Wayne Barlowe AI model - Stable Diffusion + DreamBooth
model comparision
Disclaimer: I view AI-generated art as a tool that should inspire artists to be more creative and offer advice for how to make it better — like invisible hand of someone who is more experienced than us (AI trained on painting masters).
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After months of following Stable Diffusion community, news and researching, I have accomplished my AI goal: building a unique model that enables construction of real HELL-like visions, which are currently visible thanks to masters like H.R. Gigger, Wayne Barlow, and Zdzisław Beksiński.
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When I think about Hell, I have visions of a desolated place, endless dry land filled with distorted natural elements (such as trees or mountains), demons and other creatures that are humanoid-like or the inverse of that. Everything that is both breathtaking and terrifying in same time.
When I was a kid, I saw a great film with Robin Williams called "What Dreams May Come" - up there, we can see a small piece of "personal hell" created by main character wife in moment of decision of suicide.
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Because such artwork style is my weak point, it was so hard to pick "best" few. All artworks are pure prompt results - no composition of few into one, no post-processing or anything. Once again, those artworks should be just inspiration for our artistic minds, not creation itself. Something that we could find in book-art of Dante Inferno, Doom or Scorn.
Comparison to Standard Diffusion 1.5 that was base for that model dosn't show that much big difference, but image set that was used for DB learning was focused mainly on disfigured creations that Wayne Barlowe is true master - last picture shows comparision of those two models on same prompt.
This model is so-called version 1 and next version will be based on very specific artworks to create something that nobody wants to even see in the worst nightmare. The best base for that will be a set of medieval sketches, paintings that shows demons, and hell - "The Tower of Babel by Tobias Verhaecht", as well as "Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya". Options are endless and fingers cross version 2 will be even better.
P.s Check Wayne Barlowe by yourself, his artworks are truly inspiring :) https://waynebarlowe.com/
