Temple of The Future

More about Temple of The Future

Another in my current Alien Goddess/Priestess Series. See below for the rest of the set, which this will be joining later. Admittedly some of these are veering into orientalism, which while aestheticist pleasing is, I recognise, potentially problematic.
https://deepdreamgenerator.com/ddream/z4tl24eaacs

Anyway, last night the word 'Supine' popped into my head, Jonathan Ross saying it on QI once, and for some reason I imagined some sort of alien goddess/priestess lying in Sphinx pose (mistakenly thinking that's what supine meant at the time) set in an Egyptian inspired temple. So here's a series exploring this idea. I ended up having to mock up an underpainting with a stock photo for the pose, roughly painted over and heavily reworked, because the AI didn't seem to know what Sphinx pose / Salamba Bhujangasana is and kept doing a strange bent plank position thing. I'm glad that I spent some time working on the 'underpainting', because in trying to add more interest to the background I added those columns and I think they work quite well to add interest and strengthen the composition.

Here I've given the model much more freedom, cranking the strength up. I also had to edit out something strange going on at the feet, turn it into some kind of decorative fixture or something. The AI sometimes 'thought' there was another face in the feet too, which lead to some odd images.