Who is Greg Rutkowski?

He's not created the AI art you may have scrolled over. But his name is behind a lot of it. Greg Rutkowski is a seasoned digital fantasy artist behind some of the most popular Dungeons & Dragons art, and key art for the wildly popular MMORPG Neverwinter by Cryptic Studios, as well as work for Magic: The Gathering and Horizon Forbidden West.

Is Greg Rutkowski more popular than Picasso?

Greg Rutkowski is a more popular prompt than Picasso. Those cool AI-generated images you’ve seen across the internet? There’s a good chance they are based on the works of Greg Rutkowski. Rutkowski is a Polish digital artist who uses classical painting styles to create dreamy fantasy landscapes.

Why is Rutkowski's art so frustrating?

It's a way of painting that has taken Rutkowski a lifetime to learn and he's still perfecting, so you can see why when people ask to use art he's not created, when prompters are 'stealing' his work using an text-to-image AI art generators, it can be frustrating, if not maddening.

How many times has Rutkowski been used as a prompt?

According to the website Lexica, which tracks over 10 million images and prompts generated by Stable Diffusion, Rutkowski’s name has been used as a prompt around 93,000 times. Some of the world’s most famous artists, such as Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, and Leonardo da Vinci, brought up around 2,000 prompts each or less.