I am starting something, it's called AAAAS...
You'll find all the Ai art I've fondled with this week, it's a lot, I know, but don't be sad, they'll be some more next week too!

Let's see what I concocted this week:

First I wanna show you the universe in a cereal bowl, Made with Dall E 2

You're probably like "But Ed, what are you on?", and I understand what you're trying to say, all I can say is that I am high on life.

The last 2 weeks, I got some new obssession with animals, let's start with the Cat God Series:

So this is trippy, I was trying to make a panther dog, but it always kind of returned to the cat shape, which is cool too.
Notice the intricate motifs on the crown, and the shoulders.
All this, you can pretty much emulate it by precisely describing what you want, what material the alliage is made of, and what sort of patterns you want, also the drawing style.

I think I am finding my own style, though MidJourney has a very distinct "feel", you can always direct it in the way you want it to look like, as the final product, by tweaking a few words there and there.

This week has been very prolific, so I might as well share as much as I can!

Before continuing with my God Animals series, I want to show you a comic book concept I had (the second one in 2 weeks!), it's called....drum rolls...

Drrrrrrrrrrrr...

The Soul Heralds

Here is the concept, a secret society comprised of 5 yakuzas (Aka, Aoi,Kiiro,Midori, and Baioretto), they have mastered the dark art, and channel ancient warrior souls through their body, they also know sorcery. Cool shit right?

The prompt was a bit messy at first, I took some influence from Katsuhiro Otomo the dude that did Akira, but there's also other influences, a little bit of Ayao Miyazaki.

I know you love it! Anyway, if you hear of someone stealing my concept, just direct them to this blockchain post, and it will give a date to any lawyers...Cheers!

OK, back to our gods...

Which one you wanna see? I got a whole bunch! I don't know if I want to share everything today, hold on...

How cute is the last one? Almost looking like a cute little mouse, piercing blue eyes, and a battle helmet. They were supposed to hold a flaming sword, but oh well, I'll take it, this is awesome...

I've been trying the same prompt on Dalle E, and this is what I got:

From what I can understand, Dalle E put a heavier weight on the prompt, but doesn't blend the artistic as well as midjourney, or disco diffusion.
Still, at least Dalle E got the sword right, whereas I couldn't get a consistent result with Midjourney.

Dead Punch!

You remember the concept that I had about a fighter during the Zombie apocalypse? Well, I am learning how to write a script because I've never done it before, and also creating an interesting story line, character developpment, etc....

1. Who is it about?
2. What did they want?
3. Why can't they get it?
4. What did they do about it?
5. Why doesn't that work?
6. How does it end?

I think the character will be called Jack Stone, it's just a good generic name for a hero, something strong, and culturally viable.

We had a long conversation with my wife about the...Herm...Cultural background and origin of the character, and his gender, I had in mind a guy that looks a bit like the dude from Vikings.

I know what the first scene will be, it's probably just an opening sequence to give some exposition, and then they will be a "1 year ago", and we discover the origin story.

Right now, I am not trying to design too much specific shots with Midjourney, because it would be a huge waste of money. I am just getting a feel, a look, and then later on probably getting into storyboarding with an illustrator is the safest route.

Otherwise, the AI will shoot in every directions, and the result will be somewhat mediocre.
Remember that it's a tool, and there still a long way to go before we can just "dictate our dreams" to the machine.

You see for example on the image above, the AI couldn't really understand what I wanted, I needed survivors dressed up in military clothes, cultivating tomatoes on a rooftop, and instead, it gave me an artistic result, still interesting though, but not what I wanted.

It's interesting to note, that you never really know in which direction the drawing will evolve, I think that's why it's important to trust the process, it's a little bit like improv, or jazz.

This Picture

Became this picture

And evolved to this picture...

It's really much like directing a movie, or sculpting a large piece of wood, to end up with a very fine sculpted piece of art. So interesting to witness...

I don't know if like any video games, you get bored with it eventually, we will get bored with Ai art, desensitized by its beauty and incredible poetry.
For now, it feels like new every time, even when I read and check someone else's Ai Art, I manage to take my ego out of the equation, much more that when I listen to someone else's music.
Maybe because I haven't spent the last 20 years of my life drawing too much, so there's no pressure on my shoulder, and allow myself complete creative freedom.
Whereas in music, I've invested too much time in soul music, guitar, vocals, mixing, producing, I am all in, so listening to someone doing effortlessely better than you, is rather frustrating.

But not in that context, I can easily enjoy anyone's Ai art without feeling the "pressure that I am not good enough".

You wanna check my Steampunk Transformers? Cool!

So the idea behind it is, "how would a transformer in real life look like?"
It would probably be super inpractical, rusty, loud, very similar to the "howl's moving castle" from Hayao Miyazaki.
You can see that once again, Midjourney has a very definite style, I predict that in a few years, these household names will have a distinct identity, they already have in some ways, but it might even reach new levels, once we get in the 3rd or 4th generations of AI.

Let's go back to our Gods once again, for the last time today ^^

This one is made with Dall E

Those 3 are made with Midjourney...

Heaven warriors, female and male. I love how dramatic they turned out! I've seen some truly amazing "heaven warriors" on Instagram which I inspired myself from, but I am really curious about their prompts! I am still struggling to get certain details right.

But yeah, this week I didn't work at all on landscape, but trying to perfect portraits, mixing all sort of styles, lines, and taking inspiration from all places.

And at last, let's play a little game. Who is this character from a popular series, hidden in this Lion painting:

Did you find out who it was?