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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9604625" data-attributes="member: 50987">My niece is an aspiring graphic artist, and she's slowly learning the industry (she's in high school).  I'll occasionally commission her to create character sketches for my D&D characters, both to help her develop her skills/business acumen, and also because her character sketches are really cute.  Normally I would do my own artwork (I was a freelance artist once upon a time), but I want to support her as best I can.But I'm not sure how helpful I can be nowadays.  The industry really has changed since the mid-1990s when I was slinging paint and trying to earn a living.Anyway.  Have you, dear ENWorld member, ever commissioned an artist to create a piece of visual art for you?  Are you an artist, and do you take commissions?  Choose the answer(s) that best fit.For the sake of this poll, "commissioned" means that you agreed to pay actual money to an artist in exchange for their services.  Also for the sake of this poll, "artwork" means human-generated images, such as paintings or photography...not AI-generated images.  If you would like to discuss/debate whether or not generative AI should be considered "art," or if you want to tailor the definition of "AI" to fit a particular argument, there are several other threads (like <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-ai-red-scare-is-only-harming-artists-and-needs-to-stop.704647/post-9369075" target="_blank">this one</a>, or <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ennies-to-ban-generative-ai-from-2025.710933/post-9568912" target="_blank">this one</a>, or <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/ai-in-gaming-a-poll.702744/post-9270252" target="_blank">this one</a>, or <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/drivethrurpgs-new-ai-content-filter.707636/post-9494489" target="_blank">this one</a>, or...) that you can use.</blockquote>

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