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.
Gorgeous space angels…
… barely-clad in the latest nano-tech fashion…
… breathlessly eager to take on the universe…
… and all she holds (:
I thought I’d do some classic scifi images…
… like the ones that would have been on book covers in the 80’s…
… fabulous future girls…
… adrift in strange worlds and events.
My blazing sun goddesses turned into more general, elemental goddesses…
… mythical/mystical creatures who channel the powers of the natural world…
… elemental beings who exist between the worlds…
… as well as in them.
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 (:
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.
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 (:
Midjourney loves surreality, it’s default preference seems to be for the bizarre. Just as it takes practice to get it to produce beautiful cyber-goth courtesans, it takes practice to get it to produce genuinely surreal, as apposed to just plain weird, imagery…
… but I found it well worth persevering with…
… and began producing these gorgeous, surreal, under-water dream scenes…
… you can see elements of my transcendent cyber-elites in these beautiful images…
… I love the ‘painterly’ feel of these works…
… I don’t use any ‘in the style of…’ prompts for my Midjourney work, I did when I first started playing with it, but I soon got bored with the ‘paint-by-numbers’ feel of the results. As these images show, you can achieve very satisfying results, developing your own Midjourney ‘style’.
After they have lived for a thousand years or so, the bodies of the Elite begin to succumb to entropy that no amount of bio-engineering can fix, more and more mutation effects them. They start to replace their decaying body parts with cybernetic parts…
… they begin to look less and less like humans, and more and more like machines…
… as another thousand years go by, their organic minds subtly change… even though they are still the minds of humans, they are no-longer human, they are transcendent. They begin to embrace their transcendence…
… turning themselves into gorgeous, humanoid art forms…
… and though vanity makes them keep a human visage…
… they are no longer human.
Midjourney is an iterative process. If you were familiar with my digital art before I discovered Midjourney, you will know that ‘iterative’ could have been my middle name… for that reason, I just love this learning process. I have slowly settled on creating these magnificently-attired dwellers from some dark, far-future feudal realm…
… courtiers and courtesans, and the elites they serve. This latest version of Midjourney excels in producing gorgeous attire for such beings as these…
… and, yesterday, I discovered how to put more than one of these creatures in an image…
… the different clans are, of course, attired in different raiment, giving scope for all kinds of fabulous permutations…
… the problem I now have is choosing my favourites… I have literally produced hundreds of variations on this theme. I just continue to be blown away by how this latest version renders/imagines this kind of sumptuous/exotic clothing…
… not to mention how it now does hair and faces. As with my last post, I have done zero post-production on any of these images… they have some small imperfections, but, on the whole, they are near-perfect.
