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Hey guys, I know there is already a thread on Ai art but I wanted to start my own since I actually use the services. I used to say I am an Ai-Artist, but I since changed it to reflect the reality of what it actually is. I now say I am an Ai-Designer.
But before we get into what I do, here is a word from today’s sponsor lol.
Real artists, traditional artists HATE Ai for the most part & I completely understand. I agree with them but & it’s a BIG BUTT.
So, I will say this, as an actual traditional artist (I write, draw, photograph & videograph) I understand why Artists Hate Ai. I always mention Midjourney in the tags & usually Ai as well. I hate when people use it as their own legitimate art they created on canvass, that is fraudulent. There have even been cases where they submitted Ai work in contests & they won. Not cool.
Now as for my use of Ai. I use Midjourney, I also have used NightCafe & Dall-e2 & they both suck in comparison to what I can design in Midjourney (MJ for short, going forward)
Most Ai artists are not traditional artists, they do not understand what are actually does. They don’t know how to invoke emotion or use emotion in their work. They don’t understand composition. Which is why their work always just ends up looking static & generic. Sure sometimes they look cool, but there is never life. It’s always a bust of a character or a standing pose of a character. If you go through the home feed of MJ all you will see is the same structure with different models & it’s boring AF.
Because of what happened to me at the hands of my employer, I cannot focus on drawing things anymore, I won’t get into what happened, but I am not capable of creating like I used to, pencil to paper or stylus to tablet. I became very depressed because I could not create. Then I discovered Ai art & I learned how I COULD express my artistic visions again & then some. I am also a writer, writing is an art in & of itself. When I understood how Prompts worked I figured out how to make art with it.
Most Ai artists just type prompts like “A cool Cat eating a Pickle. Style Salvador Dali” then they generate a cool looking picture of a cat with shades eating a pickle.
I create stories with my Designs. I will not give my secret recipe, sorry folks, but all I can say is that my pieces all have stories behind them. I use Midjourney as a visual representation of my writing, my stories.
My work is very much influenced by H.P Lovecraft & Cixin Liu (the Three Body Problem) What I will be doing is creating short stories either with me narrating them or just have text & have the pictures as the focal point. I already did one called “The War Beyond The Stars” it is a mix of Lovcraftian & Cixin, the first link is that video, then the others are shorts video as previews of future stories.
What do you guys think?
https://youtu.be/XkzKuAcSWjg
https://youtube.com/shorts/tpe1OHlBrJc
https://youtube.com/shorts/eMjLIBXeeCQ
https://youtube.com/shorts/aB2hEYUpelw
https://youtube.com/shorts/tHn-KPCUXkQ
Hey team, thanks for approving the Thread. I am working on a longer video, maybe 10-15 mins long. It will be on Homer Simpson & I will call it:
HOMER SIMPSON, INTO THE MOUTH OF MADNESS.
Here is just a picture to give you an idea of what to expect. I am currently designing the first few normal scenes before the decent into Lovecraftian Cosmic Madness. The hardest part will be finding the right music for it.
Stay tuned.
I am noticing a lot of new traffic coming to my channel, 10+ new subscribers & over 1K views on my last video. If you guys are coming in from here, I REALLY appreciate your support. I’ve been trying to build an audience for the past 3yrs but YT is nearly impossible to gain traction today, the old fashion way, through hard work.
Thank you again.
That homer pic is great. Wonder if you could sell prints of these.
A question, can AI do logo design?
@Wisdom, Yes if you put enough time and energy to learn how to use it, it can do many things. I have prompts with over 900 words used. Then you have to start refining and after that sometimes you still need to use a good photo editing program.
@wisdom yes, with Midjourney you can Sell your stuff, as far as I know it’s the only one that allows you to do that. I pay a monthly rate for the access & whatever I do is my property. The only catch so far is if you make more than a million dollars, you have to go with a corporate plan that is 60$ USD if I am not mistaken.
I am planning on selling them as posters & T-shirts (hopefully) I am looking into affordable sites to start. I have a Redbubble account & I’m thinking about opening an amazon store.
The Logo aspect, yes you can like my bud @Mustangide1 indicated, but it is a major pain in the A, there is a particular way to include words, but it’s out of control. It’s hard to place the letters where you want them to go. So best bet, design the visual, then Photoshop the words.
Bummed because I do not do anything special in terms of steps to embed videos. It seems to work automatically most of the time. Everyone once in a while, there is a snag.
I see a lot of the art online with the bigger brands, but there is room for Evergreen content for neglected franchises. I think the obvious one that no one is going to do is Wheel Of Time. I am not a Wheel Of Time fan but some readers I know are big fans of it and when the show came out, I remember a relative asking me if I saw the trailer and I said yes and he just looked at me and shook his head. It was good feedback because he is young and reads 1,000 pages a week. Wish I would have done that at his age.
Anyway, that would be something if someone would take all the actual art that fans like online and feed it into the A.I. and show various live actions of Wheel Of Time and title it something like How Wheel Of Time Should Have Been Done or something like that.
I try not to post more than 2 videos at a time and use desktop. So far, they embed with no issues, so I have no instructions.