Give me LAND! Part 2 of AIArt for land - various AI engines compared

 

Sorry for the delay between posts - I've been making some images to try to get Artists on board - see last post - about soliciting their work helping edit AiArt issues (fingers, odd artefacts, distorted faces) for $ and for a foot in the door to perhaps get commissioned by TTRPG and Video Game artists.  So far no takers...

I'm serious here, I want to help.  Even with a year of lockdown and those I asked mostly ignoring, refusing or pricing in the stratosphere I want to help.  Email me if you have competent quality of work and know digital art software and are willing to edit faces, hands, etc. for a reasonable amount.  I'll upload a thumbnail (your art) linked to a website link or email.  No scripts.  It will be free -whatever fees for $ or otherwise between you and those you contact, I won't ask a dime.

Going forward this blog is to help those making their own TTRPGs and VideoGames, illustrations for novels and such!

Mostly Midjourney and NightCafe AI will be covered.  I get no $ back from either service.

I started this experiment with the prompt:

"RPG Painting, beautiful pastoral landscape" - entered straight into NightCafe - note I also checked for Landscape format, model - Stable Diffusion v1.5, K_LMS sampling, no clip guidance and 2.5 credits for 9 images grid to start.

I got this back:

I love these as they go with the game world I'm making for the TTRPG project "Orange Sun / Far Tomorrows" - a TTRPG for adults who grew up with the classic "Draconic" Pen and paper Role Play Fantasy game.  I'll save the plugging for said site - but this is the world in the "Western Confederated Fiefdoms" the characters start out in and try to make their names in - a nice pastoral land of lots of mini kingdoms, fiefdoms, mostly a nice place though the world as always has laughter and tears and good and evil.  The changes are I'd rather a pre-industrial world but NOT "Medieval" since most TTRPG worlds aren't that way either.  It also distances with no disrespect from Tolkien and goes more to Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, HG Wells, Clark Ashton Smith...  It will be R-Rated though not pornographic.

Another plus is that these are clearly a perfect mix of the best of realistic paintings from the 1800s to early 1900s - works in the CLEAR "Public Domain" so even if there's issue with AIArt over copyright no one would be convinced we are ripping off "Loish" or any of the modern "Artists" who tend to just be good illustrators but only a few can do what these AI modules put out which is why they are such militant complainers even though they do things you'd not dare ask them such as rich lush landscapes.

Note I've added a very subtle watermark layer and signed it - if you want to use these images in your project - please email me! That's the NICE warning.  Bottom is the not-so nice warning. I'll let you use them for free if you provide a link and or note in credits (if published) to this blog with my signature removed and a note you have non-exclusive permission to use them.  I'll even provide the upscaled version via my Gigapixel for a small tip via Ko-Fi!

However - going to NightCafe you can make your OWN - and invoke all sorts of fun things like painting styles, illustrations, ink and so forth!

For the sake of science I tested the same prompt in Midjourney - 

/imagine prompt:  RPG Painting, beautiful pastoral landscape --ar 3:2

Note current V4 only allows scale to 3:2 either direction, you'd need to adjust to V3 to get wider or smaller.  And your only options are 4 images first.  It has a very high quality and a distinct painting style so I recommend it also very highly.

Midjourney has

For variety I fed these into DeepDream - very good quality first try - same prompt - but obviously more expensive than NightCafe and using Stable Diffusion + clear public domain learning modules- it is VERY good for figure arts, something I'll get into soon.

Here's a quickie for making and protecting your AiArt from trolls claiming it has no copyright:

Share it around but please link back to me here or on my DA page! -MaxxFeral

Note - the images I make are copyright me - now AI itself is up for grabs BUT kooky as it is I can put my own images above it - say some random dots and my own Signature file... A very faded layer that there is no way you will EVER filter out.  AND possibly hidden digital .sigs that will survive any crop, rotate, resize.  IF you copy an image to use without my permission you are stealing what I made - scribbles with a brush and a signature but that IS theft even IF "AiArt" isn't granted copyright.  I WILL sue - I can trace you to the Coffeshop you work, your college "Safe Space" your parent's mansion and my lawyer who is someone I know will get a few thousand from you.  I'm in a business to promote myself and sell my stories so time spent on this is time I am not working on making money.  I wonder how parents who've tolerated you "Woke" types will react to your panicked pleading for a few thousand, just enough to pay vs going to court, after they've bailed you out from protests and tolerated a "Gender Studies" degree?  I'd love to shake a woke down for a few thousand.  You want my images or within reason custom ones?  KoFi me and email me I'll make a generic landscape or two before sending you to Midjourney or night cafe - but on DeviantArt I had someone stealing my images to insult me trying to bait a threat.  Thank that person for this.

Fair warned be theee, I says!