After reading 
At first, I thought typography was boring thing to make with AI and felt uninspired. But then, an idea struck me. I’ve always been fascinated by the unreadable typography often seen in black metal band logos (is there a specific term for that?). So, I decided to replicate that aesthetic using Stable Diffusion XL, which I run locally. I had installed ComfyUI a few months ago but hadn’t found the inspiration to use it until now. This daily prompts challenge was exactly what I needed to get started. I generated around a hundred variations of unreadable text and selected a few images that stood out to me. From those, I created GIFs.
For some reason, this aesthetic really resonated with me. It even inspired me to dive into NTS black metal mixtapes, like this one or this one.
When the next day’s prompt challenged me to create portraits with SDXL, I decided to stick with this same dark, black metal-inspired aesthetic.
I’m really happy with how this portrait and its animation turned out. I’m still learning how to make proper GIFs, so they might load a bit slowly, but I hope you enjoy them!
