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.
A New Process :
Back to the roots! I generated a few portraits using Deforum and Kadinsky, that I used as an initial image cut into 7 slices into Disco Diffusion. Here is the original initial portrait
Once this guy has been cut in 7 parts (Top left & right, bottom left & right, center top & center & bottom), I fed it into my custom Disco Diffusion to create detailed slices (slices + settings following)
Settings used :
ViTB32
ViTL14
RN50x4
Ddim
No secondary model
250 steps
Guidance scale: 77000
Tv : 150
range : 150
Sat : 2500
Cutn batches : 12
Initial image generated with Stable Diffusion
Eta : 0.85
Clamp : 0.095
Custom cutn schedule
And, all these slices finally assembled back together, after heaps of photomanipulation and adjustments, edits in Gimp and darktable, lead to this following result :
The idea is here, but the madness is a bit "too much", the incoherences are a bit over the top.
So, I decided to feed THIS as an intial image into Leonardo AI, with very high initial image scale impact, and after playing around a bit with settings, it ended up looking like this, which I find very cool