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How To Turn AI Art Into Your Art
You’ve been missing from your own art.
Miroslav Novohradsky
October 08, 2025
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There’s something odd about AI art lately.
It’s dazzling, yes, but also a little hollow. You scroll through an endless stream of faces that all look like cousins of the same digital model.
The eyes sparkle, the lighting is perfect, but the work feels empty. It feels like no one is actually there.
The truth is, most AI art is missing identity.
That’s why this week’s video hit differently.
It’s not a “hack,” not a “secret setting.”
It’s a quiet shift in how you use Midjourney, one that turns anonymous imagery into something that looks like it could only come from you.
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK
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Why you should care: The creator of this video does something most tutorials skip: he shows you how to make Midjourney see you.
Not a random model, not a faceless hero, but your actual expression, your bone structure, your face as part of your art.
And when that happens, when your own features blend into the work, the whole tone changes. The image stops being an experiment and starts feeling like authorship.
Most people think of AI art as an act of control. You feed the machine the right words, you tweak, you adjust, you wait for something beautiful to appear.
But what if control isn’t the point? What if the real power is inclusion, bringing yourself into that process, literally, pixel by pixel?
That’s what this video argues, without ever saying it outright.
Watching the creator work, you see how the boundary between human and algorithm starts to fade. He drags a simple photo of himself into the Midjourney interface, and suddenly the samurai on screen has his eyes.
He shifts a single number, and now the AI respects his features but adapts the style. Another small tweak, and he becomes a sketch, a sculpture, a dream version of himself.
It’s fascinating not because it’s technically complex, it isn’t, but because of what it implies.
You no longer have to choose between being the artist and being the subject. You can be both.
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When you think about it, that’s what we’ve always wanted from art: to see ourselves reflected in it. But for years, AI art has felt distant, like a mirror that never quite reflects back.
This video collapses that distance.
You watch the creator test different styles, and it’s not about vanity.
It’s about connection.
You can tell he’s searching for the point where technology still feels human, where the machine’s imagination and his identity overlap instead of clash.
The video doesn’t overcomplicate it. No grand theories, no self-congratulatory “look what AI can do.”
Just a person testing how far the tool can stretch before it stops looking like him. That’s what makes it worth watching.
There’s also something quietly rebellious about the idea of putting your real face into AI art. In a world obsessed with anonymity and algorithms, it’s an act of claiming space. You’re saying, this image belongs to me because I’m inside it.
It’s a refusal to disappear behind your own creations.
We’re so used to hiding online… avatars, usernames, brands.
AI art gives us another layer to hide behind.
But this video invites you to do the opposite: to step forward. To take that digital armor off and let your work carry your face, your imperfections, your proof of existence.
If you’ve ever looked at your Midjourney gallery and thought, “These are beautiful, but they don’t feel like mine,” you need this one.
Because the process isn’t about better prompts or more plugins. It’s about ownership.
The moment you see your own eyes looking back at you from an AI-generated scene (recognizable, but transformed) you understand what personal AI art actually means.
It’s not replacing the artist. It’s amplifying the artist’s presence.
And maybe that’s what AI was meant for all along: not to create in your place, but to expand the canvas where you already exist.
So, yes, the video gives you steps. You’ll see tools, sliders, edits. But what sticks isn’t the technical part… it’s the feeling. The feeling that this technology doesn’t have to erase you. That it can, instead, make you more visible.
That’s the quiet genius of it.
When you finish watching, you don’t walk away thinking, I want to make something that looks cool. You walk away thinking, I want to make something that looks like me.
Your art deserves to have a heartbeat.
This week’s video shows how to give it yours.
Thanks for reading!
Best,
Miroslav from The Zilahut
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