Aquariums: Experimenting with colours and textures by julesquirin

hive-158694 · @julesquirin · Nov 29 '22

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Aquariums: Experimenting with colours and textures

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# Greetings, artists from all worlds and all realities!
#### I've changed my are of focus from cottages to various building and environments, and this week is following the "aquarium" theme. I hope you like it!

*The following images were made using my custom build of Disco Diffusion, photo-manipulation and digital drawing through Gimp and Inkscape, and post editing/composition in darktable.*

# [More of my creations here](https://www.instagram.com/thephilostoner/)


![Blank 5 Grids Collage.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/AJmrjtAru8FZwPytEjur3w9H4GNtrUVMhSqVdbhA26dh2rvGqc5ZdLxzZyt82in.jpg)


![X37EMQ9WSwsLaUVnWj5uXRHwjwzR6KfScsHyS24twkWHXTmg7HHYV2Z8TdzS68pmxJ9nJMNsDfhrag3J2q3e5YmUE95nFhLkVXnJA.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/Eo1wMUEJSj2Cyz9JDDqeEGp4V5QsLcJe4bUQJALqi2AZrJKUKWZ9zAS33kzH9dZfxqe.png)

# First aquarium

![Aquarium(1)_compo1_up2_signed.jpeg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/23tve9FUXnv1amVHhfWyGufHD1bVpszTTy42pqZ3c1xkumjmy2sBobYSDhCx3FZ6dXa8Q.jpeg)

I've come to realize that, the worse are the sketches that you feed to Disco Diffusion, the weirder the shapes and architectures that come out of it. And, since my field is 3D and not drawing, my sketches are usually... bad.

Turns out that's great, my lack of skill is the perfect fuel for DD in the process of creating scifi structures!

![X37EMQ9WSwsLaUVnWj5uXRHwjwzR6KfScsHyS24twkWHXTmg7HHYV2Z8TdzS68pmxJ9nJMNsDfhrag3J2q3e5YmUE95nFhLkVXnJA.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/Eo1wMUEJSj2Cyz9JDDqeEGp4V5QsLcJe4bUQJALqi2AZrJKUKWZ9zAS33kzH9dZfxqe.png)

# Second Aquarium

![Aquarium(2)_compo1_up2_signed.jpeg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/23u5xfbAYG33QKTxkkQ9GAW4DV7XhanLN1j51MiSKrY7oik9vxgXCP8CTsg3p6YrZoHcf.jpeg)

Also, if you have never done that, I recommend to try painting colours and shapes on your initial image (if you use one), to try to create a colour tone/scheme on your creation, of "what could be". For example, I painted a lot of green and turquoise blobs around an empty image, without any shape but playing on the colour gradient. And it turned into this!

![X37EMQ9WSwsLaUVnWj5uXRHwjwzR6KfScsHyS24twkWHXTmg7HHYV2Z8TdzS68pmxJ9nJMNsDfhrag3J2q3e5YmUE95nFhLkVXnJA.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/Eo1wMUEJSj2Cyz9JDDqeEGp4V5QsLcJe4bUQJALqi2AZrJKUKWZ9zAS33kzH9dZfxqe.png)

# Third Aquarium

![Aquarium(3)_compo1_up2_signed.jpeg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/23wqZqnAtE2iskMAwT6VBCbeBgSbXKtRK9o5yPEeZF2EjT3UmNyr9yD4cG6diBwBttBJF.jpeg)

Now we are reaching the area of real experimentation. I recently acquired a new brush collection to use on Gimp, Inkscape and Blender, and I decided to go crazy with random coloring my initial image, still without any shape. I think we could say I'm making "custom noise" to feed the AI, instead of generating through the program? But more precise and defined noise maybe than what Disco would do.

![X37EMQ9WSwsLaUVnWj5uXRHwjwzR6KfScsHyS24twkWHXTmg7HHYV2Z8TdzS68pmxJ9nJMNsDfhrag3J2q3e5YmUE95nFhLkVXnJA.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/Eo1wMUEJSj2Cyz9JDDqeEGp4V5QsLcJe4bUQJALqi2AZrJKUKWZ9zAS33kzH9dZfxqe.png)

# Fourth Aquarium

![Aquarium(4)_compo1_up2_signed.jpeg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/23xVAZrxgHMJrDSiEVha6q1ASeYhYJrNk2XT2y79pmuJvrtcCJo5HAdaxjxbyZS7Lt9JM.jpeg)

This one was actually a photo taken from my balcony of the city, that I've DRENCHED in virtual paint on Inkscape with the new brushes I was talking about, and fed it to the AI with minimum influence on the desired result. Some shapes and colours were preserved, but most of if the original influence is gone.

![X37EMQ9WSwsLaUVnWj5uXRHwjwzR6KfScsHyS24twkWHXTmg7HHYV2Z8TdzS68pmxJ9nJMNsDfhrag3J2q3e5YmUE95nFhLkVXnJA.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/Eo1wMUEJSj2Cyz9JDDqeEGp4V5QsLcJe4bUQJALqi2AZrJKUKWZ9zAS33kzH9dZfxqe.png)

# Fifth Aquarium

![Aquarium(5)_compo1_up2_signed.jpeg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/23wBgJAHwwCVA91GaK5hdCrCpzJiBM6LEMkgm8pdVm1dSfHJtCrcmQZCMPkeLrQ5rkztP.jpeg)

And for this last one, to try something new, I generated the initial image with Stable Diffusion with a prompt that has nothing to do with aquariums, then got the result back into DD to generate on top of it.

![X37EMQ9WSwsLaUVnWj5uXRHwjwzR6KfScsHyS24twkWHXTmg7HHYV2Z8TdzS68pmxJ9nJMNsDfhrag3J2q3e5YmUE95nFhLkVXnJA.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/julesquirin/Eo1wMUEJSj2Cyz9JDDqeEGp4V5QsLcJe4bUQJALqi2AZrJKUKWZ9zAS33kzH9dZfxqe.png)

### That's all for today, I hope you liked what you saw and what you read, if you did or not just let me know in a comment, you know you have the power to influence what I will make next! Let me know what you would like to see!

### Also, if you want to check out more of my generative work, or 3D design, or even artworks, check me out on [Instagram ](https://www.instagram.com/thephilostoner/)or [or everywhere else](https://allmylinks.com/thephilosopherstone), where I publish most of what I do.

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