AI Art Community Newsletter

Hey folks! Welcome to another rendition of the AI Art Community Newsletter. A short weekly missive sharing 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:

It’s been a whirlwind 10 months since kicking off the community. So grateful to not only be around for this new era, but to be here right at the start. Every week, hundreds of artists join the daily theme. Many haven’t missed a day in months.

Cozy though it may now be… we must go forth and risk it for the biscuit. Behind the scenes, we’ve been working diligently on a new home: a mobile app + website to host the daily theme and more.

Next week, we open the gates. 50-100 of us will test it, break it in, then make the big move in July. In an internet increasingly dominated & homogenized by a few companies, moving from subdomain on existing platforms to root domain on our own turf is worth a shot. Who knows what this could become!

→ Want to join next week? Sign up here.

🗞️ AI News

Fascinating week. Thank you as always to our trusty crew of Newsies @barbara.chira.ai.art, twilight_dreams123, @focused.instability, @iridescent_ai, @f1uxu.s.

• Paul McCartney is using AI to resurrect the Beatles and release one Final Song

• Marvel used Midjourney in opening credit sequence of Secret Invasion & the disapproval rating is extremely high

• Beautiful overview of generative AI today & tomorrow

• Despite Adobe’s legal confidence around Firefly, those who contributed the 300 million training images via Adobe Stock are unhappy. By contrast, here’s an article by the design director of Firefly

• Pixar uses AI to create characters made of Flames

• Biggest Tabloid in the UK will cut 200 jobs, citing shifting landscape with AI

• New AI Twitch Streamer is popping off

• New AI image-generation technique from Meta that’s supposedly better than the existing approaches

Got a link? Just reply.

Artist spotlights

Everyone’s favorite section - artist spotlights ✨. Check out the impossibly diverse lives led by your fellow AI enthusiasts. Architects, animators, travelers and more.. from every nook: Australia to Iran to Romania and back.

Want a feature? Let me know!

@nightmarishmeatballs (Australia) - I work in tech as my "day job"—but outside of that, I enjoy listening to true crime podcasts, watching horror films, and trying to tackle my never-ending "To Be Read" pile of books in various genres!

@printesa.digitala (Bucharest, Romania) - Email marketing and Graphic Design and Digital Marketing in general at this point

@project_globos (Australia, French) - Architect and owns her own accessories brand

@ibringthemtolife (Iran) - I'm a hardcore video game lover and my main profession is Video game Animator, but I love to give life to fantasy characters, and it is basically what drives me to get up in the morning and keep going.

@henry_ai_miller (Europe) - Traveler & Bitcoin enthusiast

Twitter tips: “Tundra” “Painted in a bold and expressive style”

So many nuggets buried deep within Midjourney - this week, try adding "Tundra”, a suggestion from @obscure.ai. And bold, expressive portrait paintings:

Want to @Learn Midjourney? We’ve got our very own thriving little AI education center. Led by @Death.Milk.Designs, @Midjourney.man, @Midjourney_collection, @Iva_ai_popsurreal. 🥂 Come on down.

AIAC Store

The Community Store has been a blast to get started. Check out a few newly added products & merchants this week…

• TheMadPirate - Emerald City print

• WhiteHatGFX - Papier Landscape mug

• MauricioTonon - Doggie tote

🏪 Join as a merchant

Weekly Abomination

Can’t always be perfect, ya know?

Finito

🎉 Another letter in the books. This week, we added: Weekly Abomination (suggested by @rickandmort_ai).

As always, many thanks to the Patron Saint squad: Mischief, Oracular_angel, whitehatgfx, momhugssss, danb3ach, Midjourney.portraits, Mauriciotonon, x0alliecat0X, troplanduniverse, Marcus (formerly catsndogs.ai), dreamingr0b0ts, evelynsaiart. And now 200+ who’ve joined the ranks of Lvl 2 or Patron.

→ Consider supporting! Makes it all possible.

See you next week 🙂

❤️ - Jackson (connect on LinkedIn, if you’d like!)