/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6450706
I admit I was mad at first about AI because I felt like it was taking away my opportunity to make it as an artist, but the more I think about it:
>I never wanted to do commission work anyway, since drawing other people’s OCs seemed really boring to me, I’d rather draw my own characters
>I never wanted to draw “flavor of the month” characters, ie whatever Nintendo girl is popular right now, I just want to draw characters I like
>I never wanted to pay attention to numbers on social and obsessing over what stuff gets the most engagement, stressing over likes/retweets takes the joy out of drawing
Etc. Of course, I’d still do a lot of that stuff, just because I wanted to “make it” and not because I actually wanted to draw it. And even with doing that, the truth is the chances of “making it” were always infinitesimally low, so I’ve realized AI never took away my chance, I never had a chance in the first place.
Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m going to quit drawing, since I still enjoy drawing. It just means I can focus now on doing what I want to do, and drawing what I want to draw, and if I can get some income off of that then that’s nice, but I’m not going to go into it with the illusion that I can actually make a career off of it.
In a way, I feel like this is a healthier mentality to approach art anyway.