AI Art Community Newsletter

Stable Doodle sketch-to-image & New Collab Tournament

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Hello there! Welcome to edition 12 of the AI Art Community Newsletter. An emphatic salute to 175 new subscribers this week 🎊 On Thursdays, we share news in AI, artist features, memes and more.

Your first letter? Would love to learn a bit about you. Where you’re from, what you do outside AI art, etc. Join me for a mini interview here.

Announcing: July AI Art Tournament 🏆

📜 HERE YE - Artists of the realm - Creatives far and wide! 📜

Last month, 101 souls participated in our collab tournament for a small cash prize and heaps of fanfare across all of our channels. This month, we’re upping the stakes… to $75 & custom prints for each winner.

Sign up by: July 20th
Prizes: $75, features on IG/Threads/Twitter/Newsletter/Discord & custom prints for each winning team member!

Grab a friend (if you want) & spread the message. The big ambitious goal is 125 artists!! Next week, we begin!

👉 Sign up here

🗞️ AI News

Last week, Threads app + Midjourney. This week: Sketch-to-image! 🎨

Thank you as always to our trusty crew of Newsies. This week’s links powered by: @realschism, @focused.instability, @f1uxu.s, twilight_dreams123, @barbara.chira.ai.art.

Stable Diffusion drops “Stable Doodle” sketch-to-image software 🔥 try out their free preview
Amazing interview with Christopher Nolan ahead of new movie Oppenheimer, includes parallels between AI & Nuclear weapons
Stable Diffusion as good as Midjourney?
AI-powered robot dog that generates - and poops - art criticism
Epidemic Sound releases their plan for AI-powered soundtracking for content creators - Epidemic sound has 40k royalty free tracks, 90k sound effects, and is a market leader in music for creators. A big announcement!
Writer / comedian Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI & Meta

Not art, still cool

Elon announced his new AI company, x.ai (x.ai)
ChatGPT releases Code Interpreter - lets you run code in ChatGPT (their announcement)
Adobe workers (like many tech companies) not allowed to use ChatGPT and other gen AI platforms
A popular 45m pessimistic video on AI & the future (a bunch of the information used is a few months old, but it’s interesting)
Wimbledon may replace line judges with AI

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Artist spotlights

The best section! Artist spotlights ✨. Check out a few other artists in the community, hailing from Singapore, USA, Iceland, Germany and Australia. Designers, bloggers, moms, marketers and more.

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@majesticseating (Singapore) - Designer

@ladyphoenix.ai (USA) - I take care of an 8 year old son with Autism and ADHD. I am also a gamer, I have been playing FFXIV, Monster Hunter Rise and a few other things on my down time when I’m not chasing an 8 year old.

@tahliadreaming_aiart (Australia) - I'm a book editor and publisher

@fatherhood_at_forty (Naperville, IL) - Public relations pro by day; blogger by night

@jodopsai (Germany) - At the moment full time mom.

@aidea_factory (Iceland) - Marketing !

Twitter tips: “Holospectral” “Line dot art” “Thin black ink outlines”

Loads of great prompt challenges on Twitter this week. Always interesting to try. Here are a few textual nuggets, plucked from the twitterverse:

Magic word time: holospectral [subject]
This word appears to give a beautiful color effect on most objects.
Let me see your creations!
Tagged: @visual_dose@notfortoast@SquareTomarto@ta5ylp@foxtrotfrog
#aiartcommunity #Promptshare
— Literally Artificial (@LitArtificial)
11:52 AM • Jul 7, 2023

🎨 LINE DOT ART CHALLENGE & SHOWCASE 🤖
New Prompt 🚨 : "line dot art" along with black background gives amazing results. "--s" param for more artistic styles.
Prompt : line dot art of [Prompt] , black background --s [Number]
Have fun and share your beautiful creations
♥️🤖🎨 http
— Umesh (@umesh_ai)
11:04 AM • Jul 7, 2023

#Promptshare
A fun prompt that is versatile and reliable. Share your results please 🙏
The color palette selection is what differentiates images with this prompt -imho
[subject] with thin black ink outlines, layered textures and patterns, nature-inspired patterns, [colors],… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Jaynie Bunnell (@Exprsso)
11:21 PM • Jul 12, 2023

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