Tag: PhotoshopCS5.1

Condensed Catchup

Once again, we are running way ahead of our posts, with our progress, so here’s a condensed catchup! We have found that the ‘blend’ option in MidJourney often rewards brave (seemingly incompatible) blends, with stunning, unexpected results. We got the above image (and a whole series of them) by blending one of our scifi babes from a year or so ago, with one of our recent spaceship images… we’d hoped it would put her in the foreground, ship in the background, instead it did this, which was entirely unexpected, but we can see how it came up with it, based on the two images used…

… although the babe we used wasn’t aquatic at all, she had very fluid lines and colours, and you can see Mj has turned the spaceships into fish-like objects, and has used the amazing lighting from the spaceship images to light these gorgeous, underwater scenes of weirdness…

… we often develop similar scenes in tandem. Above is one of a whole series we did of spectacularly panoramic beach scenes with spaceships in them, we were doing these at the same time we were doing the even more dramatic spaceship scenes…

… we really liked them, but felt the ones we posted were slightly more interesting…

… this is what happened when we blended some of the top two images with some of the panoramic spaceship images! We couldn’t believe our luck! We didn’t know what to expect, but totally didn’t expect anything this beautiful…

… these are just the tip of the iceberg of what we have done using this theme. Although capital ‘A’ art oiks would disagree, we think these are the closest thing to ‘art’ we have ever produced, using Mj (:

Stranger Ships

We continue to beaver away at our strange ships…

… we are very pleased with our progress…

… we’ve managed to keep the grand scale, and dynamic perspective…

… bet have seriously advanced the unique alien-ness of our strange ships…

… and we love the wonderful atmosphere of these images… they’d make awesome scifi book covers (:

Strange Ships

It’s very hard to get any of the AI programs to create interesting spaceships…

… they all want to create cheesy, clunky, cliched, starwars-type airplanes-in-space, Flash Gordon type things…

… it took us days of creating, then blending, then re-blending to get these…

… but they are definitely what we were after, or at least much more like it, especially the scale and atmosphere (:

J G Ballard’s Ghost

We’ve recently been posting images we made several days ago, in the order that we’ve been making them (we are about 5 days ahead of what we are currently posting), but we liked these images so much (we made them this morning) we’ve decided they can jump the cue. While we were making them we decided they were the illustrations for an imaginary J G Ballard story we started developing in our head, in tandem with creating these…

… in this story several rich woman, gathered on a sprawling estate, and wanting for nothing, but never happy…

… decide to kill their fat-cat husbands, and live without men…

… we never know if this is a local event, or part of some world-wide societal collapse…

… but, in a very short time…

… these woman are eating their dead husbands, and worshipping the forest and the lakes. In a few years they will all be carrying home-made weapons, and dressed in animal skins, and hunting men…

… if you are familiar with J G Ballard, you’ll know that, although he didn’t write this story, he used most of these elements in various stories he did write. There is often a lot of water in Ballards stories, and societal decadence/collapse.

Gothic Romp

This series is several steps removed from ‘Blue Gossamer’, but clearly utilises the filmy, translucent drapings…

… we love the wonderful elements…

… the stunning, flame-haired young woman, her Victorian heart just bursting with unrequited passions she barely comprehends…

… romping heedlessly through a moonlit, foggy old boneyard, hoping desperately for some kind of fulfilment… but doomed to marry Cecil, a very successful accountant friend of her papa’s.

Gossamer Green

These are the more or less direct transmission of theme from our last images…

… we’ve still kept the gorgeous, stylised, Art Nouveau poster look…

… while bringing the theme firmly away from the last vestiges of Boschian weirdness…

… and into lovely Nouveau sweetness…

… while also managing to keep the luscious palette from the Boschian fantasy, but adding the wonderful, green gossamer gowns (:

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 (: