From Style Replication to Style Exploration: Enabling Art Style Exploration with Analyze-Experiment-Resituate Framework
The paper proposes AER, a workflow meant to help artists use GenAI for developing styles rather than copying them.
Built from interviews with 10 professional digital artists, the framework centers on analyzing references, experimenting under artist control, and testing how emerging styles might be received. The authors implemented it as a prototype and compared it with direct style transfer in a 16-artist study. They report that AER increased artists’ sense of agency and reflection while pursuing new stylistic directions. A two-week field study with four artists found effects on daily reflection, experimentation, and style decisions. ArXiv · AI/CL/LG's note
Built from interviews with 10 professional digital artists, the framework centers on analyzing references, experimenting under artist control, and testing how emerging styles might be received. The authors implemented it as a prototype and compared it with direct style transfer in a 16-artist study. They report that AER increased artists’ sense of agency and reflection while pursuing new stylistic directions. A two-week field study with four artists found effects on daily reflection, experimentation, and style decisions. ArXiv · AI/CL/LG's note
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