A piece from June of 2022. Loosely based on the album art of Navigator by Omega Tribe. From the pre-Stable Diffusion era of my AI-assisted work, where I was experimenting with stylizing photobashed images from Creative Commons. I used this tool, although Stable Diffusion's img2img feature and ControlNet have arguably made it obsolete. It is pretty fast to run on CPU, though, which might make it a fun filter for people with more modest hardware.
I made a few other pieces in this style outside of vaporware for art requests on r/drawforme, although any AI tool usage has been banned for some time there. The sheer irony of moderators dictating how people should be able to spend their own time to fulfill free requests is hard to state. I ended up creating r/generateforme (and now [email protected]) for people who want to fulfill art requests without restrictions about using AI tools. Anyway, this era of my art is still one of my favorites. It was when I was starting to see some promise with AI tools, and it allowed me to hide some of my lazy photobashing behind layers of stylization. I still bounce between using AI and doing things totally from scratch, but a lot of my best art has come from mixing the two in roughly equal quantities. As always, this is public domain, like all of my work. My art portfolio link is linked above if you'd like to check out and download my stuff.
