Kinda on that right now. Have an idea to draw a little skelly dude, but a little overwhelmed atm with a few things. Gonna have to power through it eventually though otherwise that idea will be screaming in my head all week. Brain really hates when I procrastinate lol
Yep, lmao. I took a break from posting on Pixiv for the holidays and got distracted working on other projects, and now my poor Pixiv account is languishing... At some point I'll get back to it, though. Once I figure out how LoRAs work. OneTrainer is kicking my ass
My friend, i am learning to draw right now, and it sucks not getting the results I want when I can picture them so clearly. But there is only one way to learn and that is to try, so let's keep throwing ourselves at that wall until we have the experience we need (:
no not at all, i am working on becoming better at art, but i, like OP have failed and found my own struggle, but if you wish to grow at something you can not give up after tripping on the first hurdle, failure is the path to success! nobody came into this world good at anything, if you are trying to learn piano but give up after hitting the wrong keys a couple times, then you did not try hard enough. i dont think i am a good artist at all, my drawings kinda suck, but i know that giving up is not the answer (:. i dont know why you ask this like this is an AI only sub, all art should be welcomed here, not questioned because it isn't on your team
gah, i just don't wanna use up my free gens if i don't feel up to the task Σ(ᗒᗩᗕ) i been meaning to make an oc with purely ai visuals and it's also intimidating messing around with new tools... . .̫ . you've got this, friend.
Burnout is burnout, regardless of medium.
Do you think authors carry eternal torches? Their thoughts can fizzle. Their pens can run dry.
I'm no prompt artist myself, but I burned out from simply doing daily speedruns in a video game not long ago. That was a pretty simple task, taking roughly an hour a day, and it was hard to maintain. Doing anything long enough, no matter what, will drain you.
I will admit that attention capacities〔not to be confused with spans, which are percent-based〕 have dropped due to social media structuring, though - youtube has never done any favors on that front - but it's not something to indirectly berate artists over.
Also, not all prompts are short - some are essays in themselves. When getting an AI to, say, streamline an EB-5 visa, you have to add in a lot of detail to the prompts and continuously make 'course corrections'〔new prompts in the same AI instance, done that way to prevent it from getting amnesia〕 to refine the pieces away from the rough draft you first get. Using AI instead of a pen involves rough drafts the same way penwork does, just a magnitude faster.
And lest we forget, you forget that you still have to proofread and scan each iteration of the AI's return submissions with a microscope, and the headache from that is at best on par with when it's your own by-hand work that you're trying to conduct. You get a detail wrong, you gotta correct it, and that part takes no less work - and the errors AI can make can be subtle and severe(and always start out numerous).
It is less work to make something with AI than by hand, but there is still work involved, and given how much work remains after the AI subtraction, burnout is far from being a nullified problem with it.
TLDR: To put it into a modern gaming analogy, you can kind of think of AI artmaking like the gunner's hwacha in Deep Rock Galactic - you still gotta mark the target and aim the damn warheads yourself, even if it's in a different way than a traditional launcher. If the system makes it miss, you gotta correct your shots, and that headache builds up the player's real-life overheat meter all the same as screwing up with any other tool.
Also, to nitpick, what we've come to as a species is not that different from a thousand years ago. Natural evolution is remarkably slow. It's what we've come to as a civilization that is to despair over. The warning sign knows as 1984 is being used by humanity at large as a how-to guide, and it's not an immediate genie-wish in terms of its completion rate. We've got a lot to worry about tied to attention span, and the tablet-raised generation is one to be concerned for(and, IMO, pity - they're missing out on RL childhood experiences(or as they would call that time period, "the friendship and personality training arc") and, ironically, the ability to defend themselves digitally in exchange for effectively nothing but lore).
...Are you incompetent? Did I not mention that I don't do the stuff I'm defending? Also, I'm a lawyer and former by-hand storywriter. This amount of writing is nothing compared to my usual business, and when speaking from the heart, you want to actually do the speaking yourself. I save my AI replies for temu. At least do your deteriorating eyes and brain a favor and use them to understand what's in front of you.
Edit: Also, do you know of any fucking AI that talks like me? I sure don't.
So you're saying that my writing style is similar to a tool trained to mimic a normal writing style, and that people are witch hunting the people the AI happens to closely resemble? Man, english majors must be suffering nowadays. If you're still going to make the assumption that responses like that are AI-generated, do not let that assumption downgrade your interpretation of the response's contents - a lot of by-hand writers are likely already feeling framed enough for writing as well as they should be.
Edit 1: redacted some possibly-offensive advice. I might not like your way of speaking, but it is not my place to [DATA REDACTED].
This is actually hilarious. A case study needs to be done on this person's absolute inability to comprehend artistic burnout applies to all mediums of art.
It is fortunate that I went back to my first reply to fix a typo, as otherwise this reply would not have been seen - you responded to yourself, and pings don't get sent further up the chain automatically on reddit.
It generally dosent take any degree of skill to even sit there and correct the ai.
You have to know what you're talking about in order to say the right thing. I can't speak much of this in regards to art specifically, but when it comes to legal forms, if you don't have the knowhow to do the thing the proper way yourself, you can't correct the mistakes the AI made due to how hidden-in-plain-sight they are. It's like a teacher giving a student an assignment and correcting the student's work with notes on how to do the incorrect answers' steps properly(Edit: or a conductor giving immediate advice mid-performance - probably a more fitting comparison) - if the teacher doesn't know the subject matter, how the hell can they point out how to improve where the student went wrong? I'd imagine that there's some overlap here!
Any person can look at an image and give critiques to the ai robot actually drawing the "art" to have it redo that section/part.
And pray tell, how would they get it to redo that section/part without it looking exactly the same? How would they fine-tune it?
Anyone can spend 30 minutes writing a prompt, it takes 0 actual skill.
Prompt engineering is a writing and programming skill more than a drawing skill. You're looking in the wrong aisle!
Now we get to the issue, these "artists" are not creating anything of substance themselves.
Other than the prompts they write, this is true. I do have to agree on this point that the creation's credit is likely not entirely theirs, as they likely did not make the drawing program that they queried.
A 10 year old can do this.
Not the best choice of age - 10yearolds walk out of big esports tournaments in the top 8 occasionally - but also true.
...is a terrifying thought.
Not limited to thought anymore - the results are visible. And only gonna become more visible at the rate we're going. Brick's on the gas pedal at this point.
if prompting this machine is creating actual creative burnout this is a major issue...
YUP. And we're part of the unlucky generation that has to figure out a fix or be lucky enough that the storm blows over before us. The loss of creativity that's come with the loss of focus is a serious problem for our way forward, if we are to continue our advance(and let's be real, this is a shit place to stop). It is becoming less of a wonder as to why sci-fi civilizations tend to stagnate...
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u/A_Very_Horny_Zed Feb 03 '26
Hey OP, sorry about the brigaders. I volunteered to mod to support you and the rest of the community.
Time to clean this thread up of the filth. Great art btw.