Artistic Ownership

The sense of being the authentic creator of one's own artwork, encompassing both the process and the final product. For digital artists with disabilities, artistic ownership is complicated by reliance on templates, automated tools, and assistive technologies that may feel like they diminish the artist's authorial role. The tool used to create art can implicitly become a metric of its perceived value—work made with assistive shortcuts may be seen as less authentic than freehand work. Designing accessible creative tools requires balancing efficiency gains with preserving the artist's sense of agency and creative control over the output.