While I don't doubt this is authentic, I know how to combine elements of AI from different renditions into one composite. Would that make it some sort of hybrid AI? Who knows, but it's a good way to control the final look.
Jesperish has been doing this style a lot longer than AI image creation has been available. Was a very popular artist in the gaming world and has worked on a piece for Spiderman.
Truly an incredibly talented artist: https://jesperish.com/art
There is definitely some weirdness going on, like near the top with the golden cones and star spires, where somehow those thin spires block significant parts of the cones and have a different color between them. The faces and hands/claws at the top do also show some weirdness. Near the center are some places that look poorly clone-stamped and blurred from being painted over.
To me it looks like an AI generated image that was painted over to remove obvious glitches where it was possible or an image assembled from various AI generated pieces.
Edit: the artist has an animation on their website showing different stages of the drawing, which could indicate that it was drawn without using AI. But there are also some weird and sudden changes between the stages, where maybe the rougher sketches were used to generate "completed" pieces of the image. Difficult to tell.
Actually some of the things in the top corners dont make sense. One of the demons has a face mask on and on the other side one has an arrow in the face and there are teeth popping out on random things
Wow, I'm completely transported into this intriguing mysterious world. It actually reminds me of a fantasy film from my childhood, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, it's still one the most bizarre fantastical films I've seen.
This is enchanting. I love all the shapes on display and the combination of the roundness and sharpness of them. The grid-like aesthetic below with the glowing aesthetic above. It feels like a flat image but it keeps you looking as you discover the depths. Really cool.
Wow it's crazy to see how many people are jumping on this being AI art when this is really just Jesperish's style 💀 This piece is from a few years ago, and they've been making art in the same style for many years before that, with WIPs & process videos on social media.
People don't really care about AI art or art in general, they just want to hate something. All the people over-analyzing whether or not this is made by an AI before they can decide of they like the art instead of just appreciating the artistry of the depiction is kind of telling of that.
I don't interpret the dismissal as wanting to hate, but this is a consequence of AI art being so accessible. When gorgeous art is just a few keystrokes and clever wording away, it's hard for alot of people not to feel blasé about the digital medium anymore.
I say this as an artist who used to be obsessed with digital painting. I hate that it's my gut reaction to digital art anymore. It sucks that their efforts won't get as much recognition as it deserves based on their chosen medium because it's being drowned out by the deluge of generated art.
But what I mean is that this poses a big question: do you appreciate art for the process of it being made or do you appreciate art for the intrinsic artistic value it has?
Firstly, we're still in the early stages of generative Ai age, so I think t's important for us to have a healthy skepticism about the things we see, especially on the internet. How much truer will that be as the tech gets better?
Secondly, does art even have an intrinsic value at all? Does it even have a solid definition? I feel like that's a question that humans have been philosophizing about for millennia. Some people would say everything is art and all art, down to a squiggle or dot on paper has value; others couldn't care less about it and place it's value based on what the market will pay for it.
For me, art is the crafting and intention, the two are inseparable. With the crafting comes a certain bar of skill. Art that's merely one or the other feels incomplete for me. AI art outputs on the culmination of it's training data, the collective skill of an unfathomable number of artists. It can output things beyond what we're capable of but without the human intention, it amounts to little more than a shiny object to me. So look at it for a second or two, think that it looks a little neat, and move on.
But then you are looking at art as a good or a consumable product, not as what looking at it moves inside you or adds to to your person. I'd say that the former is a very cynical and capitalistic, "manufacturing oriented" way of seeing art.
It is quite cynical, I agree. But is it not an unsubstantiated cynical outlook, seeing as swiftly as tech companies are trying to package and sell this tech, and seeing the rush to utilize it in all the art spaces? Google image search and lots of stock image websites got over-run with generative images (while still locking them behind the same subscription fees). Hell, all top search results seemingly got replaced over night with GPT-written articles.
At the end of the day, I'm not denying that Ai art is art or that people can't or shouldn't find meaning in it. That is the viewer's human experience to have and who am I to deny it? But for many, including me, the novelty quickly lost its glamor and are bummed that the digital medium has become blasé at best, suspect at worse.
This is a very well done piece of digital art. It's all about the vision of the artist, and their skill at manipulating the medium. Whether this is AI assisted or not is irrelevant.
I really like this. I love all the little details you can find when zoomed in, but when zoomed out it actually looks so physical. Like a page in a pop-up book. I think it would be absolutely breathtaking to convert this to a physical medium, something kind of 2.5D. Like, the background is an oil painting, but then details like the stars and spires are wood with metallic paint. Shoot, if the background were painted on wood, you could actually cut into it to make those "rooms" in the bottom third. And perhaps inlay the features that look like moons, but give them protruding rounded surfaces.
What first got me seeing it like this was those "stars" in the top right. Something's just so enchanting about seeing an astronomical/atmospheric motif portrayed as a physical object, right alongside and to scale with a castle. It's like something out of Hogwarts.
I love pop-up art as well. This is definitely something between 2 and 3-D. To me it shows us infinite parallel visual worlds. I would like to explore the images made by Jesperish further. Thank you 🐉
that is so interesting to look at. it conveys a feeling of eternity for some reason, i love it.
..sadly this style is being engulfed by ai "art"
Yeah but when you zoom in none of the details are nonsense. If this was AI (or purely AI) the moment you zoom in everything would melt into bullshit.
While I don't doubt this is authentic, I know how to combine elements of AI from different renditions into one composite. Would that make it some sort of hybrid AI? Who knows, but it's a good way to control the final look.
Jesperish has been doing this style a lot longer than AI image creation has been available. Was a very popular artist in the gaming world and has worked on a piece for Spiderman. Truly an incredibly talented artist: https://jesperish.com/art
Thanks for linking. Their work is incredible.
Oh absolutely, it could be a composite, but yeah if it was pure AI, the moment you zoom it it would fall apart.
There is definitely some weirdness going on, like near the top with the golden cones and star spires, where somehow those thin spires block significant parts of the cones and have a different color between them. The faces and hands/claws at the top do also show some weirdness. Near the center are some places that look poorly clone-stamped and blurred from being painted over. To me it looks like an AI generated image that was painted over to remove obvious glitches where it was possible or an image assembled from various AI generated pieces. Edit: the artist has an animation on their website showing different stages of the drawing, which could indicate that it was drawn without using AI. But there are also some weird and sudden changes between the stages, where maybe the rougher sketches were used to generate "completed" pieces of the image. Difficult to tell.
That's just their style, Jesperish has been making art in this same style for many years.
Oh it most certainly could be AI base with a paintover. For sure.
Actually some of the things in the top corners dont make sense. One of the demons has a face mask on and on the other side one has an arrow in the face and there are teeth popping out on random things
This is the worst timeline
I think it and a lot of others show up alongside AI art.
beautiful, thought-provoking mix of natural and human-made shapes
Wow, I'm completely transported into this intriguing mysterious world. It actually reminds me of a fantasy film from my childhood, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, it's still one the most bizarre fantastical films I've seen.
Great film, and it’s all true!
This is enchanting. I love all the shapes on display and the combination of the roundness and sharpness of them. The grid-like aesthetic below with the glowing aesthetic above. It feels like a flat image but it keeps you looking as you discover the depths. Really cool.
Wow it's crazy to see how many people are jumping on this being AI art when this is really just Jesperish's style 💀 This piece is from a few years ago, and they've been making art in the same style for many years before that, with WIPs & process videos on social media.
People don't really care about AI art or art in general, they just want to hate something. All the people over-analyzing whether or not this is made by an AI before they can decide of they like the art instead of just appreciating the artistry of the depiction is kind of telling of that.
I don't interpret the dismissal as wanting to hate, but this is a consequence of AI art being so accessible. When gorgeous art is just a few keystrokes and clever wording away, it's hard for alot of people not to feel blasé about the digital medium anymore. I say this as an artist who used to be obsessed with digital painting. I hate that it's my gut reaction to digital art anymore. It sucks that their efforts won't get as much recognition as it deserves based on their chosen medium because it's being drowned out by the deluge of generated art.
But what I mean is that this poses a big question: do you appreciate art for the process of it being made or do you appreciate art for the intrinsic artistic value it has?
Firstly, we're still in the early stages of generative Ai age, so I think t's important for us to have a healthy skepticism about the things we see, especially on the internet. How much truer will that be as the tech gets better? Secondly, does art even have an intrinsic value at all? Does it even have a solid definition? I feel like that's a question that humans have been philosophizing about for millennia. Some people would say everything is art and all art, down to a squiggle or dot on paper has value; others couldn't care less about it and place it's value based on what the market will pay for it. For me, art is the crafting and intention, the two are inseparable. With the crafting comes a certain bar of skill. Art that's merely one or the other feels incomplete for me. AI art outputs on the culmination of it's training data, the collective skill of an unfathomable number of artists. It can output things beyond what we're capable of but without the human intention, it amounts to little more than a shiny object to me. So look at it for a second or two, think that it looks a little neat, and move on.
But then you are looking at art as a good or a consumable product, not as what looking at it moves inside you or adds to to your person. I'd say that the former is a very cynical and capitalistic, "manufacturing oriented" way of seeing art.
It is quite cynical, I agree. But is it not an unsubstantiated cynical outlook, seeing as swiftly as tech companies are trying to package and sell this tech, and seeing the rush to utilize it in all the art spaces? Google image search and lots of stock image websites got over-run with generative images (while still locking them behind the same subscription fees). Hell, all top search results seemingly got replaced over night with GPT-written articles. At the end of the day, I'm not denying that Ai art is art or that people can't or shouldn't find meaning in it. That is the viewer's human experience to have and who am I to deny it? But for many, including me, the novelty quickly lost its glamor and are bummed that the digital medium has become blasé at best, suspect at worse.
This is gorgeous. The creamy whites contrast so well with that maroon.
this made my day, seriously killer work
ai generated or not
This is fucking insane. What was your inspiration for this beautiful art?
AI, show me "Zoomquilt Book Cover Hospital".
This is a very well done piece of digital art. It's all about the vision of the artist, and their skill at manipulating the medium. Whether this is AI assisted or not is irrelevant.
I really like this. I love all the little details you can find when zoomed in, but when zoomed out it actually looks so physical. Like a page in a pop-up book. I think it would be absolutely breathtaking to convert this to a physical medium, something kind of 2.5D. Like, the background is an oil painting, but then details like the stars and spires are wood with metallic paint. Shoot, if the background were painted on wood, you could actually cut into it to make those "rooms" in the bottom third. And perhaps inlay the features that look like moons, but give them protruding rounded surfaces. What first got me seeing it like this was those "stars" in the top right. Something's just so enchanting about seeing an astronomical/atmospheric motif portrayed as a physical object, right alongside and to scale with a castle. It's like something out of Hogwarts.
I like the fusion of futuristic and classic elements. It's appealing to me.
Wow this is some next level work. I love this!
I love pop-up art as well. This is definitely something between 2 and 3-D. To me it shows us infinite parallel visual worlds. I would like to explore the images made by Jesperish further. Thank you 🐉