November 20, 2022

 I drew at the Edith Bunker in Albuquerque:

AI variations of the long pose

Drawn on Stipple Paper

AI VARIATIONS

Image plus Midjourney prompt: "in the style of Pontormo"

Initial generation

 plus second variations generation

Fake Pontormo

Image plus Midjourney prompt: "in the style of origami"

I mixed the first two image JPGs in Midjourney

to get the four options in the last image

Palette FM

I am not that excited

with this result

Image plus Midjourney prompt: "designed in Pepakura"

Pepakura Designer software

Image plus Midjourney prompt: "two heads"

Palette FM

Image plus Midjourney prompt: "in the style of Op Art"

Op Art

Image plus Midjourney prompt: "in the style of Roberto Matta"

Roberto Matta

Image plus

 Midjourney prompt: "3D model created in SolidWorks"

Palette FM

SolidWorks software

Image plus Midjourney prompt: "in the style of Hans Bellmer"

Palette FM

Hans Bellmer

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Wrapped Experiment

Since I often try to add energy orbiting around the figure, I used the prompt: "woman wrapped in cords" to get Midjourney to add that kind of surround static around a female figure.

1)  First I just entered the prompt: "woman wrapped in cords" and nothing else, without uploading a figure.  Midjourney always seems to default to a portrait:

Midjourney prompt only

2)  Then I uploaded one of my figures, followed by the prompt: "woman wrapped in cords," and generated the following:

My drawing plus the Midjourney prompt

I liked where this result is going

3)  Then I uploaded my more abstract figure drawing, with more energy, and again the same prompt: "woman wrapped in cords."  I think the results generated had more energy, and thus were a little more successful:

My more abstract drawing

plus the Midjourney prompt

4)  Then I mixed images --my more abstract drawing with the most successful result -- to see if I could generate a figure that was more in my style:

Palette FM

My drawing uploaded

plus a previously generated Midjourney image

from the same drawing

My drawing does influence the Midjourney results, but it would be nice to have a little more personal sway over the image generated.

• Midjourney seems to add the same default woman's head when it can squeeze that in there.  And also the same female proportions.  

• Robert recommends tagging on "--chaos 10" for less variation, or "--chaos 90" for more extreme variations. 

5) I kept reworking it.  I uploaded the previous medicore result adding the same prompt: "woman wrapped in cords," and generated some better images:

Other:

• Monty took a workshop with Randall Sexton