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I used AI. And I’m proud of it. As Lu Mei on Murder at the end of the World says "The future of everything is in collaboration with artificial intelligence", I prefer to say "AI isn't killing creativity. AI isn't just collaborating, AI made art more accessible even to those who are not artists."

Without AI, this story would’ve never taken birth. I tried drawing it myself, it looked too amateur. Then I tried dumping my first chapter into AI and letting it generate images and pages. It felt soulless. Generic. AI.

Then I did something different.

I fed it my own paintings. My son’s scribblings, he's just 2 years old. Unfinished sketches, half-formed thoughts, pastel smudges. And slowly, it started to become something. Something honest. Something that I felt is my own creation and not just an echo of someone else's.

It took me a week. What would’ve taken me months, maybe years, if I had to do it the traditional way. And I don’t have that kind of time. None of us do. We run to pay bills. Hobbies and stories like these, don't generally pay the bills. But, I write & draw to share my vision to the world.

Would you be interested to read my novel and the graphic novel?

Here's my process, and the amount of work that I have put into this. This is not an AI generating everything. This is AI co-creating, but I am still the protagonist of the my novel. AI is just a tool that helps me bring my vision to life.

You decide, here's the 2 cover art that I generated, one without any input, the other with my own digital art enhanced with AI. Do you see the difference?

One is a mediocre AI generated cover art, the other one is an amateur art of my own, but used AI to bring the real vision of mine towards the art, that I cannot do with the skills that I have. Skill is a barrier to do good art. It takes years to practice.

Here's my original art.