Generative Art is a type of digital art created using AI models and algorithms, where artists provide text prompts or instructions for the model to follow. These prompts guide the model, allowing it to create unique and often surprising artwork. Currently, the most common models and tools used in generative art are Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Adobe Firefly.
Prompting: Text prompting is an important part of Generative AI. You give the model a starting idea or prompt, like "Draw a city in the clouds" or "Imagine a garden full of glowing flowers," and the AI suggests cool details and scenes to help you design your artwork. It's like brainstorming with a super creative friend who helps you imagine amazing pictures and scenes, making your art projects even more fun and exciting!
Examples
Tools
Midjourney
Midjourney is my favorite generative Art tool. It's very powerful and creative. It also allows you to create consisitent characters.
Cost: Paid - $10/month for Basic Plan
My Overall Score: 10/10
DALL-E
DALL-E works inside of ChatGPT. It's great if you're already working in ChatGPT and want to create images using very descriptive prompts.
Cost: Free - with a free ChatGPT account
My Overall Score: 8/10
Adobe Firefly
Firefly is part of Adobe's suite of creative tools. You can use it individually or inside other Adobe apps like Photoshop, making it great way to work with generative art as part of your existing art projects.
Cost: Paid - as part of Adobe Creative Cloud subscription
My Overall Score: 7/10
Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion is one of the original generative art models. It's a free, open source tool. It's a bit more complicated to use on its own, but it's very powerful. Many companies create art tools based on Stable Diffusion. My favorite website for working with Stable Diffusion is NightCafe Studio because they have fun daily challenges.
Cost: Free or Paid - depending on the tool
My Overall Score: 7/10