Warning in advance, this is gonna be a long post.
I have an artistic background. Lately I've been seeing a lot of videos on my suggestion feed of Youtube videos about these new AI programs that create artwork from text prompts. So a couple weeks ago I decided to look into this and see if my or my artist friends' careers were about to be upended by robots similar to worries about Chat GPT making humans obsolete in some areas.
The short answer is no, as AI programs can't actually create a real, tangible painting, drawing, sculpture, etc. What it can do though should worry graphic designers, web designers, or anyone who makes money off art or creating any type of visual content in the digital realm. It doesn't do logos well, yet, as the AI art programs don't seem to understand how to replicate text into legible words, but it'll just be a matter of time before that's been trained into them and is an easy fix in Photoshop for any novice graphic designers.
Here are a few images I've "created" using the AI program Midjourney. I went with some artistic styled stuff, mixed with comic book, animated, or fantasy themes.
This is Geralt and Yennifer from The Witcher visiting Times Square:
This is a portrait of The Joker if done by portrait artist Chuck Close:
Mario if he were illustrated by Frank Miller:
A medieval castle if it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright:
Another castle, modeled after La Sangrata Familia in Barcelona:
Then I tried some song lyrics. Here's a few interpretations of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song:
We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow:
Hammer of the gods, will drive our ships to new lands:
To fight the hords, sing and cry, Valhalla I am coming:
"Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a kid." -From Elton John's "Rocket Man"
Symphony of Destruction, song by Megadeth:
That's more than enough. Sorry for the long post with all the big images. I'm hotlinking them straight from the Midjourney website and didn't have a way to downsize them quickly. Just thought some of you might be interested in the type stuff you can do with AI produced artwork. There's a ton of "fake" stock photography being done too, as well as people inventing what a new car or truck might look like and using AI art to create mockups for them. And these programs have only been live the last 6-8 months, and are already advancing in quality and in what they know how to reproduce quickly.
I have an artistic background. Lately I've been seeing a lot of videos on my suggestion feed of Youtube videos about these new AI programs that create artwork from text prompts. So a couple weeks ago I decided to look into this and see if my or my artist friends' careers were about to be upended by robots similar to worries about Chat GPT making humans obsolete in some areas.
The short answer is no, as AI programs can't actually create a real, tangible painting, drawing, sculpture, etc. What it can do though should worry graphic designers, web designers, or anyone who makes money off art or creating any type of visual content in the digital realm. It doesn't do logos well, yet, as the AI art programs don't seem to understand how to replicate text into legible words, but it'll just be a matter of time before that's been trained into them and is an easy fix in Photoshop for any novice graphic designers.
Here are a few images I've "created" using the AI program Midjourney. I went with some artistic styled stuff, mixed with comic book, animated, or fantasy themes.
This is Geralt and Yennifer from The Witcher visiting Times Square:
This is a portrait of The Joker if done by portrait artist Chuck Close:
Mario if he were illustrated by Frank Miller:
A medieval castle if it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright:
Another castle, modeled after La Sangrata Familia in Barcelona:
Then I tried some song lyrics. Here's a few interpretations of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song:
We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow:
Hammer of the gods, will drive our ships to new lands:
To fight the hords, sing and cry, Valhalla I am coming:
"Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a kid." -From Elton John's "Rocket Man"
Symphony of Destruction, song by Megadeth:
That's more than enough. Sorry for the long post with all the big images. I'm hotlinking them straight from the Midjourney website and didn't have a way to downsize them quickly. Just thought some of you might be interested in the type stuff you can do with AI produced artwork. There's a ton of "fake" stock photography being done too, as well as people inventing what a new car or truck might look like and using AI art to create mockups for them. And these programs have only been live the last 6-8 months, and are already advancing in quality and in what they know how to reproduce quickly.
