After THE PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe on August 2nd, the stress was over. I resumed working in AI -- with Gaussian Splats and by reinterpreting famous art works in my drawing style. I drew two models in Santa Fe, but could not stay long enough for the 20 minutes poses.
(at least it's not cold as hell)
DRAWINGS
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REAL drawings vs AI drawing
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PRINTMAKING
The biggest PRINTMAKING effort was THE PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe on August 2nd. Ellie pulled ALBU-BRIJE prints and gave them out to the public for free:
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AI ART
I resumed working with 3D Gaussian Splats:
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- ALBU-BRIJES (28 MB loading)
- August2026__02 (17 MB loading)
Is AI ART Original?
*YES*
The sculpture below looks nothing like Laocoön and His Sons -- after I altered it with Artificial Intelligence in KREA, using a model trained on my drawings.
Moreover when I do a "reverse search" on the result -- using "Google Lens" -- I get nothing that looks like my AI image:
Reverse search with "Google Lens"
Thus it seems like I arrived at something original after using AI. Again, I altered this ancient masterpiece with an AI based on my original personal drawing style.
I actually used a second AI model based on both Bernini and my-personal-drawing-style. I then expected to generate clones of Berninis, but the results are still very different from Bernini's sculptures.
For instance, note the difference between the original Bernini sculpture and the AI version (on the right below). Again, I altered the original sculpture with two AI models -- one trained on my drawings, and another based on Bernini-and-my-drawings:
REAL Bernini vs AI Variation
The AI result is definitely different from the REAL Bernini -- but is it original?
*NO*
Conversely the results in MIDJOURNEY seem to be just clones of other Midjourney images. Note the aesthetic in the Midjourney promotional trailer released in March 2026:
These promotional YouTube images above feel very similar to the ones I generated in Midjourney with my own aesthetic preferences:
Even though the subject matter is very different, all the Midjourney-generated images look the same. I did that on purpose with the images I generated. However it seems that everyone's images are also just cloned in Midjourney, as they look/feel too much alike. I do not think that the Midjourney-generated images are original.
*YES and NO*
- Ultimately I still maintain that the key to original AI ART is to train your own AI models (as I did above in KREA).
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- Deep Dream Generator let me use the new WAN 3.0 video model for free for a couple of days
- Midjourney came out with an update:
OTHER
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