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Make Art with Artificial Intelligence Summary

Make Art with Artificial Intelligence: Make and Sell your Art with AI, Blockchain, and NFT. A guide on practical artificial intelligence for drawing, art, illustration, and design – for everyone interested in creativity, art, and technology. The book has hundreds of original illustrations made or augmented with AI, 20+ online and video tutorials, 35+ Python notebooks, a GitHub repository, and a blockchain art gallery.

Written and illustrated by Kevin Ashley, a Microsoft developer hall of fame engineer, and an author of books and courses on artificial intelligence. Think of this book as v3.0 of your drawing class manual on how to sketch, draw faces, emotions, body poses, landscapes, apply light, color, style, emotion, expressions, perspective, generate animations, speech and more with artificial intelligence. All artwork from this book is created or augmented with machine learning and available in online NFT gallery, as well as tutorials and practical examples.

The impact of this book in data science community inspired a group of Microsoft engineers and data scientists to implement a project they called Azure Picasso to streamline the path from a conceptual artwork, enhanced with artificial intelligence to publishing art in online galleries.

FROM REVIEWS

This is similar to the best lecture classes I had in college where the professor talked in class about the concepts and fundamentals but then gave us homework that would let us experiment and try out the concepts hands-on.

As an artist who has 30 years of artwork looking to share, I love this book because it’s approachable to the novice and useful to the expert.

EDITIONS

• Beautiful Paperback, 8×10, color edition, more illustrations than the e-book, reads like an art book, beautiful print and high-quality paper.
• eBook – easy to read on phones, tablets and online readers, reflowing text, great for practical tutorials, as the book has many links to tutorials.

CONTENTS

• Getting Started (History of Art and AI – Drawing – Sketching – Action and Poses – Landscapes and Scenery – Animation – Selling your Art)
• Creative Tools (Traditional tools – Digital tools – AI Tools – Python – Notebooks – Practice Studies).
• Neural Networks for Art (Neurons – Neural networks – Supervised learning – Unsupervised learning – Generative Adversarial Networks – Machine Learning Models and Training – Reinforcement learning – Practice Studies)
• Drawing and Sketching with AI (Sketching – Improving Sketches with AI – Childhood Drawings – Creativity – Inking – Shading and Light – Coloring – Practice Studies)
• Faces and Facial Expressions (How AI recognizes human faces – Facial features – Emotions – 3D Faces – Cartoons and Caricature – Anime and Manga – Generating Faces with AI)
• Pose and Actions with AI (Action with AI – Keypoints – Pose Estimation – Drawing Human Body – Human Pose Datasets – Perspective and Depth)
• Landscapes and Scenery (Landscapes – Generating Landscapes – AI Models and Methods for Landscapes – Practice Studies)
• Style and Content (Style and Style Transfer in Art and AI – Generative Adversarial Networks – Creative Style)
• Animation with AI (History of Animation – 12 Principles of Animation – Using AI for Animation – Animating Speech, Lips and Faces)
• 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)

The book comes with online tutorials, including assets, resources, and notebooks for artists, data scientists, or engineers. With basic Python, you can create stunning works of art, but knowledge of Python is not required.

About the Author

Kevin Ashley is a Microsoft Developer Hall of Fame engineer, author of books and courses on AI and technology, popular sports, fitness and gaming apps, Skype featured bots and cloud platforms such as Active Fitness and Winter Sports with several million users. He is a passionate technical speaker, founder of several startups and ventures, including mobile, sports, fitness, and cloud.

Make Art with Artificial Intelligence Introduction

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This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to use artificial intelligence for art and creativity and explore new ways to create, improve and sell your artwork.

Classical drawing and illustration tutorials can teach you many things, but after reading many of them, I realized that there’s nothing out there, that explains the best art super-tool ever created: Artificial Intelligence. Let’s face it, with AI getting closer to the human brain’s incapacity, our creativity will never be the same. Oh, yes, AI can help you make many amazing things! Think of this book as v3.0 of your drawing class manual on how to sketch, draw, apply light, color, style, emotion, expressions, perspective, generate animations, speech, and more with AI…

Most classical drawing books also 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 the chapter How to Sell Your Art, I share 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!  

Art, Illustration and Online Resources:   All illustrations in this book are made or augmented with AI, check more original artwork, tutorials, and sketches, along with these resources:

The Art of AI collection – all original illustrations, sketches, and digital assets for practicing are available on the blockchain. If you’ve never owned a digital asset, they are like authentic records that trace ownership from an originating artist, stored forever in the blockchain, the most trusted and secure general ledger on this planet.

Online Code Tutorials – notebooks, code, and references repository. Best with video tutorial subscription.

Create and improve your skills with AI: I tried this method of making art with AI, myself, and with other folks, most people can see an improvement in drawing and illustration skills in a few weeks, even if you are like me, not a professional artist. It’s a lot of fun: you can apply this method in art, illustration, animation, and other creative endeavors.

Never fear, you can use AI in art, even if you are not a professional data scientist. If you ever opened a Photoshop tutorial you can use the AI methods, I’m describing here. Many designers and graphical artists use digital tools, but very few realize how to enhance or augment the work with artificial intelligence. Be the trailblazer, and this book will help you explore ways to partner with AI in your creativity!

To make this reading fun for you, I added these characters as visual anchors throughout this book:

The AI Artist Fairy – you can see her in places throughout this book that may be interesting for creativity and other artistic ideas. No geeky knowledge is needed.

The Geeky Scientist – is the California Hacker Dojo inhabitant, of the show me the code type. You’ll see him in places that may be interesting if you are curious about tinkering with technology or code notebooks.

Make reading of this book as practical or as casual as you want: you can explore the geeky side and satisfy the inner data scientist or your data science team with notebooks and examples in the course that accompanies the book.  Or just glance over this book for inspiration and relaxed casual reading. If you ever had a creative bug or wanted to draw, I hope you can use AI, just like your pencil or brush, with data as your digital pigment.

Why Awesome AI? This is a new genre of a book, inspired by popular awesome technology lists on the Internet. It reads as a casual popular book, the kind that you can buy at an airport bookstore, or in New York Times Bestseller section, but with tutorials and notebooks, you can dive as deep as you like into your creativity!

You’ll find lots of illustrations and infographics, created with the help of, or entirely by artificial intelligence. Consider it an inspirational guide to AI, but with a practical twist: everything I’m talking about in this book is real, has a practical implementation, backed by research. Why is the AI so awesome? Because you can apply this awesomeness today across so many areas of human life!

Read on, and you may find answers to questions that you always wanted to ask but were afraid to because everyone knows how this AI thing works anyway. Trust me, some very smart people I’ve been talking to, including CEOs of technology companies, technical gurus, and even authors of programming languages we use every day for AI, admit they would like to learn more about artificial intelligence. 

My first book on Artificial Intelligence was fairly technical: I wrote it for geeks and data scientists who want to learn about practical methods of applying AI in the field. I soon realized that most of my readers are passionate about AI and want to discover it and apply it in multiple areas.

This book is for a broader audience: students, businesspeople, artists, technologists who need ideas, concepts and understanding on what works and what doesn’t with AI. In this book you’ll find lots of answers to interesting how to apply AI in your artwork questions, sprinkled with illustrations and curious facts about AI. Creative artists and designers will discover new tools and techniques. For geeks, if you need the code, you can always refer to my course on AI that has lots of practical examples, notebooks and code.

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Product details:

Edition	International Edition
ISBN	979-8577189310
Posted on	April 1, 2021
Format	pdf
Page Count	184 pages
Author	Kevin Ashley