cactusjoe999

I've been moaning a lot over the last few years about the way my creativity has been slowly ebbing away; the rise of generative "AI" over the last year had at one point seemed to deal it the death blow. For years I've been following amazing artists, like Loopydave , Artgerm, krysdecker, PapaNinja and many others; I've tried to learn from them, tried to make my art better, and I feel I HAVE made progress over the years. But now, suddenly, I'm living in this brave new world, where DeviantArt is deluged daily by art that - at least technically - puts my work to shame. Anyone with access to a computer can now generate in an hour more images than I'll be be able to produce over a year - all of them suited to the prompter's (is that the correct term?) particular tastes and kinks, and rivaling the work of the best commercial artists (because the algorithm COPIES those artists' style). So, I've been struggling, feeling as if this whole art thing is rather pointless. I'll maybe get better - so