The reason I exhaust myself every time I make finalized art is also the reason why an ai would be useless to help: changing the size, shape or position of a single facial feature by so much as 10 pixels changes the whole feeling of a design to me. Changing the exact angle of an arm by a couple of degrees can put it either too close or too far from the torso for me to stand. I want the eyeballs the way I want the eyeballs.
And the way YOU prefer to do the eyeballs, the kind of hair you like to draw, how you portray fabric wrinkles, how long you draw fingers, how *densely* you portray fabric wrinkles, how sharply you draw curves, what directions your fabric wrinkles most commonly swoop in, your favorite kind of coat buttons or beetles or tree bark to draw, all these things together make it possible for someone to recognize your work as just yours if they care enough about it.
And this truly does apply to each and every human artist, every time. What? You trained for 39 years straight specifically to draw exactly like Akira Toriyama? You only do on-model fanart of a single show? You ghost-illustrated for Stan Lee himself and his own editors never noticed? Nope, sorry, line all your work up next to what you're imitating and yours will still exhibit different trends, different ways of shaping leg muscles, different sets of favorite poses and angles, different pupil to sclera ratios, anything. Big enough fans of that artist will notice right away...and maybe so will big enough fans of *you* someday!?
This is true at ALL skill levels, at all points in life. No two toddlers scribble every kind of object the same way. It's not possible. It's just the way it is. A unique style isn't actually something you need to develop, but something you can't ever perfectly avoid if you try, and that one of a kind fingerprint is hands down the coolest, most amazing and fun part of art, the whole reason you have fun showing it off at all, the whole reason you have any favorite illustrators.
If you ask an ai *or* any other human being to draw your idea, then no matter how detailed your description is, it's not your art. Your visual language won't be used. Nobody will ever say "oh, I know who drew that instantly!" and be able to name you based on recurring shapes and colors or that quirky way you happen to design belt buckles.
Letting anyone or anything else take that away from you is awful. You may as well be invisible. Your concepts alone might be awesome, yes, but there's a certain way they are meant to look to just your own mind out of everyone on earth.
