“After many missions in a plethora of peculiar realms, he’d managed to keep the fear of monsters locked away, but his own evil terrified him more than any demon."
― William Collins, A Darker Shade of Sorcery
One of my more recent AI creations on Nightcafe came about late at night, when a challenge was announced to create something related to "Beach". Now everyone puts in the same old beach-bum-bikini-volley ball-sunset-waves-boats stuff, but I tried (as always) to be different. Now if you put in prompts that are easy for AI to fill, you get the most predictable result in a flash. With my prompts, the gears are sometimes churning for a while before something happens.
Also I noticed, with every new and improved Stable Diffusion the results get slicker, but not necessarily better, as far as innovative - and for my taste - weird designs are what I am looking for. So for my surreal stuff, I prefer the old SD v1.4 and v1.5
Results are often very unpredictable, but that is the way I like it. As for the beach, no dime-a-dozen nubile, big breasted bikini pin-ups: on a challenge, you subsequently have to wade through hundreds of posts like that, and of course everyone thinks they just created the absolute masterpiece.
So many of those prompts include words like 'insanely beautiful', as if AI had any idea what 'insanely beautiful' is supposed to be looking like. For the fun of it, I tested some of those prompts (I am in a Prompt Sharing Group) and found that when I deleted such adjectives, the results were no more, nor less 'insanely beautiful'. I think it is more important to instruct AI to center your image and use relevant negative prompts so your 'insanely beautiful' nubile pin-ups don't come with extra fingers and legs attached backwards.
Beach Head Fantasy Land 12a
..... and previously, also part of my 'Inner Universe', a series of crazy Rhinos
this one was created on Deep Dream Text2Dream from a seed image I done on Nightcafe
THE TRASH HEAP MONSTER
A nightmare creature started on Nightcafe and imported as a seed - these sort of monsters work best when rendered in the old SD mode. 30% and HD at 30% again.
Prompt: steampunk rhinoceros", armored asian sumatra, intricately detailed complex breathtaking epic steampunk rhinoceros masterpiece by Albrecht Dürer, H.R. Giger, Carrie Ann Baade, Android_Jones, international gothic look, imperial colors, steampunk, clockpunk Zdzisław Beksiński, The Inner Life of the Artist Otto Rapp - his Alternate Reality in Bogomil's Universe; macrocosmic reflection, intricately detailed; Hieronymus Bosch, imperial colors, fantasy, International Gothic, oil painting
Here are a few of the ones done on Nightcafe, using the above prompt:
Just the tip of the iceberg - there are many more done with variations of this prompt. The seed image for these was a old painting of mine of the same name.
these images were largely created on Dreamwombo, some on Nightcafe, then done on Tiktok
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