(Resubmission) - first, "edgar-payne-2" before watching demos; - second "rembrandt" after watching Edgar Payne Boats silent demo; - third "cornwell" after watching Rembrandt Portrait silent demo. Feedback is highly appreciated.

I have decided in favor of the raccoon:-)

Here is my first attempt at level 1. This was quite tricky. Will do many more in the near future.

Hello Liandro! Good to have you back with some thought provoking questions. I’ll start by saying that I find this to be a very complex topic with a lot of variables which would require hours of discussions to cover everything. My thoughts on this are also not finalized and might change as I come across new information and discover new perspectives. I’m also talking about this in the framework of making money as an artist. I don’t think that artists who just want to create art for their own enjoyment will be affected by AI. I’ll tackle each question one by one and try to keep tangents as short as possible. “Do these predictions make sense to you?” Pretty much yes. And it’s sad to see that this is the direction we’re heading in. “Do you think “AI is killing art”?” I’m not sure I would use the word killing. I don’t see how you could “kill” art. Maybe if you are able to completely erase it (physical or digital) and have no record of it whatsoever, then sure, that could count as “killing” it. But I don’t think AI is killing art. What I do think, however, is that effortful human-made art will be drowned in a vast sea of AI generated, cookie-cutter, financially viable products, designed to maximize profit and increase user retention as much as possible. I also think that, unfortunately, this will be a successful business strategy for many studios. To me it looks like the majority of art “consumers” don’t really care how art is made, only what they see as the final result. But let’s say I’m wrong, and most people do care how art is made. If I were to see a movie like Klaus and find out that it’s 90% generated by AI, then it would start feeling empty and superficial. However, for a studio, that might not matter. With a low enough cost to produce such movies they might need a smaller number of consumers to make a profit. And at the end of the day, that seems to be a major variable for everyone involved. “Do you feel empowered enough as part of an art community to “hack the future” or so?” Yes, I think there are enough artists taking this situation seriously who could, through unified effort, enact change. One piece of the puzzle, that I think might help artists to “survive” this wave of AI, is to include themselves and their process in the marketing of their art. If more people start to associate the care, thought, and effort put into making a piece of art with the actual artwork, that might become a huge advantage over anything touched by AI. As an example, I often go back and watch the behind the scenes of the LOTR trilogy. The amount of passion, attention to detail, and effort put into making those movies is, I think, incredible. That for me will always be light-years ahead of anything that an AI might generate. “And how do you feel about this whole scenario we’re currently living and witnessing?” It’s very disappointing. I don’t think that this was the area of human society that needed such a jump in technological automation. In recent years we had more movies, TV shows, and games come out than ever before. The problem is that most of them are bad. Unfortunately, instead of focusing on quality over quantity, we’ve just made quantity cheaper. There’s a lot left to be said about education, the mind numbing effects of social media, and passive content consumption in general, but I’ll end it here for now. I’m looking forward to more discussions like these in the future!

Hello there. I think this is a very interesting topic. And a chance to bond with other people. And their stories. So let me share with you my,,why,, ?I used to draw when I was a small kid, tracing characters from my favourite comics. But not really that often. I was not that often seen with a pencil. Yes. My father showed me a beautiful drawings, made back then on amiga100, that I was so fascinated about. Yes I had a tendency to design things and I was close to drawing, but I have not spent so much l time with it. But it was there🔥. And how Life went on, I lost my father in a young age, I got sick and healed. Abd during this time I kept my dream with myself. I wanted to master drawing. I wanted to become good at something. And I decided for art. Since that, everything I draw, there is a legacy in each drawing I make. I admired concept artists. And I wanted to be like them. I made an agreement with myself. Ok. I will take drawing seriously and invest everything in it I have. And let’ s see, where it brings me., 🔥💪🙂 I love to design things. And to be able use my imagination and transform it into drawings, I find it so cool👍

Okay, I am retired from the US Army and need to restart my sketching and will take some basic course to learn what I need to know and more up the ladder in knowledge and Well I also like Comics?

hi. i draw since i can remember. at childhood it was just fun like any game. it was a game for me. i took it seriously and go to art class when i was 20. i really love cartoons and caricatures and i had ideas i wanted to draw. i have adhd . it made my progress slower. but i loved drawing so much that i continued. im 38 now. 18 years past since i took drawing seriously. i have art blocks somedays and somedays i question myself like you about drawing. and i stoped drawing for a few days and even weeks some times. but i always got back to it. because i feel useful when i draw. and im good at it. u need to love drawing so u can continue practicing because its a hard road. and it needs a lot of persistence.

I love drawing, always have but never really learned the fundamentals. I have ideas that I cant manifest because its so obvious how many gaps there are in my knowledge. I'm older so this probably isn't going to end up being a career but I cant let go off the "itch" to create and now getting my kids into it I want to be able to fully immerse into the journey with them.

I think drawing is fun and rewarding, but I also want to make video games so having this skill will help with concept sketches, storyboarding, etc. for the various pipelines. Painting will also be great for that purpose too!

I always wanted to have a creative side of me and drawing always seemed like something I always enjoyed even when I was a kid. Last year I decided to make it to a hobby and tried teaching myself and did a 1 year art challenge. I eventually completed it and realized how much I like being creative. It is an escape for me where I don't worry about anything besides drawing and I feel really happy afterwards. I decided that I want to take my skills to the next level so which is why I enrolled to proko.