My first post in Alien Art Hive! This is my AI art

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Hi everyone! I'm not new to Hive but I am new to this community so I figured I'd say hello with a quick intro. I recently came across Alien Art Hive through @derangedvisions posts and liked what I saw! My name is Tristan and I'm traditionally a landscape photographer. However... I'm also a huge nerd and I find the potential of AI to be quite fascinating, even while simultaneously worrying about the potential downsides.

I have a lot of love for sci-fi and fantasy, which bleeds into my photography a little bit. With AI art I've found that I can really go crazy with those influences - the only limit is what I can think of. I've always been terrible at drawing and painting so it's incredible to be able to have tools like Midjourney to bring things from my imagination to life. I fully believe that image synthesis is doing for digital art what smartphones did for photography.

Will there be a cost for that? I believe so, but that's a rabbit hole and not the point of this post :)

Below are five images I've created using Midjourney, Photoshop and Topaz. My typical process is to create a prompt around an idea that I think might look cool and then come up with a story or 'world' for it. After that I use additional prompts to generate more images to blend into the base image, such as characters, backgrounds, lights and so on. I find I don't really get much out of choosing a prompt and calling it a day. The real fun for me is in the final part: blending everything together and applying my own edits like I would to my photographs.


The Seeker

The story: A John Wick type character living in a cyberpunk future, hunting down the people that have hurt her.


Android Dreams

The story: A lonely robot and his companion look out over a futuristic city from a rooftop.


The Frost Keep

The story: A group of wizards locks away a powerful demon in a timeless prison of ice.


Sandstorm

The story: A Mars-like planet with two suns. Strong winds constantly blow around the planet, kicking up sand and triggering static discharges.


Hubris

The story: Humanity became too greedy. The gods saw no choice but to step in.


I hope you enjoyed viewing these AI images. I'm not really sure what to do with them, but I really enjoy creating them whenever I get the itch. Let me know which one is your favorite!

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Welcome to the community, these are awesome!

Thanks for the welcome, glad you like them :D

excellent work and good idea to connect your artwork with stories

Thanks! That is an important part of the process for me. I would do the same if I were a painter I think!

You got some great compositions! I'm glad you shared your process of not just running a prompt but putting some personal artistic touches in the artwork as well. Glad to see you here in the community!

Thanks man! I find I cannot really connect with the result if I don't take the time to put my own touch into it.

Definitely! I have done many runs trying to get something particular and even when i get excellent generative images it's still not enough of what i wanted or i can feel it's missing that little piece of me in it's soul. So, i like to think of it as a tool more than a means to an end.

Agreed, the true strength of AI will be its use as a tool I think!

It's going to revolutionize gaming design and graphics design. They are already training models to make sprites and have them animated with a few clicks. Something that would have taken quite a long while to do manually. I'm excited to see how this tool will be further developed and implemented as time goes on. The progress in the last year alone has been break-neck speed!

Wow, The Last One is Magnificent - I wouldn't have thought it was an AI-Generated Artwork but Your Touch makes it really stand out.

I sure enjoyed viewing them, as well as stories/prompts behind them. That lonely robot is not so lonely if he has a companion 😉

Glad you enjoyed!

For some reason it was important to me that the robot be lonely, despite having a companion lol.

Haha 😂 Your art = your rules! 💙

Epic. So cool what you can do.

I can't imagine how powerful these tools will be in a few years.

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