Strange Fruit

If you are familiar with my posts since I started exploring Mj (Midjourney), you will know my absolute favourite subject matter is beautiful woman, the more exotic/fantastic, the better. You will also know that, due to Mj’s ludicrously puritanical porn filters, I was forced to stop developing those beauties who, although never naked, or pornographic, Mj began declaring them as so as soon as I started creating them in half-body because, horrors… you could see that they had breasts beneath all that armour/circuitry/exotic plumage! Mj would allow me to create these creatures, then wouldn’t allow me to reuse them as prompts to further develop the theme/style, claiming them to be NOT SAFE FOR WEB!!!… which, frankly, is bullshit. So I dabbled in landscapes, which were nice, but soon got dull, I dabbled in geometric shapes, but that quickly began to look like ‘Fractal Art’, something I find, mostly, to be… um… dull…

… so now I’m dabbling in ‘Alien Plants’…

… well, I should say ‘dabbled’… I’m already over them…

… they are really gorgeous, and fun to make, and, like with landscapes, I never get accused of creating pornography…

… but you can only create so many of these before the attraction begins to pale…

… and my desire to create my gorgeous, strange girls keeps resurfacing. The last iterations of my ‘Machine Dolls’ had begun to look like organic beings created synthetically by dreaming AI’s, though their ‘organic-ness’ still had a synthetic look. I wondered if I could revisit them, and incorporate these alien plants, somehow? Want to see how that turned out?

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.

More Primordial Valleys

I am continuing to enjoy creating these ancient valleys…

… they are places I would love to visit…

… landscapes lost in time…

… strange and mysterious…

… what will happen next?

The Primordial Valley

Well, it took me about 2 days to get totally bored with making shapes… thought I’d have a go at landscapes…

… it took several hours to start getting results like these, but once I did, I was hooked…

… landscapes have the same potential for stunning imagery that my Machine Dolls did…

… I need to fall in love with my work, in order to put in the hours needed for good results, not just Mj, but my entire life of artistic creation, if I don’t love what I am doing, don’t love the results, I soon lose interest…

… these are pretty gorgeous… far more interesting than shapes/abstract objects…

… and I can see them very quickly leaning toward the fantasial/sci-fi realm of reality (:

M-Dolls

As promised, here are some more of my gorgeous Machine Dolls…

… these are the images that Mj/Discord declared to be pornography…

… as you can see, the dolls gradually become less doll-like…

… and more machine-like…

… I had a whole story to go with the progression, but Mj/Discord have made that pointless by preventing me from developing the theme in anything other than a random, irritating way that isn’t how I work…

… I put up with their nonsense for as long as I did because I was still getting good results…

… but the way I was forced to work meant that, beyond a certain stage, I couldn’t further develop my dolls, because Mj/Discord wouldn’t let me take two of these images and combine them, which is how I evolve my iterations, combining the best results to keep getting better results…

… but Mj/Discord forced me to just keep ‘re-rolling’ these results, slightly changing the written prompts to try for evolution of style, but, really, just producing the same result, over and over again…

… which actually got pretty depressing. I managed to evolve them a bit more than this, and will show those images to you soon (:

The Shapes of Things

For most of the few months that I have been on my Mj journey of discovery, I have been making gorgeous portraits…

… my prompts had become very specialised, and I was as close to producing the results I was after as I think I could have gotten, only hamstrung by Mj/Discord’s ludicrously sledgehammer, nuance-blind ‘porn’ filters…

… those shitty filters forced me to abandon what I wanted to pursue, and pursue something, anything else, I was able to pursue, away from the unfair censorship. I chose nice, safe shapes…

… I am now right back at the beginning, again, as far as the efficacy of my prompts goes…

… Mj clearly does not have such an ‘intuitive’ grasp of geometrical/abstract shapes as it has of human beauty…

… so the results, for me, so far, have been very uneven. That’s not to say some of them aren’t quite nice (:

An End… A Beginning

Sadly, I have decided to stop pursuing my beautiful Machine Dolls. This isn’t because I want to stop developing them, but because I am thoroughly sick of Mj/Discord continually accusing me of creating pornography, and blocking me from developing the work it initially allows me to create. I still have lots of gorgeous images of them to show you, but will no longer be creating new ones. Instead, I will be creating shapes…

… nice, safe shapes that Mj/Discord surely cannot find obscene…

… once I got over my genuine disgust at being prevented from pursuing the subject I wanted to pursue, I quickly got into the enjoyment of creating these objects…

… I have nothing at all against this kind of abstract art…

… and am now totally free to develop it in any direction, and as fast as I like doing, without fear of getting sneering/smarmy messages insinuating that I am a pervert, when what I was creating was gorgeous art, not gutter-level sleaze…

… so, thanks, Mj/Discord, for setting me on this new path with your bizarre, wildly inaccurate, blanket censorship that I am sure probably doesn’t stop anyone from actually creating porn, judging by some of the rubbish, created in Mj, that I have seen posted on Flickr…

… so, forward on the journey of abstract shapes it is, then…

… I’m already loving them…

… I’ve only been doing them for a few hours, and see plenty of scope for unhindered iterative development.

Machine Dolls Evolved

My output since I hit my stride with Midjourney (Mj) has been astonishing. Like I’ve said, I have an addictive personality, and am seriously addicted to Mj! The whole time I was posting the ‘Exquisite’ series, which ended with the ‘Machine Dolls’…

… I was evolving those dolls, till they looked something like this…

… I seriously adore these creatures…

… and totally love evolving them to be these gorgeously detailed, richly coloured/textured images…

… the process isn’t without frustration, though…

… as, due to Mj’s puritanical double standards, it allows me to create these images, but doesn’t then allow me to use these same images as prompts, claiming them to be pornography… a judgement that blows my mind. So the only way I can evolve this style, is to continually ‘re-roll’ from my initial prompts that snuck past Mj’s ludicrous ‘porn’ filter…

… so any evolution is extremely incremental, and, really, quite random…

… I actually think the Mj bot understands what results I’m after, but is hamstrung by the Sunday School teachers who wrote it’s filters…

… anyway, believe me, the Machine Dolls get much more sophisticated than this post, which is work from several days ago (:

Exquisite: Machine Dolls

The ‘Machine Dolls’ are very much like the ‘Baroque Nouveau’ cuties… very stylised/doll-like, which was exactly what I was going for, but these cuties are even more augmented than the ‘Cyber Nouveau’ girls…