Apollyon, Angel of the Void - WiP 1 (Patreon)

The second new Watcher that I'm working on for the Oracle deck is Apollyon!

I had a special event on the MidJourney Discord last Friday where I was demoing how I paint and doing a Q&A. I thought it would be nice to highlight a use case for the MidJourney outputs and try out a method of using the AI different from my other recent examples using init_images.

This is a collage of a number of Midjourney outputs that I'm using as a basis for Apollyon. This different process brings with it all the same challenges as my usual method, but the order in which I solve these problems is different.

What's especially apparent is that the colors are already established at this point, which is very strange for me. While that seems like I have less work to do, it's worth noting that this will dramatically slow my experimentation in the earlier stages of painting. It's a tradeoff, more so than a shortcut. 

Overall, I'm having a ton of with this piece so far and I'm looking forward to seeing out the end results compare to my traditional process in both results and the amount of time/effort it takes.

-Pete