Various Styles of Sadness

It's interesting to experiment with different styles. Mostly, I keep my prompts fairly simple because I’m curious to see what AI will come up with, but I deliberately use different styles. These are generated with StarryAI.

Faces, a bit magical

So many of my AI creations look mundane that I am pleased when I get something different that does not just look like a mistake. The first image is one I made using a style that StarryAI compiled from art that’s on my walls. (You can create your own style by uploading pictures.)

For the rest, I used other people’s styles,  partly to see what they might do.

 

Friday Face-off

Styles, Faces, Observations

Friday Face-Off

You may recognize the impressionist style that I specified for the first picture. For most of the other images, I experimented with various styles that I found on StarryAI. Sometimes my prompts were purposely vague. 

If I failed to specify a gender, I usually got a female. Perhaps that is because I used words like peaceful or garden. Or perhaps it is just that the Internet is full of pictures of girls. I got quite a few images of scantily-clad beauties, but I didn’t even download them. They are clichés.

The picture of a man is supposed to be a particular singer-songwriter. I’ll probably try that style again, if I can find it

Since AI draws from a database of existing images, it reflects the commonalities and banalities that exist in human culture. Many of the results are trite. Some look like amateur copies of a famous painting, or greeting cards from the dollar store. I’m always glad when I get something that’s a little bit different and not awful. Computers are not creative, at least not yet. They are imitative.

But so is most art. The more I play with computerized “art” and compare it to human-made art, the more I realize that most artists are also making imitative work. I like going to art shows, but an awful lot of artwork has as much sameness to it as AI images. Real brushstrokes do not guarantee originality.

A few more faces.

And finally, a squirrel. I created it for a post on my other blog.