November 1, 2022

The Tuesday Night drawing group of Santa Fe drew both in person and on Zoom at the new Argos Gallery/Studio location. They arranged a hybrid real/virtual drawing session because we are still coming out of Covid.

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Deep Dream Generator (Text 2 Dream)

Petalica Paint

prompt: "Lady with her hands above her head

 in the style of Lawrence Alma-Tadema"

• Check out "lawrence alma tadema" on KREA

• Raye Leith was interviewed for her upcoming show in Colorado -- at the Coors Western Art Exhibit coming in January

Raye Leith interview

for the Coors Western Art Exhibit

AI FAIL

I wanted to use Toonify! by Justin Pinkney (if only because he posted the StyleGan2 model based on my drawings).  So I started with an image of Abraham Lincoln that we generated on Midjourney:

Midjourney

Toonify!

Midjourney prompt: "Abraham Lincoln hanging out with Metallica"

I don't see much Metallica in the MidJourney result, though I can't complain much about the free version conversion in toonify!.

I then uploaded the above two Lincolns to Deep Dream Generator (Text 2 Dream) using the same prompt, and was even less impressed with the results:

Deep Dream Generator (Text 2 Dream)

prompt: Abraham Lincoln hanging out with Metallica"

UNFAIL UPDATE: On November 5th Midjourney released and upgraded version four which gave a lot better results.  Below is a generation by Greebly:

Midjourney prompt: "abraham lincoln playing guitar for metallica"

• dall-ery gall-ery
• DALL-E 2 Prompt Book (online)
• DALL-E 2 Prompt Book (pdf)



• I like the ribbon style drawing of Dante Orpilla