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1. Introduction: Artist in the 21st century, we must care about our future, as it is where we'll spend
the rest of our time. Understanding AI is a
part of that future. Adapting to changes
empowers us to navigate the worldwind of technological advancements and
not get replaced, but instead coexist with AI
to create a better future. In this course, I'll
teach you how to implement AI tools in your work. I'll discuss various types of AI that you can use
in your practice, suggest alternatives
and mention methods, how we can gain superpower
by using these tools. Hey, there, I'm
BalinaPfessional tis, and I'm here to
banish your fears of incorporating AI into
artistic toolkit. You know, AI can
be used for more than just inspiration
or writing. It's actually really
handy for sketching, coloring or rendering
through artwork. With so many AIs to choose from, the possibilities
are truly endless. This course will showcase an
example for fine artists, demonstrating the creation
process of a painting. However, the same steps apply to almost all types
of creatives, whether into logos, sculptures, or tapestries, or any
other visual kind of work. This process can
be a game changer over a year ago, I
started experimenting with AI in my artwork
creation process. And since then, I've gathered paable knowledge that I
really want to share with you because understanding how to use AI can significantly enhance your artistic journey by making it more efficient
and productive. I won't overwhelm you with
complicated technical details. I'll write all resources
if you want to delve deeper into
this information, but let's focus on
creation process. So if you're on board
with me, I can't wait to have you join
me in the next chapter. Looking forward to seeing you.
2. The State of AI: I like to talk briefly
about the current state of AI before moving on to
the creation process. When it comes to AI, one of the most significant issues
is ethical considerations. Unfortunately, I'm not
qualified enough to talk about these crucial
and complex concerns. But I believe what we all need to remember
when talking and using these technologies is that the data doesn't
exist in a vacuum. It's created, maintained,
and sustained, sorted out by humans. Now, the next
important question to ask is where does
AI gets its images. From what I learned,
AI sped millions of written and visual
content that it can reference when
creating AI generated art. AI sources its images
from various places, including public
image collections, databases of artwork, and even photos taken by
artists of their artwork. I won't dive deep
into how AI works. But if you want to learn
more about this topic, I'll leave all the
resources down below. I considering all this, I still think that
it's worthwhile for is to understand
how AI work, what it does and its potential. Personally, I use AI, but with my own limitations. I don't go beyond the
inspiration step, and I especially don't
sell AI generated artwork. I simply incorporate it into my artistic process with
minimal involvement. Additionally, I don't
use any paid AI for now because I don't believe you need to spend extra money, especially if you're
just testing the waters. While they provide value, they are not essential. I utilize as many free
resources as possible. If you do decide to pay, ensure that the tool genuinely helps you work
faster or generate better work and that you have return on investment
to justify the cost. I don't want you
to spend money on ten plus different DIS just because it's
trendy right now. But for now, let's move on to the next chapter and start
practicing with different DIS.
3. Generating Ideas with AI: This lesson will be using GBT every website that you can use
after creating an account. Or if you don't have
an access to GBT, you can use Microsoft
DI. Chat Bing. As we all know, any artwork
begins with an idea. It's the starting point
of any creative endeavor. Personally, I usually skip using AI for this step because I have a bunch of verton and sketch tylee content
in my sketchbook. So when I want to
create something new, I usually just reference the stuff that I have
in my sketchbook. Where I use other diation
techniques like how Mi It's an diation technique
from UIEs design process, but I still think it's really helpful when creating
artwork as well. However, I have
experimented with AI for ID generation too, and maybe this information will be useful in your practice. The first method involves asking CG BT to come up with
some painting ideas. And I believe that most of you
are probably familiar with the AI since it's currently one of the most popular
ones out there. What's special here
is that you can ask the chat to be specific
to your art style, which sets it apart from other services online that
create random art proms. For example, you can
try this prompt. Hi, please come up with
ten different ideas to paint with oil paints
inspired by my name. Or switch it up with Hi, please come up with
ten different ideas to paint objects that are blue. And you can make these prompts
as specific as you wish. This technique can be a real
life savior when you have an art block or when you feel stuck in your
creative process. The second technique
I used most often for new ideas involves creating
a prompt for Dali. I'll tell you more about
this AI in the next chapter. I then ask GBT to come up
with more similar prompt. And here's the prompt I like
a landscape of mountains and mist for pointed stars in a circle in the
middle of a painting, a Turle surrounded by foliage
painted by Joseph Stella. And you can ask AI, can you please
create new ideas of art prompts for AI
similar to this one. In Serto prompt. The new prompt should not drastically differ
from the given example. And don't forget to add your
prompt in quotation marks. I use these prompts to generate
new and interesting ideas in Dali and to write
better prompts for Dali. I make them detailed drawing inspiration
from online resources. I'll leave this
in the PDF guide. I also use Google's library to discover artists that AI
can draw inspiration from. You can browse this library and discover artists
that you like. If these artists are
in Google's library, chances are AI can accurately
capture their work. After all, AI doesn't know
every artist in the world, including just the
most popular ones. I experiment with different
proms changing up the artist. This way, you can find
the style you like, and then we use the prompt, only changing the main idea. Now you might wonder why I
use that and Mid journey is considered the best AI for
generating visual content. And well, you're right, but the simple reason is that the mid journey isn't
free. And that's it. Here I have to make a
note that, unfortunately, Dali two is being written off as there is its
replacement Dali tree, and it's currently
a paid version. But don't be discouraged as
you can get free access to Dali tree using Bin chat
or B image creator, which I mentioned earlier. To those of Dali tree are not as creative as
those of Dali two, which is not very good for us is to create new ideas,
but that is okay. And at the end of the day,
I feel like the CT GBT is the most helpful at
generating the written content. If you publish your
artwork online, you can generate caption texts, descriptions, anything you like. You can ask how you
can tweak your text or description caption title
for your target audience, and you can even ask the chat to help you understand your
target audience as well. So definitely try it out. And if J GBT doesn't
work for you try using Microsoft Chad Pink is
actually the J GBT four, which is the newer
version of a chat. At least, again, at least for the moment I record this video, but everything can change, and both of these AIs
are free for now, except that JGBT four
is a paid version, but I don't use a
paid version as well. I use only free version.
4. Creating Sketches with AI: Let's talk about the standard
way of creating sketches, at least in my practice, which involves first
vague sketches, creating some initial vague sketches of what
you'd like to see. Second, contrast check,
developing the variation of the sketch in black and white
to analyze the contrast. Third, color exploration,
making multiple variations of color options to
choose the best one based on the chosen
black and white sketch. For detailed sketch, creating a detailed sketch based on
your chosen color option. Now, let's explore how we can implement the in these steps. For vague sketches, AI
may not be necessary. But you can experiment
with Del if you want to come up some interesting
sketches if needed. When it comes to black and
white sketches, unfortunately, I didn't find any dedicated
AIs for this particular task. But again, Dali might be an
option for experimentation. But there are four
things you can do next. First, colorizing line sketches. You can use Patalca AI to
colorize your line sketches. It's free and easy to use. But although it doesn't
work for all art styles, I still think it's
worth trying out. Second, composition and text. Next, you can try generating AI pictures based on
your composition. And you can use play form if you want to try
out this technique. It allows you to upload
a line sketch or black and white sketch and
describe details in a prompt, and you will get
the rendered sketch inspired by your composition. As well, you can
upload specific poses to control the
generated AI pictures. Start, colorizing black
and white sketches. The step will be
helpful for those who create black and white
sketches in the first place. Palate fM is an AI that can help you colorize
black and white pictures. It provides various color
options and it's free. But you'll need to
create an account after generating
five color options. And I think it's really
fun to play around with. Four, rendering sketches. And the last one is from
a.com for rendering sketches. You can experiment
with different styles offered by the AI. It is user friendly, fast and offers 200 free monthly generated
pictures, which is awesome. I've come across all
these IIs myself. None of it was paid by
any of these companies. And I don't always use all
these AIs in my practice, but sometimes I like to
just experiment with one or another AI that I
suggested and just play around and see how
I can improve my work. Because I think sometimes
when you try to use all of IS and all the
steps that I suggested, it can be a little
bit overwhelming, but it really
doesn't have to be. It's supposed to be a fun
and creative process. But yes, you can use EIs to experiment with
different sketches, different color options
and see how your sketch can look in more detail
or in different colors. And you can even upload
the finished drawing and check what AI can
suggest to you as well. Now that we have sketches, we need to start
working on the artwork. So let's move on to
the next chapter.
5. AI Techniques for Painting Enhancement: Right now, we don't
have any AI that can create an artwork or
paint a painting for us. We'll have to do it ourselves. But AI can help us
improve our artwork. This method of using
AI is my favorite, and I truly believe any artists could benefit from
trying it out. When you feel stuck
with your work or when you think that you're almost finished
with your painting, take a picture of your work and a good lighting and
run it through AI. I'll offer you options on
how your painting could look completely finished or tweaked a bit, so
it looks better. My GTu which is
super convenient, is using an app on my phone. I prefer the MTU app. It not only helps
me edit my photos, but also lets me upload
the picture and convert it into four different
AI generated pictures. It does not resemble my R style, but I still like
how AI presents me with various color options
and potential results. Plus, I save the
extra time because I don't need to transport
the photo to my computer. Actually tested
other options too. And I would recommend
playing around with HAI. All you need is to create
an account and you can generate 100 pictures
for free each month. I think it's more than enough, and you have control over how you want the
picture to look, playing with different settings until you find the one you like. Personally, I think it's a bit excessive and
overwhelming and as well, time consuming unless you're aiming for something
really specific Now I can share with you a
really unique AI technique that you can use and incorporate into your creation process. I think this is my truly
favorite method of using AI because AI can criticize
your work as an art critic. For this, Ideally use CGBTFo but I use Cat pink because
it's a free website, unlike the CGPTFo which is a
paid feature CGBT website. Just upload the picture and ask, Hi, can you please critique this oil painting
as an art critic? And I was truly pleasantly
surprised by results. It actually gives helpful advice rather than just
gimmicky information. Just be sure to upload
a good quality picture. Give it a shot and let me
know how it went for you.
6. How I use AI in my Painting Practice: I can't possibly cover all I available on the market right now because it's a
booming industry, and while I talk, there's a new AI coming up.
Yeah, just a lot. However, I can share how I personally use AI
in my art practice. Now, let's break it down. I start by brainstorming
ideas using CGBT. I asked AI to write similar ideas for a prompt
as I have written before. And from them, I
choose the best, and then I use that
prom in different AI starting with DL two while
I have access to it. Then I experiment
with other sites. I also decided to
use the app this time to see how
different results these programs generate. Then I choose the most
appealing picture, and based on it, I draw a sketch. If I like the result, I take photos of the
sketch and add them to the site Petalica which offer different options
for coloring the sketch. In this case, the results
were not very useful to me, so I added the sketch
to the PMA I site, and this site offered me much better results that I
could work further with. But here, it's necessary
to take into account that these AIs react differently
to each sketch and picture. So I tried several
different programs. Then I simply transfer
variations of these sketches to paper and change the detail I don't like or
add something new. Once the color sketch is ready, it can be added to the app using the image damage function. The variations of images
are quite interesting. Also, in this app, if
you don't like anything, you can try to choose
another filter, and most likely the
results will surprise you. But I think it's fantastic
for bringing the creativity. And just like the
line sketch I add, the color sketch to PAI and the results are
again, very unusual. There are just an
infinite number of styles in this program, so you can play with
it for a long time. But I chose a different
style of painting, and the result amazed me. Just what I needed. I really
like the green picture. It is not how I
imagined the painting, but that's what we
use AI for to find solutions to problems in a way that we wouldn't
have thought of. So now I just went
straight to work. As you can see, the
longest work on the painting I do is
the preparation phase. And then I just transferred
the idea to the canvas. But you can work in a
completely different mode, and for example, add the painting to AI after
we have finished painting. However, I did the same thing when the painting
was partially ready. I added it to the
app to check what options AI offers me in
order to improve the work. And so then you can
repeat these steps in a loop until you're
satisfied with the painting. And as well, I ask AI to
critique these paintings, if I'm not satisfied with
anything until I'm finished. Remember, the AI world is best, and these are just
my preferred steps. Feel free to adapt and experiment based on what
works best for you.
7. Additional Resources: Here are some additional
resources for you to explore. First, Leonardo AI Canvas. This tool is quite diverse, and I must admit it's
not the easiest to use, and it's a bit overwhelming. However, it provides
150 free tokens to play around with
and generate pictures. If you're up for trying out
more interesting features, you might like this AI, and this is a great tool that produces images
similar to me journey. Second, integrated AI tools
in Photoshop or Canva. If you're already paying for photoshop or canva
or illustrator, be sure to take advantage of
their integrated AI tools. And here's another interesting
AI that I found that offers diverse color
options for your sketches, but it's a photoshop plug in. So make sure you
have auto photo shop installed before
downloading this AI. You can use it to
generate pictures or transform your
sketches to life. Third, train your own
AI model with playform. If you want really
specific results based on your art style, try out this AI to because you can train it
based on your artwork. Check out, create playformO and have some fun experimenting. For it, make some interesting
and fast sketches with NVDA canvas AI. You have to install
the whole program on your computer to use the CI, but it lets you customize Dimages precisely
to your liking. Personally, it's not something
I find myself needing, but it might be a
perfect tool for you. Feel free to explore
the resources and see which ones resonate best
with your creative process.
8. Your Project: As for your project, you'll find a comprehensive guide that I created in the
resources down below, and all of the rest
of the information that I discussed in this course. If anything changes in
my practice or AI world, I'll keep this guide updated. Use this guide to
join me in creating an artwork step by
step, using AI tools. Follow the steps,
document your progress, and share your results with us. It's especially
intriguing to see how AI behaves with different
art styles or prompts. And if you run into any hurdles, upload your work and
ask me any questions. I'll do my best to assist you and feel free
to take it easy. You don't have to
tackle all the steps all at once. Just choose one. Try it out and let
me know how it goes. I'll be genuinely
grateful for your input.
9. Final Thoughts: Thank you very much
for staying with me throughout all of the
scores till the very end. But let's keep the
discussion lively. As I mentioned earlier, AI is evolving rapidly. If you come across any cool
AIs along your journey, share them in the discussion. Both I and other viewers would greatly appreciate it. Let's
learn from each other. I would also kindly ask
you to leave a review. Your feedback helps me to
understand how to enhance my content and deliver the information to
you more efficiently. I'll be forever grateful. Additionally, I encourage
you to check out my other courses and sketching. And creating artwork. I think you really like them. If you're interested in
learning more about me and following my journey as
an ever learning artist, you can find me
here on Skillshare, as well as Instagram, up, and TikTok, as well. Bye bye, guys. Now, let's
go and create new artwork.
Polina Jermolajeva, @Policorne | Artist, Content Creator
