I had a blast exploring new possibilities with AI, digging deep into typography, shapes, silhouettes, fashion accessories, materials etc., and finding control in AI image generation to create unique ideas that may be hard or time-consuming to achieve through traditional and digital image making.
I wanna give you a little bit of an insight into how I come up with such specific compositions as they are hard to describe with prompting only, so I have to work a little bit like an alchemist is how I see it. I believe this approach is very specific to every individual and the subject. But I want to assure you, that no matter what tool you use or how you use it, good things take time, focus, and dedication. AI is not a quick way to become an artist, designer, writer, or any other creative profession. Don't let yourself catch up in the hype and what is popular. Let the creativity flow through you and good things will happen. So, here is a general idea:
You create a 'potion' with many, many iterations, trying different ingredients. Then use this 'potion' to extract new perspectives mixed with new ingredients (prompts) to come up with a new 'potion'. Then mixing those two 'potions' together. Maybe extract just a bit from the third potion and mix it with the first one to create the fourth. The possibilities are endless and by 'potion' I really just mean the AI-generated images.
For this project I only used Midjourney, but I surely used some Stable Diffusion, and DALLE-2 alchemy to make one of the many image batches. For about 26 days I was following a deep extraction of my ongoing process to get better at AI alchemy and adding more 'potions' to my depository.
Images are structured from A-Z, but they were not always necessarily created with the purpose of extracting that letter as I like to leave space for errors and unforeseen results. I believe it's one of those things that are so special about working with AI.
