I thought it would a good idea to get my digital AI artwork compiled in one post instead a few spread in a week. If I can do that once a week, that would be already a great achievement.
Why am I so proud about something I didnt make? This is so unfair, for the first time in my life, I am satisfied with something I created, and I didn't really do it, AI did it!
It's such a strange sensation, because I cannot help but being in awe, appreciating the result for what it is, I know that it's a succession of randomness that led me to the result, I was the mere curator, but I still feel an immense sense of pride about them.
I am almost ashamed to admit how these 2 above were born, I was trying to make a hybrid god wolf out of an existing person, and it resulted in variations after variations, up until I got those 2 portraits that I upscaled to the max, they represent my totem, the wolf, and my wife totem, the lioness.
I've been thinking of a similar tattoo for a long time, I wonder if a decent ink dude could do it.
Anyway, there's a moment when you reach a certain point in your artwork, when you know you got what you need, and it's time to stop spinning the wheel.
If you carry on working on it, you can risk to make it worse very quickly.
This is the second rendition of my Babel Space Harbour, and I really love it. There is something magical in the first renditions I did with Midjourney, now after knowing the "language", I tend to overcomplicate, with lenses, unreal engine, and all sort of "key word" that are supposed to shape the artwork, but in all truth, sometimes it's just plain magic and you're lucky to have an awesome result. It's all about having the eye for it, and following what you are "attracted to".
This is "Soul Mates", pretty self explanatory.
But still to give a little bit of background for "Soul Mates", it was probably one of the first "successful" AI art, and by this I mean something that I was satisfied with?
Everybody that has given it a try, whether it's Midjourney, Dall E or Night Cafe, there will always be misfired work, bound to be deleted to disappear into the creative abyss.
This was the first time that I thought "Oh, that's exactly what I had in mind", knowing that you eventually get into a "symbiosis mode" with the AI, meaning that you start speaking the same language.
For me, I am more succeful with Midjourney. But I've seen people mastering Dalle E and Night Café to another level, so it's just really about which tool get you to your creative destination.
I did the same thing with DAWs, I was drawn to Cubase 15 years ago, and never looked back. Is Cubase the best DAW out there?
I don't know, they're all pretty much serving the same purpose, so I guess it's all about the artist that gets a hand on it.
Anyway, fascinating piece, and the prompt wasn't overly complex, just the right amount of poetry.
I haven't given a name to this one yet, if I could summarise, there is 15% Lord Of The Ring, 20% Tree of Life, Add some cinematic lighting, keep the focus on the tree, turn around tree times (haha pun intended) and shout "Amen".
This is one of the case, when the absurdity of the interpretation of the prompt becomes borderline genius work. Don't misunderstand me, I am not the genius, the AI is. I am just "the director".
I wanted some sort of Touareg Ninja in a wasteland, a horse was involved, but after each variations, it started turning into one of the horseman of the apocalypse, and I applauded the creative input from the AI, just wonderful to witness, seeing the blurry paste come into form, just a jaw dropping process.
Yes, he has a katana with him, looking so bad ass.
Every 2 days, I post my "work" on Instagram, there is actually a decent community and I've seen some serious legit art, now some guys start animating their own work, you can just feel the direction, the sentiment, always something new to check.
I posted this one yesterday, I called it "Portal", I had in mind a character passing through realities, there's also a bit of Saitama in it, and of course, Dr Strange.
This piece up there got generated through an image source of mine, the one where I am standing with the sunset and my guitar.
After a bunch of attempts, I could feel that the weight of the image wasn't strong enough, so after misfiring a few shots, I fiinally got something interesting, it reminds me of heaven, maybe I'll carry on developping this one a bit more, or deleting a part of it and adding some more, which is also something you can do! Just wonderful!
I also was playing around the notion of portal but on the physical realm, how a medieval portal would look like, in a green forest with cinematic fog.
Notice the vegetation climbing to the top of the tower 😙 👌
This is one of those, that I don't know if it's done yet. Maybe I want more light coming from the portal.
A different take on my God Wolf obsession, I think the AI did something interesting with the head kind of in a shape of a tree but still very wolflike, it reminds me of Arcimboldo. There's another wolf hidden in the picture, can you figure out where?
When I obsess with an idea, I waste all my time and credit until I get the result I wanted.
This is a zombie samurai genre, that will probably take off in the next few years, once I figure out a title hahah.
Joke aside, it was generated for my idea for a comic called Dead Punch, and now I am thinking of a second character in the franchise, a samurai that goes back to his sensei only to discover that all the disciples are now undead, he has to face them all, and his sensei too.
This is called *Apocalypse Rooftop Farmers" or just "Rooftop Farmers", not sure yet. It was inspired by a game I regularly play called Project Zomboid, I got 1500 hours logged in 🤣.
The people you see on the top of the roof, they are dressed up with soldier clothes. It' hard to tell from that far.
They're growing tomatoes.
And finally, my male or female cyborg warrior wide with high saturation, looking all menacing but still something very solemnel about it, almost crusade like.
I can't add more on this last one, so it probably means that it reached its artistic destination, and it's complete. Maybe a burning land behind her but it would take away some of the focus.
What's your favorite?
Ed
