Working on a commission for a friend. Drawing on my phone for this one so don't judge too harshly lol.

Unpopular opinion for an artist, but I don't hate ai. I think the way it was trained was unethical, even if I do believe it was fair use, and I wish google would add a toggle to at least filter out sites that are exclusively ai art to remove some clutter, but I don't have a problem with some uses.

So some quick maths. At the rate of 6hr per picture that I generally fall in, I'd make 3x as much at my day job than what I charge for commissions. Really not worth it unless you're good enough for people to sub to a patreon. Then again, I've seen people make $1000+ on there just posting ai.

While I'm on here bitching anyway, it's been brought to my attention that the vtuber I did art for a couple years ago still uses it, but edited out my signature. Wouldn't expect that behavior from someone who also considers themself a commission artist. Glad I'm blocked.

So it turns out doing art at like 10k resolution is a bit much for my old Surface. Wanted this commission to look ok on a poster, but any large edit took ages to render. Also huge accidental brush stroke with the blur tool I didn't see until I zoomed out at the end and took another half hour to fix.