Rugby
Get ready for the ultimate eye candy extravaganza! The rugby pitch turned into a hotbed of bulging biceps, chiseled abs, and bone-crushing tackles. These rugby warriors collided like boulders in a muscle-quake. But just when you thought things couldn’t get any hotter...
I’m posting three sets of images today for the Rugby series, as a thank you to all of you who have been following my work and supporting me. The rugby reel has just reached 100,000+ views yesterday, a number I’ve never dreamed of reaching when I posted it. I hope that you’ll enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.
Rugby Series
I never expected the Rugby series would become so popular. This first series, which I posted to Instagram on June 16 (about 6 weeks ago), are still getting likes today.
Because of that, I made a reel and posted two more sets with the unpublished images from the reel:
Since then I have further posted a set of images featuring men from the rugby team. Titled Jocks - Back Alley Chronicles, it shows some intimate moments of the men after their practice at the stadium, as a crossover to my ongoing Kiss series. I posted it on July 8, which is just shy of 3 weeks ago. It has reached 6500 likes, a figure I dare say I had never expected.
Perhaps you’d be curious why I decided to make a series about Rugby — it’s a fun story.
In the early days when I started making images of men with AI, I faced some problems describing the type of men I wanted to decpict.Asking for “muscular” is too generic. Asking for “bodybuilder” made the men too ripped. The type of men I like are built, but with a mix of meat to them. Lean and mean. If they have muscles, I find just a bit of fat to be quite desirable — it makes them more human.
When you prompt, it’s better to be concise. Over time, I found that prompting for “rugby players” give me the perfect balance of what I lok for in a condensed two-word token. Being able to succinctly summarize the build without extensive wording is similar to “archetype prompting,” where you use phrases to summarize concepts so you can keep the prompts concise and succinct. I have been using this phrase so long that I decided one day to just make a series out of it. And that’s how Rugby was born.
About the “Suddenly Gay” humor, it’s based on unexpected homoerotic interactions often seen in sports photography. I thought that it would be fun to extend my Kiss series this way, since it never had a humorous component.
30 images on Instagram. 56 total on gymdreams8.com.
Text prompts in Stable Diffusion, Virile Animation v1 checkpoint model, 60 steps, Euler a, CFG 5, Adetailer face_yolov8n.pt, Hires 30 steps, R-ESRGAN 4x+ Anime6B, Version: v1.3.2. Topaz Giagapixel HQ 4x, Adobe Lightroom color correction.
