Technique Breakthrough

I have made a technique breakthrough that I think is a game-changer for my Mj (Midjourney) work…

… I decided to see what would happen if I paired portraits I’d created in Mj with my own textures (I’ve been making my own textures in Photoshop for over a decade)…

… these are the results! Gorgeous, painterly images…

… I’m really, really excited with this development. When you add a texture image to, in my case, a portrait image…

… Mj doesn’t just put it in the background, it puts it everywhere, in these cases, due to the textures I’ve used, it has created brush-like strokes…

… I asked it for ‘soft side lighting’, and gave it my textures to work with, and it has done a stunning job of softening everything, and producing gorgeous lighting…

… it also started creating these beautiful, pixie-like faces, somehow based on the textures, because none of my original portraits looked this adorable…

… but I’m simply blown away by these wonderful, dreamy, moody images… I make a point of never asking Mj to mimic anyone else’s style, I don’t even stipulate things like ‘painterly’, I just beaver away trying to create my own style… this is really close to what that style has always looked like in my mind…