I mean, I guess technically? If you draw purely for yourself then yeah you can spend 10 years without learning anything new and be happy. And if you can do that, more power to you.
But if you’re one of those greedy artists what want an art job, or fans, or money, or to feel nice about learning something new, then improvement is very much not subjective and is very much measurable.
This cannot lead to improvement, because the tool will never generate better lines. It says so in the specifications for the tool. What you’re describing is better accomplished with generative AI:
But I’m glad we’ve caught you up to why we felt the tool was pointless for lineart to begin with.
Can’t speak for others but I couldn’t care less that it uses some small ethically sourced neural net. I do think that could have some great uses in other areas. I’m arguing purely from an artistic integrity standpoint.
As I’ve said before, this tool is comparable to Adobe’s Livetrace in Illustrator. Which I’ve been using for over a decade. I’ll restate my position again because I felt it got marred and misconstrued throughout the discussion:
I am not against the tool. I am against the dev time being spent on it when it could be spent elsewhere. If Intel threw enough money to hire an entirely new dev, I’d be much less opposed but for some reason I doubt it.
I’m less annoyed the tool is being implemented or how it is, and more annoyed at all the other tools that are used arguably ten thousand times more being neglected in its wake.
If I had to go into even more detail as to why I’m indignant about it, I see it as a clear decision to prioritize corporate donations over artist donations.
“But artists don’t donate as much”
Yeah because the app is missing a lot of quality of life tweaks that scare away professional artists. The reason Intel is willing to donate so much and artists aren’t is because Intel hasn’t actually used the program. They just want a tax write-off with the added benefit of pushing whatever hardware or agenda they like.
And then the cherry on top is all the people thinking this is going to do anything other than mildly clean up their already cleaned up ‘sketch’. I was even willing to donate several pieces of my own for the training, but they’d get declined because they’re ‘too messy’
?? What do you think a sketch is? Do you not expect a Loomis head in the sketch? Cylinders for the arms? Boxes on the pelvis?
The example provided in the main thread shows construction lines but we’re not going to train on them? The whole thing is a mess created by Intel.
