… places you would expect never to hear the sound of voices…
… places where all you would hear would be the crystal tinkling of mountain stream water flowing over rounded stone, and the wind rustling through autumn leaves…
… until snow fell, and then you would only hear the high keen of that same wind in Winter mode…
Well, it took me about 2 days to get totally bored with making shapes… thought I’d have a go at landscapes…
… it took several hours to start getting results like these, but once I did, I was hooked…
… landscapes have the same potential for stunning imagery that my Machine Dolls did…
… I need to fall in love with my work, in order to put in the hours needed for good results, not just Mj, but my entire life of artistic creation, if I don’t love what I am doing, don’t love the results, I soon lose interest…
… these are pretty gorgeous… far more interesting than shapes/abstract objects…
… and I can see them very quickly leaning toward the fantasial/sci-fi realm of reality (:
As promised, here are some more of my gorgeous Machine Dolls…
… these are the images that Mj/Discord declared to be pornography…
… as you can see, the dolls gradually become less doll-like…
… and more machine-like…
… I had a whole story to go with the progression, but Mj/Discord have made that pointless by preventing me from developing the theme in anything other than a random, irritating way that isn’t how I work…
… I put up with their nonsense for as long as I did because I was still getting good results…
… but the way I was forced to work meant that, beyond a certain stage, I couldn’t further develop my dolls, because Mj/Discord wouldn’t let me take two of these images and combine them, which is how I evolve my iterations, combining the best results to keep getting better results…
… but Mj/Discord forced me to just keep ‘re-rolling’ these results, slightly changing the written prompts to try for evolution of style, but, really, just producing the same result, over and over again…
… which actually got pretty depressing. I managed to evolve them a bit more than this, and will show those images to you soon (:
For most of the few months that I have been on my Mj journey of discovery, I have been making gorgeous portraits…
… my prompts had become very specialised, and I was as close to producing the results I was after as I think I could have gotten, only hamstrung by Mj/Discord’s ludicrously sledgehammer, nuance-blind ‘porn’ filters…
… those shitty filters forced me to abandon what I wanted to pursue, and pursue something, anything else, I was able to pursue, away from the unfair censorship. I chose nice, safe shapes…
… I am now right back at the beginning, again, as far as the efficacy of my prompts goes…
… Mj clearly does not have such an ‘intuitive’ grasp of geometrical/abstract shapes as it has of human beauty…
… so the results, for me, so far, have been very uneven. That’s not to say some of them aren’t quite nice (:
Sadly, I have decided to stop pursuing my beautiful Machine Dolls. This isn’t because I want to stop developing them, but because I am thoroughly sick of Mj/Discord continually accusing me of creating pornography, and blocking me from developing the work it initially allows me to create. I still have lots of gorgeous images of them to show you, but will no longer be creating new ones. Instead, I will be creating shapes…
… nice, safe shapes that Mj/Discord surely cannot find obscene…
… once I got over my genuine disgust at being prevented from pursuing the subject I wanted to pursue, I quickly got into the enjoyment of creating these objects…
… I have nothing at all against this kind of abstract art…
… and am now totally free to develop it in any direction, and as fast as I like doing, without fear of getting sneering/smarmy messages insinuating that I am a pervert, when what I was creating was gorgeous art, not gutter-level sleaze…
… so, thanks, Mj/Discord, for setting me on this new path with your bizarre, wildly inaccurate, blanket censorship that I am sure probably doesn’t stop anyone from actually creating porn, judging by some of the rubbish, created in Mj, that I have seen posted on Flickr…
… so, forward on the journey of abstract shapes it is, then…
… I’m already loving them…
… I’ve only been doing them for a few hours, and see plenty of scope for unhindered iterative development.
My output since I hit my stride with Midjourney (Mj) has been astonishing. Like I’ve said, I have an addictive personality, and am seriously addicted to Mj! The whole time I was posting the ‘Exquisite’ series, which ended with the ‘Machine Dolls’…
… I was evolving those dolls, till they looked something like this…
… I seriously adore these creatures…
… and totally love evolving them to be these gorgeously detailed, richly coloured/textured images…
… the process isn’t without frustration, though…
… as, due to Mj’s puritanical double standards, it allows me to create these images, but doesn’t then allow me to use these same images as prompts, claiming them to be pornography… a judgement that blows my mind. So the only way I can evolve this style, is to continually ‘re-roll’ from my initial prompts that snuck past Mj’s ludicrous ‘porn’ filter…
… so any evolution is extremely incremental, and, really, quite random…
… I actually think the Mj bot understands what results I’m after, but is hamstrung by the Sunday School teachers who wrote it’s filters…
… anyway, believe me, the Machine Dolls get much more sophisticated than this post, which is work from several days ago (:
The ‘Machine Dolls’ are very much like the ‘Baroque Nouveau’ cuties… very stylised/doll-like, which was exactly what I was going for, but these cuties are even more augmented than the ‘Cyber Nouveau’ girls…
… in fact these dolls aren’t even ‘human’ any more…
… they are beings created, by AI’s, in the image of ‘Humans’…
… they have gorgeous, synthetic faces…
… attached to glittering machine cores…
… and encased in precision-moulded alloys, energy fields, and spun diamond.
These ones are a lot more stylised, with a nouveau feel…
… I deliberately went for this doll-like perfection…
… but you can’t use the prompt ‘doll-like’ in Midjourney, because it instantly makes them into creepy, Victorian dolls, with huge eyes, and fat cheeks, like ‘Bride of Chucky’ dolls…
… not what I was going for, at all…
… I was going for unreal perfection…
… in stylised portraits…
… richly detailed…
… with gorgeous colour…
… and I’m fairly satisfied that I achieved that result (:
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