This is here mostly for me, so that I can easily find these links. Well over a year ago, a designer I follow, a wizard with Adobe Illustrator. posted a series of rants on LinkedIn about AI’s destruction of the arts. I commented that it was a tool that wasn’t going away and should be taught, and he deleted my comment. It made me sad.
I had seen a prompt writing tutorial on youtube. I thought it was excellent. It pointed out the effort, the knowledge and artistry that would go in to anything created with AI that was artist/creator approved. More than anything it showed me that AI could be a useful tool and needed to be learned and experimented with like any medium.
Then, some amazing AI art landed in my facebook feed. From an artist named Kelly Boesch. I follow her now, and track her work on instagram and youtube. Kelly Boesch’s Reels are on facebook, if you belong. View a few of her pieces. Wonder at the skill and talent necessary to extract something so amazing from AI.