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1. Blue Yellow. Photorealistic painting of a man dancing and running in front of an abstract expressionistic background made out of blue and white smoke, yellow accent. (12 variations)

2. Red Yellow. Photorealistic painting of a man dancing and running in front of abstract expressionistic brush strokes in red and yellow. (14 variations)

3. Purple Yellow. Photorealistic painting of a man in purple running shorts dancing and running in front of yellow smoke in the style of abstract expressionism. (8 variations)

- IG 1: www.instagram.com/p/CvSISDLLNL…
- IG 2: www.instagram.com/p/CvSKdIYrcL…
- IG 3: www.instagram.com/p/CvSN0oRLrb…

Web. All variations:

- gymdreams8.com/blog/dance-run/

I love to dance, and enjoy watching dancing performances, so I have been wanting to make some images about dancing for a while. If you follow my Instagram stories, you would probably have seen some of my renders of men in ballet. If you haven’t, I’ve posted one of them to the “One Shot” highlight. Ballet and AI comes with a unique set of challenges, which I can’t include on IG because of space (read on my website).

So today as I tried to work on this project again, I decided to put the dancers in sneakers instead. Then I gave all of them running shorts. I wanted a relatively clean and coherent background but didn’t want just something plain, so I made some abstract paintings inside Midjourney and fed them to Stable Diffusion as part of two control nets: Ref only and Shuffle — a workflow I have come back to time and time again in order to control style and color palette.

The resulting images give the right balance of energy to the photorealistic paintings, while keeping the figures in focus. They actually looked a bit like an advertising campaign for Adidas!

In order to get very detailed brush strokes for the background, I rendered all of these images in fairly high settings (50 steps + 30 hi-res steps), but I think that the results are worth the wait.

Tech: Text prompts with Midjourney (for Control Nets) + Text prompts with Stable Diffusion: 50 steps, DPM++ SDE (not Karras), CFG 5, 512x512, Virile Reality v2, Denoising 0.5. CN0 Reference Only. CN1 Shuffle. ADetailer mediapipe_face_full. Hires 2x (1024x1024), 30 steps, 4x_NMKD-Siax_200k. Post: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x (4096x4096), Adobe Lightroom color correction

Description
1. Blue Yellow. Photorealistic painting of a man dancing and running in front of an abstract expressionistic background made out of blue and white smoke, yellow accent. (12 variations)

2. Red Yellow. Photorealistic painting of a man dancing and running in front of abstract expressionistic brush strokes in red and yellow. (14 variations)

3. Purple Yellow. Photorealistic painting of a man in purple running shorts dancing and running in front of yellow smoke in the style of abstract expressionism. (8 variations)

- IG 1: www.instagram.com/p/CvSISDLLNL…
- IG 2: www.instagram.com/p/CvSKdIYrcL…
- IG 3: www.instagram.com/p/CvSN0oRLrb…

Web. All variations:

- gymdreams8.com/blog/dance-run/

I love to dance, and enjoy watching dancing performances, so I have been wanting to make some images about dancing for a while. If you follow my Instagram stories, you would probably have seen some of my renders of men in ballet. If you haven’t, I’ve posted one of them to the “One Shot” highlight. Ballet and AI comes with a unique set of challenges, which I can’t include on IG because of space (read on my website).

So today as I tried to work on this project again, I decided to put the dancers in sneakers instead. Then I gave all of them running shorts. I wanted a relatively clean and coherent background but didn’t want just something plain, so I made some abstract paintings inside Midjourney and fed them to Stable Diffusion as part of two control nets: Ref only and Shuffle — a workflow I have come back to time and time again in order to control style and color palette.

The resulting images give the right balance of energy to the photorealistic paintings, while keeping the figures in focus. They actually looked a bit like an advertising campaign for Adidas!

In order to get very detailed brush strokes for the background, I rendered all of these images in fairly high settings (50 steps + 30 hi-res steps), but I think that the results are worth the wait.

Tech: Text prompts with Midjourney (for Control Nets) + Text prompts with Stable Diffusion: 50 steps, DPM++ SDE (not Karras), CFG 5, 512x512, Virile Reality v2, Denoising 0.5. CN0 Reference Only. CN1 Shuffle. ADetailer mediapipe_face_full. Hires 2x (1024x1024), 30 steps, 4x_NMKD-Siax_200k. Post: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x (4096x4096), Adobe Lightroom color correction