How to make and sell your art with artificial intelligence, blockchain and NFT. This book is a richly illustrated tutorial to artificial intelligence (AI) for anyone interested in expanding creativity with AI. Written and illustrated by Kevin Ashley, a Microsoft developer hall of fame engineer, and an author of book and courses on AI, with lots of practical tutorials. Think of this book as v3.0 of your drawing class manual on how to sketch, draw faces, poses, and landscapes, apply light, color, style, emotion, expressions, perspective, generate animations, speech and more with AI. All artwork from this book is available on blockchain as NFT gallery called The Art of AI.
Most classical drawing books don’t tell you how to sell your art. A piece of AI artwork sold at Christie’s for $69 million recently, signaling a new era in art, and even more art worth millions sells digitally. In chapter How to Sell Your Art, this book shares tips on another super-tool or rather super-gallery for selling your art, called blockchain and NFTs. Learn how to set up your gallery in minutes!
You will learn how to augment your creative process with new AI tools. With AI the world of creativity will never be the same: this book is your chance to learn about new ways to use AI in your projects.
Table of Contents
Getting Started (History of Art and AI – Getting started with AI – Drawing – Sketching – Action and Poses – Landscapes and Scenery – Animation – Selling your Art).
Creative AI Tools (Traditional tools – Digital tools – AI Tools – Python – Notebooks – Practice Studies).
Neural Networks (Neurons – Neural networks – Supervised learning – Unsupervised learning – Generative Adversarial Networks – Reinforcement learning – Practice Studies)
Drawing and Sketching with AI (Sketching with AI – What’s a Sketch? – Improving Sketches with AI – Childhood Drawings – Creativity – Inking – Shading and Light – Coloring – Practice Studies)
Faces with AI (How AI recognizes human faces – Facial features – Emotions – 3D Faces – Cartoons and Caricature – Generating Faces with AI)
Body and Poses with AI (Humans in action with AI – Keypoints – Pose Estimation – Drawing Human Body – Human Pose Datasets – Perspective and Depth – 3D)
Landscapes and Scenery with AI (Landscapes – Generating Landscapes – AI Models and Methods for Landscapes – Practice Studies)
Style and Content (Style and Style Transfer – Generative Adversarial Networks – Creative Style)
How to Sell your Art with Blockchain and NFT (Why Blockchain – Smart Contracts and NFTs – Creating a Crypto Wallet – Creating your Gallery – Listing for Sale – Getting Paid)
