Getting started with AI-generated art by CathryneDelamort, journal
Getting started with AI-generated art
People tend to think AI art generation is easy, and to a degree it is to get started, but like any art/technology it's an endless depth of learning and improvement. You can go down quite a few rabbit holes searching for the perfect image, which is actually quite hard to get out of the gate. My knowledge as a software engineer has really helped, and frankly all of that's a lot to learn if you're not starting with a technical background. That said, it's totally worth it.
There are different text-to-image AI systems out there. Google "ai art" and play around with hosted solutions you find which give you a certain number of generations before asking you to pay. Check out things like https://creator.nightcafe.studio/, https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion, You can see examples of what people have done at https://lexica.art/.
If you're technical and are willing to host Stablediffusion on your own machine (this is what I do), then you can grab a great web-ui on top of