benjaminkoll

Color Splash! (with alt edits and wallpapers)

Added 2023-10-22 16:14:05 +0000 UTC

Good morning guys, as you may have noticed I've been experimenting with AI image creation tools for a while now, adding some elements to my artwork and edits.

Instead of using one app and letting it take control and responsibility for the image, I use a combination or three or four different platforms, I find this different approach allows me to get more natural and fun results (also I can end up working at a very high resolution). There's still more than 50% of the design work and decisions I do myself using traditional methods, so each image takes me several hours to design (I'd say the average is 4 to 5 hours each), but I have so much fun doing it that it's a breeze.

This particular painting started with a watercolor sketch of my face done from a reference photo. Then I started building it up using different tools until I got to the square version and then the wallpaper version. As you can see, there were several stages. For example, the version where I have no pants... that is a fascinating one. And then the one in shorts... also fun, but not quite there. But we liked the final one, it has something.

Happy Sunday!😘❤️