Ai has me deeply concerned about our collective future. My job was replaced by AI over a year ago now, and I still haven't found anything. Even freelance is drying up fast. It's very hard to keep creating when you feel you have no future.
Yeah man I agree with everything you say. It's over for artists as far as I'm concerned, only a matter of time. All that is left is to just do art for yourself.
6:50 I dream about the same thing, the Stan and Jack dynamic. The realization I had a while back was that (selling) entertainment is for ‘geniuses’. The kind of rare abilities that people Have to plunk down money to see with their Own eyes….but that’s exceptionally rare, so everyone who’s not a once in a lifetime rarity got in on the act to fill the gaps between those people with insane abilities. So what’s happening now is a return to That. If you don’t have some kind of unbelievable, stop people in their tracks ability you’re not going to be able to swim anymore. But the flip side to that coin is people will do it out of love anyway. And I do believe that will ultimately benefit the medium- - if you love something so much that you risk life and limb to produce it eventually people will take notice. People will stop wasting time on work that doesn’t ‘mean’ anything to them or genuinely make them happy. I was discussing with another youtuber on their channel, the big difference between manga and western comics is there are far more people who work on their manga for a Significant portion of their life. Ken Muira is the best example, with Togashi and Araki following. This may have devolved into rambling nonsense 😂
Hey There. Thanks for that amazing feedback and I totally agree with you. In the end if you're passionate about something I think others will also feel that vibe off you and be attracted to it!
I will give you 2 anwers, the first related with AI, I am old enough to experience the whole implementation of digital artwork replacing traditional artwork, and everything changed from 5 decades ago and with those changes came some good and also some bad, one fact is traditional art didn't disappear, actually a good amount of artist still enjoy creating in traditional media, somehow digital art gave value to traditional art, are people that value and want to buy specifically traditional art, a month ago before Xmas a local comic store invited me and allowed me to sell my stuff in their store, they gave a space that I shared with other indie comic creators, and I bring copies of my graphic novels, posters, prints and some other merchandise, but I also bring ORIGINAL ART, I put in frames and signed my original 11x17 inches Strathmore comic book paper original pencils, ink and a few I colored traditionally as well, and I didn't respected to sell any, I just wanted to put them on display to fill my space and I put a relatively expensive tag on them us$1000 for each pencils page, us$1,500 for each inks page and us $2,500 for each colored one; and I almost got in shock, I didn't sell much copies of my books, buy I sold out all the traditional artworks getting back home with over us$50,000; and the store is already asking me to visit them again and they asked me to bring more original artwork, I am a nobody in comparison with artist that become known working for Marvel and DC, my graphic novels are not a super hit, I earn some money with them but very far to become rich, what turned people crazy was that I was drawing, inking and painting a page live at the store, didn't managed to finish it, because many people wanted to take pictures with me or asked me to sign what they bought, but they really valued to see someone they were certain wasn't AI, but a 100% Human Intelligence, I am just a grumpy old man that dislikes too much attention, but I worked hard to polish my skills as much as I can over decades and many compared me and tell me I draw and paint as GUWEIZ, I never heard about him before but when I got back i google it and found this amazing artist, and now I understood why people turned crazy, he is a great DIGITAL artist and actually paint similar to him, the difference is that I do it traditionally and not digitally, they bought my artworks because they saw me doing it LIVE and I was even answering questions and explaining to some young people how to paint, many people is requesting the comics store to ask me for classes on how to draw, ink and paint comics, and I believed all this time traditional art was dead, I can['t disclose the amount of money I had being offered to give classes, but is surely a big amount of money I didn't expected people could value as much my artwork, some people even showed to me with their phones AI art that looks like mine, unfortunately I can not probe it, but they were amaze how I can beat AI with traditional art, of course what takes me hours or days takes to the AI seconds, but none of that people is willing to pay a penny for the generated image but many of them paid over 2 thousand dollars for one made by me, I am sharing this story not to promote myself, but to ensure you, art is not dead, as long as it is humans, art will thrive and survive, art will live. Don't give up, just polish your skills and express yourself, convey your feeling in every single detail, in every single brush stroke, share your soul, show other how the world looks like through your eyes, stick with your passion, with your love for creation, live your dreams, when I am painting I lose track of time and space, is only me, my brush and my canvas, my daughter constantly scold me for not eating on time, or not having a regular sleep schedule, but now that I am retired and finally have some time in my hands, I am enjoying it at full, enjoying to do what I love the most in the last stage of my life, I am widow, then my art is how I manage to escape how much I miss her, she is in every character, in every smile of my characters, she is hiding in every paint I finish, and looks like others starting to see her, others starting for feel an emotion with my artwork, then I don't care much about money, I don't have social media, I found it just STUPID, and I don't want to become rich or get fame, but the shinny eyes of those youngsters seeing me painting, gave me a new motivation to keep walking and I will teach them not for the money but because dinosaurs like me art the last holders of the lost knowledge of how to paint light, I asked them the more basic and fundamental question a beginner artist should know: HOW DO YOU DARKEN A COLOR WITHOUT ADDING BLACK?, do you know the answer? that is one of the more basic and fundamental knowledge of a painter, now imagine how much lost knowledge an old dinosaur like me holds in my memories.
The answer is: you add blue and if you want to lighten a color you add yellow. 😏 If you didn't know the answer or needed to google it, maybe you should take my class too ;3
Hi Ed, thank you for the fantastic story. I filmed a response to you and pout it in this video. Hopefully you get to see it. - th-cam.com/video/L2LnawAjqJw/w-d-xo.html
Haha. One day Nigel. I think to release it I'd have to convert all the pages into something that resembles what my art will look like in this new digital form. Converting the art is what is putting me off right now.
There is a silver lining to AI taking off, and that is it does all of the drone work in the industry, the work nobody really wants to do but that has to get done for a corporation. To me, artists were never supposed to work a typical 9-5, that to me is antithetical to the craft and to creativity, and yet people aspired to be an artist in the industry because they were taught that that is the safety net, that is "making it" in art, when it's the opposite. You developed this monetizable skill just to make yourself a slave to the system in the end, that never made sense to me. AI taking all those jobs will force artists to look at this in a different light. Back in the day, you would do commissions and make a lot of money if you were a particularly skilled artist. The tools are different, the markets are different, but today the same can still done. It's hard like writing a book and selling it is hard, but even with AI I suspect people will still want a human perspective and find that valuable no matter what. Art can be one of those things you do just because you would do it, without a paycheck or recognition, because you have to do something creative and that's simply how you're wired. If AI can completely replace artists, then it will eventually replace everybody, so we can spend our days doing what we want instead of working because we have to pay the bills.
Ai has me deeply concerned about our collective future. My job was replaced by AI over a year ago now, and I still haven't found anything. Even freelance is drying up fast. It's very hard to keep creating when you feel you have no future.
Yeah man I agree with everything you say. It's over for artists as far as I'm concerned, only a matter of time. All that is left is to just do art for yourself.
6:50 I dream about the same thing, the Stan and Jack dynamic.
The realization I had a while back was that (selling) entertainment is for ‘geniuses’. The kind of rare abilities that people Have to plunk down money to see with their Own eyes….but that’s exceptionally rare, so everyone who’s not a once in a lifetime rarity got in on the act to fill the gaps between those people with insane abilities.
So what’s happening now is a return to That. If you don’t have some kind of unbelievable, stop people in their tracks ability you’re not going to be able to swim anymore.
But the flip side to that coin is people will do it out of love anyway. And I do believe that will ultimately benefit the medium- - if you love something so much that you risk life and limb to produce it eventually people will take notice. People will stop wasting time on work that doesn’t ‘mean’ anything to them or genuinely make them happy. I was discussing with another youtuber on their channel, the big difference between manga and western comics is there are far more people who work on their manga for a Significant portion of their life. Ken Muira is the best example, with Togashi and Araki following.
This may have devolved into rambling nonsense 😂
Hey There. Thanks for that amazing feedback and I totally agree with you. In the end if you're passionate about something I think others will also feel that vibe off you and be attracted to it!
I will give you 2 anwers, the first related with AI, I am old enough to experience the whole implementation of digital artwork replacing traditional artwork, and everything changed from 5 decades ago and with those changes came some good and also some bad, one fact is traditional art didn't disappear, actually a good amount of artist still enjoy creating in traditional media, somehow digital art gave value to traditional art, are people that value and want to buy specifically traditional art, a month ago before Xmas a local comic store invited me and allowed me to sell my stuff in their store, they gave a space that I shared with other indie comic creators, and I bring copies of my graphic novels, posters, prints and some other merchandise, but I also bring ORIGINAL ART, I put in frames and signed my original 11x17 inches Strathmore comic book paper original pencils, ink and a few I colored traditionally as well, and I didn't respected to sell any, I just wanted to put them on display to fill my space and I put a relatively expensive tag on them us$1000 for each pencils page, us$1,500 for each inks page and us $2,500 for each colored one; and I almost got in shock, I didn't sell much copies of my books, buy I sold out all the traditional artworks getting back home with over us$50,000; and the store is already asking me to visit them again and they asked me to bring more original artwork, I am a nobody in comparison with artist that become known working for Marvel and DC, my graphic novels are not a super hit, I earn some money with them but very far to become rich, what turned people crazy was that I was drawing, inking and painting a page live at the store, didn't managed to finish it, because many people wanted to take pictures with me or asked me to sign what they bought, but they really valued to see someone they were certain wasn't AI, but a 100% Human Intelligence, I am just a grumpy old man that dislikes too much attention, but I worked hard to polish my skills as much as I can over decades and many compared me and tell me I draw and paint as GUWEIZ, I never heard about him before but when I got back i google it and found this amazing artist, and now I understood why people turned crazy, he is a great DIGITAL artist and actually paint similar to him, the difference is that I do it traditionally and not digitally, they bought my artworks because they saw me doing it LIVE and I was even answering questions and explaining to some young people how to paint, many people is requesting the comics store to ask me for classes on how to draw, ink and paint comics, and I believed all this time traditional art was dead, I can['t disclose the amount of money I had being offered to give classes, but is surely a big amount of money I didn't expected people could value as much my artwork, some people even showed to me with their phones AI art that looks like mine, unfortunately I can not probe it, but they were amaze how I can beat AI with traditional art, of course what takes me hours or days takes to the AI seconds, but none of that people is willing to pay a penny for the generated image but many of them paid over 2 thousand dollars for one made by me, I am sharing this story not to promote myself, but to ensure you, art is not dead, as long as it is humans, art will thrive and survive, art will live. Don't give up, just polish your skills and express yourself, convey your feeling in every single detail, in every single brush stroke, share your soul, show other how the world looks like through your eyes, stick with your passion, with your love for creation, live your dreams, when I am painting I lose track of time and space, is only me, my brush and my canvas, my daughter constantly scold me for not eating on time, or not having a regular sleep schedule, but now that I am retired and finally have some time in my hands, I am enjoying it at full, enjoying to do what I love the most in the last stage of my life, I am widow, then my art is how I manage to escape how much I miss her, she is in every character, in every smile of my characters, she is hiding in every paint I finish, and looks like others starting to see her, others starting for feel an emotion with my artwork, then I don't care much about money, I don't have social media, I found it just STUPID, and I don't want to become rich or get fame, but the shinny eyes of those youngsters seeing me painting, gave me a new motivation to keep walking and I will teach them not for the money but because dinosaurs like me art the last holders of the lost knowledge of how to paint light, I asked them the more basic and fundamental question a beginner artist should know: HOW DO YOU DARKEN A COLOR WITHOUT ADDING BLACK?, do you know the answer? that is one of the more basic and fundamental knowledge of a painter, now imagine how much lost knowledge an old dinosaur like me holds in my memories.
The answer is: you add blue and if you want to lighten a color you add yellow. 😏
If you didn't know the answer or needed to google it, maybe you should take my class too ;3
Hi Ed, thank you for the fantastic story. I filmed a response to you and pout it in this video. Hopefully you get to see it. - th-cam.com/video/L2LnawAjqJw/w-d-xo.html
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Haha. One day Nigel. I think to release it I'd have to convert all the pages into something that resembles what my art will look like in this new digital form. Converting the art is what is putting me off right now.
There is a silver lining to AI taking off, and that is it does all of the drone work in the industry, the work nobody really wants to do but that has to get done for a corporation.
To me, artists were never supposed to work a typical 9-5, that to me is antithetical to the craft and to creativity, and yet people aspired to be an artist in the industry because they were taught that that is the safety net, that is "making it" in art, when it's the opposite. You developed this monetizable skill just to make yourself a slave to the system in the end, that never made sense to me. AI taking all those jobs will force artists to look at this in a different light. Back in the day, you would do commissions and make a lot of money if you were a particularly skilled artist. The tools are different, the markets are different, but today the same can still done. It's hard like writing a book and selling it is hard, but even with AI I suspect people will still want a human perspective and find that valuable no matter what.
Art can be one of those things you do just because you would do it, without a paycheck or recognition, because you have to do something creative and that's simply how you're wired.
If AI can completely replace artists, then it will eventually replace everybody, so we can spend our days doing what we want instead of working because we have to pay the bills.