked great while I was drunk though.
Who cares what other people think? Do you, unapologetically.
I care what people think, because I’m soft and squishy and everything I’ve ever said about not caring was a lie.
Yeah, it generated everything that wasn’t the monochrome silhouette. That is AI generated
If you can do a rough sketch this good then yes you are an artist.
Just finish your own art. You already did the hard part.
brother/sister/sibling, that’s a neat sketch. You have potential. People from Uni have started with a similar skill level and are now fucking smashing their artwork. I understand that arts are mentally hard at times, when you feel nothing works and you don’t improve fast enough. Give yourself some credit.
Now you are saying you’ll be using the output for your book. Is it important to you, that it is 100% your work? Is it important to you to not misrepresent your skills? Then declare that and how AI was used. Will you monetize said book? Then there are a few legal things to consider (in Germany for example anything an AI generates for you is per definition not your creation and cannot be copyrighted by you. If you make changes to the image/text/video before publishing you can at least secure some rights on it)
I am not going to rate it as slop or not. If you need an illustration, and you need it now, who am I to tell you that this is not a legit tool, no matter how I myself feel about it.
First. You are an artist. You make actual real art and have skills. Your sketch is pretty good as well.
Lemmy largely is very anti AI art. You’re basically going to a vegan convention and asking “Is it ok if I have a little meat? As a treat?”
yeah. But I need to hear it for myself.
I’m trying, ok?
If you are using AI to do things you cannot do yourself, you’re not an artist- and it’s slop.
Instead. Do it yourself and keep doing it poorly until you do it better. Then poof: an artist emerges.
Your sketch is essentially a highly detailed prompt. If you want to be an artist, stick with what you can do and use practice and repetition to get better. You’re already far better at drawing than you think you are.
If you insist on using AI to finish out what you sketch, then it becomes a product of AI and everything that comes with that. It is no longer your own work.
That’s the kind of thing that I needed to hear. It’s not what I wanted when I posted, but you’re right. Also, the more I look at the ai version, the less I like it. It looked great when I was drunk last night though.
Honestly your sketching is quite solid, you’ve obviously got a decent knowledge of anatomy. All you need is some color theory and some practice, which AI will rob you of.
Alternately you could pay a real artist to color and finish your sketches, this is how comics and many other works are traditionally done.
If you use AI, I would definitely disclose that in the description of the book, and as a consumer I would certainly be turned off by that fact. The fact that you’re using it to enhance your own art absolutely makes it better, but the finished product still isn’t really your art any more.
The bad part of using ai responsibly is that every slop “artist” claims to use ai responsibly.
I’ll be honest, your technique makes the half done sketch look better and closer to what I’d consider a finished piece than the AI copy.
It fucked up your lines and made them uninteresting. I like the original better.
I’m neither militantly anti-AI nor an artist, I just think AI is kinda shit at doing things.
The more I look at the ai version, the less I like it. It looked great when I was drunk last night. Also all this external validation is really helping my mental state. I’ll probably be using ai less because of this.
I think it’s more like a police sketch: it might help you clarify an image you have in your head and communicate it to others, but there’s generally more to art than that (just like conveying an idea through a pastiche of song lyrics isn’t poetry).
Were you on some sort of deadline? That’s the only reason I can think of that you would allow AI to steal this opportunity for you to grow and improve your skills.
I was drunk and lazy, and my hand hurt because it’s been years since I’ve done much drawing. Honestly, I’m liking the ai version less the more I see it. It looked great when I was drunk though.
Wanted to applaud you for being vulnerable, putting your work out there, and facing the tough answer, especially when it wasn’t what you wanted to hear. Shows a lot of character.
Id say dont be lazy. Its a slippery slope. Better to not use it at all if you even have to question it as cheating.
That and its blatant theft. Every llm company should be being sued to the moon and back.
