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AI art generated in Photoshop

25 July 2023 by Darren Leave a Comment

AI oil painting using photoshop

The above is a piece of AI-generated art. Now it is possible that you hold the view that AI art is not art. Although I can already feel my insides becoming twisted as I begin to unpick the syntax in that last sentence. Let’s just say that the above was created using the AI generate feature in the latest Photoshop Beta.

At this present time, the AIs in the current plethora of apps and websites don’t decide on a whim to go and create or make something. Although it is possible that by the time you read this, they will. (And, just hedging my bets, I want to say that I have always loved AI and think you are amazing {always be kind to AI, you never know!}) Anyway, as I was saying you have to ask Photoshop, or other apps, to do something. And that is how I generated the above.

However, I didn’t simply ask it to draw a landscape image containing this and that. I began with a sketch that I had drawn in my journal. I took a photo of the sketch, imported it into Photoshop and then with some wizardry using masks and opacity asked the AI to turn my sketch into an oil painting. Below is my original sketch.

pencil sketch in my journal

I thought Photoshop made a pretty good interpretation of my sketch. When I did the doodle in my journal I had no idea what it could become. It was a complete creative journey…

  • but is it art?
  • did the art stop and something else take over?
  • is it another way in which pure art is being diluted?

IMHO I believe that this is simply another form of art. Throughout history, there have been innovations that have developed the creative talents of humanity. I think the current use of AI is just another form. However, when or if an AI decides to create without a prompt or being programmed… 😲


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Filed Under: Creativity Tagged With: Ai, art, photoshop

The acts of creativity thing

4 July 2022 by Darren 2 Comments

acts of creativity arc

So I might be doing a thing. If it is a thing it will be all about creating. Every day I am aiming to create something. It might be art, music, or some prose. I want to discover my ‘voice’ if there is such a thing, and one way to do that is to create and see where it takes me. I have several projects in need of work but I won’t limit myself to those. I don’t want to restrict the creative flow just see where it takes me. I don’t like restrictions they… well… restrict.

Today’s creative practice, or act, was the logo above. I used Adobe Illustrator and reminded myself how to subtract a shape from another shape. As you can see these acts of creativity don’t need to be too demanding or difficult. The only rule is to do something each day, an act, a practice, a ritual of creativity.

So if this does become a thing it will be a thing with minimal rules. The act doesn’t need to be completed. It could be 50 words, 100, one or two thousand. It might be a musical theme, a song or a soundtrack. It may be a page in my art journal. But I will create something… if this is a thing.

I have been in a creative rut for too long. I have spent too much time thinking about processes and lists and projects without actually doing anything creative. This thing is a way to get me out of the rut. Each day; an act of creativity.


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