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The Artist Spotlight is your inside look into the influences, collaborations and prompts that drive the NightCafe community.

We catch up with some of our most original creators to find what inspires them, who their favorite creators are, and how they use image generator algorithms as part of their work.

NC: WHAT INFLUENCES YOUR WORK?

Between Yves Klein, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Cornell, Manet, Degas, German Expressionism, Dada and Dadaism...

My influences are many and extremely varied: not forgetting cave art, and passing through all eras and continents.

I received a traditional art education that opened me up to Art. I'm discovering AI and having fun with it. 

NC: MOST UNDERRATED ARTIST ON NIGHTCAFE?

Honestly I am unable to answer.

NC: PROMPT THAT MOST SURPRISED YOU?

The one for "Lapinator's guestbook", which I found because I love making artists' books (real life) and wanted to try a prompt I couldn't create myself:

"An old opened book on a wooden table, scribbles on the left page, a quill and ink pot." a breathtaking artwork by Jean Baptiste Monge, Epic scale, highly detailed, clear environment, triadic colors cinematic light 16k resolution, trending on artstation"

NC: ANY TIPS FOR PROMPT WRITING?

I'm not yet at the stage where I can give such advice.

I tried on my own without really understanding how AI worked, then I took a closer look at the artists' prompts, which I often found by chance.

I often mix them up, try them out and modify them little by little.  

NC: WHAT LED YOU TO USING NIGHTCAFE?

A friend told me "you should be interested in AI". I searched the Internet and came across NightCafe.

I opened an account just to see and now I'm having fun. My aim was to try and integrate AI images into my regular art practice.

It hasn't really happened yet, but I'm sometimes surprised to get results that are pretty close to drawings I was doing at one time.