Fuck AI

/cries in aphantasiac

No, really though. Excellent comic.

I can still have the idea of a thing or a place or a character and 'know' what it 'should' look like without being able to actually visualize it. That itself is a motivation to draw it or paint it or model and render it; once I'm done I finally can see what the thing I was thinking of would look like.

Surely it would be so much easier if I could just... daydream up the future finished piece, and hold it there in my mind as I copy everything I 'see' down onto the paper. That's like an actual magical superpower for anyone who wants to make art, and it's something almost everyone already has- and just takes for granted. All the practice and technique of getting the lines and colors down right to match your imagination is the easy part- because it's possible to learn. And I did learn it, and it's still hard to draw. Always takes lots of construction lines and scribbling and revising and iterating. But if I could visualize at all, that would make it so easy it would almost feel like cheating.

I already knew prompter bros sucked, but I think this just unlocked a new level of contempt. Sitting here with my empty white head-bubble-cloud but making do anyway, while guy #2 has a perfectly functional one that he's not even using.