Tag: fantasy

Triptychs

I have been pursuing my winged sweethearts, but deliberately pushing the images toward more abstract ‘wings’… Mj randomly threw out this amazing triptych! Of course, it wouldn’t let me develop this image because it is pure, evil pornography (according to Mj), but I re-rolled the set of images this one was in, and started getting more triptychs, which I was able to develop…

… it wouldn’t let me rework this one, either…

… but I was able to, eventually, get it producing versions like this, with which I could work…

… I have no idea (of course I don’t!) what Mj is thinking when it creates these, I certainly never asked it to start doing triptychs, nor gave it any parameters within which to work…

… but, to me, they all have a cohesive, though illusive, rationality…

… and I think they are gorgeous (:

Porno Angels

I decided to create a ‘punk’ angel. I created the above image and thought ‘gorgeous!’, but when I tried to redevelop this image, Mj shrieked ‘Pornography!!!’ at me in the hysterical manner it does, and wouldn’t let me reuse the image. As I’ve told you several times, this really pisses me off… the above image simply (to me, anyway) is NOT pornography. I could do infinite ‘re-rolls’ of the image, essentially the same image, over and over, with only minor changes, but not incorporate it into a more evolved image. Via a circuitous route, using the original four-image set that this one was first in, and re-rolling that, I was able to start moving forward…

… and create this image. Despite this image being virtually the same as the first one, Mj decided this one wasn’t pornography, and let me reuse it…

… I was off and running, again…

… developing my ‘punk’ angels…

… I took one of those winged punkettes, and gave her the prompt ‘ascending renaissance angel’, and got the above image (:

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 (:

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 (:

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 (: