Sometimes You Need An Icon
You can use AI image generators like Midjourney to jumpstart the idea process on a project, especially for simple, iconic art. This article walks through 3 quick examples: a monkey, a gun, and a 1950s rocket ship. Type a short prompt, look at what comes back, and reroll it until the style points where you want it to go. Then download the winner, live trace or vector it in Illustrator, and finish it off with your own edits, type, and color. The AI does the doodling. You still do the thinking and the finishing work.
Sometimes You Need An Icon
"You get great results with almost no effort once you already know the outcome you want, because the real skill isn't running the software, it's deciding the idea before you type a single word."
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