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Why, hello there! Welcome to the AI Art Community newsletter. Every week, we share the most important arts-related news in AI, a few artist features, memes and more.
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.
🏅 ANNOUNCEMENT 🏅
Here ye, artists of the internet!
A battle for the history books begins next Thursday…
In May, we hosted our third AI Art Collab Tournament to the tune of a record-setting 60 contestants. 🥂 Champs: @melmattersjourney & @nephty__s.
This time, we’re doubling down! Each member of the winning team will receive $50 + a heap of features across IG, Discord, Twitter and this newsletter. We have the ambitious goal of signing up 100 artists - join in!!!
🗞️ News in AI & the Arts
This one’s a doozy. Thank you twilight_dreams123 & @focused.instability for the news this week.
NVIDIA’s Neuralangelo - turning iPhone video into 3D worlds
Viral post of an AI-powered camera with no lens
Two articles featuring community members: Anthony Maggio for these viral sculptures / sculptors. And Julian for replacing “Johannes Vermeer’s” Girl with a Pearl Earring in Google search results 🤯
This nifty AI Art QR Code Generator
No generative AI from Apple - “Since Siri was the first widely accepted AI assistant, it’s strange Apple hasn’t emphasized this tech more.”
Want to see what ChatGPT looks like on a humanoid robot?
Got a link? Just reply.
Artist spotlights
Take a minute and get to know a few of your fellow AI-powered creatives. An award-winning cat sitter, freight logistics aficionado, tattoo artist and more.. hailing from the UK, Argentina, USA, Italia and more Italia.
Want a feature? Just reply!
@prime_generations (Worcester, UK) - Award-Winning Professional Cat Sitter! Lover of all things mecha
@catalina_thegreat (Argentina) - Art gallery manager
@leospiceart (USA) - Business owner of critical freight logistics company. I've never really done any art or photography before in my life. But then I stumbled upon AI stuff like Midjourney and ChatGPT, and I was totally into it! Now, I've got this cool new hobby where I create images using AI to help me out.
@_dzyan22 (Italia) - I am a tattoo artist, illustrator and graphic designer
@a.i.kisses (Italia) - studying computer science & on the lookout for a job
Twitter tips: “Press Image“ “Street maps” “Illustrated Realism”
Twitter is but a bounty of shared creativity in AI art. Every day, at least a few prompt tips make the rounds. Here are a few interesting ones this week:
🧪 Simple Automotive Prompt in #midjourney
I’ve used this prompt a lot in the past weeks to generate cars for challenges, posts and other stuff.
✨ Show your favourite cars below!
Press Image of a ____________ standing in a warehouse. --ar 21:9
#Prompt 👉🏼 ALT
#aiphotography… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Nicolas Neubert (@iamneubert)
1:52 PM • Jun 6, 2023
I love Illustration styles.
Prompt: {SCENE DESCRIPTION} ::10 illustrated realism, detailed illustration ::9 vivid colors, atmospheric perspective, chiaroscuro lighting ::8 --ar 16:9 (different color types can add interesting effect: muted, cool, monochromatic etc)
#midjourney… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Ann (@AIFinity76)
11:53 AM • May 31, 2023
I've always loved the aesthetic of street maps.
It can be a fun style to explore with MidjourneyPrompts in Alt:
#midjourney#aiartcommunity#Promptshare— Nerbts (@Nerbts)
9:19 PM • Jun 5, 2023
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. 🥂
Community Merch
A cracking release of the AI Art Community Store last week. Selects:
Barbara.Chira - Barbiecore collection
Evelynsaiart - Pouting Princess Stickers
nBeaux - Pride Month collection (top seller!)
Avada Kedavra 🪄
Since our first letter, we’ve hosted a super casual & fun weekly theme. 6 weeks, 70 submissions… and today — we’re going out like Seinfeld.
RIP weekly theme, you charming S.O.B. 🪦 Time to make room for other fun stuff. Special shoutout to these two champions who submitted 4+ times:
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Fin
Done! This week’s newsletter upgrades: goodbye weekly theme, hello tournament. We also added a few more channels in Discord for IRL activity (pets, music, video games, etc.). Stop by.
As always, many thanks to the Patron Saint squad: Mischief, Oracular_angel, whitehatgfx, momhugssss, danb3ach, Midjourney.portraits, Mauriciotonon, x0alliecat0X, troplanduniverse, 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!)