Hi there.
I'm bagas brojo, a manual illustrator.
since 2018 I use fiverr to sell my services, especially in the field of dark art and horror illustration, since the beginning of 2023 I have not gotten any orders, only in March I got an order and even then only 1, as a manual artist I feel defeated.
Now that I'm at level 2, do you think I have a lot of orders? Of course not, and since 2018 I haven't even reached 200 stars.
Along with the times comes AI that can create images just by writing, I know this is the development of the times, but will the manual illustrator profession become extinct? I think yes, and soon,
Many buyers now prefer AI drawings, I don't know the benefits that buyers get, maybe because it's easy and simple, but I don't know about the copyright.
Finally, after years of learning to draw for sale, I was finally defeated by technology, and thank you for reading this article,
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