Years on – [part 1]

Stand back as I impose upon you more walls of text. Except that this time, I’ve been working on a piece, it’s been a while… don’t, ffs, I mean… ef ef es, by this point, why don’t you, <in general interested, redacted>.

Anyway, here’s a blurred out portion of the work, I’ll flatter myself in that the blurring makes anything look good/better, that plus I’d want to “properly reflect” (inb4 define “proper” – it’s anything but this – INB4 DEFINE “THIS” – FFS LEAVE ME ALONE) via putting to text said… reflections? … What am I even, ffs….

It’s been given a 2x 100% gaussian blur, cropped to a 4th or something, zoomed etc (just so I won’t call it complete “in this state”). Until then…. brb. Leaving the incomplete tag on.

… this weekend, I think… I’m calling this work complete, we have to.

Also, JnX’s last program “Axon”, God-willing, after 2 discreet demos, seems to be going for adoption, (again, God-willing) next week or so. If that’s the case – if I’ve been gifted to actually BRING BACK TO LIFE ATLEAST Axon, GOD – do you know how much I’d love to make some… calls, and be so ready to go back home, you know? My God – those calls, though… Lord knows – have we been hanging on for 10 years now… I can’t begin to, man…. I swear… Axon finding life 10 years on. What does it even feel like…. For those who hasn’t seen JnX’s last program, this is it:

JnX’s Axon from 2014 – built with a 100% custom (not even cpp’s std namespace is used – no, not even string.h) A full-blown NATIVE cross-platform application framework. This simple program is the equivalent of making your own car (from ore-extraction to petroleum purification to design and fabrication) that travels at 100 kmph – not the fastest but the most ridiculously self-evident statement of unrivalled technical prowess.

Now and Then – [part 2]

I’m leaving, what I personally feel, is my best work yet. . . The bottom is fully painted, and the above is a minimally-augmented (<0.15 denoising-strength, rated as <8% AI-generated on isitai.com – evidence that this is more of a demonstration of AI-related custom coding than “AI ART”) of a refined version of my painting below, using my custom ComfyUI nodes (non-native Controlnet node), and my own 100% self-trained LoRA – deterministically reproduceable (sans xformers for pixel-perfect reproducibility) . I think… I don’t say this, but given how we’re coming to…. the closing of certain things. I want to say that, I think, JnX, would have like the grounds-up implementation and work, I think I am beginning to feel that his works are coming to fruition, I’m beginning to feel that … home isn’t far off now.

“Now and then” – a symbolic, composite work

Loved ones know I never give up my art-source. However, I’m… I’m leaving all my art-source for anyone who may learn from it. I’ll have a archive dumped uploaded sometime by the month-end. I’ll also release my self-trained stylistic LoRA – it’s been trained on all my artwork, allowing anyone interested in my style, to create stylistically similar images to mine, if needed, without me/my base work.

That being said: All my art-sources are hereby released under Creative Common license version “CC BY-SA” – go commercial, alter it, call it your own – I don’t care. This CC license gives you all.

Art source/PSD for “Now and Then”: (3k – full resolution) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dsvnuy8HelWlc3KdAmBvN40ePOC2onZu/view?usp=sharing

Also, sharing my standard method of visual ideation, exemplifying the work in question, again, do with it as you please – PSD with individual characters etc are included above – if you can give a still-living story to your characters in your life using this, please do and make it count; help find this artwork find a meaningful home.

Invention citation #4 + Axon – [part 3]

Will have the final update here……… at the exact moment of confirmations of things.

3/20/2024 – I think I know what is left to do.