Is there any real guarantee that people will keep on comissioning online artists as AI improves and becomes more accessible? I'm putting in a lot of time and effort into getting out of beg so I can make money from comissions. So I want to know that I'm not wasting my time. A lot of anons who do comissions say they haven't been affected so far, but what about 5 years or less from now? What would make people keep paying for comissions when they could do it for free and in a few minutes? Some say that people won't turn to AI because they seek the parasocial aspect of comissioning, but that seems like a very frail reason to me. I'm bettung years of my life here, so I want to be sure it's worth it.

>Inb4 he only cares about money

I've consulted my crystal ball and it said you're a dumb nigger

>>7660546 (OP)
>I'm putting in a lot of time and effort into getting out of beg so I can make money from comissions.
While I get that you want to get something out of all your effort, something feels very sleazy about being so focused on commissions specifically. Let's say that the art commission market is wiped out by AI, why is it that you see that as the only option? Can you not do any traditional art such as paintings and sell that? Can you not make shirts or posters and sell those? Can you not make zines or stickers or some other sort of merch?
It's just such a limited view on the value of the artistic skill set to simply draw exactly what someone asks for.
It's just feels like it lacks passion.

As for digital art commissions and the possibility of them being destroyed by AI... well it depends.
Surely there's people who are happy with the results AI will give them, but frankly I don't think those people would have ever commissioned an artist for anything anyway, and they have slop taste, being happy with below mediocre results.
>B-b-but AI makes good Art
No it doesn't. The only good AI art I've seen required a good deal of human intervention, whether through the effort of customising their AI dataset, or through heavy corrections from a human, either way this means a good result isn't coming from simply proompting like these lazy cheap assholes want.
>J-j-just two more...
No. AI images have plateaued, and have been so for some time. I don't see them being any better in five years... in fact, they may get worse via dataset degradation.
However, despite being worse than human art, nothing beats free, so we'll have to see how thing go.

But all this ignores people who become fans of your work specifically too, something AI doesn't replace. Make fans, and you'll make loyal customers.

>>7660576
I did think about all the other way to make money from art. But digital art comissioning is the only way to make money with art without any costs. So that's why it's my priority. Thanks for the serious answer. You have good points.

>>7660546 (OP)
well, make your choice. Prompters make money and so do artists. It depends on what type of audience and content first of all that you want, and want to make. AI is going to attract more deep-end degeneracy, and art is going to attract people that want real art and care put into their idea.

Also for worrying about "AI getting better", im not going to lie to you it has basically surpassed human abilities at this point, if youve seen the ai videos. This is about where it cant do much to improve anymore besides just eventually kinking out its ability to have complete consistency within an image. For an art JOB I would say its too risky to pursue. For an individual artist, I find it possible. Especially with people out there who utterly hate AI and only want to get human images. Personally, Ive been filled out with commissions for months now with more people waiting for me to reopen as i get utterly smothered. The next part is the onus being on you to market, attract with your style, etc.

>>7660576
>>7660592
Also
>t's just feels like it lacks passion.
Anon if I wasn't passionate about it I would have quit long ago...

>>7660599
>AI is going to attract more deep-end degeneracy, and art is going to attract people that want real art and care put into their idea.
>deep-end degeneracy
>real art and care put into their idea
Anon these are the same thing. AI sloppa enjoyers only SEEM to favor "deep end degeneracy" if you know nothing about the topics. The same people who are genning piles of slop like danny phantom turning into a werewolf or musclefuta with excessive body hair are primarily doing it because there's only a trickle of artists making shit like that. The moment a non-AI artist starts doing their special interest competently, assuming the artist isn't an unstable nincompoop, they start lavishing them with praise and the ones who aren't poor then often try to throw money at them.

The thing that everyone forgets is that REGARDLESS of the medium uses (and AI IS a medium) the artist's choices matter. If you are looking at 1 person's slop you are looking at 1 person's slop. The only time AI art can replace an artist is when that artist either makes an effort to NOT do anything that would be too personal, which happens with industry artists, or if they're a husk of a person who has little passion or drive of their own to innovate on their own work.

this is bait and a slide thread

>>7660634
wtf is a slide thread??

>>7660634
Nah, I get why you would think that, but this clearly isn't one of that schizo's threads... probably. Look at the dialogue for each thread from them; a single question. OP had a lot more to say, even if their question was just about the future of the digital art commissions market.

I'd suspect the hyper lines thread was also by a different anon too, but I admit given this schizo's amount of spam, I'm suspicious of that one as well, so... I guess we're in the same boat.

>>7660653
Nevermind i found an explanation. Fucked up. I have no idea what the schizo who does this here is aiming for since he was bumping cris's threads when he was still alive.

People who commission art usually have money and aren't interested in AI. They prefer a personalized drawing by a known artist so they can show it off to their friends who are also into horsecock futa art.
The worst clients are those who need art. They can use AI to save $30 if they want.