AI image generator vs drawing by hand, an artist's honest take.

The people who frame this as one replacing the other are missing something. they are different activities that scratch different parts of my brain. generation is fast and expansive. drawing is slow and specific. both are useful. neither is the same as the other. four years of drawing. started traditional, moved to digital, still do both. picked up AI image generation about a year ago mostly out of curiosity. expected to use it a few times and move on. that is not what happened. what i did not expect was how much using AI generation made me better at drawing.