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A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman (theoatmeal.com)
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[–] alternategait@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have always felt that I'm not good at art (the practice I did got me not very far), and I've recently had reason to make little collages. One thing that I've done is uploaded pictures to Canva and traced them so I had something resembling recognizable images (my dog, me in a kayak). I don't think tracing is making an art, AI is definitely not making an art.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Tracing is absolutely art. You choose what to trace what parts of the image are important what to discard etc.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Tracing in itself is a craft. The choices you're talking about cam be art, yes.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What makes you want to do art? I'm just curious, because I am also someone who has bounced off of attempting to learn to do art a bunch of times, and found tracing unfulfilling (I am abstaining from the question of whether tracing is art, but I do know it didn't scratch the itch for me).

For my part, I ended up finding that crafts like embroidery or clothing making was the best way to channel my creative inclinations, but that's mostly because I have the heart of a ruthless pragmatist and I like making useful things. What was it that caused you to attempt to learn?

[–] alternategait@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I like and admire visual arts. I wanted to try to be able to do the thing. I have a strong imagination and extremely good visualization skills, so I wanted to be able to take things from my minds eye to reality.

I have found much of my art/creative outlet in dancing and crafting.