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Vervette, A.I. and 21st Century Art Education:
Hmmm quite a mouthful, isn’t it?
Art is changing with the advent of multiple A.I.s capable of taking words, images, Ideas and creating something off the beaten path. Looks at variations of a theme seems to be the best way to describe it at the moment.
I said it in Pilou’s thread before it got buried and I say it again. A.I.s are not a substitute for a good art education whether self-taught or schooled. I am fearful that a percentage of our younger generations might not pick up that pencil or crayon and piece of paper and just doodle, enjoying a subconscious freedom of expression instead of taking the easy way out and clicking seeds in an A.I. ad infinitum.
Art A.I.s are here. Walter Cronkite’s “21st Century is rocking along. Lo and Behold. We knew it was coming. How do we save Traditional Art? I mean that it is incredibly addictive sitting there trying seed after seed of iteration, wondering what it will do. How do we channel that productively and get the A.I. and Traditional Art to work together to create uniquely original art?
It all starts with a Doodle.
I have been going into my Verve thread starting with page one when I barely knew what I was doing and uploading to Artbreeder to try variations and also attempting to convey in words to the A.I. what my thoughts (if any) were at the time.
With Collage I can vary the intensity of the A.I. I want to see change, but I want to maintain the spirit of what I have done. The thought here is to see what the A.I. does with the guidelines, find a variation you like, go to an art program like Verve and try and recreate it, thereby creating a New and original variation without the A.I. This keeps us with our feet firmly planted, one foot in Tradition and the other foot dancing around new possibilities.
Possibilities, New Perspectives, More dice to roll with.
I will start this thread with a brief look at abstracts using my “The Devil is in the Details” The original is here in my much-neglected Verve thread http://www.taron.de/forum/viewtopic.php ... &start=210.
The Collage A.I. uses two inputs to create variations with: Image used for background and Text for description of what you want to see. You don’t have to have a background at all for some things but that’s not what I want here.
The text I used for description:
“Art Nouveau, Realistic, The Devil is in the Details, people, Halloween, Trick or Treat Gothic, Manga, highly detailed, vivid color tones, digital painting, concept art, smooth, pencil lines, expert shading, by John William Waterhouse and Alphonse Mucha.”
So in my description I have it set for art style, general setting and a couple of renowned artists. Because Details is a symmetrically based abstract and the A.I. seems to be randomly looking for shapes off the background to form images I used both of those artists to give me the intricate details I wanted present. Each seed in artbreeder leads to different results. I didn’t set it for full A.I. just 25% because I wanted to maintain a look closer to the original image. Full A.I. usually results in complete transformation and while it might be cool is not desired in this case. The description was previously used in several Full A.I. images.
And that’s it. Create in Verve or any decent paint tool, Concept in Artbreeder, Recreate or edit in Verve. Voila.
And because the description is set for it... Once again. Happy Halloween!
Tom
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