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When Brian Clarke, who uses the pseudonym Les Toil, decided to major in art at the beginning of the 90s, his love for art and his talents in illustrations were enough to provide him with a decent income to provide a good living.
However, that income started to dry up as photography became cheaper to use and digital art was on the rise. Then artificial intelligence (AI) appeared on the scene, and like a thief in the night, illustrations became a lost art.
So how can a magazine illustrator make a living in this digital age, and how do hand-created ink-on-paper illustrations and paintings differ from those created by AI? These questions and more were the centerpiece of my conversation with an artist who spends his evenings, “doing warmup drawings, just keeping my hand busy.”