I have been playing around with AI art generators. At first, I was making random images, pretty cool. Then, I came to a point where I decided to try making images of scenes from books I’ve read.

One of, if not the first novel I chose was Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor. Some years ago now (time flies), I commissioned an artist, dentamarin, via Fiverr to depict a standout scene in the book.

I thought the image was pretty good, especially given the price. Now, I wanted to see what an AI art generator would make given a similar description. I will say I was impressed. Check them out below.

The commissioned piece by dentamarin via Fiverr

AI Art generator pieces (Microsoft Bing Image Generator powered by DALL-E)