Can Koji Tamaki be drawn by AI? ~The answer I found after experiencing AI art~

Hello, I'm Candy.

I started acrylic painting as a new hobby at the age of 50, once my child-rearing days had settled down, and it has been about three years since then. I have posted over 500 works on social media so far, but what has become my greatest treasure is the connection I've made with fans who share the same feelings. More than just drawing, those interactions have fueled my passion even further✨

In the midst of those days, over the past year or so, the flow of the times—what some call the "first year of AI"—arrived... It became a hot topic in the news, and the opportunity for me to touch the world of "AI art" came along as well.

In one online community, AI art was posted almost daily, and each creator competed to see "how beautifully and with what high quality they could create their works."

I suddenly thought to myself,
"If I enter this world, I might be able to see what my 'analog paintings' really are, perhaps even more clearly."

A world drawn with words, an AI partner

In AI art, you input command sentences called "prompts."
For example, even if you say "draw a cute dog,"
・Big, round eyes?
・Beady eyes?
・Sparkling with a smile?
・A little shy?

...and so on,the challenge is how accurately you can verbalize the "cuteness" you are imagining to the AI.
To get closer to the image you have in mind, it is a process of trial and error, rewriting the prompts over and over again.

For about 10 months, I have been working on this "AI art creation" in parallel.
And finally, an answer was born within me.

"My Koji Tamaki" cannot be drawn by AI

The images that AI draws are certainly elaborate, vivid, and beautiful.
However, I realized,
"The Koji Tamaki I draw cannot be drawn by AI."

AI learns from the vast amount of information and images that humanity has created so far,
and like the "ultimate reference book for humanity," it derives an answer.
But, "there is no 'process' or 'feeling' there."
AI is merely a tool that outputs the "result"—the work itself.

On the other hand, the Koji Tamaki I draw always has "feelings" at its foundation.

Over 40 years of respect for him.
And gratitude for his music.
Support for the way he continues to stand on stage even at this very moment.
I mix the colors born from those "roots" with my own hands, blend them, and apply them to the brush.

What "drawing" means to me

The time I spend drawing is
not in front of the TV, nor at a concert,
but a special world where I am facing "the Koji Tamaki within me"✨

For me, painting might not be a "result," but a "process akin to prayer."
In it, the quiet flow of time and the swaying of emotions bleed through,
and I feel a warmth that is almost like "human skin."

That is why I want to continue drawing with these hands from now on

I am not denying AI.
Rather, it was because I encountered AI that I was able to rediscover the value of working on my own analog paintings.
What AI cannot draw.
It is "the very feeling I have for him" itself.

This is the answer I have reached.
Thank you for reading this far 😌

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