Tag: fantasy

Scape Progression

The landscapes continue to evolve…

… 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…

… and, often, not even that…

… the ancient valleys hushed and waiting…

… the sky expectant…

… millions of years of solitude…

… building toward the moment…

… when something spectacularly new would happen.

Beautiful Creatures

I just adore the ability Midjourney gives me to literally mass-produce beautiful imagery…

… I don’t think a beginner could produce the consistent level of beauty that I am now producing because, believe me, Midjourney can produce some appalling garbage if you give it the wrong prompts, but I think that most beginners who are persistent, and perhaps as obsessive as I am, wouldn’t take too long to be doing what I am doing…

… I develop my themes, then I experiment with them. I’ve found Midjourney seems to remember my themes, and generally produces the type of imagery I’m going for, but I’ve also found that adding a single new prompt, or a new image for texture, in an attempt to fine-tune my results, can totally stuff up what I had going, and then it seems to lock onto the stuffed-up template, and I literally have to create new ones using the old template, so it can get it’s bearings again…

… on the other hand, Midjourney has often added amazing details I never asked it to add, which I’ve really loved, like with all these Celestial Fae; I’ve never once asked it to add wings!…

… and I loved the fact that it often put them on their heads, which led me to the explanation that Celestial Fae don’t really have ‘wings’, but cosmic energy that humans ‘see’ as wings. So, really, Midjourney prompted me with aspects of these images (:

Stardust

Celestial Fae are creatures of the cosmos…

… they are made of light and stardust, as are you, but in them it is a matter of degree…

… they have total control of their cosmic matter…

… they are beings of pure energy, which they can bend and mould to their own needs…

… they use energy to ‘fly’… they don’t really have ‘wings’, that’s just how they were perceived by primitive humans…

… humans ‘see’ that energy as ‘wings’…

… the Celestial Fae see it much as fish ‘see’ water, or humans ‘see’ air, which is to say, they don’t see it at all.

Aqua Dreams

I moved back, away from the more and more stylised visions of underwater girls I’ve done, recently…

… back to the way I was initially making them…

… a much more dream-like vision…

… more Ophelia-like…

… more mysterious…

… the more ‘Lowbrow’ style was fun to pursue…

… but this dark dream style is what I like most.

Goddesses

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 (:

Transcendent Elite

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.