Putting the ART in ARTificial Intelligence 3

castleberry (71)Xenomorphin Alien Art Hive • last year

~ Dreams and Schemes ~

I have many dreams and ideas. Who knows how many of them may come to fruition! Probably not for most of them, if history is anything to learn from. However, that doesn't stop me from Dreaming and Scheming! It really boils down to time and execution. I rarely execute on what i have an intention to do.

But, i do enjoy the process! I have been having fun playing around with the AI bot in Ausbit's discord. I pretty much only use the one bot which i mentioned in my last few posts and you can go check those out for more details if you want.

Otherwise, you can come join Ausbit's Discord and illustrate your imagination via text prompts using the bot with a zillion settings for free by clicking this invitation link.

I highly recommend coming and giving it a try! You can tag me on discord @ castleberry#6859 and i will help you out the best i can.

There are so many ideas, so many possibilities, and so many options... it can be tough to choose a course of action. I find that one creative process leads to many, many other creative processes. It can be quite overwhelming to try and stay on task... assuming i started out with a task.

In trying out different ideas to generate art from, i have found myself learning more about artists from all eras and styles. It's very cool to see the emulations of new creations in those particular disciplines. I have tried some of my favorite artists as well as others more obscure to me. In one way, this has created a deeper appreciation for the old masters of their craft.

I have really enjoyed testing out all the new training models and generating art, sometimes random and other times more honed in on an initial concept. However, the results are usually a compromise for the better on what my intent was originally. Some ideas will take much more time to Dream & Scheme up to an end result that i desire.

_{Happy Accidents}

~ Image & Imagination ~

Some images take a little more imagination to come up with. I have said many times throughout all the AI art posts i've made that this stuff is only limited by your own imagination. You can make some of the weirdest combos and come up with some very interesting results.

Prompt:

meatball jellyfish with bionic spaghetti tentacles floating through the galaxy, UHD, award winning photograph, HR GIGERISM style, backlit, cinematic frame 1024

As an example, i made meatball and spaghetti jellyfish in the image above. It took a few tries to get some cool results, but then i figured some googly eyes would make things a bit more interesting. To my surprise, it also made things a bit more terrifying as well.

Prompt:

meatball jellyfish (with plastic googly eyes) with bionic spaghetti tentacles floating through the galaxy, UHD, award winning photograph, HR GIGERISM style, backlit, cinematic frame 1024

I really enjoyed these meatball and spaghetti jellyfish runs. Some were better than others, and as usual... i only shared a small fraction of the results. Jellyfish generally have some interesting results when they are the images intended to be generated, however, i haven't played around with them as much as i would like... yet.

Prompt:

meatball jellyfish (with plastic googly eyes) with bionic spaghetti tentacles floating through the galaxy, UHD, award winning photograph, HR GIGERISM style, backlit, cinematic frame 1024

Since we have some Star Trek fans in this community i made a couple with William Shatner for your viewing pleasures. One in Star Fleet uniform and one in civilian clothes. hahaha

Prompt:

william shatner (holding giant meatball with plastic googly eyes) with bionic spaghetti tentacles floating through the galaxy, UHD, award winning photograph, HR GIGERISM style, backlit, cinematic frame

Prompt:

william shatner in starfleet uniform (holding giant meatball with plastic googly eyes) with robotic bionic spaghetti tentacles floating through the galaxy, UHD, award winning photograph, HR GIGERISM style, backlit, cinematic frame

I would say those were all pretty successful if having fun was the goal.

_{But Wait There's More!!!}

~ The Fun Never Ends! ~

Sometimes, when i see someone else doing their prompts i will chime in and do some Fun Runs using some of their idea. I usually try to see if i can get a better result than they are looking for. Since i usually have a few more credits than most folks thanks to some of my Hive rewards, i feel like it might be helpful to them. Sometimes, it ends up helping me out more!

I really liked these outputs. They have a very cosmic fantasy look to them! I also enjoy the subtle differences from one run to another. Sometimes they get better, and other times they are better in some regards but have flaws the previous run or runs didn't.

I find it's usually an ebb and flow to getting towards the end results that look best. This is if you are solely depending on prompts and the bot to generate a completed finished work. Eventually, i will hone my Photoshop skills on some of my favorites, or use them as source inspiration for my own handcrafted analog art.

These runs could literally go on forever, doing small tweaks to improve each generation and changing a few details to see how the bot would reimagine the artwork each time. Some combos and prompts bring excellent results immediately.

In fact, i liked these so much i just made two more in a higher resolution now! I hope you enjoy them. Most of these you can click on to see in a higher resolution... but the flaws will also be a bit more noticeable.

The art isn't perfect... but the tradeoff in the time it saves to generate images is pretty incredible. I don't think it would take much time at all to clean up and polish images with just a little bit of editing or digital art skills. It has incentivized me to get more active in upgrading my multi-media art skills.

I tell you, this stuff gets addictive! Especially when you feel like you have some momentum! hahaha Just when you think you are done... it pulls you back in!

_{Can't Get Enough}

~ Controversial Serenity ~

I know this new advancement in technology is not without it's controversies. I have addressed many of these and shared my views on the topic in most of my previous posts. So, that's not what i am going to discuss now. You're welcome! hahahaha

There was a story that broke recently about the Dalai Lama telling a kid to suck his tongue earlier this year. I happened to be using the bot at the time and thought of Pizza gate and the Sleepy Creepy Sniffy Joe and came up with these next couple images. I did quite a few but don't want to get too deep into this disgusting topic.

Prompt:

Dalai Lama sniffing pizza with Joe Biden celebrating (at a childrens pizza party)

I did like how it put Joe in that robe! Hahaha It was also interesting that on all the results, somebody had a piece of pizza... but there was never a visible slice missing from the pie.

Prompt:

Dalai Lama sniffing pizza with Joe Biden celebrating (at a childrens pizza party)

Most of what i try to generate is a bit more Serene and a lot less controversial. Except, a nude portrait run from time to time, which some may find slightly controversial.

I have tried out plenty of other very weird stuff and achieved some pretty interesting and beautiful results, in my opinion. Hopefully, y'all won't disagree.

Prompt:

AI sentiently speaks

Prompt:

steampunk, biomechanical, heart anatomy diagram in UHD, dramatic color, backlit, cinematic lighting, ornate background, [words, letters, text, titles, signature] Brian Froud H R Gigerism style details

I liked this heart enough to do a few more runs on it while making this post. I hope you enjoy the variations in a bit higher quality.

A bit more steampunk inspired art. Note the simplicity of the prompt (even misspelled).

Prompt:

steampunk metoerite [weird hands]

_Fatality

~ Final Forms ~

I also enjoy trying out religous iconography reimagined. Someone recently debated about AI art not being real art and compared the generative arts to the master painter Caravaggio. It inspired me to try some runs using that artist for inspiration. I was not disappointed, though they are definitely not masterpieces of artwork... yet!

The hands on the next one are quite trippy... and the tiny lad in the bosom.

Kind of reminds me of Quatto, from Total Recall!

_{Open Your Mind!}

I have also tried a few eyeballs... but not nearly as much as i intend to here in the near future. These turned out pretty stunning. Though, i will have to get more precise on my prompts with them to get the outcomes i was truly looking for.

Getting the Iris' and Pupils to end up symmetrically was more challenging than i anticipated. But it nailed the macro-photography aspects pretty good. To Be Continued....

Ausbit pointed out that the girl, in the image above, was part of the bed... which ended up being something i overlooked on the original. I just tried to get a better wquality horizontal image of the one above but it kept changing. Ausbit tried to help and it added a second face underneath, but maintaining the original desing in a higher resolution. So, i just cropped it to be what i needed for this post.

How about some organic steampunk jewel encrusted snail creatures for the finish?

These are turning out super cool!

How about a couple more???

Now, in anticlimatic form, i will call this post finished. I am extremely grateful for you all making it this far and sharing the slow journey of experience with me. Maybe that's why it was fitting to finish with the snails. That's about my pace when it comes to making dreams come true.

Fortunately, with you all and the AI bot, maybe it won't always be that way. Please, let me know your favorite images down below in the comments for a bit of extra curation!! Also, if you have any ideas, please feel free to leave them in the comments as well. I would also encourage everyone to go try the bot out for free just to see what you can come up with!

Thanks again for dropping by and until next time....