Green Goblin - AI versions

In one of my last blogposts I published one of my latest paintings - a green goblin. Of course I wanted to see what the AI could do with it. So I opended Nightcafe Studio and uploaded my painting in order to use it as a starter image.

There are two ways to influence the outcome:

1. the prompt

2. the weight you place on the image

I used Nightcafe Studio. The first result I got is very different from the original painting. It shows a green goblin with some funny headgear and two blades growing out of his body. Not a bad design, but too far away from the origjnal piece.

So I reduced the weight of the prompt, and I got an illustration which resembles the original far more.

What did I learn?
1. Sometimes it makes sense to just let the AI decide what it comes up with. Taking the horns of the goblin and changing them into some sharp blades is quite interesting!

2. If you want an image which looks more like the original you have to try a few times. Just play and have fun!

Painting with Liquid watercolours

I must admit I got lots of artist materials. Acrylic ink, acrylic tube paints, acrylic markers, alcoholbased markers, waterbased brush pens, oil pastels, a set of watercolours and some liquid watercolours (also known as "watercolour inks") from Royal Talens (Ecoline) and from Pebeo (Colorex).

It had been quite some time since I used these liquid watercolours. But two days ago I felt very much like painting with them again. I used Yellow from Colorex and Fir Green from Ecoline. I had bought a beginner Colorex set a long time ago, when they had no droppers on their bottles, so I had to use a pipette for putting the ink on my palette. Regarding the Fir Green the bottle has got a dropper, so putting it on the palette was no problem. But then it got a wee difficult - mixing liquid inks is a bit of a trial and error process. 

However, as you can see on the image I managed somehow to get various shades of green and yellow. I think mixing liquid paints (the same applies to acrylic inks, in my opinion) is a matter of practice!

The creepy and the funny side of Halloween

Halloween came to Germany rather late - in the 80s of the last century. Now there are a lot of Halloween parties and you can see children wearing Halloween costumes at school and Kindergarten. There is even some trick-or-treating going on, although it has stopped during the last years with Corona limiting outside activities.

However Halloween is a rich field for someone like me who creates images with AI Image Generators. I noticed that in general there are these cute and funny images and there are the creepy ones. I must say that I am personally not that much into creepy images. But I could not resist and did that one:

It has one of my drawings as a base image. It shows an aggressive looking Goblin / troll /bad creature with glowing orange eyes. 

I wasn't even thinking of Halloween when I had this creature created. I was just playing around with using my own art as starter images. 

Now, with me being an owner of a Zazzle store who has to prepare already for Halloween I thought I could use the image for a t-shirt design.

But, as I said before, I am more on the funny and cute side of Halloween. 

 

So here's a cute happy looking bat. Isn't he (or her,
you never know!) cute? Bats are associated with Halloween, so why not use this image as a design on my Zazzle store. Of course the background will have to be removed and the image itself enlarged.