AI vs Hand painted - should I give up?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- AI art is still quite a big topic on the internet. There are still many artists who are understandably worrying about being replaced by AI. Aside from all the ethical debate surrounding this topic, I’m not a big supporter of using AI to create a painting. So, I did a bit of an experiment, and I want to share the process with you today.
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You hit nail on the head. "AI cannot replace the joy of painting"
Plus the skills you learn and the process you go through by actually producing an image, be it through painting or drawing, are much more valuable, as the AI is only focused on an end result. It lacks any kind of satisfaction, much in the same way as looking for stock images.
but it does affect the actual art industry and the ability for one to monetise their skill
@@tsh3083 This is true, I used to be hyper focused on making a career in the field but now I am dropping it back down to a hobby and focusing on my current "boring" career.
Ah yes. Joy gives you money to pay your rent right? And we are dumb for studying Medicine for 13 years to get a licence even though we never had "joy" in sleepless late night hospital shifts during PG and internship.
Joy of painting? I dont want it to replace the joy of getting paid.
Please continue making videos. I just started painting and I bought brushes and paints as you instructed. You're a great teacher. I've also introduced your videos and a few others to low-income students who are interested in the arts but who cannot afford private lessons, or waste money on the wrong supplies. What you're doing is so valuable. Please come back.
I'm so glad to hear it. I will indeed continue my video here. I am taking more rest this year but I won't leave youtube :)
@@Cafewatercolorplease don’t man
Painters gave up because photography? no. There's no reason to feel threatened to give up because AI exist. I found that its existence only has given more value to the process. Since everyone can have the final piece in few seconds we start to value what AI can't give: The artistic experience of the process, the pain, the struggle to find your own view and make it show up in a canvas. If someones gives up because AI exist, that person never truly loved art in first place.
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Painting is all about joy, satisfaction, relaxing and focusing. Not one single AI will bring it to me. So I'm totally with you, only painting by myself can give it to me.
Yes, it just will not bring you money for life.
Eric, please don’t leave. You give me inspiration to paint.
I agree with you, you cannot get the same fullfillment & enjoyment painting it yourself.
Never give up. Never surrender.
exactly! AI will only win over human art if we all give up. the more we encourage people to get into art, the more choice companies and studios will have over AI
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Art and artists are evolving as they always have and always will. Stay Creative!
I am so glad that you made this video and challenged AI produced paintings. You reminded me so much that the reason I wanted to become an artist was not to reproduce but to express the feelings invoked by my subject matter. This often is a matter of light vs. dark, contrast and feeling! That's one of the reasons I don't wish to paint photo realism. I want the viewer to catch a glimpse of what I saw that made me want to capture it in watercolor.
Why else would anyone want to paint! Thank you for expressing what every artist should hear in the face of AI.
I've been to Japan several times, stayed near Shinjuku, but traveled to the country on weekends... Tokyo itself is surprising in its little magical corners, unexpected green places... And, getting out, into small towns, or an inn in the mountains, reveals how underrated, or misunderstood, Japan is as a beautiful and quiet destination, not so much as a "tourist", maybe, but as someone who can take in both the natural beauty and the historical elements... And, indeed, many, many "paintable" moments and scenes. But the "AI"doesn't put down a wash, or pull up a bit of pigment, or "feel" any frustration or joy in the process or the result.
Keep on putting passion to paper!
Beautiful painting of a place where others want to go, as well as you. The peaceful feeling comes through in your art. I also visited your past videos this morning. There is a treasure trove worth investigating. Maybe others don't know about this, but I hope they take the time to explore. Follow your heart and enjoy your beautiful family. I only hope you miss your UA-cam family a little because we'll certainly miss you.
AI will never be able to replace a human artist. I've toyed with AI image generation for a while now and have found it to be more miss than hit. It all comes down to this; AI lacks heart and soul. These can not be replaced by algorithms. Art is an expression of the heart and mind in an effort to communicate concepts, ideas, and feeling.
The entire video compares images generated from text prompts, which obviously lack a human touch. However, he didn't try to generate an image directly by drawing and generating simultaneously. In that case, AI would respond to his every brushstroke, becoming an indispensable tool.
Now I agree and you're right, in 10 years it will be as good or better than us.
The emotion will come from the prompt creator.
@@Paopao621 HAHAHAHHAHAHAH good one, yeah a lot of emotion in a prompt HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAH
@@armandogavilan1815 I'm serious, the prompt creator will obviously input the right prompts to show emotion to the Ai generated image. An Inexperienced artist would draw just like an AI, putting emotion on the artwork is a different set of skills that an artist learns after a long time of creating art, since it's a different skill from the technicality of art, the prompt creator/writer could only focus on how they could put emotion to the image ignoring the technical side of art leaving it to the AI.
What I find shocking is that on Instagram artists are giving likes and positive comments on AI paintings because they don't realise that it is AI. And that makes me think: are we really capable of seeing the difference between hand made and AI? We want to believe that, but I have my doubts.
Not only on Instagram. It's everywhere. A lot of people can't even differentiate photos of real persons and persons created by AI. I also realized this when reading the comments. This also happens on youtube. It's unsettling.
Artists can tell but think about how some people can’t even tell that pranks are scripted…. So yea
It's not possible to tell the difference. Especially when the original arts are things just made for fun. The only way we can tell the difference now is that AI doesn't understand context or narrative sometimes and can't make fine adjustments yet unless you're really skilled at it.
@@y_s4021 as I said possible for me since I'm an artist the fingers and uncanny soulless vibe is a dead giveaway
@@y_s4021ai can make fine adjustments using inpainting. And it can also generate images based on what your "imagination". Just draw a simple sketch and increase denoising on it slowly
Goodness, AI cannot interpret human emotion, creativity, experience. Keep going, Eric, don't let AI shadow YOU!
you are naieve, we are only at the beginning of ai, it will be indistinguisable in a few years.
Some AI images already evoke the same feelings, emotional responses. Lot of time you can't even tell if something was AI-made, or a real photo or real digital painting. They have mixed with real art, but it has become a blur. AI-generated image, video and music has evoked emotions in me many times. Sometimes without me knowing it was AI made. Unfortunately. You're mystifying human creations, like they would be somehow always more powerful. Sadly it isn't so. I've already heard songs made with Suno and Udio that are better than anything on Spotify Top 40. Evoking more emotion. Same thing can happen with art. If I don't know it was AI made, it may evoke an emotion without even realizing it
Love your painting, and your painting lessons have inspired my journey as a painter, I too was inspired by anime via Hayao Miyazaki’s wonderful films which so captured my heart I had to pick up watercolors for myself and the calming zen like practice brings me joy every time I pick up a brush. Thank you for sharing your painting journey with us all.
Please never give up! Your painting warmed my heart, thank you ❤️
Your painting is absolutely beautiful. It touches the heart when I look at it. ❤
As an engineer with rather a lot of experience in neural networks, deep learning, and machine intelligence, I can assure you:
Telling the computer what you want it to do is every bit as hard as doing it yourself. It's just that instead of learning to move your hand in the right way, you are learning to articulate the precise result you want. One of these is a physical skill, and the other is a verbal skill.
However, there is a fairly important issue with the machine: we do not have enough training data to make it very much better at doing what you want. When you are learning to paint, it is fairly easy to become better at (say) painting boats. But machine learning isn't linear, it's exponential. If you want it to get a little bit better, you need a lot more training data.
We are very nearly at the point where there simply isn't any more training data. The machine demands more data to improve than the human race is producing, which will bring progress from the machine to a screeching halt. I doesn't matter how fast or how well the machine ingests data - which are the major improvements that have driven the current crop of generative models - if there is simply no more data to ingest.
Human beings do not have this limitation. The loudly-repeated lie that the machine is going to get better and better and you cannot stop it will, in time, be seen for the wishful thinking it is. Because the machine is NOT going to get better. We don't have and can't get what it needs to be better.
The biggest issue is that the data used to be trained has been done so regardless of copyrights. The fact that so many artists have their paintings used against their will in order to be able to plagiarize their style is hardbreaking. I hope the court cases will be successful ... Algorithms that have been trained with ill obtained data have to be destroyed and ethically rebuilt
@@roxane1237 It's not in the algorithm. It's in a data file, which has in most cases been made freely available for download on the internet, including the Laion5B database that has created the most backlash.
You may as well suggest that every pirated movie or TV show in the world needs to be deleted. Scream all you want, it is never going to happen, and you're never going to stop people from hosting the illegal downloads either.
Every bit as hard? Lmao
@@bhavana6217 Spoken like a true novice who has never had to keep anything on-model.
@@cdarklockno. You are simply fooling yourself, you aren’t creating jack, your “artistic” integrity and credibility can only be as good as the model that steals actual artist’s shit. You are simply putting on the facade of an artist. If you truly thing it’s just as hard, you’ve probably never drawn anything worth a damn in your life, or highly underestimate what goes into creating art
After watching only about 6 minutes I had to stop and shout a „Yes, exactly, you are SO right!“ I've been playing around on the nightcafe platform a little bit. Yes, it's impressive, and in my opinion AI can be a nice source of inspiration if you don't have a specific picture in your head that you what to paint or draw.
But it can never replace the fun of painting or even replace if you want to paint a specific scene.
What I noticed too: Most people use it for very similiar images like dragons, mystic women or wizards, demons, or comic-like animals. Which gets boring quite quickly.
And now I'll keep on enjoing you video (I just found your channel today). Greetings from Germany/France.
On 30:33: This fits perfect! 🙂
Dear Eric, I no longer work in watercolor as my main medium. Certain handicapping factors in this decision. I am working in pastel, in a loose manner. However I cannot resist watching watercolor demos. I discovered Chien Chung-Wei (the red lantern painting) a while ago so when I saw a notice of his video Painting Nature … I had to watch. The voice-over immediately got my attention. That voice was so familiar. You did a wonderful job with it. The entire video was captivating. I purchased it. You may wish to tell Chien he has a big fan: an old woman in West Virginia, USA. Best wishes to both of you.
I am so glad! it was such a fun project and I learned so much from doing it =)
I wish you well. Pastle is great too! any traditional medium are just wonderful to play with
I long gave up on making money with art in the future, but I will never in my wildest dream give up being an artist, I will create until the moment I can no longer physically make art.
this was a very informative video. I am not an artist, but I’m trying to figure out exactly what AI is going to do life in general and my life in particular. The AI images and videos that look really bizarre and alien are quite fun. But I would never choose imitation of art over real art performed by a passionate artist. And it definitely shows in the work. The human hand is simply not there.
AI art is missing one of the most fundamental aspects of art, the human connection. Without it, it's soulless. You painting in this video proves it. Listening to and watching your creative process, is the essence of art.
Keep painting people, I'm definitely never going to let AI stop me doing what I want to do...unless we get into some Skynet scenario, then I probably won't have a choice...
How do you bottle that ?
That’s exactly right! There’s no point to art if it’s not an artist trying to convey their thoughts, experiences, values or whatever else to another person!
AI art is for people who only care for the shallow "pretty" aesthetic of something without understanding that the soul of a work comes from the artists' craft, emotions, and lived experience. They're terrible people-- they want art, but dont care to appreciate/pay artists.
I was googling some Anders Zorn watercolors the other day to learn his technique, and the result contained a bunch of AI paintings. It made me so mad.
Another very important point regarding A.I. artwork is that the image is only in the computer, and unless you have a giclee printer you are not going to get it onto a nice Arches or Reeves, etc., quality paper. Also the ink in a printer that the general public can get their hands on is not going to lay on the paper, be absorbed by the paint like a quality watercolor paint is going to do. Nor will A.I. generated prints replace print-making, as an art, as the ink from a printing press has a very different viscus quality to modern printers. The inks are not the same composition as the traditional press' inks, whether they are oil based or of a newer water-color base. So the way in which the ink sits on the paper is inferior, and this can be seen by the naked eye, if you look at how the inks sit on the paper. This is also the case with lithography stone printing; which has its own idiosyncratic qualities. So take heart, fellow artists! Until they improve those issues we have job security.
Picasso was worried about photography making portrait artists redundant... it's the reason he started cubism
I use ai to to get compositions and to get things to paint in general with the models I can afford to use either being unreliable or not the best, but like everything else that people thought was going to be replaced in the past like hand made furniture, real paintings will never be replaced, people want the personal crafted high end product, ai will replace those £5 canvases you get in supermarkets and some of the digital art.
I am so happy to see a new video from you and your painting process, Eric! I feel the same way and do not let AI news affect me too much. Creating art art with art supplies and hands is a very personal, visceral and at times healing experience for many of us ✨Thank you for verbalizing the things related to AI! I hope to see you kore often here!!
I really like the comparison that you've made between an AI and the human imagination.
As a former illustrator and painter using acrylics, I remember the feeling and emotion that was added to work, an even if it wasn't what I perfect just the feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction gave my painting life.
The AI now in this day of age is at its beginning stages of this type of accomplishment, Can we please imagine 10 yrs from now, then 50 yrs from now and so forth.......based on what ive seen and read on the AI learning process will out match our human capacity, but not our soul.
Great job done🎉 I always enjoyed watching your demos.
A1 art = cubic zirconiums. Watercolour art = diamonds
取代不了的除了畫作中表達的你內心的美感以外，在繪製的過程還參雜了很多的“獨特”在內，內心的心情、情緒是很影響任何行為、活動的執行過程，這些是沒辦法具體表達起來且每個人都不盡相同，而這些被影響的過程，正隨著過程而摻入畫作當中，無限細小的每一步，才構成了你的畫作，這不是那些機器能代表，哪怕找其他人來剪貼、縫合你的畫作，根據你一些畫風特徵去畫，也沒辦法代表你，因為它們沒有你的心。
The thing is, in a recent photo competition, it took 80 hours to generate an AI award winning photo. You can take a lot of photos in 80 hours. same for getting the right painting. By the time you stuff around on midjourney, a decent painter can do the job. and it looks more natural anyway. You have to get the AI image out of the computer and a lot depends on the quality of the paper, the inks, etc. It's really faster to do it by hand most of the time. For some things like 3D generated images, it may be more efficient, sure.
Yep, it’s the process that keeps me trying, not just the end result. People who don’t like or understand the reward of the process of making art will never understand this difference. Plus I have to agree about what many have already said in that when you buy actual art by an artist, you’re also buying into that artist and who they are, not just a neat-o image.
Prompting is more like being an art director or a fussy client lording over a commission than an artist. Yes it takes an eye for things and some creativity to prompt, but it’s not the same as being the artist. AI is the production artist here. Anyone who has worked on the commercial side of art gets what I’m talking about. 😉
Excellent demo! Thanks, and keep doing what you are doing!
Eric, Your art was done with something AI doesn't have....Heart and Soul. When I look at your painting I can feel the human touch and hours that went into it. You are a wonderful artist. If I could paint as good as you, I would be a happy artist. I love to paint though.
To be fair, in light of the fact that you ARE so talented and mezmerizing, how can I be sure that you yourself are not AI... :) You sometimes are surreal to me with your soothing voice and expert hand, that alone seperates you from the pack! Never stop painting. As a whole, we the people will find a way to preserve human art! As long as there are humans willing to continue shareing their gifts. Thank you for you!
Eric, I love your work. Would you consider talking about your evolution as an artist? You really are amazing and I love your commentary as you go. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Does ai keep your pictures in the memory and offer it to other people?
That is something I would like to know myself, makes you really not trust AI, though…..
Of course it trains the algorithm
I never knew about Al thank you for explaining it , but i love to paint it makes me happy and relaxed. Your work is beautiful.
Never forget that as a human creating art you are working from your heart to your hand an act of creation which can never be repeated from a key board to screen.♥
Thank you for guiding us through your process. Creating art takes time. I enjoy painting for the pure joy of it - it's not my career. Just like any new technology, AI will find its way into our lives whether we like it or not. Eventually artists will find ways to make it their ally, not their enemy.
I really appreciate that you made this video to compare AI vs Hand Painted. As an artist myself, it's challenging to compare my art to AI. Thank you so much for this informative video along with your beautiful painting!
Amazing video and result. So calming to watch. Keep on arting!
The problem most people don't see:
"I enjoy human art more than AI generated stuff" - only works as long as you can tell the difference. And we are already at a point where you sometimes cannot see it anymore.
Thats what drives me nearly into depression. What value has my art anymore, if every idiot can generate basically the same in seconds with zero effort? (and I don't talk about money)
The internet gets flooded with millions of AI images every day, so even now its already hard for human art to not completely drown in it.
It may get harder to trade your art for money, similar to how it was before the Internet. However, it will never diminish the feeling of satisfaction you get from being able to look at something and say, "I created that.".
AI paintings don't have any value, because, they are the same as searching for something on the internet and downloading it, but, you can search for something as a paragraph (prompt).
I really like the one you painted with your hand. ❤
I do love the sentence written at the end of your video, short but huge in the meaning.
I love you paintings, your carefull thoughts and skills are very impressive. I always support human artists over AI users who type out renderings using artists images, who don't see a penny for our years of passion and devotion to our crafts.
If you give up should i even start?😭😭😭
When l saw your painting l could feel your memory of that place,time of day, weather. I could feel the emotions.
AI does not provide that and never will as it has no soul. It has no feelings, that is the difference
I can never feel anything when looking at AI product
as an oil painter, I think in the future I should try to paint thicker, to make it more obvious that oil paint is on the canvas, make it a more physical thing in itself, something AI so far can't achieve
I don't think AI will replace artists at all. AI allows humans to collaborate with machines more and more efficiently. But yes AI generates via inference (meaning best guess). It struggled with consistency from one image to another (due to its inference nature) and this is a very basic thing. The level of interaction between human and machine is also still rudimentary as you mentioned. There is a workstream of AI rendering dedicated to realtime user input eg. Krita or realtime canvas. This will evolve into something where the user can draw on a digital canvas for the larger objects (available now) then zero in on details for small sections within the image to have AI render finer details. For instance I needed a tie in my photo instead of a bowtie so I was able to draw a straight yellow line and since the prompt includes a tie, AI transformed that straight line into a regular necktie. This saved me a trip to get a headshot (which I would have edited afterwards anyway). Most of the effort thus far in AI has not been to assist artists yet, it has been to allow layers of inference on top of inference. After it gets through its basic stages there will be more tools specifically to aid artists.
What is valuable in a paint is the feeling behind the scene. In a way, liking a painting is expressing empathy with the author. I don't think a program can transmit feelings, because it is too perfect. No human bias. Buying AI generated art is like buying prints in a low cost store. It mught be nice but does not induce any feelings
most importantly you are able to want. that's firs step for inspiration and further improvement
people care more about the artist and their story than the art anyways. this is the first time in history the public can get to know/support the artist directly. ai will eventually be better than everyone at everything so we're all in the same rickety tourist boat fortunately.
I think this AI generation will bring about a renaissance of human art and a renewed appreciation for it. And I also think we will become very good at telling the difference between human and AI artworks. Also, I think people will turn away from computers and the internet en masse in the coming decades.
There have always been and there will always be frauds and con artists (no pun intended) in art. I think AI is just the newest tool for them to achieve their sale goals. But as you (and many others) said, there is excitement, joy and challenge in painting that AI doesn't provide. Painting is a process. I don't know where I will end up when I start. AI art is just a type of "decoration". A true painting has something to it that is no part of its physical properties and it gains very quickly an emoitional, social or cultural meaining for the owners. I would never give my children my old posters or replications but I will pass on my cherished watercolours and a small landscape painting in oils.
Please stay on UA-cam. I love your channel!
How about letting AI paint something unique that you can then use as an inspiration for a unique paint? Not unlike targetting a photograph. The former possibly violating a photographer's copyright. I think it's an inversion of the process and another source of inspiration.
Well said Eric.. art is so much more than a pretty picture. It has soul. Really enjoy your videos. Blessings !
In my experience trying to use AI as someone with no technical knowledge, it's so hard to get what I wanted that it took me hours and I couldn't do it.
I tried doing the "my girlfriend and I as pixar characters" thing, and there was just no way of getting it right. It's still not intuitive or accessible for common people.
I really wouldn’t worry about AI as a traditional artist. I got back into gouache from digital and there’s really no contest. You can’t show someone paintings in your sketchbook if it’s all AI generated.
I think AI art will be used extensively for commercial purposes, where 'vibe' is the focus rather than nailing down a very specific detail. So for commercial artists, AI art is really going to largely replace/displace/shrink the industry significantly. Where art is created for the personal experience, or the personal story, where the art is connected to the artist who specifically makes it, then AI won't be able to replace that kind of art, because it comes from a personal desire to create.
Ai STEALS the work of human artists .
Don't 'like' it
Don't share it
Don't feed it ( mask any artwork you put up online )
I’m a traditional pencil and charcoal artist and am struggling to find a reason to carry on posting. It seems like us traditional artists end up not getting noticed at all any more. Alternatively my drawings just are not good enough to be on this platform. Could I get some advice in the comments section please. Thanks
Music is my main art. I paint sometimes. I write fiction sometimes. Always been hobbies. I’d say forget about being noticed. Share yes, that’s a big step and keep doing it. Somebody will notice and if they only think “I could do that” then it’s a win for art.
Have u been in Green city and what do you think about it.
I am a retired computer engineer and I started painting recently: The joy of painting, of actually creating something unique, which also is not perfect ( and not meant to be perfect from my side) is without comparison to me. Okay, as joyful as creating somtheting from a certain material, I admit.
Maybe professional painters will get into problems with AI replacing part ot their work. Their/Your view may be quite different from mine, because you have to live from painting and earn money.
One reason for me to not become a professional musician, is you have to sell your product AND maybe adapt it to what people like. Play music you do not like or as a painter paint pictures just because they sell, although you dislike them somewhat.
So, the opinion of a hobbyist like me may divert considerably from that of a professional.
Big difference between looking at an image on a phone/screen vs seeing a hand painted piece in person. Likes on instagram do not always correspond to emotion conveyed by a piece in person. AI can help in the composition process before a human makes a mark on a canvas. What are your thoughts on aiding in part during composition?
The actual painting looks so much better and visually appealing than the ai generated images
All he had to do is run the original image through a filter (with adjustments.)
Took me about 5min to create similar image to his actual painting; very similar.
And no AI is involved.
Just ran it through watercolor filter, adjusting it accordingly, with given settings.
Then ran it through oil painting filter, at lower percentage.
My results were not much different from his hand drawn art.
No, I DIDN’T put my heart and soul into the image, to “recreate it” because it didn’t matter to me much, but I very much could have, if it was the picture I took.
I would also spend a lil more time making it the way I really want it, using digital tools, that are available out there.
It wouldn’t make it less of an art, as I would still be using my creativity to get the desired results; while having fun doing so.
Your art is beautiful and inspiring - everything AI is not. So glad to see your video. Thank you. ❤️
I don't think AI can replace you; and I am glad to know that.Irreplaceable. Thanks.
Not sure transferring ai "painting" to watercolor paper will look nearly as natural as hand painted. Hand painted co.ors will blend and flow and mix very subtly while the ink printer won't be able to capture that very well, plus will be lacking brushwork marks it seems?I've done work in co Peter of paintings, znd they look good in the computer, but on paper they don't look good or natural beczuse of reasons I mentioned.
Really, like the way it relays piecefulness
I enjoy observing a painting for the artist's visible struggle solving a particular visual problem, and their solution to that problem. That is simply not present in AI slurm.
Nothing will EVER replace a human, despite all the hype. I know: I worked in a 24/7 media company with state of the art IT. One of my main jobs was turned out to be constantly monitoring the servers to make sure they didn't crash: one night I spent 5 hours literally jumping from computer to computer to stop the entire system from crashing. This is the actual reality of computer based technology. Computers are nothing more than glorified calculators that repeat the numbers 1 and 0 at a very fast pace.
Producing an image on a computer by whatever means only gives you an image that you can print out. A real painting is a physical object that a piece of paper can never compete with.
We are here to develop and experience our potential in action and mastery...AI defeats the purpose of our creative existence.
The AI versions looked like photographs with a watercolour treatment but still looked very much like photographs. Your painting looks like a completely hand done painting!
The question can be reframed as hand-painted vs camera. If you paint to compete with technology you will always lose. If you paint to express yourself you will always win.
A statement found on a music channel: "We expected that artificial intelligence would replace us with mundane jobs so that we could do art, but now we see that it will replace our art and we will only be forced to do mundane jobs."
Check discussions under films by Rick Beato and Fil Henley. They talk about fake music, but the problem is the same.
There are those who will use AI and will not care the result as long as it comes close to what they had in their head. Or is better than what they imagined. But, so far one needs to be a computer programmer par excellence to get “ exactly” what is in your head. Also what is in your head may not be that terrific when you see it. You can paint an image in the time it may take to fabricate one with AI.
Regardless, if you are an artist…never give up. The joy and satisfaction and sense of accomplishment does wonders for your self esteem and ego. Lastly, I stress never copy a photograph. Yours or another’s. Interpret, invent, express, change as you go. AI will never be able to do this. It will give you static images that will never be exactly what you yourself can achieve.
Thank you, Eric. I feel just about the same as you do about AI. It's not human, I prefer human created art.
Oh it’s all so depressing.
Shades of the Beatles…
…living is easy with eyes closed, nothing is real. Nothing to get hung about…“Strawberry fields for ever”
Beautiful and human painting, interpretation and recreation of a wonderful memory. AI can’t do that.❤️
You said, "not as fast as AI and maybe not as good". The AI "art" is not art. It's just a generated image that might look "nice". Your painting is a real intrepretation of what you see and I think that shows in the final painting. Anyone that actually appreciates *art* will have no interest in AI generated works because they bring nothing unique to the final work. Thanks for doing the video.
When people buy art, they are buying a piece of you, the artist, your observation, your values of what is important and your skill as a draftsman. People want a piece of art created by a human not a modified Kenwood Chef. The problem at the moment lies in the fact that people could buy art without realising it was created by a Kenwood Chef!
"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."
I have a unique perspective because I am professional in "both" worlds (AI + Traditional commercial hand painted art), and my livelihood depends on the outcomes of both. Whoever is reading my comment please take it to heart with some weight. So with that being said, what was see today with the release of current AI models at its core had these capabilities three years ago, yes three years ago, but were just recently launched to the public.
So what does this mean for the long road ahead? Always be aware (with eyes wide open) of what you see on UA-cam, forums, blogs, etc are already being done "better" with more accuracy in a AI development environment. Knowing this, plan ahead, think ahead and in the new world we are approaching. This momentum will not go away, it will continue to grow so we must (even for myself its difficult) to continue to grow with it.
My mindset for my unique situation is to always 1. Understand "how" these various models operate and behave, the more you know the better you can do the second thing. 2. Knowing how a model works, think of ways of "uniquely doing it better i.e. AI can not replicate X" or "using it for your personal gain i.e. I will make AI do my bidding by doing X". Good luck to all the creatives out there, and be mindful the value of "pure" and "genuine handcrafted artwork" will always have a place special place in our lives, it will take time (years - give it time) for this wave of AI noise to settle, and for true artisans to emerge as highly sought after.
Great Perspective, love the painting!
I’ve been around and pushing pixels using Photoshop before it had that name and very familiar with filters and vid/anim tricks and Ai-art is like watching paint dry. You can search on image db’s and find things like watercolored tug boats as easy as generated art and much faster, so why bother when exactitude remains elusive? Sadly, another generation needs to learn our lessons from 1990’s talking baby and animal movies.
I cannot replace you as a painter. Within every man made painting is the easence or mark of the human soul that made it.
AI has no soul it is only a technical device
AI could create the most beautiful, technically perfect, thought provoking artwork and as soon as you realise it’s ai the magic is gone. And yet a child can paint the worst painting imaginable and it will still bring us joy. We like art BECAUSE humans made it.
By the way, I love your boat painting
Awesome video, awesome painting
the beauty of hand painted (to me) is not that its perfect, is that it was painted by a person.
thats why i love old anime's backgrounds like cowboy bebop or ghibli. because i know a person did it by hand.
I mean we’ve had photography for over a century. We paint for joy.
Yes, ive noticed AI really hard to get very specific requests
I assume it's just a matter of time before AI can turn an existing photo into a painting
When doing Dialog for your videos , back off from the mic so you don't have such a boomy , bass component to your voice. it's called proximity effect. the closer you get the more bass your voice will have. try a stay a foot or more away from the mic. you might have to increase the recording level a small bit. good job!