AI Art Community Newsletter

Hey all! A warm welcome to vol. VII of the AI Art Community Newsletter.

Every week, we share arts-related 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.

Calling all Wizards

Need something fun to explore today? Brandish your wand and join our very casual weekly newsletter theme…

Wizarding World 🪄

(Fabulous suggestion by @robo.soul.ai)

Upload an image here by next Tuesday, June 13th.

And behold a mosaic of last week’s theme…

Swimming pools 🤿!

Top: @aiartbyimagine, @gainesa_24, @aicreative.studio, @s.inamidjourney. Middle: @kane.the.boy_ai, @kane.the.boy_ai, @robo.soul.ai. Bottom: @aiartbyimagine, @evelynsaiart, @eliasfuentescandel, @aiartbyimagine

AI Art Shop Is Live!

We recently announced the AI Art Community Store - a central storefront for AI artists to build their brand.

Ten collections went live yesterday, including posters, tees, phone cases, puzzles, pillows and more. Orders are (amazingly) already flowing in! Check out nBeaux’s Pride Month collection, Ben Myhre’s Mobile Castle puzzle, and more. As a reminder, artists make 100% of profits from what they sell. 🤠 

First delivery confirmed:

Checkout the shop here, and join the 20 artists who’ve signed up to sell!

🗞️ News in AI

A heap of fascinating new developments in AI & the arts…

Last week: Adobe’s Generative Fill; this week: 🤌 the memes. Heavy thanks to twilight_dreams123 & @focused.instability for today’s bounty of articles…

• People are creating hilarious memes in response to Adobe Firefly outpaintings of classical art

• What Greg Rutkowski thinks about being the most-prompted digital artist in Stable Diffusion & mention of Adobe Firefly’s higher ethics

• ControlVideo: text-based video editing - fascinating abstract of a new future for video production

• 50 solid Midjourney Pixel Art prompts 

• Stability AI makes DreamStudio open source

• Google starts rolling out a new generative AI search experience

Got a link? Just reply.

Artist spotlights

Ah, yes - the best section of all. Take a little time to get to know a few of your fellow prompters. Today: health care workers, snowboarders, students and business admins from India, Finland, Paraguay, and the US.

Want a feature? Just reply!

@realities.ai (India) - Currently I'm pursuing Chartered Accountancy & working in an audit firm here in middle east 😇✨

@libraryscapes (Southeast USA). Outside of AI art I have a highly analytical job with a large Corporation. I abandoned traditional art for the Corporate world and AI art has allowed me to get back in touch with my creative side.

@cine_maai (Paraguay) - business administrator by profession + freelance copywriter, marketer, and musician. Love playing guitar and drums.

@the_imagine_effect (Texas, USA) - works in healthcare.

@toneofnoise (Helsinki, Finland) - UX Designer, bass player, snowboarder and a dad of two lovely girls. I'm a big fan of 70s sci-fi movies, and aim to create scenes from movies which I always wanted to see!

Twitter tips: “Holography” “Double Exposure” “Ball point blue pen”

Twitter is the best place to learn new styles. Whereas on Instagram, artists tend to guard their secrets, people on the bird app open-source their artistry. I’ve been participating in and amassing a list of the best prompt challenges as a resource for the curious mind.

A few favs from this week:

If you want to go deeper in your mastery of Midjourney, stop by our education zone @Learn Midjourney for one-on-one classes with talented artists & lovely people. Led by @Death.Milk.Designs, @Midjourney.man, @Julian_ai_art, @Midjourney_collection, @Iva_ai_popsurreal. 🥂

Fin

That’s it! This week’s improvements: combining “Prompt tips” and “Twitter” sections & bringing the meme to prime position at the top. Got ideas for how we can improve the letter? Want to say hello? Just reply.

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!

See you next week 🙂

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