https://lestag.itch.io/netorase-phone (the link to their project)
I'll be honest. This scares me. I just feel like I can't compete with AI Art creators in the long run.
I did experiment with AI in the beginning using it as base to overpaint in the past but nowadays my drawings for NTR Phone or my previous Doujins are all entirely Hand drawn by me. It takes 5x more time though than to just generate images and fix them.
Their Patreon also raised a lot of money really quickly. I kind of feel like I'm being stupid for not going with the times and using AI Art (even though it's kind of unethical)
So here is my questions.
What do you care about?
Honestly, I just want to deliver a good product for the people who are paying for it.
Trust me, I wish AI art never existed. I practiced Art for 10 years to get to where I am. I'm not very talented so it took me a long time to get decent enough to possibly make a living with it.
But I stopped using any AI Tools out of ethical reasons. However, as an Artist myself, do I just give up? Let some people who never touched a Pen in their life take over my passion? If I used AI Tools I could overpaint the weird fingers, weird eyes and weird artifacts in the background.
So I'm just asking each one of you. You're the reason I can do this to begin with so tell me.
Also, don't send any hate to Netorase Phone Creators, I don't dislike what they're doing. We share a common fetish and it's no ones fault that AI art became a thing.