I saw an author on Threads a couple of days ago grumbling about paying a thousand pounds to an artist to do the cover art for her book, and being furious when the artist sent her a bunch of AI bullshit. The artist claimed that the author’s ideas for the cover couldn’t be realised any other way… fortunately there seems to be a happy ending to the story, in that the artist seems to have agreed (probably reluctantly) to a refund, but someone asked the author what their cover design concept was, and she replied “A ring, a crown, and a sword.” To which I replied “Good grief. I can barely draw and I could still do that without AI.”
And then I actually DID do that without AI, scribbling this bit of nonsense on the back of a handy envelope:
As you may be able to tell, there are multiple good reasons why I never went into book cover design as a career. But at least I was honest about my lack of skill.
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