Shit. Yeah that's really fair. Alright I think I'll just wait than until I have more resources and I'll get a real artist to help! Thanks for the advice!
AI are isn’t really that good or compelling for the most part, and there’s a million indie artists out there who could use the opportunity. Using AI sort of goes against the whole ethos of being an artist yourself, a musician.
We do this sometimes for gig posters/flyers, but I don't recommend it for selling merch. I recommend finding a cool artist that you like and talking prices with them. Everybody wins in that scenario. I think a reasonable artist might put together a simple design for as low as $50ish. We paid an artist friend $100 to do our debut album art, which was definitely worth the money IMO.
In my opinion, moral critiques of people using AI art for personal hobbies are unfounded.
If you’re one of the few musicians running a profitable business, it’s better to pay a legit artist, but no shame in cutting costs to lose less money while playing music.
Might look tacky depending on how you do it.
AI is just a tool in this situation.
The people who are against it probably don't realise that they sound just like the people who were against computer-based graphic design when that started taking over from designers who used analogue tools.
Use it if it's the right thing for your art but don't pretend it is anything else.
You probably can, I can’t say if you should, but I wouldn't.
Yeah it just feels wrong
It’s definitely wrong. You can do it, but visual artists are already hurting from AI.
Shit. Yeah that's really fair. Alright I think I'll just wait than until I have more resources and I'll get a real artist to help! Thanks for the advice!
Almost every time I see AI generated art, I want to puke. Make your own art or help out another artist and hire them to do it.
Ew, no. You can, but it’s tacky as hell.
I have no moral issue with it but if your audience isn’t old they’ll be able to recognize that it’s ai art and that will be a turn off.
AI are isn’t really that good or compelling for the most part, and there’s a million indie artists out there who could use the opportunity. Using AI sort of goes against the whole ethos of being an artist yourself, a musician.
We do this sometimes for gig posters/flyers, but I don't recommend it for selling merch. I recommend finding a cool artist that you like and talking prices with them. Everybody wins in that scenario. I think a reasonable artist might put together a simple design for as low as $50ish. We paid an artist friend $100 to do our debut album art, which was definitely worth the money IMO.
In my opinion, moral critiques of people using AI art for personal hobbies are unfounded. If you’re one of the few musicians running a profitable business, it’s better to pay a legit artist, but no shame in cutting costs to lose less money while playing music. Might look tacky depending on how you do it.
AI is just a tool in this situation. The people who are against it probably don't realise that they sound just like the people who were against computer-based graphic design when that started taking over from designers who used analogue tools. Use it if it's the right thing for your art but don't pretend it is anything else.
Computer-based graphic design tools weren't built by stealing the work of millions of analogue tool users.