That one review that made me stop relying on AI art prompts entirely

I've been messing around with Midjourney and DALL-E for maybe 6 months now, mostly for fun not anything serious. I posted a piece I did of a fantasy landscape in a local art group on Facebook. Some guy commented "this looks like a computer puked up a Bob Ross painting with nothing actually in focus." At first I was annoyed but then I looked at it again and he was kinda right. Every tree was just a smear of green, no structure. So I stopped using the AI to generate the whole image and started using it just for texture ideas or color palettes. Then I paint over it myself or build the composition in Photoshop. Takes way longer but the results actually look like something now. Has anyone else had a harsh comment that actually improved how you use these tools?

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felix_thomas732d ago

Oh come on, isn't art supposed to be about speed and convenience these days? Why would you want to spend hours painting over something when the robot can do the heavy lifting for you.

evan1512d ago

Honestly @felix_thomas73, I gotta push back on that a little. Speed and convenience might work for making a quick poster or a logo, but real art is about the process, not just the output. When you spend hours on a painting, you learn something, you make mistakes, you discover stuff you wouldn't have if a machine just did it for you. The whole point of painting is the time you put into it, the way you build up layers and fix things as you go. Ngl, if you just want something fast and clean, that's cool for a business card or whatever, but calling that "art" feels like missing the point entirely.