it really is awful how a lot of people are just going along with mass scale automated plagiarism and and using it to commit all kinds of fraud including trying to replace and outright erase the people LLMs rip off. generative AI was never even meant to be used for anything but lab work and using it to replace any kind of artist or worker is just an abuse of both technology and workers.
is it charcoal? always found that to be a tricky medium, not because of any difficulty that exists in the process of using it but how easily the finished piece can be ruined without a fixative.
be careful not to stay stuck in a place of waiting for too long, sometimes you've got to go your own way and make things happen yourself. the river cuts it's own path through stone and earth.