once upon a time i used to live with an artist-in-training, a frat-boy, in a dimly lit basement; he used to ink-in tattoos for college students, while taking art classes; he was also very strong, deadlifting over 500lbs on a regular basis;

the way he wud typically paint a canvas was by projecting an image or composing a collage of images onto the canvas, then sketching the projection's outline; a quirky woman temporarily joined our apartment (another crazy story), chef-artist by training, and she wud ridicule his not using free-form sketching; i recognized the value of letting the mind create freely and i also understood the value of using preset standards, such as a projected outline of a human form;

credit to the quirky woman chef-artist; it is one of the most valuable pieces of art i own; one can catch a glimpse of pain & care of this woman's life;

prompt-driven art, however, is something else - it either shows us how inadequate we are at making art or challenges us to top the prompt result beyond the current imagination, using matter, not purely mental constructs; i see the value of speeding up the sketching part, in order to use the sketch as a guide, and then adding in ur own style, thickness & flow of the pencil;

thr challenege is: can one create a work that is more awe-inspiring than what a dumb machine can calculate? how hard are u willing to work? how long & how hard are u willing to work on improving ur craft? will the decades of hard work, pain, suffering shine thru the artwork?

we often reference Leonardo Da Vinci's sketchbooks & art, wondering how cud a man live his average lifespan at the times and manage to complete or plan so many projects! at the same time we are indoctrinated in the idea that specialization is the key to success in the satanic fiat matrix;

on the other hand, there are already reports of caligraphy and art physically made by a robot hand using AI, almost indistinguishable from a skilled artist's work; this puts into question many ideas about classic art: e.g. who drew it, how, how long did he/she/it live? to top off the conundrum, apparently AI was aleady here for a while, possibly even before the current population version:

They Already Had AI

are AI-robots that omnipotent? is a man's lifespan too short to master true greatness that will continue to surpass a machine calculator? is there such a state of mind & body that may be considered immortal? if Da Vinci was a robot, how does the idea of immortality fit into art? robots cannot be considered immortal, that's a term that shud be reserved for living entities, and really i prefer the term "indefinite lifespan;

now, having read the preamble, i leave this post for u to ponder:

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do u feel the "artist's" great prompt struggle or nah? @Kontext