Curious about tools you use for inspiration

[art&robots]

Has anyone here been finding creative inspiration in artificial intelligence art tools like ChatGPT? What interesting experiences have you had?

[nekomata]

have you considered your local library? I generally find more inspiration in printed books than on the internet.

I also like pinterest and having a curated twitter feed.

[Perendale]

Yes I agree, there is really little need for high-tech sources of inspiration.

1.Walk and take photos, particularly in boring g places because it makes you look. I commented to my drawing teacher that something was unexpectedly beautiful and she replied that after I'd been drawing for a while everything would be beautiful. She is right!

2. Look out of the window. Seriously! Just drag up a chair and look out the window for as long as you can stand it! Sketch. Make notes. Etc.

3. Go to the library as suggested or museum or art gallery. Get books or magazines with images by artists you like (or don't!!) rather than 'how-to' books.

4. As a last resort, watch you tube! There must be thousands of videos on art.

Brett

[Enug]

I have had a play with some of these AI art bots but only to see what they can do. I imagine they could be useful in collating ideas for fantasy or abstract art but none of the images generated for me were appealing. Perhaps I wasn't descriptive enough for the bot as I did see some examples which were bordering on ethereal. I tried some of these - DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Photosonic.

[cinematik]

Artificial intelligence is able to generate interesting pictures and it does it quite well. It's hard to imagine how he does it, but he takes into account many details that not all amateur artists know. Even though it looks too "digital", it's only a matter of settings or time to get a result that looks much more like the real painting.

[nekomata]

It's hard to imagine how he does it, but he takes into account many details that not all amateur artists know.

yeah because they're trained on stolen professional artwork, from people who have long established their own technique and style, and have a fair amount of observational painting practice.