Tag: fantasy

Medieval Thoughts

Our Boschian iterations morphed into the above style…

… while you can still see their Boschian roots, these images are far more stylised, almost like Art Nouveau panels…

… and the colours are more like Maxfield Parrish than Hieronymus Bosch…

… the stories are more Edgar Allen Poe/H P Lovecraft than Medieval morality message, the images are more balanced and designerly, which is how we like it (:

Full Bosch

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 (:

Postmodern Boschianism

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 (:

Boschettes

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.

Walkers

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 (:

Dream-Machine Play

After our last post, where we had just tried Night Cafe, our friend Fau, who is the person who first introduced us to Mj, contacted us and said we should try Dream-Machine, which we’d never even heard of, she said we’d love it… she wasn’t wrong! Dream-Machine hooked us straight away, simply because you get to generate at least 50 images (we weren’t actually counting, but it was at least that) before you have to start paying. Then, when you do have to pay, it, also, is way cheaper than Mj. We used our cutie-on-a-frog prompt here, too…

… then we tried alien babes! The ease of creation, and the quality of the results is fabulous…

… we did lots of froggy babes! Like Night Cafe, Dream-Machine doesn’t have the puritanical aversion to beautiful female anatomy that Mj has, and it totally shows in the ease (and no screeching about NSFW!!!) with which we were able to create this fabulous, Vallejo-esqe sweetheart frog rider… the frog is gorgeous, too, as is the whole scene…

… the ease of creating wonderful, cohesive images is stunning…

… we are blown away with Dream-Machine! We aren’t quite over Mj, yet, as they all have their own strengths, but we really get the feeling that Mj just isn’t designed for the kind of images we like to create… it’s probably best suited for doing images of religious heroes… just kidding, it’s wonderful for nice, middle-of-the-road, ‘safe’ stuff…

… but we are pretty sure it simply couldn’t create the above image and, if it did, it wouldn’t let you use it again because, well… hot, muscular babe! (and she’s convincingly holding a sword!) Mj would also totally blow the background of this awesome image. So… go and give Dream-Machine a try!