THE INNER LIFE OF THE MYSTIC

[thermoplastic]

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce
I have been in contact with my friend Paulo Cunha who is also on Nightcafe AI, and we were exchanging tips about prompts. I am actually honored that he is using me as the lead artist in his latest prompts. So I took his last 2 pieces and evolved them.
BTW, here is my Nightcafe page Art of the Mystic

TRANSFORMATION TO WEIRDVILLE
Nightcafe AI SDXL 1.0
here I added a second prompt and 'cooked' it at 70%


MEETING OF THE CRYPTID TAXIDERMY LEAGUE
Nightcafe AI SDXL 1.0
a simple evolve at 40%

The prompts I used

^{the first prompt is from Paulo, the socond is mine}PROMPT 1:
cryptid taxidermy people in a primitive structure, style of Otto Rapp, Hieronymus Bosch, Zdzislaw Beksinski, H.R. Giger, Salvador Dali, Art Nouveau, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, oil painting, intricate linework, dynamic lighting, high definition
PROMPT 2:
The Inner Life of the Artist Otto Rapp - his Alternate Reality in Bogomil's Universe; macrocosmic reflection, intricately detailed; Hieronimus Bosch, imperial colors, fantasy, International Gothic, oil painting, mysterious, cryptid taxidermy

And since I was on a roll thereafter, I tried doctoring the prompts - but first, I had 'imported' a prompt from someone on Flickr (who, like me, publishes his prompts) for a abstract acrylic flow image
Acrylic flow prompt:
acrylic pour art, liquitex, cells, cellular marbling, chemical reactions, flat, high contrast, vivid earth-flame color scheme, mix between acrylic molding and thick Impasto paint --ar 12:12 --v 5.1 --no hands, brush, frame, border
The image created with this prompt looked like this (just one example of several):
The next move was to combine the prompts, which is OK to do in SD mode, but SDXL does not work well with multiple prompts, so what I did was use one of the abstract images to evolve in SDXL 1.0, but create a single prompt like this:
acrylic pour art - The Inner Life of the Artist Otto Rapp - his Alternate Reality in Bogomil's Universe; macrocosmic reflection, intricately detailed; Hieronimus Bosch, imperial colors, fantasy, International Gothic, oil painting, mysterious, cryptid taxidermy
this worked good together with the evolve image input, and the first result was this:

POURING IT OVER 1.... and then there came three more

POURING IT OVER 2

POURING IT OVER 3

POURING IT OVER 4

Some more related stuff, at random - all these are 'unpublished'

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And here are a couple of 'Cryptid Taxidermy' Images

using just the simple Nr. 1 prompt





I could be 'milking' these for separate posts, but that is not how I work

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Please note:
Over one month ago, I had been put on a 'time out ban' into the Nightcafe penalty box until November 6th 2023. Until then I can create and edit but not publish or comment. I still can upvote and award tips.
I can't wait for my ban to be over - then I can 'clusterbomb' Nightcafe with pent-up creations - there are already hundreds of them!

My page on Nightcafe: Art of the Mystic
A glimpse of what went on prior to this ban (there were more discussions in the group) - check the comments on this post: GANDALF AND SIAMCAT 6

What this boils down to is this, and perhaps a warning to others:
Nightcafe is largely a Kindergarten, particularly chat groups. Don't communicate and debate with anyone - my fault was to argue with a bunch of 'Karens'

Visit my website
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^{PRINTS OF MY ARTWORK AVAILABLE HERE:}


Bonus Special: BOSCO DREAMING

MY INTRODUCTION - ABOUT MY WORK

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Comments

[carolineschell]

Sehr schöne Farben 😃

[stayoutoftherz]

Brilliant!

[castleberry]

These turned out extraordinarily creepy and surreal! hahahaha Glad to see you getting more active again my friend!

[thermoplastic]

If you check the prompts, the aim is for creepy. And surreal. The majority of users make pretty landscapes, buxom ladies or chibified cuties. A dime a dozen.
There are a couple of users now that use my name as one of the artists in their prompts. Those old standard modifiers are getting stale by now.

[castleberry]

You should try out the free bot in that discord i mentioned in my AI art posts. It is a hybrid bot with a lot of models and different sampler options. It can produce excellent results with minimal prompting... but the better the prompting, even more better are the outputs. I have been pretty busy and not having time to play around with it.

But, i do hear you about the dime a dozen images coming out. I had come across prompts using Gric's name and it made me think of him and you here on Hive. I might have to try using your name in my prompts. hahhaa

I have had some good runs with Brian Froud and Josephine Wall as artists to influence the color and detail in prompts. I often pull up searches of old masters and try them out. It's super cool to fuse these influences together with subject matter they would have never painted organically themselves. hahaha

[mandragora88]

'Different is not always better. But what is better is always different'."

[eve66]

[joss21]

You are an artist, spectacular work, congratulations.

[thermoplastic]