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LIAM IAN-Ai™

February 20, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

WHAT’S BEST IN USING Ai IN YOUR ARTISTIC PROJECTS? FOR US IT’S ABOUT MORE THAN AN END RESULT.

As we move forward in providing select creative services to our clients and audiences, we’re active in engaging and incorporating Ai into our operations. Everything from the cultivation and review of ideas to the assistance of end-result possibilities and byproduct opportunities, we’re engaging it all.

While we continue to strive for a unique and individual brand identity, we’re furthering our focus on our local communities and those dedicated or legacy customers and clients that have enjoyed the services and products we provide.

As we create, we’ve come to a determination about Ai that helps to streamline operations while also adding to the creative process. Operating within four different *Quarters, we must be able to keep focus while transitioning into various creative mindsets to further cultivate projects, services, products and other associated opportunities. We believe the following about how, where and when to use Ai:

Idea & Concept Development: Many ideas come to us. We go thru a process of pitching and discussing new ideas and concepts that fall into either Art, Design or Photography but there are moments where none of us can fully articulate or gain the scope of a project. The financial and resource cost including the overall societal demand and general impact of such projects. Ai has been used to develop conversations to flesh out the details of an idea and how to get to the desired goal with reduced cost or stress.
Idea & Concept Visualization: Again—within a crucial part of the creative process—rather than using Ai and Ai Art as an end-result or product, we’re striving to allow what can be produced by Ai to inform and influence the artistic direction. We want to keep up with where this technology excels and what this technology can do but we strive to retain our creative prowess and skill in order to perform and perform to and beyond expectation. This truly is where Ai is most effective to us.
Generation of Assets: Especially in the realm of Design, we’re fully engaged in using different ingredients and elements to develop works effectively and communicate messages as efficiently as possible. In doing large client projects that require more than one product or type of work, we use Ai to further align the creative vision across elements and assets and even mediums.
Industry Research and Market Analysis: While this is not that much of a daunting task for us, it can become a timely one in order to plan, align and re-align a project or even the business appropriately and accordingly. Ai has proven its worth in further understanding paradigms and trends of various audiences, communities, markets and potential clients.

All in all, we’re a small business looking for every reasonable advantage to progress and excel. Operating in different creative and operational categories requires much of us to not only enact services, act within our communities and develop products but to also ease the pressure to operate effectively. With data needing to reviewed, ideas needing to be researched and vetted, and client/customer relationships requiring effective management protocols, Ai has become quite an exceptional tool and aspect of everyday life.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Ai Art Generators are in use for some projects with archiving of prompts and settings to achieve desired results. In serving clients thru Ai Art Generators, we ensure our clients understand the origin of prompts and those platforms or engines used. With several out there, we have a preference for Midjourney and Leonardo.Ai. We go thru a process of compare and contrast to review not only quality of imagery but an adherence to the general vision and scope of the project at hand.

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tags / Ai, Ai Integration, Ai Art, Ai Business Integration

ART, SPIRITUALITY AND COLORING

January 20, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

IP PRODUCTION: LIAM IAN™ CREATIVITY COLORING BOOK.

While there are many options and avenues of creating art and expressing oneself, our contribution is by debuting the LIAM IAN™ CREATIVITY COLORING BOOK. This custom coloring book features abstract art templates to allow the artist the freedom to explore colors and color combinations. We want to encourage artists to think and color outside the lines of static and original thinking, to get away from the rigid train of thought to color and apply by what is established, defined, and familiar. Like that of music—especially jazz—we want to provide a structure while having that structure unstructured enough to allow for true individuality and free thought. We’re allowing for the spiritual space to color and apply as one feels and deems adequate and appropriate for their own personal identities.

As art is the profound product of creativity, creativity is intelligence at play. It is intelligence exploring, developing, and growing beyond the confines of the often rigorous and structured routines as established, defined, and implemented by others. It is a form of spirituality in that it draws from things that might reside within and around us — yet unseen and unnoticed and unaccounted for in our everyday lives. Creativity is Freedom. It is the ability to express and manifest that which is unique to the creator before that of anyone else. It can be encouraged, inspired, and sometimes even copied or impressed upon another. However, it is a unique representation of an individual, a group and even an entity.

While my priorities have naturally and quite adequately shifted into being a parent, the fundamentals of creativity being at my core are still there. Creativity was once a medium to fill the void of the time and space in my childhood and the required activity within schooling. However, as an adult, it is an absolute choice. Though my abilities as an artist have diminished through the years by the lack of practice, engagement, and intention, it is my goal to regain the abilities I once possessed. The effort—more effectively—is to find out if what I once had I still have today.

Growing up, Pen and Ink Sketching were my favorite and sometimes only form of self expression. Today, I have many. I understand, however, the place of lines; the black and white; the flat and only minimal application of thoughts and ideas after or in conjunction with the written word.

In developing a coloring book, we’re encouraging artists to think into the abstract—the abstract mind. I feel that the truest of inspirations can be manifested into great things with the slightest and most minimal of tools and resources. What it is to see a line, trace a line, color within and/or even outside a line says much to developing the capabilities of creativity. It helps to define whether we can be defined and adapt to situations or to go absolutely beyond or against the conventional. This coloring book is to be encouraging and empowering as much as a coloring book can be. We introduce this coloring book as our very minimal and modest way of lighting the spark of creativity for those who just may need it…even in the smallest way.

Assisted Development: THE CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP

Written by Liam Ian. Edited by Jemmael Joseph

*In developing, interacting and reviewing this product, I’ve come to a greater understanding of those colors that represent expressions and ideas about myself, my paradigms and my place within he greater tapestries. I prefer dark and rich colors mixed with brown tones and those metallic; bronzes, silvers and golds. While I notice my resistance to employ bright colors of prescribed “heavenly” nature, I notice that what I use to define a lined image informs a depth, disposition and attitude that takes things seriously and weighs things down a bit. This informs me about the other works I’ve produced including even my and our photography projects.

Thru a very modest engagement of discussion and self-engagement, I’ve come to rediscover and renew an understanding about myself that helps me to stand firmer and taller on my identity and those things of my activity and production that represent me.

For more related conversations, come see our CUSTOM COLOR LIST that informs what we create and often why.

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tags / Art, Spirituality, Coloring, Coloring Book, Creativity Coloring Book, Liam Ian's The Creativity Coloring Book

THE USE OF Ai FOR ART GENERATION

January 28, 2024 / William Burrell Philpot IV

The fact is that using Ai Art Generators allow for greater levels of production and output for work requests, commissions and associated projects. The ethical debates and arguments are that there is a lack of authenticity, security concerns and activities of copyright infringement when using these platforms but I argue that they are tools that cannot and therefore should not be avoided.

I—as an Artist, Entrepreneur, Employee, Father and Husband—believe that Ai has both many benefits and ample dangers to be extensively reviewed, analyzed and understood in their entirety. Integration of Ai is something that should be done at every level especially when the large and impactful social and economic structures begin to incorporate them. When large companies and institutions—as they have classically—integrate systems of technology to increase production, save on expenses, refine for efficiency and impact to drive greater revenues thru a carefully curated perception of value and social impact, these systems have not so readily served to successfully or

RESISTING THE MAD-DASH TO INTEGRATE . . . EVERYTHING.

While in the business of Art, Design and Photography, we’re in the business of being in business. Our identities, brands, IP and revenues must be dependent on our custom and individual works aside from Ai Generated kinds. We must not lose our identities for the sake of making money. We must not sell our very capacities to create because we want to see revenues. It’s akin to selling our souls to survive.

We see the use of Ai as a tool. Not an end-all or be all but a tool to assist in the creative process. How this can vary and be applied to different situations and circumstances is of course circumstantial but we’re committed to not losing ourselves to a tool that has the capacity to so much. We set the limits and we strive to stay as transparent as possible. With that said, we’re using Ai to assist in product and project development processes.

We’re also including Ai within select operational and performance activities as to streamline efficiency and effectiveness as to also improve and enhance general revenue generation thru successful customer and client interactions. The Art of Business does now—and must—include Ai integration. This integration takes thoughtfulness, care, and planning. Direction, definitions, rules and measurement. Industry assess and analysis. Information monitoring and buffering. Legal understandings and constant ethical review.

While resisting as much as possible, we understand the place of this new, profound and ever-evolving tool that is already surrounding us to so many degrees and in so many ways. Yes, we’re in business to create and to perform more than well for our clients, customers and associated audiences but we’re also in the business of being true and authentic to who we are as humans endowed with profound levels of creativity. Our competitive edge has always been in our unique individualities and so this is what we strive to bring along as we continue to innovate into the future.