As promised, this is how the Machine Dolls evolved into synthetic organisms…
… though still the creations of dreaming AI’s, they began to look less and less ‘human’…
… less like ‘androids’…
… and more like synthetic organisms, synthetic organics… so, after I’d done my brief play with alien plants, I decided to revisit these synthetic organisms, and introduce the alien plant influence…
… this was the result… creatures that suddenly became organic-looking, as apposed to synthetic-organic…
As I’ve said, I am totally addicted to Mj (Midjourney), even if it does really irritate me with it’s idiot censorship of my work, and am, literally, producing at least dozens of images a day, often hundreds, so I’m actually far ahead, in evolution of work, of what I’m posting. In my last post I intimated I’d show you how organic-looking the Machine Dolls got, but before that, I want to show you what I’ve done in the last few days. I love the one above, you can see she comes from the Machine Doll lineage, but she’s actually human, not a synthetic creation. This one and the next three, I actually did a bit of work on in Photoshop to get rid of the junk Mj always puts on their faces, I then took them back to Mj, with their lovely, clear faces, and asked it to evolve them… Mj created results that had their faces covered in junk! Grrr! Anyway…
… so this one is only stylistically related to the previous one, but is a totally new direction, one that I really like, it has a kind of fresh simplicity, compared to all the elaborate/ornate Machine Dolls…
… this is the simplest one, but I still really like her. I didn’t spend a lot of time cleaning her up, and could do a whole lot more work on her, but I kinda like the rough, sketchy look…
… I really like these new images, their rawness and simplicity. Getting Mj to evolve them like this will be quite annoying, as it continues to put rubbish on their faces. I wish it didn’t do that, it’s such a random, ugly thing… it produces these gorgeous images and totally ruins them by almost always putting crap on their faces… if you are lucky you can get it putting the crap on symmetrically, so it looks like jewellery, but, really, I’d rather it didn’t do it. The thing is, I’ve also managed to get very long runs where it didn’t do it, so, as I say, totally random.
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?
… 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…
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 (:
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 (:
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 (:
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.
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 (:
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