"It's terrifying" - Greg Rutkowski is the most prompted artist on Stable Diffusion

Greg Rutkowski AI art prompts; the dungeons and dragons art called Dragon Slayer
(Image credit: Greg Rutkowski)

AI-generated art can look good, right? Well, meet the artist behind a lot of the fantasy images you'll likely see popping up online. He's not a fan of AI art generators. 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. But he certainly didn't create that blue-skinned, blurry, eight-fingered dragon rider you may have seen on Twitter.

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Editor, Digital Arts & 3D

Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & 3D at Creative Bloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and video game titles Play and Official PlayStation Magazine. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on digital art, VFX and video games and tech, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5.