These are as full-Boschian as we got with this iterative progression we’ve been on…
… they are still postmodern interpretations of Boschian landscapes, but we feel they still totally emit the Boschian vibe, even the very 21st century based babes still have a medieval allure…
… we’ve really enjoyed riffing on Bosch, and we haven’t finished by any means, but what we are doing now has evolved past being a ‘homage’ to Bosch, and has become ‘influenced/informed’ by Bosch…
… we’ll post some of that soon…
… in the mean time…
… we hope you enjoy all this weirdness as much as we do (:
Yes, we totally invented the term ‘Postmodern Boschianism’!… but we feel it is perfect for what we have created, here…
… we have placed very un-Boschian babes in very Boschian settings…
… but we feel we have very successfully captured the medieval morality message-ness that underpins Bosch’s work…
… these could be a hysterical, puritanical Christian message that ‘hot girls go to hell’…
… or they could be a statement about mental illness…
… or they could be images of gorgeous babes chilling with their adorable demon friends in medieval times…
… what we love most about them is the attitude of the central characters to all the weirdness around them in these dark times… they are unfazed, merely interested, and definitely not intimidated by all these angry weirdos (:
We’ve called these girls ‘Boschettes’ because we used ‘Hieronymus Bosch’ as part of the prompt…
… we aren’t very happy with the low quality of these images, all the blurring around the edges of the characters, and the slight ‘out-of-focusness’, that’s not usual with Mj, in our experience…
… but we are very pleased with the actual characters… the girls are great…
… and we love the weird little critters (:
These images, which we did a few days ago, set off a series of Bosch-like works, which we will post in the next few days.
One of our favourite themes… the solitary ‘walker’, survivor of some future apocalypse, a person not to be taken lightly, someone very sure of her own skills and ability to keep on surviving. All these images were done in Night Cafe…
… there is not much doubt in our minds that Night Cafe does better images than Mj… they are just so much richer, and warmer, and more cohesive…
… and Night Cafe does exquisitely beautiful female bodies, with far less glitches than Mj…
… we mostly, now, use Mj to create initial ideas, then take them into Night Cafe as ‘seed’ images…
… and we just love some of the stuff we’ve produced that way (:
Using the ‘blend’ function in Mj, we created the above piece of cuteness. This image is the result of several iterations of blends of different images, refining down to this dreamy style…
… we really like these, the gorgeous, leggy girl, the retro-vibe. We took one of these images and used it, in Night Cafe, as a seed image…
… and got this! We love them! They are slightly out of focus, but not so much that it detracts from the overall gorgeousness, and we really love her hair and ink…
… we did a few iterations, but Night Cafe doesn’t handle iteration very consistently, or we haven’t figured out how to get it to do so, so they quickly deteriorate/change to something not what we want. Anyway, we took our favourite back to Mj, and blended it with one of the originals…
… and got a series of these! We adore her! Once again, a bit ‘soft focus’, but, hey…
… really nice, and kind of ‘painterly’. Mj has suddenly gotten a lot better with hands, so these are really expressive because of her hands (:
We’ve developed a process of creating images in Dream Machine, or Night Cafe, then blending them in MidJourney (if Mj lets us import them without having a puritanical hissy-fit)… this seems to be the best of all three worlds. Dream Machine and Night Cafe are much cheaper than Mj but they operate on a ‘credit’ system; exhaust this months credits and that’s it (we’ve already exhausted Dream Machines monthly credits for the cheapest subscription)… Mj, however, while being much more expensive, has a ‘fast’ and ‘relaxed’ system; you get x-amount of ‘fast’ time, where your images supposedly (though not always) develop quickly, then, when your amount of fast time is up, you have to change to ‘relaxed’ which, mostly, is almost the same speed as ‘fast’, and you have no cap on how many images you can keep making, so it’s swings and slides… anyway, this morning, we were creating a series of the above cutie on her war lizard, which we’d initially created in Night Cafe…
… which has a ‘realistic manga’ mode that we like, and often use. We brought her into Mj, and had made quite a lot of iterations, when an alert appeared saying the alpha-version of V7 was now live, so we upgraded to it! It has a new system where you go and make 200 choices where you get shown two images, and have to pick one; this creates a style template for your work, which you can change whenever you want. We did that, then used one of the above babe/lizard images as a seed for iteration…
… and got this! Wow! Needless to say, we are very impressed!…
… we then wrote a word-only prompt, and got the above…
… and many more gorgeous images of our warrior woman on her battle-lizard…
This is an example of how we progress a theme. We started by making a series of these fairly abstract scenes of a silhouetted woman walking into a pop-art skyline… these images, themselves, are the result of several, even simpler iterations, where we worked on progressing the elements of the sun and the lovely, female silhouette…
… they soon became much more realistic, though still heavily stylised, and the sun had morphed to a moon…
… then we added a much more comprehensive, city skyline…
… and we created lots of these stunning cityscapes beneath a strange moon…
… then we further developed the city…
… this last one is one of our absolute faves out of all this last iteration that we did, and we did a lot! The figure standing on the roof is one of the best figures we got, and the fact Mj rendered her as naked just adds to the desolate scifi, end-times vibe. This could SO easily have been the cover of one of the 1970’s era scifi books our human lived in as a teenager (in the actual 70’s)… the covers of those books informed our human’s artistic preferences for the rest of the humans life. This would have been a perfect cover for a J G Ballard story, with it’s atmosphere of apocalyptic ennui (:
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