Preface: AI Art

There’s a relatively new type of art medium that’s made quite a bit of noise in the art world during the last couple of years. It’s called AI art and, at present, there are about 30 different apps available for creating it.

I first learned about the technology in March 2023 and shunned it hard for artistic and ethical reasons. I spent the rest of the year learning more about it.

Despite the adverse impact AI has had on creative industries, professional artists have found ways to incorporate it into their workflows and continue making a living. Hobbyists told me the ethical debate surrounding its process of scraping the web for datasets is a separate issue for them. As fellow hobbyists, they just want to have fun and test its limits, whether enhancing their original work or creating new images.

As a digital artist, I’m both fascinated by its creative possibilities and terrified by its potential for swaying public opinion on political and cultural matters. Last month, I reluctantly added it to my workflow after successfully using it to enhance a 3D art project I completed last month. As much as I love and prefer working in 3D, rendering engines are simply incapable of producing photorealistic images at the level of fidelity that AI can. It’s the closest fetishists like me will ever get to working with real models.

With that in mind, any 3D art I enhance with AI will be clearly marked.

New AI-Enhanced Art

The project referenced above is my final take on Bob’s death from John Carpenter’s Halloween, my single favorite kill in the entire franchise. It’s called By the Numbers and is on the Single Page section of my Comics gallery.

New 3D Art

A couple months ago I created a 3D version of a botched custom video commissioned by someone through Crime House Studios in 2018. It’s called Offed Nurse and is now on the Multi Page section of my Comics gallery.