*offers a big hug*
I tend to do the same myself, and currently am dealing with my own anxieties and art block. That being said, you're an awesome artist and i look forward to seeing how your art evolves as you keep working on it :)

Thank you. Look forward to your work as well ^^

When i get around to it if i can XD
But i do look forward to yours :)

All's good! Just glad everything is okay. Don't try to mimic others but instead be yourself. You have a unique art style that I can tell apart from everyone else and that is what I like. I enjoy people with unique art styles. They tend to make some of the best works after all. Your work is very good in my opinion as it is.

Thank you ^^

*sends hugs*
Hope you feel better soon. Sorry I dindt catch that journal till right now, I rarely check journals due to my own anxiety issues.

Wishing you a speedy recovery, your art is amazing.

No worries. Thanks for the hug :)

AI will never have the care love and effort a human can put in. AI is smart but, it can't hit the same notes as conveying an understanding to the emotion behind the art. I'm glad your feeling better. Though if find yourself on the downward hit me up and I'll listen.

I hope you're right. Thank you ^^

AI is overhyped. I know about computing and I've seen how it works. It lacks the capacity for intuition that makes it possible for us squishy humans to make real art. There will always be things off about what it produces.
They say this will get solved with machine learning, but again, there it's inability to intuit context messes it up. This is why every AI chat program that's ever been created ends up spouting racial slurs and curses. We humans can figure out from context and judging the emotional reaction that these things are inappropriate, but the AI can't read your expression and it can't intuit the context, so it can't figure it out.

AI can do some amazing things, but it will never be a replacement for things that require human expression or intuition.

And don't feel too bad about your art. Imposter syndrome is incredibly common among talented people. You feel like your art is terrible because you're good enough to see your own faults and that makes you overlook your best qualities. Just look at it this way: you only feel down on your art because you care about it and caring about has trained your brain to show you the stuff you can improve. Your brain is trying to help you get better, it's just really bad at framing it in a way that feels good. It's like your perfectionist dad; it cares, it's just really bad at showing it.

Your right. Craiyan, Artbreader and Midjourney are fun little non threatening toys. Dall-E 2 scares the bejebus out of me. AI doesn't even really create art. It uses noise diffusion and then take pictures and art from the internet and tries to jam them in to it make an image. The problem is that the AI learns so the more people use them the better they will get. The problem is that if an average joe needs a picture, instead of paying for an artist to make it or buying a stock photo, They will simply type it in Dall-e2. The image wont be great but it will be 'good enough' and that is all the average consumer wants. Illustrations, comics, and drawing that require more then a 'portrait' shot or one figure in a background are safe.... for now. An AI Engineers wet dream to replace everyone with AI. I fear they will succeed one day. Its true that more jobs will be created by AI, unfortunately it will ONLY be in AI related positions . Don't get me wrong Artists will still be around. It will just be far more competitive and the only way to survive will to be artist-ai-cyborg and will be required to make works 5X as fast. The future sucks for everyone except those in the AI industry.

If the bot is taking images from around the internet, then it's going to run into legal issues with copyright eventually.
But the idea that machine learning will fix it is the kind of non-sense that you hear tech-bros who don't do any actual coding say. Machine learning is so flawed. Without some kind of unforseable advancement in coding that at this moment is genuinely impossible to imagine, machine learning will only be good at learning to do repetitive tasks with an objective correct solution. Machine learning doesn't learn, you see. It brute forces a correct response through infinite re-iteration. When you have something like art, where so much of it is subjective, machine learning doesn't have an objective correct response to reach.

I pretty sure lawsuits will start to pop up when AI art is used commercially. There is already a legal fight going on in the courts if you can copyright a AI work. In fact under most AI licensees you accept when signing on state that images made by AI is still owned by the company that developed the AI. I don't know much about machine learning but what you said about it's flaws is encouraging,

Oh, the copyright cases are going to go nowhere. It was already ruled in a case years ago that you can only copyright an image made by a human being. Computers don't count. You can copyright the software that makes images, but the images themselves can't be copyrighted.
Incidentally this means that all claims to ownership of most NFTs are legally invalid.

You're right about how artists think and your illustration about the perfectionist dad is great. Thank you so much. I will keep your advice at heart

There's no single axis to compare art on! Your art has a really fun flavor that's unique to you.

Thank you. I'm glad ^^

I really hope so. The problem is people insert emotions INTO an AI painting. Some NFT investors bought a million dollar AI generated painting because they thought it was a 'masterpiece'. It looked like a half melted ballerina. The AI doesn't care it it's good or not it just grabs a bunch of images and scrambles them together via noise diffusion . Stock artists and photographs will be the first to go just like the portrait artists did when the camera was invented. Then in the future when AI trained on thousands of templates and a person simply needs to just type their information and the AI gives them 20 options instantly, my graphic design job will be next to dissipate

Thank you for your encouraging words btw

*hugs* algorithms are a pain to try to appease. AI cannot put the emotion, care, or effort that humans do. Your art is great as it is you! ^^

Thank you ^^ That's so nice of you ^^

you’re welcome! ^^

Sometimes ya gotta just let it out. It can be part of getting to a point that you can relax if you are taking a hiatus after all.
Just don't take it too hard on yourself at the same time, if you can help it! I know it's a lot easier said than done.

Still! Nothing to apologize for. You've done nothing wrong.

Thanks SBW-Tusachi :)

*give you a hug*
Hey don't mention it and there no need for a apology but apology accepted my friend
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10286810/

Thank you ^^

No problem my friend

It’s perfectly alright I apologise if I never sent a message to help but if you ever need anyone to talk to let anyone of us know and we be more then happy to help you anyway we can however way we can. We’re here for you. :)

Thank you . That means a lot :)

That's fine, we all have our ups and down, keep rocking and everything should be a smooth ride !

Thanks Saared555, I will keep rocking.

Yeah, you're walking your own path. Success takes time. Comparing won't help. Maybe it's good it's slow, so you can slowly adjust to it over time. Those who face sudden success and fame experience challenges and I can't imagine how fun that might be. It sounds overwhelming honestly.

But yeah, you could try writing in a personal journal to help organize your thoughts and feelings. It could go a long way in helping you do self reflection. I'm not a psychologist though, I just know it has helped me.

Very good advice. I actually do write a journal regularly. It does help with clarity.