Weigh in on this for me, pls, friends & followers:
If you are ANY type of artist:
1) Would you ever, as an artist, use ay-eye/LLMs?
If you're a trad &/or digital artist:
2) What do you call what you do, when you make art: "creating," "drawing," "painting," etc - would you ever call it "designing"?
If you are ANY type of artist:
1) Would you ever, as an artist, use ay-eye/LLMs?
If you're a trad &/or digital artist:
2) What do you call what you do, when you make art: "creating," "drawing," "painting," etc - would you ever call it "designing"?
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Creating any sort of composition is a design skill
Designing is the act of choosing the appearance of a particular element.
Designing is a goal, but you can draw a design, paint a design, etc etc imo
2. Drawing and painting are my go-tos. And nah, would never call it designing.
I do some digital art (most of the wp zine covers and a few of the book covers) and personally call it "design" but I also have half a graphic design degree, so it's kind of the language I was taught to use.
2) "designing" feels to me (IMO) more a prelim and/or not-necessarily-including-executing sort of thing. "creating" IMO feels like a glorified "make".
"draw" and "paint" are straighforwardly what they are
IMO
2) usually i just call it drawing but it depends on where i am in the process, i just use “drawing” as my general term. i don’t think id use the term “designing” personally, but i can see why someone would
2)I'm drawing most of the time, but I'm also a motion/graphic designer, so I edit/animate and sometimes design. But drawing/sketching is an important part of designing, in my opinion.
2) tricky, because I mostly do fashion designs illustrations I think I do both "drawing" and "designing"
1. No
2. I usually say that I'm thing to go draw or go paint. I'm a digital artist.
2.) I call it art and illustration, when I work in colour pencils I have had feedback from people who call them paintings which makes me happy. I’m still working on enjoying using actual paint. I prefer pencils and markers because I feel more in control. 2 sketches and 2 colour pencil pieces
2) I'm generally drawing with dry stick-y things or painting with wet fluid-y things. If I tried something called "design" I'm pretty sure the good ol' pathological demand avoidance would kick in.
2: (digital artist mostly) all of these labels depend on what I'm making. (Digital painting when it's specifically painterly, etc.) I will probably only call my work designing if im making up a character design or drawing concept art 🫶
i call it creating, drawing, or painting, depending on my mood and whatever i'm working on
I am amused that shitty text kerning and alignment are some of the best tells for generated crap.
I don't design stuff unless asked to design a pamphlet or something , I play around, draw, paint, practice etc
2) I really only say I'm "designing" when I'm working up a prototype for a crochet pattern I have in mind. Otherwise I'm just drawing/sculpting/crocheting, etc.
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2) i call it designing when it’s a particular task… like i wouldn’t say im designing a forest unless i wanted the forest to be a particular way for a purpose
2. All of the above. "Designing" happens when I'm moving shapes around a page and not actually drawing/painting anything. Usually it's text heavy. Firmly graphic design
2) Only in very specific contexts, such as "I have designed this character. I have made a character design".
2. I do 'design' as well as create, draw, make, etc as I do plan most of my pieces to have an intended impact but the struggle for the process to meet the design is rarely perfect.
I’d rather use a crappy model from 2020 than state of the art
2) I wouldn't call myself a designer. I don't do graphic design; I draw with pencil and paint (digitally) using Krita.
2) Sculpture. Architectural pieces built primarily from slab clay (though sometimes slip). The process includes design, but design doesn’t describe the entire process.
2. “Drawing,” mostly. I say “creating” only when I’m feeling whimsical, but “designing?” Nah.
2. I'd never use the word 'designing' to describe any of my visual art activities.
2) I usually call it drawing or painting, whether it's digital or traditional. I don't ever call it designing. That doesn't fit.
2) designing to me is for something like a brochure or book layout or maybe making something to be manufactured? I've only used it for fursonas as far as art-art goes, tho not sure why
2) Design is closer to craft than art, tho it's sometimes part of my art-making workflow.
2. Depends on what I'm doing: drawing, sketching, illustrating, coloring... I haven't used "designing," though because that sounds more like a formal project.
2) Like Pseuds said, "designing" is reserved for things like brochures or characters. If I'm using pencils or pastels or something like that, I'm drawing. Paints = painting. Creating is for idea generation, imo.
2) i'm a trad artist and call it drawing if i use pens/pencils and painting if i use a brush
i would say design if i'm commissioned to do artwork for something like a record cover and it would incorporate things like photos, logos, tracklist or other text
2) Digital artist, I call it "drawing" and sometimes "painting" if I am digital painting.
I do call it "designing" if I am doing concept work like creating a character design, but even in that situation it only refers to the act of putting concepts together, not the act of drawing.
2. If I am being explicitly asked to design something[tattoo, logo..ect] then yes, its design. Design is involved in much of the process but the act itself is creation. The creation has a design and but the act of making it is not "designing".
AI sucks ass pick up a pencil
2) "I make oil paintings" or just "painting". I wouldn't call it designing.
2. I tend to call by the medium I’m using (drawing/painting). I think of designing more relating to graphics and putting art on products etc. Personally, even if I’m doing something like draw a tattoo for someone I still consider it art-making over designing
2) I call it designing if I am working out the concept of a piece. Example: I drew some “sketches” for a few rings, and I definitely call that designing.
For my traditional ink or paint work, I call it drawing or painting.
For my digital work, it's separated into 2 categories.
• For art pieces, I call it drawing or painting (see above).
• For my data visualization work I call it designing.
Thanks for your input! 🙂
I do, however, use my computer to paint and have developed techniques to give my work the appearance of being traditionally painted. You can't do that unless you understand how paint works in different real mediums.
Never have never will use ay-eye/LLMs.
When I paint, I paint. When I draw, I draw. When I sketch, I sketch. These words suffice, as they always have.
2) I call it drawing regardless of medium, and might use the word designing if I’m making a new design (like an oc or clothes)
2. No.. unless im making a character. As a digital artist i usually just call it drawing
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For me, if there's a design phase, it's the thinking bit where I make a plan, figure out how things will fit together and determine how realistic my vision of dozens of papier machè pumpkins in 3 months is.
Generative ayeye can't do any of that.
But that's me being extremely generous towards techbros and I threw up a little writing this.
2) Mostly creating but designing is fine as well,
1. No. Never.
2. Yes? I do a lot of designing in my work.
I only use the bits of AI that make my job easier like small areas of background replace etc. I never create a while image with it.