The Weird Apocalypse had many strange effects on beach bunnies. Some mutated into actual bunnies, though very unusual bunnies, but some, at the extreme end of the spectrum, became something literally out of this world…
… while some were still vaguely tethered to a beach plane of existence…
… most were catapulted so far off the spectrum, that being a human beach bunny wasn’t even a memory for them…
… though they still bore a bunny-like visage, they were now outside known reality, entirely remade…
… while some became lost cyphers scribbled on the board of trans-dimensional catastrophe, a few grabbed their potential with both paws…
… and boldly tuned their incredible ears toward their own, amazing, future reality.
Of course, whatever the apocalyptic event that so transformed the Western beach bunnies was, it also transformed the Eastern Beach bunnies, causing them, at a minimum, to all grow ears…
… the apocalypse affected the weather, too, making the beach a pretty grim place for the bunnies…
… but these were creatures of habit…
… and a bit of weirdness wasn’t going to stop them digging in the sand, searching for heads of lettuce…
… or just chilling and being beautiful…
… I really love this one, it has an ‘old masters’ feel, and a definite ‘Mona Lisa’ vibe (:
So, while experimenting with rougher-edged beauty, I took two of my images from the previous post, and combined them using the prompt ‘plastic beach bunny’… I had no thought whatsoever of creating, well, beach bunnies… rather, I just made up a phrase, like ‘fish on a bike’, to see what happened! Of course, Midjourney is extremely literal, but, still, I was delighted when it started churning out gorgeous, manga-like beach bunnies…
… but still with a good dollop of strangeness…
… the hilarious aspect of these bunnies, is that Discord/Midjourney consider them porn! When I try to combine two of these images, to pursue a particular aspect, Discord/Midjourny shrieks NSFW!!, and won’t allow me to use the images it just allowed me to create! Yet I can keep creating them by re-rolling my original prompt…
… Discord/Midjourney has a bizarrely puritanical idea of what porn looks like… apparently porn is bare shoulders and a bit of cleavage, bikini’s are considered total filth…
… so I’m really pleased to have accidentally got it to produce these adorable, apocalyptic pinup bunnies…
The converse of it being frustratingly hard to produce flawless beauty in Midjourney, is the ease with which you can produce the strange and bizarre. I often, as a kind of palette cleanser, flick out a few bizarre images when the struggle to create beauty gets too hard… these are done with relatively simple prompts, often only one or two words, and always produce bizarre results…
… but sometimes produce surprisingly beautiful results. Midjourney’s natural tendency seems to be for bewilderingly complex images, where any inherent beauty is subsumed by very clever, but far too much, detail…
… I decided to see if I could consistently create beautiful weirdness. It wasn’t easy…
… but every now and then, I got what I consider to be really gorgeous images…
… believe me, for each gorgeous image, there were many really ugly ones…
… but then it would throw out one like the one above, which I think is beautiful. But, because this result is caused by random words designed to cause random results, it’s very hard to then pursue this ‘theme’, because it never ‘was’ a theme, just the blind firing of virtual synapses…
… but I got the one above, trying to recreate the previous one, which totally doesn’t suck…
So, for the last several days, my experience with Midjourney has been pretty frustrating. Midjourney totally sucks at drawing hands, I’ve read, and understand, why this is, but it still makes me never ask it to include hands, I always go for head/shoulders portraits, at the most, head-to-hips. I’ve also read theories that seem correct, that if enough people are concentrating on a certain aspect of Midjourney creation, that aspect begins to appear in everyone else’s work… I suspect this is happening with hands… suddenly, though I never ask, and always exclude any iteration with hands, Midjourney is putting it’s grotesque ‘hands’ in 3 out of four of my iterations (slight exaggeration, but close…) totally ruining otherwise beautiful images. Another irksome Midjourney trait is to put ugly, un-asked-for wiggles and squiggles on faces, another thing it’s been doing more of, lately.
So, imagine my delight, last night, when I decided to try for really clean, stunning beauty, without ugly marks and repulsive hands… and Midjourney complied!…
… I asked it for ‘beautiful east asian, epicanthic eyes, long black hair’… and it started rolling out images like this. These are the purest, most unadulterated beauties I have ever been able to get it to produce. I deliberately got it to start giving them blue eyes, because they are so much more stunning…
… I have had to tweak each of these in Photoshop, but they are as near-perfect as anything I’ve so far been able to produce, and I deliberately left their gorgeous, alien pupils, because, well, why wouldn’t I?…
… so, once again, perseverance has payed off in my Midjourney journey (:
I just adore the ability Midjourney gives me to literally mass-produce beautiful imagery…
… I don’t think a beginner could produce the consistent level of beauty that I am now producing because, believe me, Midjourney can produce some appalling garbage if you give it the wrong prompts, but I think that most beginners who are persistent, and perhaps as obsessive as I am, wouldn’t take too long to be doing what I am doing…
… I develop my themes, then I experiment with them. I’ve found Midjourney seems to remember my themes, and generally produces the type of imagery I’m going for, but I’ve also found that adding a single new prompt, or a new image for texture, in an attempt to fine-tune my results, can totally stuff up what I had going, and then it seems to lock onto the stuffed-up template, and I literally have to create new ones using the old template, so it can get it’s bearings again…
… on the other hand, Midjourney has often added amazing details I never asked it to add, which I’ve really loved, like with all these Celestial Fae; I’ve never once asked it to add wings!…
… and I loved the fact that it often put them on their heads, which led me to the explanation that Celestial Fae don’t really have ‘wings’, but cosmic energy that humans ‘see’ as wings. So, really, Midjourney prompted me with aspects of these images (:
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