An intense, often consuming fixation on a particular idea, interest, or endeavor. A relentless pursuit that dominates one’s thoughts and actions, as if compelled by an uncontrollable force.
I was in the process of finalizing a remake of Teddy, Leather, Versailles — a series that I made in May with Midjourney for the Obsession series, but which never fully satisfied me. If you’re not familiar with the series, here are some renders from it:
Teddy, Leather, Versailles. Rendered with Midjourney v5 and v5.1.
But then I took a break and browsed Instagram, and @ruggersox2 made a new post. What he posted didn’t matter so much as simply the fact that I had promised to make some images of striped long socks coz I find his feed to be incredibly interesting and inspiring.
But with so many ideas in my head, often I forget about things that I should work on, so even though I’ve already made 200 images with men in Leather, I switched gear and made these instead.
This is the start of a new series. It consists of hundreds of images, which I still have to sort through, but I will post them as I work with through them — staring with these photographic renders with men wearing running shorts, striped long socks, and dancing with teddy bears inside a ornate and decorated room that drew inspiration from Versailles.
Text prompt in Stable Diffusion txt2img with SDXL, SDXL Refiner, Automatic1111 v1.6.0.
Steps: 40
Sampler: Euler a
Size: 1024x1024
Model hash: 31e35c80fc
Model: sd_xl_base_1.0
VAE hash: 63aeecb90f
VAE: sdxl_vae.safetensors
Lora hashes:
pytorch_lora_weights: 1b9b646448a3
Refiner: sd_xl_refiner_1.0 (7440042bbd)
Refiner switch at: 0.8
Version: v1.6.0
Post Upscale: Topaz Gigapixel AI HQ 4x, 4096x4096
Limb Fix: Adobe Photoshop AI
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.