Midjourney -- Version 4

My History on Midjourney

Midjourney came out with Version 4 on November 5th, and it is a quantum leap over what they offered before.

Playlist Best Krrrl Drawings 2022

Midjourney Experiments -- in Version 4

Two Midjourney variations

from an Artbreeder portrait

I followed the advice from the Olivio Sarikas YouTube -- Midjourney V4: Turn YOURSELF into AI Art + Challenge!!!  -- and uploaded a portrait into Midjourney to turn it into a "marble bust sculpture."  I had created the portrait in Artbreeder last year:

August 31, 2021 -- Figure drawings into Architecture

Artbreeder

I started with this fake portrait-that-doesn't-exist,

which I created in Artbreeder last year

Midjourney prompt: "Marble bust sculpture"

Midjourney prompt:  "As a rock star with Metallica"

Perhaps the most amazing innovation is that Midjourney will allow one to mix two images (or more), by uploading the image URLS in the prompt, no text necessary: 

The result of mixing two portrait images

I then uploaded two images of fake Hendrick Goltziuses that I had previously created in Midjourney -- the top two images -- to generate the two bottom images -- as seen in the collage below:

The bottom row

are new images generated in Midjourney Version 4

I repeated the same formula to mix a fake Egon Schiele with a fake Alex Grey:

Then for fun I mixed the two results:

Then I mixed the above result with another fake Goltzius portrait:

Not quite fully rendered

Mixing architecture with old fake Egon Schieles:

A fake Asian drawing with a fake Michelangelo:

Fake Michelangelos

Crossing a chimera skeleton with a hologram cat:

Improved VQGAN+CLIP

Holograms on GDrive

I massaged the result with a depth map

to upload and view as a hologram in the 

Looking Glass Portrait display

I then mixed a fake Jacques-Louis David with one of my altered drawings:

Green Fake Masters

February 16, 2021

A chimera ape with schematic hippos:

AI Art Addiction

I went adventurous and mixed one of my fake drawings, with a transformation of that drawing (into a fake John Everett Millais in "Text 2 Dream" in Deep Dream Generator):

Runway ML -- 3rd "Model" (based on long poses)

500 Fake Krrrl Drawings

Fake KRRRL drawings into Fakes by other famous artists

OTHER Generated IMAGES

Midjourney prompt: "Die cut sticker of a running man"

(second generation)

I uploaded the above Running Man image,

and added the Midjourney prompt: "Marble statue"

Input of the above image

with a fake linocut image

Fake Michelangelos

Input of an architecture image

with a fake Michelangelo image

Midjourney prompt: "Die cut sticker of sleeping man"

February 16, 2021

My AI portraits altered by the 

Midjourney prompt: "Two headed dog"

Mixture of THREE uploaded images,

no text prompt

The results from the new Midjourney Version 4 are so captivating that it is difficult to walk away from the laptop and go to bed.  

 A big thanks to Greebly, who is coaching me in Midjourney.

THOUGHTS

AIKPHRASIS PROJECT

BOMB magazine has an interview with some AI Art heavyweights in  an article posted on October 25, 2022 -- Making the Invisible Visible: K ALLADO-McDOWELL, Derrick Skye, and Refik Anadol in Conversation.  

K Allado-McDowell was part of Holly Grimm's AIKPHRASIS PROJECT in 2020, which I also participated in.  That project was exhibited in Sweden in August 2022:  Sentient Machines? – Group exhibition exploring artificial intelligence and art.

It's very sobering to see how far AI Art has developed in two years.  And that makes the AIKPHRASIS PROJECT all that more significant.

Good AI Images

• Twitter @INFINITEYAY -- 35 Artists Using AI With Under 1000 Followers That You Need To Follow Today
• @memory_bokeh
• @Jun0_kan0

• Graham hardy on Deep Dream Generator