We tried to hire an artist this week for some works but it has been impossible to find one that doesn’t just send us slop from an AI image generator. We know because they are all anatomically incorrect, and it’s important because it’s for medical adjacent literature
Several times now I’ve commissioned a professional artist to create posters of D&D/Pathfinder groups I’ve run campaigns with. I’m in a new campaign that started this month and did an initial look around to begin scouting out an artist for another and my god. Having to sift through all the obvious AI “portfolios” is bad enough, let alone trying to suss out the ones that are using it in less obvious ways. I’ve settled on filtering my search to only artists for whom I can find works prior to 2023 or so. It’s insane.
ugh same. All I heard for decades is “hey you should pay artists” and “artists don’t make much money” and then as soon as I actually need a competent artist they’ve vanished off the planet.
Times when I or someone close to me have needed to hire artists, we’ve been able to find the right person for the job through professional networks. It’s sad to think that due to real artists struggling to find work, that many of these professional networks are liable to collapse, making it harder to find the remaining artists who are still working
We tried to hire an artist this week for some works but it has been impossible to find one that doesn’t just send us slop from an AI image generator. We know because they are all anatomically incorrect, and it’s important because it’s for medical adjacent literature
Ugh, I’ve run into this as well.
Several times now I’ve commissioned a professional artist to create posters of D&D/Pathfinder groups I’ve run campaigns with. I’m in a new campaign that started this month and did an initial look around to begin scouting out an artist for another and my god. Having to sift through all the obvious AI “portfolios” is bad enough, let alone trying to suss out the ones that are using it in less obvious ways. I’ve settled on filtering my search to only artists for whom I can find works prior to 2023 or so. It’s insane.
ugh same. All I heard for decades is “hey you should pay artists” and “artists don’t make much money” and then as soon as I actually need a competent artist they’ve vanished off the planet.
Issue is, they were drowned out by AI slopster grindbros. Work for cheaper and faster at the cost of producing slop.
what was the price range you offered?
Damn, that’s grim.
Times when I or someone close to me have needed to hire artists, we’ve been able to find the right person for the job through professional networks. It’s sad to think that due to real artists struggling to find work, that many of these professional networks are liable to collapse, making it harder to find the remaining artists who are still working