[Tommy Miller]

Hi! I’m Tommy; I joined because Andrew’s courses have been a bigger help than most resources and the monthly fee is quite reasonable. I’m here to learn about what Stable Diffusion really is, and how to use it in a practical way as a budding AI artist. I’m mainly interested in A4 (this is my name for Automatic1111, as it saves about eight syllables), but I do have a working ComfyUI installation to use with a really cool extension in Krita.

The information available online is staggering and often confusing; it’s inculcated a sort of information paralysis that keeps me from getting started on anything meaningful. I also paint in real life (well, I put pigment on a canvas; calling it painting may be a tad generous), and I want to dive in and get my fingers stained, so to speak.

But that can be hard, because dealing with AI, it often seems as if the infrastructure, the underlying technologies, the possibilities, the uses, and the performance all see rapid gains and development, and keeping up with everything that’s possible feels like a full-time job.

I’m relying on Andrew to understand this stuff and distill it into something a layman can understand, and use to make artistic decisions. I’m an amateur programmer (well, I write code and the toolchain allows me to compile it; calling it programming may be a tad generous), so I have some interest in the nitty-gritty underpinnings, but I’m no compsci major; I don’t have the background. I picked this site because Andrew actually replies to emails, and because when I apply the techniques he’s written in articles, while I don’t necessarily quite get where I’m going, I definitely get to a place that’s gonna help me out; a place much closer to what I want.

Computers could never do this stuff when I was growing up. It’s a brave new world we’re venturing into, and I can’t wait to participate along the way.

Happy diffusing!

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