'Fragments of Infinity' is a series of illustrations depicting an extraordinary fantasy world containing ginormous treehouse villages, walking tree creatures, and other things that instil a sense of bewilderment and escapism.
Most works start with some form of graphite rendering, followed by a mix of digital and traditional painting. Prompt engineering is then used to blend additional details using an AI model trained on previous original artworks by 1984drum.
Treople House 4 Remix (2022)
Floating Emerald Islands
Treehouse Village Version One (middle area zoom crop)
How is Latent Space used in these artworks?
Latent space is an abstract multi-dimensional space containing feature values that cannot be directly interpreted. Instead, Latent Space encodes a meaningful internal representation of externally observed events.
Humans generally have an understanding of a wide range of topics and the events belonging to those topics. The aim of Latent Space is to provide a similar understanding to a computer through quantitative spatial modelling.
Using a range of Machine Learning text-to-image models, 1984drum uses experimental prompt engineering to produce desired results on multiple layers using sketches and digitally-painted guide images as a starting point. These layers are composited together, along with the traditional work, to create the finished work.
Treehouse Village Version One (top quarter crop)
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Fragments of Infinity — a continuously evolving sequence drawn from the Treehouse Village works (original resolution 5120×3072 px; created with graphite, paper, Photoshop, Python, DD and Jax).
The images were generated in 2023 using open-source AI image-generation techniques in Google Colab, driven by custom models assembled from a range of 1984drum’s own traditionally-created artworks. Each piece was described and prompted by hand, then refined.
Here they are sequenced not as a gallery but as a single living piece: ordered so that each frame flows into its most visually similar neighbour, drifting and slowly zooming, and dissolving softly from one into the next — an endless, looping morph through the series.
Soundscape: details to follow.