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Imagining something that you to create is something anyone can (and does) do all the time.

Spending time learning how to actually create it, and then actually creating it is what makes someone an artist.

The children's "own way of creation", in your own words is to imagine what they want to create, and then ask something else to try doing what they want. If it's not what they want they complain and ask the system to try again.

I wouldn't be called an artist if I imagined a picture of myself riding a dragon, and then proceeded to commission a painting of that. Asking someone else to do the thing for you isn't being creative. It's being lazy. It's not making art "accessible". They couldn't do art before, and they still can't now. They just believe they can, just because they can "bark out an order at a slave".



>Spending time learning how to actually create it, and then actually creating it is what makes someone an artist.

Says who? Someone sold a white canvas with a banana taped to it, that a toddler could have done in 3 minutes. What's there to learn to do something like that?

>I wouldn't be called an artist

Pretty sure people do whatever they enjoy doing, and they don't give a f if some pretentious people call them artists or not.

This comment is a very narrow and elitist PoV, focusing on art specifically, which is a thing a lot of people would struggle to define, and also has nothing to do with the topic of using computers, since most people don't use computers for art but to make their lives easier, more efficent and more fun.


I can't draw anything worth a damn. I'm not being elitist. I'm also talking about myself.




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