Greetings, artists from all worlds and all realities!
Here are some more creations inspired by memories and by dreams, hoping to trigger your imagination!
The following images were made using Leonardo.ai, my build of Disco Diffusion, photo-manipulation, photobashing & sketching in Gimp and Inkscape, and post editing/composition in darktable.
Today, I want to talk a little bit about something really cool I did. At least, I think it's cool.
I scribbled a bit of a scene in Gimp using the pencil tool to experiment with with composition (and try out my drawing skills, which are ... much to be desired, but working on it). I then passed this scribble through Leonardo AI, using the Alchemy Pipeline, with the Creative LoRa, for a first "layer" of filling at low res, and here's what I got :
I thought "meeeh, loads of things are weird or out of place or incoherent, let's toss it and start a new one". But then, I decided not this time.
Instead, I upscaled the image, and imported it into a blank canvas, still in Leonardo AI, to start inpainting and fixing things one by one. And oh boy was this fun ! It's like slowly drawing with words, again and again !
Once this few things fixed, I realized some things now lacked consistency -too much details in the back for some parts, not enough in the front, clashing styles between characters and stalls ... I need consistency.
So, I fed this image back into Leo at high input strength value using the Anime LoRa, which usually is more "structurally coherent" and precise than some others, to see what would happen.
Ok, sure, why not, it looks more coherent, but now I miss the details I had before, and I miss the overall mixed fantasy vibe that was coming from the characters and the streets. What could I do to get that ?
Well instead, I ran it with a much lower input value, back into the anime LoRa, and started manually stitching them up together, like my usual Disco Diffusion workflow, layering what is best on top of what is good, and tossing what I don't like ! And yeah, it took ages, but the final result is very satisfying, in my eyes !