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Right way to draw cartoon running

Is it "cheating" for an illustrator to use AI to help with ink and color? Artists use technology in all sorts of ways to make the process of creating art more efficient. Nobody bats an eye when an artist uses a paint-bucket fill instead of coloring by hand, or uses a transform tool instead of erasing and re-drawing. Such technology is now accepted as a valid time-saving tool in the artist's toolbox. So how far do we take that? On the left is a rough sketch I did on paper, by hand. It's 100% my original drawing, including my choice of colors. As an experiment I uploaded the sketch to ChatGPT and asked it to tighten it and color it with a soft watercolor look. The results aren't perfect but it's decent (again, this is just an experiment). It saved me a ton of time, and theoretically I can control the final result to be precisely what I want using carefully worded prompts. AI didn't "create" the illustration. It's still *my* original drawing, cleaned up and colored how *I* want it to look. I can also take it into Photoshop and "fix" certain areas if I need to. But the tedious ink-and-color was done quickly by AI. Should this be an acceptable practice for an illustrator? Or not? Is this crossing a line? If so, why (or why not)? I honestly have mixed feelings about this myself. Part of me is repulsed but another part of me is excited about how much more artwork I could create with this kind of time-saving technology. I'm very curious what others think. Please leave a comment and let me know.