AI Circus Strongman 1

Well, the poll was overwhelmingly for showing what I've been creating with AI tools, so I've decided that for the month of December my Patreon fans will be getting daily updates of what I've been up to with this new tool. Consider them a Christmas gift. These will not replace my typical 4 traditional drawings per month, this is just a bonus.

I want to make it clear I intend to use AI in the future to help me with my traditional drawing. If there's a challenging pose I'm having trouble with or a piece of equipment I need at a specific angle, it's a great way to get reference material. But I was curious about what I could get it to create for a finished piece, using the very limited parameters at hand. I also didn't want to create "hot muscled guy in room with robotic arms" over and over again, which you see so much of. I wanted to create images with all ages and sizes of men. I also am going to avoid using celebrity likenesses and am only going to make generic people and not specific ones. I'll do my best to make interesting and unique scenarios. 

I know there is a faction of people that won't be okay with this. Honestly it feels to me like a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" kind of moment. At several times in my artistic career I was left behind by missing the boat on new technology (web design completely passed me by). Part of me feels that to keep current even in my real-world day job I need to know what AI is capable of. So consider all of this an experiment and you're along for the fun ride. 

In making some of my first AI pieces I came to the realization that the classic "circus strongman" is probably my ultimate type: bald, muscled, hairy, mustached. They push ALL of my buttons. I also love the old trope of "strong man tickled while trying to hold up something heavy". And let's face it: evil clowns make the perfect nemesis for a strongman. 

I made a lot of these but this was one of the best in terms of expression and composition. On a technical note, I will tell you that it is extraordinarily difficult to get character A to actually touch character B. The word "tickling" has been blocked as a prompt, so you have to describe a different way to get fingers to actually come in contact with a body. It only works about 1 out of 10 tries. 

Let me know in the comments what you think of this and tune in tomorrow for another one!