My Journey of Becoming an Artist
Traditional, Digital and AI art
For the past year, I studied art fundamentals, learned how to draw and paint with traditional media and digital tools. As an ML engineer, I have been exploring how to use AI for art and design, which has become my focal interest. This is the story of my journey of becoming an artist.
I created an online gallery: margaretmz.art with AI generated art and artwork I created in traditional media or with digital tools. You can browse and filter my artwork by categories and tags, and I will be adding new ones.
AI art
With the assistance of AI, everyone can create art now: with a press of button on your phone camera, or simply draw with your fingers. AI is also integrated into many of the existing software tools, for example, Adobe Photoshop and Snapchat.
Other examples include auto draw, neural style transfer and using GANs to generate or transform images. In addition to helping hobbyists to make art, AI can also provide professional artists with inspiration, which is an important aspect in art making.
Through open source project collaboration, I have designed and created Android apps that can transform photos into anime or cartoons and apply artistic effects (to image background).
