Necronomicon Pages – v1.0. This is only a LORA, something perhaps best thought of as a small plug-in for a large generative AI base model. The pages were made using this LORA with the EIDOMODE Stable Diffusion 1.5 Checkpoint model.
Here the indecipherable-ness of AI text is turned to advantage.
Also spotted, a new LORA for Hannes Bok – Golden Age Pulp Style – v1.0, for use with the SD 1.5 base model. May work well with Metropolis 1927 style.
And since this is also Kittee Tuesday, yes… there’s also a LORA for High Quality Cats – v1.0 and the more meme-friendly CuteCat – v1.0. Even a cosmic Space Cat generator. Though the LORA for the 200+ feline cat expressions they can make has yet to arrive. Still, these are perhaps useful for making “H.P. Lovecat” images.
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Those images might be AI-generated, but they are VERY much in the style of Mr. Zarono. He’s been around for over a decade and gets pirated a lot. One of his pieces was pirated, enlarged and then used as a poster in an episode of the new HAWAII 5-0. He hand ages the edges of his art paper. Zarono also makes various macabre/Mythos three-dimensional artifacts like daggers and book covers. A very interesting guy.
Thanks, yes I also thought they were very similar to the ‘Necronomicon pages’ printed in the late-1970s Heavy Metal ‘Lovecraft special issue’. The AI model was possibly trained on those, I thought. Were those old pages by Zarono?
I don’t recall that ish of HM. I would always check them out and occasionally buy them starting around 1980. Were the ‘pages’ you refer to from the Owlswick Al-AZIF?
Zarono has been producing art for about 15yrs and, as I noted, it has been pirated and copied fairly widely. His trademark is horrific images somewhat in the style of Giger immersed in a background of runes/sigils. He ages each page by hand to make them look like they came from some tome or scroll.
https://www.deviantart.com/mrzarono
Keep up the great work!
Thanks. The famous ‘Lovecraft issue’ was October 1979 I think. Yes, just checked. Oct 1979, on the news-stands in September. You definitely want to get to get the 1970s issues if you can, if you also have a 1980s run in paper. The 1979 Lovecraft issue sold like hot cakes, and thus it can be easily found on eBay. The Necronomicon pages in it were by Druillet himself. Five pages, though I recall that he made more for the set, and that the additional pages were placed online at some blog (not mine) a few years back.