Alexa, draw the model for me:
Midjourney prompt: "Life drawing by Alexa"
On November 5th AI Art made a quantum leap when Midjourney upgraded to "Version 4." I quickly became addicted and could barely keep up -- letting AI transform my figure drawings, for the good, bad and the unexpected:
My drawing photobashed with AI
AI preserved the balance and gesture
of my figure drawing
UPDATE (Dec 10): Jazza just made a YouTube video about finessing AI to enhance your drawing:
MY BEST AI CREATIONS
of November 2022
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- Stroked PNG
- SVG vector files
I reduced the left image
to a binary file (Floyd-Steinberg) on the right,
and created this diptych to be read as a hologram
Reverse Prompt --
Img2Prompt generated text after I uploaded one of my drawings,
then I used that text prompt in Midjourney
PROGRESSIVE BANNERS
My Drawings Transformed by AI
OBSERVATIONS
1) Midjourney dramatically improved after they uploaded "Version 4" on November 5th. Check out the before and after below, generated with similar prompts which asked that Lincoln hang out with Metallica:
The first image created in Midjourney on November 1st,
the second image created in Midjourney on November 5th
The other AI programs likewise are also taking great leaps. The new Stable Diffusion 2.0 came out about November 24th, but seems to have taken a step backwards.
2) Midjourney generated the best results when I uploaded two images to mix them, or used a famous artist's name in the prompt ("in the style of Giorgio de Chirico"). It seems like most of the community was focused on finessing word prompts to refine the images (like Prompt builder) which I did not use, except for the reverse prompt program img2prompt (YouTube explanation).
3) There is a tendency for Midjourney to default into a Barbie.
Midjourney prompt: "3D model of Barbie created in Pepakura"
Vague prompts usually generate female figures (often only portraits) with similar proportions, in the face and body. Even when I upload an image to Midjourney, it leans towards a Barbie figure. I feel this probably is happening to all the other users as well, almost pushing us to all create the same idealized human archetype.
4) I felt that Midjourney was also generating the same color chords, so I was really pleased to discover an AI Color program -- Palette FM.
GOAL: Ultimately I want AI to repair my figure drawings, or at least push them into new creative and unexpected styles. However in order to do that the AI has to be somewhat faithful to the drawings that I upload, and Midjourney is getting better at that.
LINKS
DOWNLOADS from my GDrive:
- Origami Animals PNGs on my GDrive
- SVG Origami Animals on my GDrive
- Stroked Origami Animals on my GDrive
YouTube Playlist:
AI Programs Online:
- Midjourney
- Deep Dream Generator (Text 2 Dream)
- ArtBreeder Collage
- Stable Diffusion Playground
- Stable Diffusion 1 Demo (Hugging Face)
- Stable Diffusion 2 Demo (Hugging Face)
- Img2Img Stable Diffusion CPU (Hugging Face)
- S2 VQGAN+CLIP Classic.ipynb
- clip-ViT-L-14
- Palette FM (online colorizer)
- Petalica Paint
- Prose Painter
- Paint Hua (YouTube)
- Img2Prompt
- clip_interrogator.ipynb (image to prompt program)
- Invoke AI (YouTube)
AI Resources:
- Lexica
- KREA (AI art search engine)
- DALL-ery GALL-Ery
- DALL-E 2 prompt book (online)
- DALL-E 2 Prompt Book (PDF)
- Midjourney GitHub users manual
- filipecalegario (Filipe Calegario)
- has a great list of AI Art Resources on GitHub.
- Also on GitHub -- Awesome AI Art
USEFULL ONLINE Programs:
- Autotracer
- Remove BG
- Pine Tools -- Online Edge Protection
- LunaPic
- EzGif
- DPT Large (Hugging Face)
- ACE Face Restoration
- Mukosame/Anime2Sketch (Hugging Face)
- Toonify
- Oflox (low poly art generator)
- Font-Generator
- Grafitti Generator
- SculptGL
- Graphite
- waifu2x
- Photofunia
- Loonapix
- Droste Effect
- Hybridizer
- Chimera Painter
- Pixiz
- Pepakura (paid)
- Supacolor (heat-transfer website)
COLORS:
(AI Color):
- Coolors -- generate color palettes online
- Color Hunt
- Canva -- generate a color palette from an uploaded image
- Adobe Color wheel
- Munzli Colors
- Color Hex (computer monitor colors)
- Color Designer (color palette from an image)
- Google Color Explorer from Google Arts and Culture
AI Thoughts:
- Textual Inversion - How To Do It In Stable Diffusion (It's Easier Than You Think)...+Files!!!
- Convert-pkl-to-pt.ipynb
- Asmon's AI Art is Terrifying
- Create detailed prompts for AI art instantly
- Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
- https://www.astria.ai/Astria -- Tailor-made AI image generation
- I tried astria.ai - easiest way (for now) to train AI with your photos
- Fine_Tune_StableDiffusion.ipynb
- HOW THE ART-GENERATING AI OF STABLE DIFFUSION WORKS
- Holly+
Good AI Images:
(Midjourney -- Version 4):
- Twitter @INFINITEYAY -- 35 Artists Using AI With Under 1000 Followers That You Need To Follow Today
- @memory_bokeh
- @Jun0_kan0Graham hardy on Deep Dream Generator
OTHER:
- Open Library of Artist Styles by MJ Community
- Prompter Guide (for Midjourney)5 Artist Styles To Try in AI Art
- 20 Funny Photos Created By Joining Two Different Images In Midjourney AI, As Shared By This Telegram User
- Olivio Sarikas YouTube -- Midjourney V4: Turn YOURSELF into AI Art + Challenge!!!
- Midjourney let merge two pictures into one and get inspiring results
- BOMB magazine has an interview with some AI Art heavyweights in an article posted on October 25, 2022 -- Making the Invisible Visible: K ALLADO-McDOWELL, Derrick Skye, and Refik Anadol in Conversation.
- Olivio Sarikas YouTube --NEW TRICK: Combine images in Midjourney V4 - Create new Art!
- YouTube -- I Made a Short Film Comic with 100% Ai Art from Midjourney
- Inside the Studio 2022 -- interviews for the upcoming Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale
- Midjourney Users Manual
- Midjourney and Dall-E Artist Styles Dump with Examples: 130 Famous AI Painting Techniques
- Alpaca for Photoshop
- 8th Wall (Web AR...pay)
- Wrist watch rigging
- AI Art is Art tweet
Other sources of PNG animals:
- Leon Loughridge -- Inside the Artist's Studio 11/9/22 Evening
- Thomas Fluharty (who draws with us)
- Yeydidya Hersberg
- Steve McDonald (Hybrid AI Work)
- Euan Uglow
- Charles Ross
- Parker S Jackson
- Dave McKean
- Dante Orpilla (Instagram)
- A Portfolio -- about Albuquerque artist Harry O Morris
- K Allado-McDowell
- Hajime Sorayama
- Juana Estrada Hernandez
- Randall Sexton
