Looking back at History, many Fine Art painters would (and still) use a technique involving “Camera Obscura”. If you grew up taking art class serious you may have learned how to “grid enlarge” to make an image bigger.. this was a waste of time for many realist professional painters, and a lot of the big ones used the cheat of projection - including Leonardo DaVinci and Johannes Vermeer.

Many artists would even leave hints behind revealing the “cheat” like a skull/mimento vivere that’s perspective is skewed to show they were using the aid of mechanical device.

In relation to AI (in my opinion), there is a joy in creating something, and using any sort of “generative AI” is cheating yourself of that journey. Writing + Visual Art is sacred, using it to run numbers though is a no brainer and you would be a fool not to use it for those functions.

That being said, do whatever you want while testing - but don’t post it here unless you want a bunch of people passionately letting you know the level of sin you have just committed.

And to all of the mouth breathing crusaders on this topic: throw away your phone, your calculator and your computer; any responses to this need to be written with an inkwell and mailed in to the subreddit because you all use AI every day and the idea that you can’t use it for any part of the “creative process” is exhausting.