AI Art

Suck at art? Just automate it with AI

Who needs skills to be an artist anyway? All you need is your browser and a prompt

As a kid, I always wanted to be an artist. Well, that’s a lie, actually I wanted to be an ice-cream man, but artist was high up there on the list. But I didn’t really have an artistic bone in my body. I still don’t.

But I never let a total lack of talent stop me before — why start now? For the past few days I’ve been playing around with DiscoArt and generating stunning artworks in my browser in minutes.

A picture’s worth a thousand words, so I’ll stop blabbing and show you some of what it can do:

A beautiful render of a lost city under the ocean, by robert steven connett and tomasz alen kopera and Jordan Grimmer, salvador dali style, gods ray, mesmerizing clouds, underwater, 4k hd wallpaper:2

A colorful portrait of a beautiful regal female queen's face by Alessio Albi. She has perfect olive skin like silk. She has rainbow hair, glittering green eyes and pretty lips. Night sky as background

a painting of the Forbidden City in cyberpunk style, by Maoxuan, trending on ArtStation.

How do I get started?

All you need to do is open the notebook and start running the cells. Some things to bear in mind:

• Set hardware accelerator to GPU under Runtime > Change runtime type if it’s not set already.
• By default, Disco Art generates 4 images at once in 1024x768 resolution. You can speed things up by reducing n_batches (number of batches) and width_height . Read more by running the cheatsheet() cell.
• For experimenting, I typically go with 1 batch at 512x384 or similar — that gives you results fast, but it’s not good for creating stunning hi-res artwork.
• If you play with it too long, you WILL blow through your Colab GPU limits and have to wait til the next day to use it again. Consider this a feature, not a bug. We don’t want you getting too addicted (yet).

What are some good prompts?

Unlike DALL-E, Disco excels with long detailed prompts. So instead of something like cthulhu covered in slime , a better prompt might be A hyper-detailed realistic portrait of Cthulhu, master of the old gods, his twisting tentacles dripping thick ectoplasm from the dawn of time. Trending on Artstation.

Questions?

Ask on our Slack:

Join Jina Community on Slack

What’s next?

Star the repo

Like what you see? Spread the love by throwing a star to the Disco Art repo:

GitHub - jina-ai/discoart: Create Disco Diffusion artworks in one line

Play with more AI art

We’ve also created DALL-E Flow. It provides a totally different style for you to play with:

Google Colaboratory

Share with our community

We’d love to see what you come up with! Head over to our Slack community and post in the #showcase channel

Share on socials

Be the envy of your friends and the fear of “real” artists everywhere by sharing your creations on social media. Be sure to tag Jina’s social accounts (Jina AI on LinkedIn, @jinaai_ on Twitter). We’ve found the gifs to be especially cool for sharing.

Learn more

There are a whole range of deeper tutorials and blog posts if you want to do a deep Disco dive:

• Zippy’s Disco Diffusion Cheatsheet v0.3
• EZ Charts — Diffusion Parameter Studies
• Disco Diffusion 70+ Artist Studies
• A Traveler’s Guide to the Latent Space
• Disco Diffusion Illustrated Settings
• Coar’s Disco Diffusion Guide