Last year, with my Year 11 design students, we had a go at using AI to visualise the design developments in 3D to help with their development drawings. Blog post about it here.
This year, I want to start bringing it in a little earlier to help the students to visualise designs in 3D. I used Adobe Express and gave it the prompt to design outside seating for 4 people made from wood. I switched the prompt about a bit with garden seating, park seating to see what it came up with. I saved the ones I liked out as images. I then started putting up some inspiration images for style and composition. Playing around with both of these gave some interesting different options. Any that I found I liked, I saved as an image. There were lots that I didn't like and this took quite a bit of time, switching images in and out and changing the prompts.
I put the designs that I saved onto a Google Drawing, link here, with the inspiration images. These will be used as starting points for concept development drawings in 3D. It is a good way to see the 3D form and see how the light hits it with highlights and shadows.