> as digital art takes less effort than paper.
Hmm I've seen someone draw/paint on both paper and an iPad. It didn't look to me that she was much faster on digital. But then it was original art not copies of something.
Hmm I've seen someone draw/paint on both paper and an iPad. It didn't look to me that she was much faster on digital. But then it was original art not copies of something.
But it is a lot less effort in a lot of ways. If I'm painting in Photoshop or Krita, I have layers. I can adjust blending modes. I can move them up and down. I can easily ctrl+z a mistake. I can rotate my workspace quickly and easily in ways that would be difficult with physical media. I can easily find the color I want without having to purchase more paints and blend them, or colored pencils, or whatever. I can create brushes and variations on them to match my style. I can go on with dozens of other things.
I happen to think all of that is a good thing, and don't know that comparing digital art to AI generated art is a good analogy, but digital art 100% makes many things you do in art easier.
In much the same way, sure you could dedicate your life to learning the craft of prompting an ML model to produce unique, novel, and interesting art, but these communities are saying "we want these to be considered a different class of art" and as mostly self organizing communities they are well within their rights to do so.