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Priest Mage

by GymDreams
Prelude to the Sacred Geometry 3. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Mystic. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry 2. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.

Sacred Geometry Series

Using historical geometric forms as a structural foundation for male figure compositions. Whereas Da Vinci explored ideal body proportions with Vitruvian Man, I use the geometric forms as a foundational grid to layout the composition of the figure. When imagined with the Canny control net inside Stable Diffusion, the joints of the figures correspond to the intersections of the geometric forms, thus creating a unique visual language and structure throughout the series.

The final stage of the iterations before Sacred Geometry began.

I thought that I was on the right track when I used an image to influence the visuals, but felt that the influence created more of a “disc” in the background, and was not what I was going for.

Mage 2: Mystic

So I tweaked the prompt to interpret how I’d like to utilize those shapes, in way that’s more like a hologram instead of a solid disc.

What might not be immediately apparent to people who started working with image prompts — whether it’s for Midjourney or with Control Nets in Stable Diffusion — is that the images you supply are more of an influence and not a source. It’s a bit different than img2img, where you start with an image to change it to something else. For control nets, your text prompt is still the king, and you’re simply applying the influence of external images to control how your text prompts will get realized.

So this workflow gives you maximum possibilities — and you are not limited to using the same image to control everything. So while Midjourney’s image prompt can give interesting results, using Control Nets in Stable Diffusion gives you full control of any aspect you want. It’s really hard to explain this process unless you play with it yourself.

Going back to the in-progress images, I found that I have somewhat gotten the look I wanted. The envrionments and particle effects was what I wanted. The man has just a bit of magic in him. I did think that adding a robe and prompt with breeze and wind break up the symmetry of the composition so much that I find it necessary to include in the eventual renders.

And that’s how everything eventually came together. The main reason that I switched to using sacred geometry was that I turned these mages into priest mage — ones that are no longer for battle, but functioning on the more spiritual side of magic. They are in fact walking inside a temple, so it would make more sense to use symbols that have a direct link, not to mention how much more pleasing it would be when the forms are simple — yup, that’s Bauhaus applied to fantasy works!

Here’s the complete iteration flow going from step 1 to what came to be:

Mystic. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry 2. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Mystic. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry 2. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.

10 images on Instagram. 31 on gymdreams8.com.

Tech: Text prompts with Stable Diffusion: 30 steps, DPM++ SDE Karras, CFG 5, 512x512, Airfuck’s Wild Mix 1.0, Denoising 0.5. ADetailer with prompts face_yolov8n.pt. CN1 Shuffle. CN2 Line Art Invert. Hires 1.5x (768x768), 15 steps, 4x_NMKD-Siax_200k. Post: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x (3172x3172), Adobe Lightroom color correction.

Images

Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.

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Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.
Battle Mage. Prelude to the Sacred Geometry. Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Wild Mix, Shuffle CN.

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