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Hot take: I used to spend 3 hours on a single digital painting, now I can make a concept in 15 minutes with an AI tool.
I was working on a client's fantasy book cover last month and hit a creative wall, so I fed my old sketches into an image generator to get some quick ideas. It felt like cheating, but it got the job done way faster, and now I'm not sure how I feel about using it for paid work. Does using AI for the initial concept sketch cross an ethical line if I still do the final painting myself?
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adam_baker3mo ago
Feel you on this one. I do the same thing when I'm stuck on a client's fantasy map designs, feeding my rough lines into a generator just to break the block. It feels weirdly dishonest at first but you're still doing the real work on the final piece, just using the tool to get past the blank page panic. The ethics feel messy to me too, but at the end of the day you're still putting in the actual creative labor on the finished painting. Sounds like you're using it like a smarter sketchbook, which is a lot different than slapping the AI output straight onto the cover.
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knight.uma6mo ago
That's a great tool for breaking through a creative block.
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brian_taylor156mo ago
I got stuck last week and just put on a random 90s playlist for 20 minutes. It totally reset my brain.
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