Men Variations. After Laocoön and His Sons
Collage is one of my favorite art mediums. Simple in execution, though hard to master. It’s a dialog of what an artist sees, and a visual response to what is seen.
What I’ve always tried to do with AI is to find ways to utilize the technology in a way that’s not possible or at least very hard to do with traditional mediums.
This series of work won’t be possible with text prompts alone at all. It was possible because of control nets, an example of the many advanced features seen only in Stable Diffusion.
I’m posting 8 compositions today as a preview to give a glimpse of what I’ve been working on, but I’ve rendered 2000 images in the past two days to assemble enough materials to create a video eventually.
It’s titled men variations, as I chose subject matters that are often depicted in gay art throughout history as well as my works: Greek mythology, Roman gladiators, sailors, football players, rugby players, construction works, Tarzan / King of the jungle, etc.
Unlike most works that I’ve published previously, this set of works did not go through any post-processing — that is, I didn’t take them into Lightroom to tweak colors. Neither did I do any inpainting. Please let me know what you think!
This is a large series that I’m working on. It‘s a preview of things to come.
Stable Diffusion, control net, Virile Fusion 3 Beta 1. Detailed Specs at the end of the post.
Technical Details
- Men Variations. After Laocoön and His Sons.
- Collage Series / 2024-01-09 / 2023-01-07 Render
- GD8.OV2.20240107.172242.00571-69686568-VF3B1.E2
Stable Diffusion txt2img
- Steps: 30
- Sampler: DPM++ SDE Karras
- CFG scale: 7
- Seed: 3560722587
- Size: 512x512
- Model hash: de1aabc4d5
- Model: virileFusion_v30BETA1
- VAE hash: 63aeecb90f
- VAE: vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.safetensors
- Denoising strength: 0.5
- Clip skip: 2
- Hires upscale: 4
- Hires steps: 30
- Hires upscaler: 8x_NMKD-Superscale_150000_G
- Size: 2048x2048
- Automatic Version: v1.7.0
Control Nets
- ControlNet 0: Depth
- CN0 Module: depth_midas
- CN0 Model: control_v11f1p_sd15_depth cfd03158
- CN0 Weight: 0.5
- CN0 Resize Mode: Crop and Resize
- CN0 Low Vram: False
- CN0 Processor Res: 1024
- CN0 Guidance Start: 0
- CN0 Guidance End: 1
- CN0 Pixel Perfect: False
- CN0 Control Mode: My prompt is more important
- CN0 Hr Option: Both
- CN0 Save Detected Map: True
ADetailer 1
- ADetailer 1:
- AD1 model: face_yolov8n.pt
- AD1 prompt: …
- AD1 confidence: 0.3
- AD1 dilate erode: 4
- AD1 mask blur: 4
- AD1 denoising strength: 0.4
- AD1 inpaint only masked: True
- AD1 inpaint padding: 32
- AD1 use separate steps: True
- AD1 steps: 28
- AD1 ControlNet model: control_v11f1e_sd15_tile a371b31b
- AD1 ControlNet module: tile_resample
ADetailer 2
- ADetailer 2:
- AD2 model 2nd: hand_yolov8n.pt
- AD2 prompt 2nd: manly hands
- AD2 confidence 2nd: 0.6
- AD2 dilate erode 2nd: 4
- AD2 mask blur 2nd: 4
- AD2 denoising strength 2nd: 0.4
- AD2 inpaint only masked 2nd: True
- AD2 inpaint padding 2nd: 32
- AD2 use separate steps 2nd: True
- AD2 steps 2nd: 28
- AD2 ControlNet model 2nd: control_openpose-fp16 9ca67cc5
- AD2 ControlNet module 2nd: dw_openpose_full
- AD2 version: 24.1.0
Post-Processing
- Color: None / RAW images
- Composition: Adobe InDesign