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I assume this is using newer generative techniques like stable diffusion.
One interesting development from generative AI is that it has opened a lot more people's eyes to seeing kitsch. Professional artists generally don't see great value in the style of art exemplified by these AI-powered image generators. It tends to be formulaic, derivative, and melodramatic with all the high-contrast portraits and sunsets and oversaturated pastoral landscapes. But popular taste has been in many ways st…
But on the other hand, probably 99% of what professional illustrators do isn't, and doesn't need to be, great Art either.
They're just trying to quickly produce a hero illustration for an article, or turn an author headshot into a simpler sketch, or add some appropriate clothing to a background NPC. Being "formulaic" and "derivative" and a "canned form of expression" here is a feature, not a bug.
Which is why generative AI seems so great to me.
In terms of "kitsch" -- yeah I'd never in a million years hang something AI-generated on my wall as if it were fine art produced by a human soul trying to express something.
And I think the creator of Drawbert should focus entirely on this being a tool for being professional portraits for business and branding use, rather than "stunning portraits" or "masterpiece paintings". The former is what it actually is, the latter it ain't.
One interesting development from generative AI is that it has opened a lot more people's eyes to seeing kitsch. Professional artists generally don't see great value in the style of art exemplified by these AI-powered image generators. It tends to be formulaic, derivative, and melodramatic with all the high-contrast portraits and sunsets and oversaturated pastoral landscapes. But popular taste has been in many ways st…
Just because most people create things that you categorise as kitsch should not fool you into thinking that's an inherent limitation. There's almost no limit to the kind of images that can be created given the right input.
Unless you want to define kitsch as "anything that an AI image generator is capable of producing"?
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These are actually really, really useful. I don't know if I'd call the portraits "stunning" but this is exactly the type of image that is extremely useful to use as an author portrait on a blog or publication, in a list of employees on a startup's team page, and so forth. You can compare with Wall Street Journal hedcuts [1] or the portraits in the Economist's "By Invitation" [2]. Because actual photos often reveal "t…
One interesting development from generative AI is that it has opened a lot more people's eyes to seeing kitsch. Professional artists generally don't see great value in the style of art exemplified by these AI-powered image generators. It tends to be formulaic, derivative, and melodramatic with all the high-contrast portraits and sunsets and oversaturated pastoral landscapes. But popular taste has been in many ways st…
Also there's nothing inherent in currently popular style that makes it “canned expression”; is used for canned expression because it’s popular; when popular tastes shift, so does canned expression; that's how commercial vs. fine art moves.
If AI changes the details of that other than accelerating the process, it’ll probably be by a “Latinum is valuable because you can't replicate it” effect, which probably won’t hit exactly where what current professional artist see as most interesting is any more than it will hit where current populat art is.
One interesting development from generative AI is that it has opened a lot more people's eyes to seeing kitsch. Professional artists generally don't see great value in the style of art exemplified by these AI-powered image generators. It tends to be formulaic, derivative, and melodramatic with all the high-contrast portraits and sunsets and oversaturated pastoral landscapes. But popular taste has been in many ways st…
You're conflating "art commonly created by these AI-powered image generators" with "art that AI is capable of". Just because most people create things that you categorise as kitsch should not fool you into thinking that's an inherent limitation. There's almost no limit to the kind of images that can be created given the right input. Unless you want to define kitsch as "anything that an AI image generator is capable o…
Although many image generators now seem to be fine-tuned to output impressive but formulaic art by default, to ensure a good first-impression for a broad audience.
Midjourney for example has always been great at generating very "cool" art easily, but seems to be less versatile and always tends towards that same people-pleasing style.
if you want to do this yourself you're going to want stable diffusion and one of the clipspace face embedding controlnets (tencent Photomaker is one), the ones that keep the input pose exactly are likely using depth as well or maybe straight image2image, I demoed something like this at open sauce this weekend making pixel art on an ancient dot matrix printer. I'll endeavor to package everything up and post a repo in…
Why? There's a big world out there with people who don't know any of these words (controlnets, stable diffusion, open source,...) and it's probably targeted at these.