Horrible AI Book/Mag Covers…
Sorry TechBros, AI Doesn’t Make You An Artist
Let’s start with this SMASHING example of horrific cover art shall we?
First…PICK A FONT AND WEIGHT.
Then…maybe don’t have your text be the same color as your background? Would be really good if you stuck with one color, maybe two for the text? I have no idea what to read first here or what is the most important thing.
And who in their right minds thinks it’s a good idea to have outline font for the first letter only so your eye reads “Rtificial Nk” ?
Are there two suns? Three? Why are there no shadows? Is he walking through lava? On a red spaceship? Is he in space? If those random objects on the ground are supposed to be in some way metallic, they need some sheen or something.
Dear Lord people! Have they never looked at a magazine cover in their lives? Come on!
Moving on: Oh where to start with this one. The cover isn’t utterly horrific. I gues they are attempting to make the dragon look 3d? But it doesn’t really work, it just looks like a bad photoshop job as there is no attempt to make the things he is looming over have shadows or any indication that they are technically behind him.
However…the inside? WHAT IN THE LACK OF SIZING HELL IS GOING ON? Why would you leave this horrifically uncentered photo swimming in a sea of red border that makes no design sense whatsoever?
Then when you zoom into the picture of the “city” it just looks like utter crap. Did a drunken architect design this? Are we looking at it through an acid trip where everything is wavy and weird? And what’s with the sharp lines in the bottom left corner that look like lasers or some sort of sci fi thing just handing out over an ancient city? Are the lasers creating a hologram? WHAT IS GOING ON?
Oh and the crappy perspective as the image fades into the distance…yeesh.
The image of the kid/halfling/hobbit? Well, the hands for one. Those weird lines are there again, maybe it’s a watermark? But I thought all art was supposed to be free and unregistered to “democratize” art and topple the evil, rich (actually impoverished) artists from the perches, (living in low rent apartments or renting small rooms because we’re broke).
And that red “border” again. Like what is even the point of it?
The ears are crooked, I guess the head is supposed to be tilted but there is no indication from the actual head that it is tilted, the shoulders are weird and why are there only wrinkle lines on one side of the coat and no button hole for the button to go into?
Okay…look away, reset your eyes, find the eye bleach to cleanse your poor brain from those before we move onto this last one.
Doesn’t look too bad at first, right? At least the font appears to be done by pros. But then..look a little closer.
The monsters feet. There is no way any creature would stand with that many toes.
The teeth on the bottom jaw of the monster seem to just be floating outside of it’s mouth.
There’s a weird disembodied hand next to the guy’s elbow and on that same arm his hand just sort of disintegrates?
And the background on the left between the monster’s legs seems to be more of an oil painting feel than the blue..tent? Trash bin? That is on the right.
So, to sum up. Yes, we all know have a “Make picture” button.
But that button in no way, shape or form makes the people who press it (so to speak) an artist.
And it also doesn’t stop you from putting out images that look like utter dog crap once an unskilled person is assigned with compiling more than a slew of output that AI spat out.
