SELF PORTRAIT
An image generated with MidJourney
This was an attempt to capture my personality as best as possible with the help of Artificial Intelligence. For starters, to capture my appearance, there are tools in MidJourney that allow me to upload reference pictures of myself to MidJourney, but I avoided that notion.
Instead, I used actor, Jon Heder, as the basis of each attempted prompt. That's mainly because I have often been compared to him in appearance. In this case, I can pass off Jon Heder as myself.
I also knew I wanted it to have a somewhat Western energy to it: hand-drawn, cowboy-esque motion, and brownish tones. So stylistically I incorporated the oil-painted, yet hand-drawn style of Brian Cogman.
In terms of motion & personality, I aimed to convey a sort of anxious skip/jump. The effect it produced ended up surprising me in that it added this level of dancing to the character, reflecting my love of music
