Nevertrumper posted at 9:47 AM Sun, 28 December 2025 - #4502605

lsauvage posted at 6:57 AM Sun, 28 December 2025 - #4502603

When using AI, you decide what to keep and what to discard—it’s entirely the artist’s choice. I mainly use it to generate reference materials, which is also my primary use for tools like Poser.

In the past, I used to collect images from Google or reference books to inspire my drawings and paintings, manually creating something new from a variety of sources. With AI, I can now generate the references I need. Whether this is “art” is a big philosophical question, but for me, it’s simply another tool. I’m not a professional, and I don’t claim to be , but even my painting teacher was amazed when I brought in AI-generated images that perfectly matched my artistic previous works.

Your friend A. I. makes a imagages for you, that you ordered, and you pick and choose, which one to keep?
And then you claim, this is YOUR art work?
Hell NO!

What I mean is that I draw from various sources to fuel my art, and once you learn how to make AI do what you want, it becomes more useful to me than stock photos. Just as Francis Bacon used Velázquez’s pope as a starting point for his own paintings, I ask AI to generate images, which I then modify and transform.

The idea that you have a clear vision in your mind and simply print it out is not how the artistic process works. When you paint, there are mistakes, experiments, and many failures—until suddenly, you decide to keep an “erroneous” stroke and repaint the rest. There’s an unconscious force guiding you, and you’re not just a perfect inkjet printer reproducing the ideal image from your brain.

By the way, I also use AI to correct my English in this forum, but I always write my thoughts first, read them over, and then refine them. Does that mean the ideas become the AI’s?

Whish you all the best.