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This piece, titled "Cherie Scourge", attempts to combine Chris Ware and Boris Vallejo. I'm blaming Boris for the nipples and Chris for the big, gormless faces. The body horror, meanwhile, is all Midjourney.
I'm using artist names, too. Here, we've got "Overflowing Bliss", a collaboration between Patrick Woodroffe and Rob Liefeld. And this is why I'm randomly generating this nonsense, of course: I would not have come up with that myself.
Here are some less successful examples, though. 1: "Sudden Liar Arrival", pop art; 2: "Ebony Ice", Surrealism; 3: "Westersea", Romanticism; 4: "Rock Lightning", Aestheticism.
Tangent from that idea: I had some great fun messing with "prog rock" images. I should probably throw a whole list of musical genres in the prompt generator, really. (I already shared the goth Legos, right?)
One of the things I've investigated towards that end is which art styles the algorithm recognizes. For example, op art, baroque, fauvism, and art nouveau seem to work okay.
I tried to find out, once and for all, what a bunyip really looks like.
Okay, so I fed Midjourney a description of an image I made with Artbreeder: "The thing hanging in the tree looked like some kind of oblong green fruit, with a constellation of shining eyes or lenses staring back from the pits in its surface." I need to stop.
Okay, so here we've got another big name—The Temple of Elemental Evil—and again I've got a strong suspicion that the machine is familiar with the original art. Pretty great results, here.