Yesterday I found an AI art generative programme.
Joanna Penn (the creative penn podcast) talked this week about how she is obsessed with hers and is using it for all things. It is inspiring and fun to run her characters and scenes through the software to see what they came up with as an image.
After a bit of a shite day, this afternoons play cheered me up no end.
Creativity is supposed to be fun
And this reminded me.
It’s pretty glitchy stuff – you type a description into the create bar and then the AI does its thing – sometimes the results are hilarious (see Mrs Doubtfire on crack picture which was supposed to be teenage girl in flying helmet with tutu and stripy socks aka Stripy – this looks like a crazy person but I love it)
I ran a few of the other characters through as well.
I won’t be able to use them for anything much – they are simply not good enough – but they fire my imagination and give me a lot of inspiration and fun.
They also allow me to conceptualise characters (if it works – and if not I still get a cool surprise after the prompt runs its course)
I use Artssy – you can google it.
And when people worry about AI, I have to recall that once upon a time there wasn’t google, or wifi or way back in the dark ages – fire. We invent, we create, it’s what we do. Have an awesome day and remember creation is supposed to be fun.
I wrote about this here: https://open.substack.com/pub/kateduffwriter/p/dear-stripy-359?r=1frfdp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Not that I am moving to substack – I’m certainly not, it’s just I have found I like chatting to Stripy and I have shorter posts over there because she has no attention span whatsoever.
There will also be images (as I build them) posted to Instagram over the next few days (until I get tired of the novelty)




For computer generated free art, they are not too bad!
I find them very whimsical and some are really beautiful – I was playing around with poetry last night and that really got me interested – it’s just another medium but instead of picking up a paintbrush you are tapping on a keyboard – the poetry is mine
It does make you wonder of where the technology will be in say ten years time! 😯
Love the striped socks and tutus!
Yes! That’s the first outfit my character appears in so I was getting a feel for that.
Please guide how to start with AI art?
If any learning video is there , please share.
Regards.
Arun.🙏
Id like to try this some time. Probably when I’ve closed off my trilogy.
Thank you for sharing. Love your pics.
Thanks Judeitakali, it is a big distraction, after you have closed off your trilogy sounds like an idea