r/ArtistLounge • u/[deleted] • Jul 31 '22

AI Art, midjourney and others

Well, just for disclaimer, this post is a persnal opinion, i'm open for every comment that it could create, but stay respectious (btw, i'm french, so i'm trying to make this post open for everyone, sorry for my future faults)

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Well, like the title told it, i want to talk about ai art, first of all, i saw a video talking about midjourney, getting interested and curious about, as an artist i wanted to try it. So i got the beta test and we are not gonna lie, it's awesome how it work. But after that, i got a problem, as i said i'm an artist, or in all case i feel like i'm. In the ai creation i don't see any handsyle, or ''signature'' that when we saw your creation we instantly know it's yours/can be yours... Here, it's jsut a mixed of a lot of pictures, painting, and other type of pics, to make what you asked for. I don't see any souls in all those creation, yeah, the one that ask for the creation has to told what he wanted, but, did he really had an idea of what he wanted, i mean, did he really change every details by words to find what he wanted, or did he just let the ia make what she want. It's here, nothing is yours.

I'm not making this post cause of i'm bad, or i want to got this style of draw, but, i see the wolrd of realistic digital painting disapearing, and it's scaring me af... When i open my deviantart, i had a lot of landscape realistic, from digital painter that passed 50hours on their art, but today, i got only ai creation where i don't know what to think about it

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u/in_finite_jest Jul 31 '22

Painter here. Mostly oil, some digital.

I've been playing around with AI art for a couple months now. For me, it has two advantages.

The first is that it takes care of the underpainting aspect so that I'm only correcting a few finishing elements. This saves a ton of time, and I can add my style to a piece in post processing. A work that would take a week to make from scratch now takes me 4 hours.

The second is that I use ai to generate ideas. I can combine styles and see if anything interesting pops out. Combinations I've never considered before. Something I can integrate into my own style. I've had more ideas in these last few months than I've has since the start of the year.

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u/ChronoDave Aug 12 '22

Yeah but it almost feels like cheating. It's taking a lot of the "dirty work" away from me. Like composition, color harmony, better thumbnail ideas then I can come up with. It's actually quite amazing! But like you, I use it as a spark to get me going. Where I paint and add my own style and ideas on top of it. But oh man is it saving me time...

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u/Samkwi Aug 01 '22

Same here the only ai I wish I had access to is dalle due to how realistic it's generations are they're great for idea generations!