Thursday, July 17, 2025

AI - Art & I #04

AI is the rage these days. It seems they are into everything and anything. Writing, coding, music and art. I am presently exploring the art part.

Can AI take over the artist? No, not yet. But it can take you into territories one can only imagine.



Variations of the same theme, Part 2.


AI - Art & I #04


(1) AI generated image by dsnake1 at Fotor



(2) AI generated image by dsnake1 at Fotor



(3) AI generated image by dsnake1 at Fotor



Some pretty interesting results popped out. But the machine learns. If you use the same prompt many times, the character generated out seems to get more consistent. And so far the negative prompts helps.





Title               : Another 3 kickboxers

AI platform   : Fotor

Type              : text prompt

Style              : (1) "Aesthetic Anime", (2) "Pin-up", (3) "Pin-up"

Image Ratio   : (1)(2)(3) - 9:16

Size                : (1)(2)(3) : 768 x 1344 px

Text Prompt   : imagine a young female kickboxer, bob hairstyle, light gray color, arms, thighs and legs well built, tribal tattoos on arms, dressed in a cropped top and distressed denim shorts, fingers in gym gloves, in a defensive pose, head slightly turned, looking at the camera. background is a ring arena.





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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

AI - Art & I #03

AI is the rage these days. It seems they are into everything and anything. Writing, coding, music and art. I am presently exploring the art part.

Can AI take over the artist? No, not yet. But it can take you into territories one can only imagine.



Trying variations of the same theme. Or rather the same text prompt.


AI - Art & I #03


(1) AI generated image by dsnake1 at Fotor


(2) AI generated image by dsnake1 at Fotor


(3) AI generated image by dsnake1 at Fotor


The initial results are not so satisfactory. Extra digits (quite common), deformed limbs. The use of negative prompts helps. And certainly, the machine learns, recognises your style of prompt and the later results are more consistent.





Title               : 3 Kickboxers

AI platform   : Fotor

Type              : text prompt

Style              : (1) "Aesthetic Anime", (2) "Fantasy Anime", (3) "90s Anime"

Image Ratio   : (1)(2)(3) - 9:16

Size                : (1)(2)(3) : 768 x 1344 px

Text Prompt   : young female boxer, medium blue hair in bob hairstyle, arms, thighs and legs well built, fingers in gloves, in short cropped top with tiger stripes, and distressed denim shorts, fists clenched, in a fighting cage.





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Sunday, July 13, 2025

AI - Art & I #02

AI is the rage these days. It seems they are into everything and anything. Writing, coding, music and art. I am presently exploring the art part.

Can AI take over the artist? No, not yet. But it can take you into territories one can only imagine.



Another water colour and pen sketch with an AI generated image of the sketch.


AI - Art & I #02


(1) water colour and pen sketch by dsnake1


(2) AI generated image by dsnake1 at Fotor


(1) is a water colour sketch with brush and pen on paper by me.
(2) is an AI generated image by me at Fotor. I looks more vibrant, isn't it? Which one would you prefer?






Title               : Untitled

AI platform   : Fotor

Type              : image to image prompt

Style              : "Fairytale" 25% Similarity

Image Ratio   : free

Size                : 1248 x 1536 px

Text Prompt   : nil





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Friday, July 11, 2025

AI - Art & I #01

AI is the rage these days. It seems they are into everything and anything. Writing, coding, music and art. I am presently exploring the art part.

Can AI take over the artist? No, not yet. But it can take you into territories one can only imagine.



I have tried many AI Image generators. Bing, Stable Diffusion, Craiyon. Presently, I am mostly using Fotor, because the free credits they gave are quite generous.


AI - Art & I #01


(1) water colour sketch by dsnake1


(2) AI generated image by dsnake1 at Fotor



(1) is a water colour sketch with brush and pen on paper by me.
(2) is an AI generated image by me at Fotor. It's much more colourful and defined, isn't it?

Which one would you prefer?






Title               : (2) Untitled

AI platform   : Fotor

Type              : image to image prompt

Style              : "Fairytale" 30% Similarity

Image Ratio   : 1:1

Size                : 1536 x 1536 px

Text Prompt   : nil





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Friday, June 20, 2025

tinywords

Weeds are tough. They are the cockroaches of the plant world.



photo by dsnake1
Nope, these are not weeds.




Imperata cylindrica




fence line -

the weeds
stand their ground


2014
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This haiku appears in tinywords Issue 25.1 | 19 June 2025






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Friday, April 18, 2025

GloPoWriMo 2025 - Day #18

Okay, don't just scroll social media everyday. Do something useless.

How about GloPoWriMo 2025?



badge generated by Gemini


why i am not a painter


I was sure there was no money in it.
I just cannot cut it with a palette knife, no way.
Sometimes the morning is so beautiful I forgot to count its colours.
I hear an inner voice saying "you cannot paint", and i am confused.

I heard you can stay an amateur, forever.
The brush whispers to the ear but it would not listen.
Sometimes the morning is so grey I do not want to get out of bed.
I hear my missus saying "you cannot paint, go figure out the bills".



18/04/2025
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Yeah, yeah, one week without a post. Everyday boring stuff has a stiff grip. The Day 3 prompt at naporiwrimo.net asks us to write a poem explaining why we are not a painter but some other thing else, in the vein of Frank O'Hara's "Why I Am Not a Painter". Did I get that right?





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Friday, April 11, 2025

GloPoWriMo 2025 - Day #11

Okay, don't just scroll social media everyday. Do something useless.

How about GloPoWriMo 2025?



badge generated by Gemini


talking to myself


Hey bro, you know I don't have much money right now, who brings so much cash over to this jungle? We are in the army, man. Anyway, I spent most of it on smokes, brought two cartons of marlboros over, heard the local ones are shit. The rest for R&R, we need that, the pubs, the massage parlors. It's not cheap in the city here in these 70's, everyone's trying to rip you off.

Talking about money, I made some at the blackjack games in the barracks. It's wild man, almost every night. One guy we called the "Colonel" completely lost his shirt and shit, says the dealer rigged his games. Pulls out a bayonet. We all restrained him, of course, no way the officers or MPs get a whiff of this. Then we pass a helmet around, toss in whatever change we can for his R&R.

Oh, if you have a chance to come over here, let the bedbugs bite you.



11/04/2025
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The prompt at SingPoWriMo Day7 was to "write a poem addressed to your younger self". I think the above qualifies.





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