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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Art Waring" data-source="post: 9089275" data-attributes="member: 7037141">One concern that I have as an analog visual artist are lead times and the production time for actual art.Real art, analog or digital (& I do both) takes time. A lot of time, effort, and a lot of trial and error to get to the point where something feels unique.Some easier pieces can take up to two weeks, involved pieces a few months, and some of my art has literally gone through multiple stages over the course of years to reach a state of completion.ai-tools can do all that in a few short moments, and as an analog artist it's pretty depressing (the fact that people only care about the final output, not the work it takes to get there).I have devoted years to producing my own ttrpg, commissioning multiple artists over the past two years, and I am still commissioning more art and I am currently about halfway through the process with the current artist I am working with, with realistically at least another five to six months to go for that step in the process.The OGL debacle also set me back by at least a year as I have had to abandon my previous OGL-based project completely to work on my own in house system. With all these setbacks, I don't see that it's possible to compete with a creator that decides to cut corners and use ai-tools. I also can't afford make a full-color interior book, so its going to be black and white (with possibly a bit of color), another mark against the project when trying to compete with full-color ai-generated images.While I try and do right by the artists I work with, I don't know if the project will succeed by its own merits. I am largely unknown, and this is my first ttrpg project, so I don't have the same support as an established creator. I'm cool with that, I am just expressing the difficulty of getting your work out there and finding an audience.-Final Note: As an experienced artist of over 23 years, I can tell you that ATM its almost impossible to get your work noticed if you aren't making art that is mainstream-pop art (both due to public preferences and algorithms). If its impossible now, how are working artists expected to compete with the potential deluge of ai-generated content in the future?</blockquote>

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