I am a digital artist

JamesandJon33 I have images of my art on Instagram.
I spent 20 minutes yesterday telling them I did not consent to my work being used to train AI imaging.

I have an email back to say they won't - so 🤞

If you don't speak up they will allow it BTW.
I think they are also using Facebook images??
I don't use Facebook.

It’s sad to see so many scathing remarks here about digital art.
I’m sure that it requires skill in the way any other art form does.

I don’t pretend to be an expert in any form of art, but if I see something I like, then I like it, however it is created. I have no background in art, so really am not qualified to say what is and what isn’t art - but surely it’s subjective anyway? Things I like may well not be to the taste of others, doesn’t mean it’s not artistic though.

I have visited art galleries all over the world and admit to loving the old masters. I have hundreds of art books.

Some "art" can be challenging.

Tracey Emin's controversial Unmade Bed installation sold for £2.2m at auction at Christie's in London.

I dont particularly care for cows cut in half and encased in plastic. Or skulls encrusted with rhinestones.

However they do make you think and shake you up a bit.

Thought you might like to see this!

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jun/13/photographer-takes-on-the-machines-in-ai-competition-and-wins

CanadianGran

I see the software as a medium where art is created. You can be a textile artist and use fabric, or a glass blowing artist who creates with glass. There are infinite mediums to create art.

For instance, if you are familiar with the glass art of David Chulily you know that he creates fantastic glass installations, but he no longer actually blows the glass himself. Is he an artist, and are his works art? I say yes.

So I do see that digital art is a valid form of artistic expression. You don't need to have paper and pencil, or paint and canvas to create art.

This is true of many artists who have "made it". One of the most famous wallpaper designers whose name is known everywhere employed a team of people to do the work while he just had the ideas. I know this is common.

I have seen some amazing AI art, but I was encouraged to try it and I did not enjoy it. I prefer to paint in the traditional way, but each to their own.