I am the artist; Midjourney is my tool.

In most everything you see here, I use the --style raw tag to make sure that midjourney is following my instructions more than it is making its own decisions.

There are plenty of cases where I think it makes a lot of sense to let Midjourney make those decisions for you. If you’re drawing a graphic to drop into a presentation, you don’t need it to be an exact expression of your creativity; you just want it to look good.

Personally, I feel that selling things you didn’t create is dishonest, or at the very least it’s not really adding any value to the world.

The work you see here is done with as little “house style” of the model as possible. It’s tuned and iterated with my own instructions. Sometimes it’s based on my own hand-drawn work. Sometimes it’s originally AI-generated but filtered through the style of my own hand-drawn art.

Midjourney is the tool i use, just as I might use Photoshop, or a photocopier, or a box of crayons. The difference is that I can’t tell my box of crayons, “draw me a dragon.” But that’s why AI is such a powerful art tool. It can provide building blocks that I don’t have to create myself, so that I can create something more.

I’m not sure if i’m “seeing like an artist” when I turn words into pictures.