So, I’ve been resisting the urge to rant about how AI art is really blossoming into its own medium, and all of the alarmists out there are the equivalent of people ranting against the invention of the printing press back in the day — mostly because I don’t think I could maintain a polite tone.
Deal. With. It.
No, AI is never going to replace your experience as a human. I can’t even fathom what makes people think that’s possible …
So if you want to create art with pencils, brushes, or photoshop, you will still be able to create art with pencils, brushes, or photoshop. That’s not going anywhere, and plenty of people will still happily watch youtube art videos. Face it, art has never been a lucrative career path for the huge majority of artists throughout all of history — that’s why “starving artist” is a stereotype.
Me? I like creating art with words and AI.
The above screenshot is the user interface I use for Stable Diffusion, which, as you can see, is far more complicated than typing in, “magical Autumn forest”.
All of those settings in all of those boxes mean something — they are the difference between a beautiful picture and something totally broken — and ComfyUI lets you go even deeper than that.
I’ve spent the last six months learning how to write prompts, because the order of the words and even the punctuation in between them matters. I’ve also been learning what all of the settings do. Most of this only has a little bit of documentation because of how brand new the technology is, so the majority of my knowledge has come from trial and error.
Fails include:
And pretty soon here, SDXL 1.0 will be released and I’ll probably end up re-learning it all over again, ha ha.
It’s great though. I thoroughly enjoy AI art and the process of creating it. Not so thrilled with how many people are reacting negatively to a new technology, but go figure — people freaked out over every single technological advancement in all of history, and it didn’t stop the world from changing anyway.
By Autumn Rain 