It really makes little sense why people feel inclined to use AI art when there's so many public domain resources out there. And I say that as somebody who finds the technology fascinating.
Have you seen the results? Most are unrelated showing fan conventions or sci-fi franchises like Star Trek, suggesting mislicensing. I'm not surprised people turn to AI Art.
Side Note: CC is not PD, the former requires attribution.
Well, yeah, we've had thousands of years to make non sci-fi art. Most things in the public domain are things that have fallen into it by being over 100 years old. There's still plenty of things you can use, you just have to be more creative and not assume that the perfect piece of art is going to be out there for you.
Almost all the art I use (that I don't hire for) is augmented heavily in Photoshop or other programs. That's what makes it yours. You can easily find public domain images of cities, people, etc. for modern stuff, throw it in photoshop, give it some duotone and some noise and viola - your own original piece.
Same goes for science fiction: find some NASA space pics, or some pics of Space Force stuff on government websites that are listed as public domain (see: https://www.dvidshub.net/search/?q=outer+space&view=grid), and so on. Throw some really weird effects on some of this stuff, experiment, get into the creative flow, glitch it out, whatever.
It's not impossible - it's just not literally copying and pasting. You have to do some of the legwork yourself. Throwing your hands up and resorting to AI art is literally the least creative thing you can do.
I'm not super interested in arguing this point further, if I'm being honest. You asked for options, I've given multiple potential options. If those don't work for you, that's fine - but you can't say things aren't out there.
All of these have been bookmarked! I’ve been searching for images from Fritz Lange’s Metropolis which entered the public domain this year, but am still out of luck.
Dude, this is awesome (and so are you)! Thanks for putting together this 2nd compilation of Public Domain art resources. (And WOW about getting a million views on your 1st PD article on Twitter!) 🖼
It really makes little sense why people feel inclined to use AI art when there's so many public domain resources out there. And I say that as somebody who finds the technology fascinating.
because every public domain art only contains art on concepts before the 20th century.
Responding to a 5 month old comment? Also, you can easily find sci fi / modern public art.
where? I don't see many like that that are put into the public domain.
https://openverse.org/search/image?q=Sci%20fi&license_type=commercial,modification
Over 10,000 results.
Have you seen the results? Most are unrelated showing fan conventions or sci-fi franchises like Star Trek, suggesting mislicensing. I'm not surprised people turn to AI Art.
Side Note: CC is not PD, the former requires attribution.
Well, yeah, we've had thousands of years to make non sci-fi art. Most things in the public domain are things that have fallen into it by being over 100 years old. There's still plenty of things you can use, you just have to be more creative and not assume that the perfect piece of art is going to be out there for you.
Almost all the art I use (that I don't hire for) is augmented heavily in Photoshop or other programs. That's what makes it yours. You can easily find public domain images of cities, people, etc. for modern stuff, throw it in photoshop, give it some duotone and some noise and viola - your own original piece.
Same goes for science fiction: find some NASA space pics, or some pics of Space Force stuff on government websites that are listed as public domain (see: https://www.dvidshub.net/search/?q=outer+space&view=grid), and so on. Throw some really weird effects on some of this stuff, experiment, get into the creative flow, glitch it out, whatever.
It's not impossible - it's just not literally copying and pasting. You have to do some of the legwork yourself. Throwing your hands up and resorting to AI art is literally the least creative thing you can do.
I'm not super interested in arguing this point further, if I'm being honest. You asked for options, I've given multiple potential options. If those don't work for you, that's fine - but you can't say things aren't out there.
All of these have been bookmarked! I’ve been searching for images from Fritz Lange’s Metropolis which entered the public domain this year, but am still out of luck.
Sounds like the copyright status is a little complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)#Copyright_status
Dude, this is awesome (and so are you)! Thanks for putting together this 2nd compilation of Public Domain art resources. (And WOW about getting a million views on your 1st PD article on Twitter!) 🖼