Book Cover: Digital Painting vs Ai

My original book cover was a pencil drawing I did that was brought into Paint.NET and photoshop, then was painted by me using digital brushes. It took about a month to do. This year an Ai version was done by my brother and edited by him, which took about an hour, in this post you will see that Ai edited book cover. In some ways it is better and I have been told it might even draw in more sales, but I am also told by some that my original one is eye catching and more genuine. The advantages of using Ai art are not as cut and dry as some might think.

 

Digital Art vs. Ai Art

This year there has been a big growth in Ai art. Ai art and Ai written papers have been all over the news. Digital artists use a lot of traditional art skills which takes hours of effort, while Ai simulates that effort from a sentence prompt input by the user utilizing a database of thousands of images. I have done many prompts myself. This has made me amazed at our technological progress but I have studied popular art techniques now and have grown to appreciate traditional art even more. Here is an example of a digital prompted artwork of an angel flying holding a sword (like from my book) in watercolor style.