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June Gallery Update

Flutter and I finally got around to updating the work in our Soho gallery, and in our Venezia gallery (unfortunately Firestorm wouldn’t let me copy SLURL’s when I tried to get them for this post… first time that’s ever happened)…

… the Soho gallery now features 8 of the images from my first ‘Dream Fashion’ post…

… you can now stand in front of them and see them in all their gorgeousness…

… I’ve been so pre-occupied with creating this work…

… I’ve hardly been in SL for months, now…

… the images on the first two floors of the Venezia gallery are some of the ones I created when I first perfected my ‘magic word prompt’ technique…

… they, too…

… look glorious when you can actually stand in front of them.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get the SLURL’s next time I try (:

Dream Fashion II

More gorgeous dream fashion…

… dwellers of surreal realms…

… dressed in the latest…

… dream raiment…

… they walk confidently through these strange worlds…

… accompanied by familiars…

… spirit animals…

… and friendly passers-by (:

Correction…

I realised I was wrong when I said, last post, that my new, magical, single-word prompt had a tendency to produce symmetrical imagery…

… because, looking at these images from when I first started using the magic prompt with my ‘Battle Doll’ images, they initially weren’t symmetrical, just fabulous…

… I realised that what actually happened was the nature of the imagery I kept choosing to rework started off slightly tending toward the symmetrical… I actually love what I call ‘Eccentric Symmetry’, which is basically symmetrical imagery with non-symmetrical objects included, to break the symmetry, while still using symmetry (shuffles feet and looks at ground)… a preference for symmetry, I once read, is an indication of madness…

… I was also going for this illustrative, comic-book/80’s sci-fi cover look, which also lends itself to symmetry/eccentric symmetry…

… but, as I said, initially there was lots of stunning, non-symmetrical imagery…

… and plenty of 80’s sci-fi…

… all of which I adore…

… every now and then, using the same images that have produced predictable results (within the actually unpredictable range I am now working in, because, as I initially said, my ‘magic’ prompt inherently produces unpredictable, or, at least, fairly uncontrollable results) Mj throws out stunningly complete, absolutely perfect images…

… that it just will not repeat, even if I use the same image again, with the magic word…

… the one above being the most amazing one, so far (:

Catch-Up

As I said, last post, I have been creating new work at a phenomenal rate, in Mj, recently, since I perfected a new technique for creating images, which has, in turn, given me a much speeded-up output. It felt like I started this massive output weeks ago, but it was, in fact, only 8 days ago! In that time I have filled folders with work…

… my secret technique’s main distinction is that it loves symmetry, apart from that, the results are almost always stunning, but totally unpredictable, apart from using the images I feed it, combined with my magic word prompt…

… I have found I prefer this illustrative style, rather than the photorealistic results I was going for a while back…

… I am getting pretty good at steering the results with continual re-iteration of preferred, previous results…

… but Mj still, regularly, throws out amazing, totally random results, like the one above, which are truely the AI expressing itself, with just a bit of help from me…

… I then take those results, and fold them back into whatever direction I’m working toward at the time…

… the only name I can think of for the way the results tend to want to go, is ‘comic surrealism’…

… the trick is to get the right balance. As I’ve previously told you, Mj can very easily tip into cloying, clunky, crowded ‘surrealism’…

… but when it works, it’s a beautiful thing (:

Warm Dreams

The cutesy, cartoonish, gothic girls were fun but, if you are familiar with my work, not really my style…

… these gorgeous, surreal dreamers are much more my speed…

… using my secret, single-word prompt, I have seriously hit my stride with Mj…

… in the last few weeks, I have, literally, pumped out hundreds and hundreds of excellent images…

… at such a rate that Mj keeps asking me to prove that I am ‘human’, and not a bot!… this has never happened, before…

… but my new technique, using my single-word, magical prompt, allows me to work extremely fast…

… which fits perfectly with my predilection for iterative work…

… and I can confirm that Mj thrives on a fast, iterative work flow… I have been producing some of the most astonishingly gorgeous work I have ever created since I started playing with this wonderful tool. I am, in fact, far, far ahead of the quality of these images, which are, of course, gorgeous! I will try to quickly bring you up to speed with where I’m currently at (:

Dark Dreams II

Continuing the whimsical, cute goth theme of dreams and nightmares…

… this little thing looks at least as malevolent as her friends…

… and this one is clearly not very worried about her company, more like she’s pondering something…

… and this one looks positively delighted to be where she is…

… this one is most definitely not afraid…

… this one seems kinda surprised… I hope she’s alright in there…

Dark Dreams

My new direction has produced a surfeit of riches… whole unique series have been created in tandem… this is due to the unpredictable nature of the results of my magic prompt word, but it is then easy to ride each new theme, and mine it’s creativity, by recombining similar images. One theme that surfaced was this one, ‘Dark Dreams’, but there were sub-genres within that theme… the ones I’m showing here are some of the ‘cutesy/dark goth girl’ results…

… these iterations were, no doubt, caused by the fact the initial images I used were from my ‘Battle Doll’ series, which are pretty damned cute and doll-like…

… by recombining the results with my magic word, I progressed this particular iterative branch down the ‘dark gothic cutesy dream/nightmare’ path…

… creating these delightfully dark, but not too creepy, images (:

New Direction

I have a secret, one-word prompt, that I invented myself, not long after I started playing with Mj. When I feel I’m just churning out the same stuff, or I’ve hit a creative wall, I take two images from whatever iterations I’m currently working on, and put that magic prompt between them…

… the results are always dramatic, but often dramatically crappy… they have what I feel is a very Mj aesthetic, which, I guess, is kind of surreal, but often in a very cheesy, clunky way… not so when I tried this method with my Battle Dolls!…

… the results were astonishingly beautiful…

… I don’t even know how to categorise them… they are kind of surreal…

… but not really ‘surreal’, probably more ‘psychedelic’…

… whatever they are, they are gorgeous (: