For Those Of You Who Are Not Artists Or Heck- Even Traditional Artists Who Aren’t Familiar With The

For those of you who are not artists or heck- even traditional artists who aren’t familiar with the difference between AI slop and digital art I will say this. (Long rant incoming)

Digital art is real art; And before AI you saw it every day with everything you interact with and enjoy. 3D rendering, digital painting, digital illustration, fonts on a webpage and how printed brochures or magazines look-

ALL of that is created digitally. We do it by hand- the very same as traditional artists. We don’t just type prompts into a generator. We actually make these things with our hands and practice for years to get good at it.

I’ve still got a lot to learn to become the artist I want to be- but I dislike having my work viewed as less than all because of the medium I choose to work in.

I would even go as far as to say that traditional art and digital art require entirely different skillsets. You can’t take an oil painter who has never drawn digitally and ask them to paint something in Photoshop without a steep learning curve. The mechanism in which you hold the stylus or brush and move it across a canvas or screen is the same; And you need to know the same core fundementsls but that’s where it ends. The rest of the skills needed are totally different and cannot be compared 1:1.

AI image generation models are based off of mainly digital works created by REAL people. Millions of images get dumped into these datasets and the program cobbles an image together based off of previously established data- that data being stolen artwork obtained without our permission or consent.

Please do not conflate digital art and AI art and do not compare digital art to traditional art. Digital art takes mastery, skill, knowledge, and a human touch- and AI stuff is just straight up theft. Traditional art may not be as forgiving as digital once you know the ins and outs of a program- but you still need to know what you’re doing to make a halfway decent digital work of any kind.