AI Art Community Newsletter

HI!

Happy Thursday folks! Welcome to the AI Art Community newsletter. Every week - news in AI, artist features, memes and more.

Is this your first letter? Would love to learn a bit about you. Where you’re from, what you do outside of AI art, what gets you excited, etc. If you’re keen, join me for a written interview.

🎖️ ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH 🎖️

Raawwwwhh!!!

Today we begin our June AI Art Collab Tournament. We absolutely smashed that ambitious goal of 100 artists. Time to make history…

Your team channel will appear in Discord in the next few hours. You have until tomorrow rotation time to get acquainted & choose a team name.

👉 LAST MINUTE SIGNUPS

🗞️ News in AI & the Arts

Last week, Japan said training AI art is okay, but not selling. This week - a rather full smorgasbord from Adobe, Google, Etsy and more.

Brought to you by @barbara.chira.ai.art, twilight_dreams123, @realschism…

• Free music generator from HuggingFace

• Viral AI video clip…

• Adobe will cover cover your costs if you get sued for using Firefly - level of legal confidence: over 9000

• Google releases 10 generative AI courses

• AI photoshoots with clothing consistency

• Our very own Ambre_ai & Iva_ai_popsurreal celebrated in the news

• AI Art hackathon by Makersplace

• Unrest swells on Etsy in response to a tidal wave of AI dropshippers

• Webtoons will not allow AI art

• James Gunn says they won’t use AI art in DCU animation

Got a link? Just reply.

Artist spotlights

The best section of all - spotlights. Check out a handful of your fellow AI artists. Plant collectors, guitar players, plumbers and more.. from Norway, Canada, USA, and Austria.

Want a feature? Just reply!

@obscure.ai (Washington, USA) - outside of work I spend the majority of my time in nature. The area I live in has pretty much every tundra you could ask for.

@gude_ai (Norwegian living in London) - Working in corporate as a Global Creative Lead by day, trying my best to visualise my often weird (and sometimes wonderful) ideas at night with the help of Midjourney - spread out like a flower in heat via my instagram account, gude_ai. Love being part of this community!

@necros_nightmares (Deep below New York) - Spends countless hours running Necro Labs, optimizing and upgrading the corporeal vessel my brain is attached to. Developing new technologies to enhance the fear and disturbance experience.

@BabsTriesAI (Canada) - Data Coordinator and avid plant collector 🌱

@aiartbyimagine (Austria) - plays guitar, works as a plumber.

Twitter tips: “Cosplay” “Parchment page”

Twitter is teeming with good new prompt ideas. Here are a few of the most interesting recent prompt shares:

Want to go deeper and take 1:1 classes with Midjourney instructors? Check out @Learn Midjourney - our very own AI education center. Led by @Death.Milk.Designs, @Midjourney.man, @Midjourney_collection, @Iva_ai_popsurreal. 🥂

Le Merch

Check out our new AI Art Community Store. Featured above:

• Titanaiaia - God of Stories & Constellations poster

• Eroxasena - Fiery Red Head collection

• Danb3ach - Cybernetic stickers

🏪 Join 30 merchants

Finito

Finito. Finale. Done. Edition eight of the AI Art Community newsletter is complete.

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!)