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Teddy, Rugby, Stripes. Part 1

by GymDreams
Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Teddy, Leather, Versailles. Rendered with Midjourney v5 and v5.1.

Obsession Series

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.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.
Rugby, Teddy, Stripes. Men in long rugby socks with teddy bears. Rendered in Stable Diffusion with SDXL.