Transcendence

It’s always there…

… just through the swirling veil…

… all you need to do…

… is focus your mind, slip through the veil…

… and you’re home.

New Style

My friend Fau recently introduced me to the 16:9 aspect ratio in Mj…

… this is, basically, classic ‘landscape’ format, which has always been a favourite format of mine, but this is the first time I’ve experimented with changing the format in Mj…

… I’m having to readjust to this format, from working on the basically square format I’ve used ever since I started playing with Mj, but I’m loving it…

… the other aspect of my new style is, well, the style…

… I have been attempting to chronologically show my development in Mj, with all my previous posts, meticulously posting new work in the order I have created it…

… but I have been on such a creative roll, these last few weeks, and have literally created hundreds and hundreds of images, most of them good, a lot of them amazing…

… that the gap between my current work, and the latest chronologically posted update, is now far too big, and rapidly getting bigger…

… so I just thought, fluff it, I’ll jump to my latest work, which is why it looks so different, yet, really, still obviously a development of my style. The new format, however, I feel, has dramatically added to the new look (:

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 III

I am really enjoying pursuing this theme…

… creating fantasy fashion…

… with a surreal backdrop…

… dream attire…

… for the realm of dreams…

… beautiful dreamers…

… in very strange places.

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 (:

Dream Fashion

The surreal world…

… I create…

… is filled…

… with fabulously attired…

… dream…

… babes (:

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 (: