Monday 24 October 2022

Fake Robert Williams

I transformed some of the figures I drew last year into Fake Robert Williams using the "Text 2 Dream" option of Deep Dream Generator:







The base image is a collaboration
between John Tollett and I

  • I took more liberties by editing the results a bit in Photoshop Elements, creating transparent backgrounds and outlining the figures (Layer>Layer Style>Style Settings...>stroke)





























The image below was based on the first image posted on this blog, outpainted in DALL-E 2:

prompt: "Background in the style of Robert Williams"


After outpainting with DALL-E 2, I uploaded that whole scene into the "Text 2 Dream" option in Deep Dream Generator and generated the Fake Robert Williams scenario below:



I think the colored images transformed into better Fake Robert Williams, but I wanted to see what would happen starting with a regular pencil drawing:





Lexica (Robert Williams search)
Similar, but...


NOTES



  • The Robert Williams documentary -- "Mr Bitchin" -- is on YouTube.
  • He grew up in Albuquerque
  • RK Sloane is similar and also from Albuquerque
  • Joe Turner is a young artist from Albuquerque with a similar style

THOUGHTS

While these Fake Robert Williams images obeyed the composition of the drawing I uploaded as a template, the results bore little resemblance to my drawings.  Less resemble than the Michelangelo and Egon Schiele transformations.

Moreover I think the colored images yielded more successful results, more than the monochrome pencil drawings.

I'm craving a more powerful AI.  Actually I really want more control over the AI, which is what Deep Dream Generator is giving me. Their "Text 2 Dream" option obeys my bad figure drawings the best, whereas Midjourney pretty much ignores any image I upload.

However I don't mind a few surprises.  I believe the job of art is to show me something that does not exist, rather than just render something I already know, like taking a photograph.  Nevertheless, I would like to steer my AI generations into something more meaningful.


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