The Grandfather and the Little Grandson

I resume: A crouched child covers his head with both hands. He opens one eye and looks around, bewildered, at a world lashed by the wind. The grandfather hugs him, wraps him up warmly. He takes his tiny hand and whispers, “don’t worry,” before accompanying him outside on one of the very first walks of his life.

AI used exclusively for preliminary studies; final work is handcrafted.
When I use AI, I treat it like a sketching lab. For example, here I gave a precise brief—subject, lighting, materials, even a lens effect—and then corrected the output with specific indications (wind direction, shape of the peak). AI doesn’t decide: it speeds up the study phase. The ethics lie in two things: not opaquely copying other people’s material and honestly declaring that it is a design tool, while the final work (and the artistic choices) remain mine.