Am I done with the fool yet?

I feel as though this particular project is a never ending quest for perfection, which rather embodies the feeling of “The Fool” tarot card design which I have been working on.

As per my prior post, I opted to cancel my MidJourney subscription, but that will not stop me making the most of the thing before it expires properly. Then, it will be full tilt creation via Stable Diffusion.

In any case, I have probably created way too many images on this concept, and it is time to try and refine the outputs and short list what I believe is going to be the final design for this card and for this piece.

First, I’ll have to figure out how long ago it was since I started this endeavour in order to go back in time and grab all the candidate images. This is no easy task, I've generated over a thousand images using MidJourney at this stage, and it will take a very long time to download and extract the compressed files into a directory where I can identify the image by the prompt used.

I might have to resort to some photo-shoot style image culling, and that is quite the okay thing to do, in my opinion. :D (If time consuming)

Looking through all these images, there's one that really seems to be the most appropriate for the theme of the fool. It appears to be this one.

It needs a number of improvements, however. Firstly, upscaling to a higher resolution to allow print, and then there's the matter of the extra hand that appears to be emerging from the hip of the character.

Finally - The face could do with some more coherence, and the arms are a bit wonky, too.

This is likely going to be done via a combination of Stable Difusion and Photoshop, as I want to learn some new skills along the way. I'll get to that in another post, as reviewing all of these images took a considerably longer time than I would have liked.

The downside is that I have so many other images to review and enhance, and then card borders to worry about, too.

Why am I doing this? Because it is a fun challenge, and well, because I feel like I have to extremely prolific in order to feel useful.