Aqua Dreams

I moved back, away from the more and more stylised visions of underwater girls I’ve done, recently…

… back to the way I was initially making them…

… a much more dream-like vision…

… more Ophelia-like…

… more mysterious…

… the more ‘Lowbrow’ style was fun to pursue…

… but this dark dream style is what I like most.

UnderWater Girls

I found myself creating more gorgeous underwater girls…

… I’m really pleased with the lowbrow look of these works…

… the beautiful weirdness…

… whereas my earlier underwater girls were dreamers in an aquatic dream…

… these girls aren’t dreaming…

… they are beautiful creatures, totally in their element.

Goddesses

My flaming beauties evolved into sun goddesses…

… magnificent creatures…

… who embody the power of the sun…

… not just in a literal sense…

… but in the actual sense…

… of being living vessels of flame, who cannot be consumed by flame. Understandably these beings are treated with considerable respect (:

Flaming Beauty

Sticking with ‘elemental’ themes, I moved from water to fire for these images…

… interestingly, it was much harder to achieve results I liked using this theme, than it was to create underwater dream girls… the AI seems to grasp the concept that one can ‘dream’ of being underwater, but not dream of being on fire, it’s very good, however, at creating burning nightmarish images. It’s all a matter of finding the best ‘prompts’, which basically means finding the best written description that it can ‘understand’. I don’t for a moment think the AI ‘understands’ anything, in fact, spending so much time creating Midjourney imagery that represents what I want it to has taught me it definitely does not ‘understand’ anything. The trick is to lead the AI’s zero comprehension toward the realisation of my intent…

… so while I’m getting there with these flaming beauties, I’ll need to do more work on them before I feel I’ve achieved what I really wanted to achieve.

Corrective Lenses

I decided to try for a more ‘Lowbrow’ look with my underwater dream girls…

… and am very happy with the results, considering I didn’t once use the term in my prompts…

… once again, I think these images are really beautiful. As always, they are the results of producing literally hundreds of iterations to get a handful of images that stand alone without needing any post-processing in Photoshop…

… the one above could be tidied up a bit, but I think it’s pretty gorgeous as it is…

… I started dialing up the weirdness…

… because I love gorgeous weirdness (: