This information was originally a post on my Font Friday blog.
The images below are from Midjourney AI image generation software. Midjourney currently shows intermediate images as the final art is being created. I’ve been capturing these as screenshots and using them as art in their own right. I’m hoping the developers don’t decide the intermediates are a bug, not a feature, and get rid of them.
How this all started
The images were used in sticker designs submitted to the Burning Man organization for possible distribution to all 2023 participants. Visit my blog post Design Submissions for Burning Man 2023 Stickers to see more about the sticker designs. Visit my blog post Firefly Fox-bird Friday to see Midjourney images compared to images created by Adobe Firefly software.
Fox-bird, blurred
The prompts for the fox-bird included “photorealistic black rock desert Nevada with dry cracked ground, there is one fox vulpes macrotis looking at the viewer, 4 legs [varying success with this], brilliant bright blue outstretched feathers 2 wings jutting from its shoulders fox with wings”
Animals of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert
Here’s the final image I put together, with each animal’s image about 40% rendered. Scroll down to see the 2×2-image renders for each. The prompts for each animal included “animals of the Black Rock Desert, Nevada,” “looking at viewer” (varying success with this), the Latin name, the common name and other prompts concerning light and composition. After I brought the images together into Adobe Photoshop, I adjusted the colors and tones and made other changes. I composed the final artwork in Adobe Illustrator. The typeface is Abigail from Adobe Fonts, with the Latin names in Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille Institute.