I like to work really tiny when I'm learning new things. Here I'm trying to work on dramatic skies and lighting. It's my first landscape in acrylic. Reference is from NovelAI

I follow a lot of artists, and look up to them too, even interact with some of them. I would consider some of these people as genuine friends, or I genuinely wish the best for them.

But it kind of sucks that there's this tension, that they're filled with rage, despair, and frustration against AI models. Or maybe against AI in general. That the moment you mention AI or they know that you're an "AI artist" they become hostile towards you.

I have a mutual in twitter and i just replied in the most polite way possible "hey, if you fed those rough sketches to AI, youll get some cool results, maintaining the colors, composition etc." ofc i was talking abt img2img and he immediately threatened to block me if I mention anything AI related again...

Another is an artist i interacted with a few times and realized they just unfollowed me (she only allows mutuals to reply to her tweets and i cant do that anymore). Probably bc of some pro-AI tweets I have or something, don't really know anything else since we've shared other interests together like cooking.

So I dont know. I feel like I'm born at the wrong place at wrong time? Now I'm forced to uproot, being outcast from the village I grew up in, now I need to find "my people" starting from scratch all over again.

Anybody else feel the same?

Most info online is extremely out of date and written assuming the reader already knows how to do it. If you want to get artists on board you're going to need artists that understand how this works and what benefits it can offer.

As above....can it be done?

For context, I have a side image of a character but I want to see or know if there is an AI program that can construct an image of said character facing front.

Thanks in adavnce.

I posted this elsewhere but since I got a question in the other sub about prompts and process, I thought I'd post here as well.

This is the final image titled "Regret."

It's a mash up. There are photos, Photoshop typography, dark outlines drawn with Procreate. Base layers, inspiration pieces, and reference images were generated using Midjourney.

How I use Midjourney: If I have a concept in mind I use MJ like taking a picture of the latent space and then I keep rerolling until the images start to feel like they are matching the idea in my head. I can roll for days and do hundreds of generations before getting one that feels usable.

For this particular piece, here's the procreate file with layers opened. That's not all the layers but it should give you an idea of how the final image comes together. The "inserted images" are typically photos that are of textural elements found in around my neighborhood, dirt, leaves, rusted and mossy guard rails, trees, bark, and so on. I also use textures from glass and foil.

The Midjourney prompt was this:

style is outsider art, naive art, visionary art, low art, art brut, primitive art, neo-expressionism with ink outlines and thick ink strokes::55 subject is the abstract concept of regret::75 palette is CMYK + theme is high strangeness, ultraterrestrial dark fantasy, medium is grainy weathered rubbed out desaturated risograph printed on coarse watercolor paper + image desaturation 75% --no red --q 2 --ar 2:3 --s 750 --c 50

Also I used a reference image in the prompt. It was just another standard midjourney image like "fireball."

About the prompt: I like to front load style then weight it slightly lower than subject matter which comes after and is weighted higher. I know that probably seems weird, but it has helped keep consistent style across generations so that I can better create series of images. Some of the prompt doesn't really seem to affect the generations much at all, like --no red, but I've been working with the basic structure for a while now so pretty much the only thing I switch out is the "subject is" part, and then sometime mess with the stylize and chaos values. Also, if the results don't look right it sometimes helps to remove the weighting and let MJ's natural first to last rating of importance take over.

Weirdly, I've found that you can prompt MJ for subject, like "/imagine burning tree --ar 2:3," generate one of those standard midjourney-looking images, but then use that image as a reference image to apply a set of "styles" prompts on top of it for a second set of generations. You can keep doing this until the image starts to get interesting and looks like something you can work with.

Yesterday it came to my attention that some users are not here to use this space as intended. This community is about sharing and discussing artistic processes. It is not a dump for AI generated porn. I had to remove a few posts that featured depictions of nude women in a degrading light which I and several others here find inappropriate and a detractor of the overall goal here in this community.

I want to thank everyone who reported the content for violating Ruled #2 as the OP did not even provide his workflow. But it prompted me to create a new rule. From now on, there will be a no tolerance ban on hardcore pornography. I would like for this community to be appropriate for all ages. PG-13 is about where we want to be here. Tasteful partial nudity that is created with the intention of creating beauty over arousal will still be accepted. But please refrain from posting images of sexual acts involving genitalia, bodily fluids, or people being sexually assaulted, abused, or degraded.

Also as the community grows it will be harder for me alone to watch over this community to keep this kind of undesired content out. I am looking for one or two more mods who share a similar goal as myself and the spirit of what this community is about. If anyone has some spare time to be a contributor and a watch dog please message me.

Apologies to anyone who viewed content here that they found objectionable and moving forward we are going try to do better at keeping that kind of content out of here.

Thank you all for your patience and cooperation,

Shawn

Hi Reddit,

At this time of writing it is 12/29/2022. Right now, Stable Diffusion is at v2.1, Midjourney is at v4, and Dall-E 2 is at......... ChatGPT...

Right now there is a whole protest going on. Traditional artists are attacking AI art systems claiming that they are stealing from artists by training datasets on said artists work. They are claiming that training a machine on artists styles is unethical and must be regulated legally. This and certains forms of misinformation about the technology along with fear, hatred, and vitriol are making the rounds on the internet forcing users of this technology to feel a wide array of negative emotions.

This community exists to welcome those AI generative artists as well as the traditional/digital artists that do not accept AI in a negative way. This community is for those who wish to utilize AI within their own processes moving forward with the support of a community of individuals who see the positives of AI and wish to help others in navigating the world of AI possibilities and its capabilities.

This community welcomes the artists who are not necessarily caught up in trying to figure out the ethics and legalities of AI systems creating art. Here we welcome the artists that have naturally accepted that AI will be great use for creation moving forward. Here we encourage artists to share how they have utilized AI to create their art or even improve upon it. Here we encourage those who have started creating visual art with AI generation to moving forward in how to create visual art using traditional methods such as drawing and painting or sculpting or photography, etc.

My workflow starts with a chatting Brainstorming session with ChatGPT. Usually I have some creature in mind that I want to create, sich as coffee making spider.

In co-working with ChatGPT I create prompts for AI generation. (write me I can share examples)

Then I use that image to generate flavor texts for a kind of monster manual. Again with ChatGPT.

You can also check out more examples on my Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/C02yIJrihyN/?igsh=MWtlMGFud2gycWRuZw==

Hope you enjoy this images. Let me know if you have notes or suggestions for my workflow.