I talk about how we can support lobbyists and vote intelligently so that we aren’t inadvertently supporting th

These art styles were also scraped without consent.

if concept art isn’t safe, no creative jobs are safe, and if no creative jobs are safe, then no jobs are safe.

, but the sheer creativity of it was alarming. Receiving so many options without engaging your brain for any creative work…well, I thought to myself, “There goes concept art as a career.”

I saw a free app that could take a portrait and make a disturbingly good stylized version in one click. I could easily envision how most people would stop paying illustrators for avatars when they could do it themselves for free.

I predicted they would eventually threaten the livelihoods of portrait and concept artists.

I started my career as a graphic, web, and digital designer a little over 2 decades ago, and I’ve steadily watched work opportunities dry up. This started with unskilled template users flooding the market and ramping up exponentially with the advent of Wix and their aggressive marketing

Over the past 20 years, I’ve watched with horror as automation, greed, and exploitation has laid waste to the field of graphic and web design, and now the rise of AI generative art threatens to do even worse to concept artists and illustrators.