MIDJOURNEY - How To Create a Complete Graphic Novel in ONE Day 

Just matter of time

Well the tools are here, and won't be going away. Most artists can probably extend their relevancy by leveraging AI to turn themselves into a full art department, using their own abilities to customize the work in ways non artists can't. If you've ever had thoughts of doing your own thing but could never afford to take it big, now is the time.

Which is exactly the main problem. I still don't get why are we so interested in saving time. Investing time in your work is precisely the most important thing in art, the outcome always comes second place.

But that's exactly what could bring artists in trouble. The studios expect the artists to do more even on an individual level, which makes any artist not full embracing and relying on AI economically unviable.

ai is crap. its a sex robot. it is not the real thing and its embarrassingly pathetic when one choses to use it.

It's like my brain in book form, maybe that's why I dig it... 🧠😵‍💫

@@philftw Ah im not trying to kill your buzz. Im sure there will be improvements to help AI sequential art, especially because its gained so much interest

Its basically good looking trash

@@gabrielWachong That was my nickname in high school.

There's just no soul in it ​@@philftw

bro, that comic looks like shit wth

@@gonzalo5162 I know but to some people (like the guy making this video, seriously his RU-vid bio says he makes "ugly art") it won't matter. Just the fact that someone can make a comic faster with ai is what matters.

dont, AI cant be creative but you can.

After using midway for a bit, i honestly believe art will just turn into a performace art. Think of strong men who carry huge weights while machines can do that with ease. But eventually ya, i might be right there with you on that cliff...

@@17th_Colossus very, very, very small number of people making a living as carnival strong men...

A measured and well written comment on a youtube video?! Get out of here before you infect the rest of the internet with your thoughtful and polite ways! I only want "YOU ARE TRASH AND THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING AND EVEN DOLPHINS HATE YOU!" in my comment section. (for real though, there's going to be value in AI for comic creators that are willing to explore it. Even just in rendering background scenery where the environment is only there to frame the foreground action could really help take some of the tedious work off artist's plates. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, sorry I'm 6 months late in responding!)

@@philftw LOL! Better late then never, Pal.

This is what I figure it's going to come down to it's going to cut out a lot of kind of specific art jobs like concept art and stuff of that nature. Also for things like animation it may eventually cut out some level of the in between animators. Basically a lot of the grunt level of art jobs.

We're nowhere near the point where that's an issue. We may eventually get there, but only for things where the amount of creativity is limited. You'll never see AI being the equivalent of David Lynch or Salvador Dalí. Even if I'm wrong about this, you're still talking many decades before it's even plausible.

@@buttsbrown2442 Yes, this is far more likely. I'd expect to see animation switching to a model where a human is doing the layout artwork, and the final touch ups, but the computer is doing the drawing in between those points and adding in between frames and less important details. If anything, this would lead to increased creativity as it is enormously expensive to create full animation, even if you're employing people in places like Vietnam where the cost of living is practically nothing compared with the US. Also, computers have been used for colorizing old TV and movies for decades. It wasn't particularly sophisticated, but much of what Turner was colorizing was done via computer. And that was decades ago at this point. The results weren't great, but they probably weren't much worse than what could be achieved by hand. I know because I've seen hand colored black and white pictures, and they look the same. By contrast, if you pick up a more recently colorized film, like the colorized version of It's a Wonderful Life, the color is so much more realistic, and I'd wager they'll get even better at that in coming years.

@@buttsbrown2442 Already is, seen it myself.

@@buttsbrown2442 Concept art and illustration aren't what I would call 'grunt level' art jobs.

im glad many of us can finally manifest our creativity

Same

YES!

This comment may have singlehandedly decided this for me. I felt something deep in me when you said the part about how you had them since a kid

Yes it also changed my life now I have no work thanks to midjourney

That would work for me if I'm trying to make a graphic novel prototype of my script

Just learn to draw, it’ll be more rewarding and it doesn’t require electricity

Or plagiarism

Straight up plagiarism if you ask me

@Seth Baker bad is the level of plagiasrism that is going on

Even better now

Smh. Cheater.

@@ajstudios9210 🤣

Where can I find the comic at ?

What kind of tools would make this easier for you?

Thanks for this. I have an idea of comic adaptation of a short lived program i want to do. Didnt have much success with that online asking someone to do it

He _did_ write the story and curate the art in the sense that he created the concept, story prompts and art prompts and probably spent a great deal of time sifting through the results which reflect his style, taste and judgement. True, this is a whole new world of creation but the human's role is closer to being an art director & editor than being an artist. Would you fault a filmmaker who expresses their vision in a film where they didn't touch the camera, do all the acting themselves or create all the costumes and props? Consider also that for this tutorial the creator may have emphasized the step 1, step 2, step 3 procedure involved but it is still a creative process.

Its like playing a video game using cheats and thinking your sooo good at that game. Delusional thinking

But he did design the layout, and even did it manually. Not to mention the hours it takes to create the correct prompts to generate all the art and script output. It's not the same type of creating, but it's still creating.

@@thedude3445 layouts are templates not to mention the actual art style is being stolen from a real artist. This technology is just a way for non artists to steal art from the ones that put in the work and skill.

@@thedude3445 "But he did design the layout" he selects from layout templates multiple times. Comic artist's use the panels to tell a story. Choosing a template is not "designing".

Finally. A reasonable comment.

Don't be an idiot. Did you know that being an artists means studying other artists work and then incorporating elements of this artist's work, through study and practice, into their own art style? Sorry, but Leonardo or Michelangelo didn't invent art all on their own out of thin air, no, they learned from others. It's been that way for 1,000's of years. All the masters did this and in many cases, it's on record that one artist or another studied under other artists. Computers do the same thing, they study other artists works and generate a style of art that the computer has calculated based on prompt input. It's absolutely not stealing. I'm an artist, retired. I worked for Hallmark for 27 years. Furthermore, I generate art daily, and all of it is original art. In fact, I am a part of many art based communities where A.I. art is shared daily and very rarely does anyone complain that these A.I. generated images can be attributed to others. Stop parroting others. A.I. art is not going anywhere.

I think the romanticized idea that only humans can create meaning through physical expression will be one of the tropes that changes pretty abruptly in the future. To me it has always had nothing to do with who (or what) makes an image if that image elicits an emotion in me. I think the human connection to art is less about the output itself and more about the act of creating, the culture of the movement/community, and the dialogue it generates. I'm also just an idiot with a mustache on RU-vid so don't take me too seriously.

Short answer: yes, you could have painted a masterpiece. Longer one: no human in the history of humans ever invented or created anything in a vacuum. All were influenced one way or the other by things/ideas/experiences/people long before - knowlingly or not. Influence does not negate your piece maybe being a masterpiece.

Additionally, did humans make the mountains, moon and ocean? All were beautiful prior to human art.

Essentially it is still made by humans because humans invented that AI and another human typed in the prompts

@@Gamezmodz444 Mountains, moon and ocean are not art

The issue I have with most AI made art is it lacks soul. You see an image which took no thought or real imagination. It would be like walking into an art museum and looking at a painting thinking about what the artists had thought or what is the meaning behind it. Where an AI it doesn't have that. No real soul, but that being said it could help massively for say one person to make a comic a lot faster.

Just use it as a tool.. use your creative imagination and experience to prompt the AI to give you something to work with..

The world is cruel and it doesn't care

im tired of the world now. why try anymore. .

@@jimconner3983 To be the best for yourself. To be happy. It is a terrible mistake to chase material things, fame and recognition from other people. You will never be happy with that. But if you're happy within yourself, you won't notice how you get everything.

not mid journey no, but with Stable Diffusion you can get it to learn your art and character. Go lookup Aitrepreneur on youtube. He has tutorials on to do just that, as well various other tutorials on different free AI image generators around. Also how to setup a local version if you want to run the stuff locally. Although it does require a bit of resources. But in my case it runs much faster and not dependent on being online.

yeah, the image-to-image function lets it start from an existing source and refine/iterate from there and you can do it multiple times of course with each result refining it further

@@moonpost how do you do that?

He is indeed selling them. This is plagiarisim and borderline art theft! Also wtf Ai writes the thing too, why would a human want to read anything coming from an AI? its like eating a very well cooked and condimented turd

@@gabrielWachong I'll give you style points for creatively turning condiments into a verb and being the first to use "turd" in a comment but will strongly disagree with you on everything else both factually and spiritually.

@@philftw what can I say, Im a creative guy. Thanks for the points they mean a lot, Ill use them feed my family once AI has completely ran out artists from their jobs 🤣

@@philftw Ignore this guy! He's the milk man crying about people not buying his milk from his horse and buggy now that everyone can make their own milk!! Thanks so much for actually helping people create!!

@@gabrielWachong If you're good AI art will have no effect on you - if you're some hack you'll have to find work where technology can't do a better job than you.🤣😂🤣

For sure, absolutely agree. As they say, your mileage may very. I've treated it more like an experiment with some arbitrary rules (like no changing lines and no photoshop) so I can track the AI's progress but to your point, the output is a mixed bag of really great stuff and some non sequitur nonsense.

That's the last thing he addresses in the video when he pulls out the physical copy.

There are some tutorial videos on that, though not perfect. In general you can use the --seed option in addition to linking a photo to use as a guide. Using the name of a famous person and "lookalike" helps too.

Yes, there a are a lot of them... It's called learn how to draw, there are millions of tutorial to search for in youtube

@@brunofrank3798 Go back to 1650 boomer

@@magemia why??

@@brunofrank3798 there you can find a lot of painters with boomer techniques 🙂

and bringing them their coffee too 🤣... Ai artist is just like saying no talent button pusher hack

You mean me putting together a rational and thoughtful response to an anonymous internet comment disagreeing on a highly contentious topic isn't going to change everyone's mind? That doesn't sound like the internet I know.... (I do appreciate you sharing your POV though, it's really interesting hearing how polarizing this technology is for artists and creators and welcome the critical feedback)

@@philftw I'm actually shocked at your rational reply. As an artist, I absolutely hate this technology as it's going to devalue multiple fields in the art industry that were already suffering financially because people don't respect artists enough to pay them a fair share of money. Along with the devaluation, it's going to be oversaturated by AI generated images that people "created". It was already difficult to make a living off of visual arts before because people did not respect it, but now it's going to be impossible and reduced to a "simple weird hobby." I don't say this to sound pretentious, but I do think that this is a negative for the future. It would be different if this was an AI to generate storyboards, composition, lighting, or something that would significantly aid the process without destroying it. Though instead, with it being able to automatically create images it takes the value out of everything equally. It would be wrong for me too say that AI artwork isn't art if it has the possibility to invoke emotion, but at the same time, the people who use it are the commissioner rather than the artist. With graphic novels it's a bit different though, since you have to actually format everything into scale and stick to a coherent style while using the AI, along with writing the story itself. I don't think it's lazy for an author to use AI to figure out themselves visually, but it becomes a problem when that person views themselves as the actual artists rather than the commissioner. Which due to the simple nature of humanity, is guaranteed to happen.

Wait till you see what I'm dropping tomorrow.... 👀

@@philftw Waiting...

You should look up David Mack. Haha

Now I just need to figure out how to get MJ to generate voxel assets and I'll be set!

That's what i was curious about

Are you literally generalising artists? And if you think ai can replace human creativity, you're not a creative person.

AI won't replace human artists any more than photography destroyed painting.

Most of us on Midjourney are artists, Midjourney is an absolute hive mind for artistic inspiration and for many the tool of choice in generating ideas for hand created artworks. This theory that it will replace artists is misrepresented, it's actually helping us massively.

Someone had to say it!

@@SeymourClevage that’s how it seems right now…..just wait.

yes please we need that othr part

Honestly. This is coming off as desperate and scared. Moreover, it's not a question of you using AI for "creative content." It's more of a question of clients using mid journey instead of employing YOU (which I doubt will be the case in the short term). For instance, a burgeoning storyteller that can't afford an illustrator could use this.

If you know toasters doing that I'll buy you some

I started off on the $10 basic and burned through all my credits the first day. I use the $30 a month tier now and try to do as much as I can in /relax mode. It's scary how addicting it can feel when you find a prompt that is giving you outputs you really love. Most people I've talked to move to the $30 tier in the first week if they are using it for a big project.

Check out Stable Diffusion. Very high quality art too. And you can do it totally free as it's Open Source. I've created close to 10,000 images with SD in the last week or so. MJ is fantastic too and in many cases more "artistic" than SD. I love the style of art in the comic book of this video. But being on a tight budget and the US $ higher than the Aussie $ I'm focusing on SD for now.

@@AlexColvinLovesPizza how do I get into relax mode - haven’t worked that out yet!!😆

@@davidpaxton6402 I was trying stable diffusion last week and it said I was over the trial and needed credits. Has it changed?

Yeah bro it’s called fucking drawing it yourself

Thank you for doing that. Someone had to.

That's why he can use his own style to generate pictures. The AI knows him. Most people can't do that.

@@Candy_McK when you say "his own style". are you referring to basil wolverton or to Phil?

@@goth_ross Basil Wolverton. The AI is trained on pictures of famous artists. Add their name to a prompt and you'll get a picture imitating their style. If you want your own style - and you're not famous - you have to train the AI on your own pictures. You can't do this with Midjourney - you could do this with Stable Diffusion, it's open source and you can run it on your own PC, but that would be a horrible amount of work.

@@Candy_McK Right. you can understand my confusion at your other comment because basil wolverton has been dead for a long time. .