Art Renewal Center is currently embroiled in a bit of a scandal. They gave an award to an obviously generated AI image. See the video above for further history on this. I’m very saddened. Saddened in every way.
I guess now is as good a time as any to state that I don’t use AI, not as reference, not in any way when working on my art. I do use Photoshop to process photos I take of my paintings and also to prepare references to paint from. Photoshop does have some AI features that I’m not completely aware of, and don’t really use (to my knowledge).
All I can say is I either paint from life, from photos I’ve taken, from stock photos (like posespace), royalty-free photos, or photos I have been given permission to use. Oh, and I occasionally paint some “fan art”, which requires the use of a screenshot as reference.
I don’t hide the fact that I sometimes use stock and royalty-free photos (like the ones available at RawUmberStudios) because the photographer got paid, permission is given, it’s all good. There’s a lot to learn from these photo resources, and I am very grateful for them.
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