Hi Folks... yes its been a while...
We had an unexpected death in the family that took up quite a bit of my time and energy, and its been performance season for the girls in all their dancing eistedfods. So painting has been thin... and author stuff has been thin as well.
Also editing to add in i had a big car accident.... forgot about that lol...
Still struggling with the nerve damage in the hand... sigh...
but here i am... again DON'T PANIC - i know we are not allowed AI art in this forum. I painted this little we still life of a handbag recently. See Below for the AI process.
Daily painting
Acrylic on canvas
Atelier interactive paints
time taken about 1-2 hours.
USING AI for the reference images
So basically i wanted to paint a little handbag... but didn't have one i wanted to paint from like and didn't know what colours to choose, so i turned to MIDJOURNEY to have a play around with some concept designs. Now i hope you are not all horrified by this... but i guess it is a bit like people who think that the only way to paint is to paint from life and HATE people that paint from photographs.. i don't see anything different painting from an AI image compared to a photograph.
perhaps the only thing is that you need to make sure shadows are correct or there isn;t a random gherkin in someones hair, or there are 12 fingers or something.
but basically i asked midjourney for an acrylic painting of a handbag. lol
here are some of the screen shots, i am also wanting to play around with some other objects too... so i have put those here too...
ANYWAY while i'm sure that AI is a very dangerous tool... it is an AWESOME tool as well... and i still like painting by hand. So that is what i will do.. but that does NOT stop me from using AI in my process.
thanks for watching folks
BLINGIT
Using an AI image as the reference is brilliant.
An artist needs to be attentive to any copyrights and restrictions on images.
An artist who uses a copyrighted image as a reference could be subject to lawsuits from copyright holders.
It is possible to use a creative commons style image as a reference. However, some licenses are "copyleft." That means that the artist can't hold a copyright on the image that contains any elements of the "copyleft" image.
Sadly, many of the platforms that list creative commons images do a poor job of checking the copyright status of the imsges. So, miscreant could list an image as creative commons when they do not have rights to the image.
When this happens, they artist is still liable for the copyright.
AI images are based on a coposite of creative commons images. This puts an additional step between the artist and any copyright claims.
AI images are especially valuable for portraits.
Artists are supposed to pay a modeling fee for the people in the image. There are cases where photographers put images on a creative commons web site. But, since they did not pay the modeling fee, the model can sue anyone who used the image as a reference.
AI puts an additional step between the artist and copyright challenges. So, if you need something like a face of a boy for a reference, then AI is a better source for the reference than a creative commons site.
Thank you, yes it is very handy to "try out ideas" and the AI does have a good eye with landscapes as well... so that can be great if you want a specific sky behind a scene. And again using other photos is still copyright. So i find that it is helpful to have a look at the AI images.
i do worry about the free creative commons images... who knows if they have been stolen first.
Thanks for stopping by the blog
Blingit
Interesting to use AI as inspiration for painting. I would say good on you. Good idea. btw good to see your post. It never matters where you've been or for how long, only that you come back 👍
Thank you,
yes i think its an awesome idea for generating content. Needs some tweeking but its agreat start.
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