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• My thoughts on using A.I, a Linkedin repost

  Early on in my 20s, I was passionate about making a web-comic. I had full-time work and was happy to compensate illustrators for their work. I’ve been trying to draw all my life and I can barely grasp perspective. Principally, I shouuuld be able to just focus on writing.
  
  To my shock, the first of several illustrators I worked with shows up to our meeting at a café with a hand-drawn, hand-colored work that I still have in a binder just over to my right.
  
  This became the inspiration for Giant Enemy Comic, doing work by hand was the driving force going forward. While some appreciated the idea, I received some pretty blunt feedback about why go hand-drawn? Digital art looks so much better.
  
  And I agreed, I couldn’t really think of why go old school at the time other than it was different for difference’s sake.
  
  What I would’ve said in hindsight is: picture the difference between seeing Lion King on stage vs watching the film at home. The film is a more fully realized world, but to be there in person and be wowed by the in-person experience is a memory that can stick for a lifetime.
  
  Go to an art gallery and stand before the great works throughout the decades, ok, granted, pros had to come in and do restoration but to see these works by hand, to see the very brushstrokes that have endured is transcendent.
  
  Of course now, I don’t need that argument, A.I is rendering digital art redundant.
  
  The same thing happened with music, sure vinyl took a step back for a while, but there’s a reason why they’re sold in stores to this day, analog sound is crisp, clean and uncompressed.
  
  The way I see things going, humans will CRAVE human contact, we will see more live shows, value more human crafted artwork and bring analog mediums back where they make sense and aren’t just nostalgium.
  
  Yeesh, all the people who told me to prioritize digital art over hand-drawn are the same ones telling me A.I is going to kill us all. You really need to be careful, listening to short-term thinkers.