Why Try AI

Why Try AI

Turn Your Doodles Into Art Using AI (With Examples)

How text-to-art generators can turn any starting image into a masterpiece.

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Daniel Nest
Sep 13, 2022
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Let’s get one thing out of the way: I suck at drawing.

If I challenged a 4-year-old to a drawing contest, two things would happen:

  1. “Security! Quick! This man is harassing the kids again!” his kindergarten teachers would yell.

  2. I’d lose. Badly.

(You’ll soon see proof that I’m not kidding about my poor drawing skills.)

The good news for artistically challenged people like myself is that we’ve seen insane advances in art-trained artificial intelligence over the past year or so.

Text-to-art AI generators have gone from a curious novelty to something that can create contest-winning masterpieces, indistinguishable from human artists out there.

The best part?

This isn’t some experimental tech that only a select few can use.

Literally anyone with Internet access—yes, that includes you—can start creating AI art right now.

All you’ll need is one of the many available AI art generators.

(I intend to do a post later where I put some of them to the test.)

For this post, I’ll be using DreamStudio from Stabilit…

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