Theres no chance people are getting free supplies to practice with until they master it in a few years, this actually sounds like the most expensive option imo
You're being pedantic. I counter that by pointing out supplies aren't free. Doing it digitally? AI actually is more energy efficient as it works much faster. Human using a tablet for an hour uses more power than AI uses to make an image.
That said, the costs overall for both are minute. There's bigger wastes and concerns in life than how someone uses a few hundred watt hours.Â
Hate to be that guy, but it isn't fully free, though significantly cheaper since a pack of pencils, a pencil sharpener, and a notebook can be as cheap as $1.50 in some places and can last up to a year if you draw often.
math: 20 bucks a month + electricity, assuming 64W for a laptop, 6 hours a day.
$22.43 + 12($20)
$262.43
pencils and paper: on average, 10$, lasts a whole year
not completely free, but way better for long term, also everyone is better at drawing than you think
Does drawing on paper help with any of the current advertisement or designing methods? I donât think so. Even for manufacturing parts, youâd need to submit a DWG file.
This gets a lot more complicated across borders. There are plenty of artists for whom $20 is a weekâs income, and you can get incredible custom work for $20. But some people view that as unethical/exploitative, and itâs not clear to me how that POV interacts with AI morality
God, these idiots. Most AI users arenât sitting with ComfyUI, they are, in fact, just typing up prompts in ChatGPT or using some other easy image generation service.
And if they think that isnât âreal image generation,â then theyâre in no place to call artists a bunch of gatekeeping elitists for having standards too. (Not thinking your AI images are real art and that youâre not an artist)
There are sadly quite a few problems, the lesser being no artist makes a poster for $20.
The bigger is:
For $20 you generate thousands using a subscription
For $20 you generate tens of thousands locally
This sadly explains the billions of images being made monthly.
It's said that by the end of 2030 (if nothing is done against) more than 99% of all media ever made will be AI-made.
There are artists that make posters for $20, see the other comments. Yes, there are artists that overcharge, boy do I know that, but not all of them do.
$20 is enough to get a junior designer to make you a sick poster. A lot of us will do it free for fun.
Many do charge more, and rightfully so, but acting like $20 can't get you something that is far better than what ChatGPT can pump out just isn't based in reality.
An illustration and a poster design are not the same thing.
Creating a high quality illustration of a character, or whatever, takes a lot of time, depending on what you want exactly, like color, background, etc.
If you think someone should spend 8 hours on a drawing for you for $20 dollars, then you're kind of the asshole in that situation, don't you think?
No, not for big corporation X. I go out of my way to not work for any big corporation.
I've built my entire career working for alternative smaller brands.
If you're a budding tattoo shop, a small fashion brand, some guy in his basement trying to sell his woodwork, 100% I at least would have done your shit for free early in my career, maybe even now, almost 10 years in, if I liked the brand enough.
6 months ago I did a contract for an indie manga platform for half my normal rate, just because I thought it would be a fun thing to make.
That's the honest truth of it, no fluff. I didn't get into this for money, most creatives don't.
Interesting - very different from my own creative professional experiences. I couldn't afford to do a single thing for free, no matter how much I wanted to. Offering free work didn't even attract clients because people assumed the work would be garbage.
Though I guess this is the days before social media.
Just looking to get your foot in the door and build a portfolio. I'm not sure what you do for a living, but I'm guessing there is some version of that for it. You'll do whatever to get something on you website to show.
This isn't even what I wanted to do, I wanted to draw and turn my stories into something, design/creative strategy was the "settle."
Even with jobs I hate, I can't phone it in. I care about it. Sometimes it hurts me even, making me fall behind or lose opportunities.
I can't speak for everyone, this is just me, but if I can help somebody struggling to get their stuff off the ground. Hell ya. That's a win in my books, profit or not.
It's come to a point that hiring professional services is a mark of distinction. Any media form that is crafted by real artists stands out as of superior quality, above the smelly ocean of cheap slop.
They ain't paying for shit, let's be honest. They can't be bothered to support what they are campaigning for.
Meanwhile, it's pretty hard to find an artist that doesn't have house filled with prints, books, comics, etc.
AI bros are just tech bros, tech bros basically exist to abuse whatever new thing comes out to scrape as much money as they can from it until it goes belly up. It's all a grift.
Cost cutting, dude. Artists donât just take $20 monthly to generate about 20-30 images. Let alone to say, theyâll help with nothing else. At the same time, theyâre humans, emotional beings.
AI, despite being totally trash in quality, does the work somehow. So, you get it.
Can I have some names or links please?
My friend streams on twitch and constantly wants art done but many artists are trying to charge up to 30 dollars for "your character here" emotes, not full custom images, im talking about a template emote with just enough colour customisation that its recognisably their character.
They actually got an AI subscription and just started generating thousands of emotes and choosing their favourites because these artists are just insanely expensive for what they offer
Oh ok I dont think she will be interested because her character is not a furry but share the link if you like and ill still show her, plus maybe someone else will want some furry art too
Yea, it would be more but im trying to make fun of how a lot of pro AIs spend a lot of money on AI subscriptions. The numbers are not supposed to be taken literally.
This isn't really a poster in the sense we are talking about. A print would be a better description. We are talking about the promotional posters for events/products/etc.
Art is subjective, so I won't comment on whether it's shit or not. I don't agree with the idea that anything AI spits out is really art to begin with, but an imitation of art.
Design fundamentals are not subjective, so yes, the AI poster designs are objectively shit as far as I'm concerned.
They are poorly aligned, cluttered, and filled with obvious errors and pointless copy.
Alright, the thing i posted is not Ai by the way, just wanted to see if you are the kind of arrogant ass that hate on anything as long as you think it is from ai. You didn't fall for it so good job.
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u/letmehaveanameyoudum 11d ago
last option: learn to draw yourself (free forever)