Metamorphosis Into The Mind's Evil Eye | A Mixed Media Art Project

I often wonder if humans could undergo a complete metamorphosis, would it be possible to change biologically into another complete form of being? Is change always a good transformation? Perhaps evil with its definition of someone or something that utterly immoral, wicked, or sinful, can undergo a transformation. But into what? a deeper evil?

With this thought in mind, I immediately attempted create a mixed media art design that I felt captured this transformation.

To begin designing my project, I felt the need to retrieve an image from stable diffusion that met my specific description. Of course, when we think of transformation, immediately a butterfly comes to mind from its humble origin to blossoming into its majestic beauty. I found this specific look at StarryAI.

From the single prompt, I retrieved two lovely images that fit perfectly my vision.

StarryAI Text input:
"ethereal and surreal deep purple butterfly transformed."

Style: Argo
Runtime: 50
Seed: 1672958345

StarryAI Results:

For the facial feature in my project, I chose an evil dwarf together with a blank purple colored empty facial frame that resembled a web of scariness. My vision was to insert the evil dwarf into the empty facial image.

I love the image of the dwarf with the wrinkled face and substances flowing from his mouth.

With all images selected, I chose as my design program, Canva to compile them using the features I set out below:

I started with a blank, white canvas.

I noticed the colors in the butterflies and the other images and decided to switch canvas color to purple in the chance I'd need to remove the backgrounds for the images.

I added the blank face scarf image. The background interfered with my original purple colored background, so I removed that from the scarf.

What a scary scene, so I decided to insert the scary dwarf face into its center. The original color of the dwarf scene I didn't like, so I colored it to match the other colors of the butterflies.

Added the flat butterfly with wings facing outward. Colorized it to black, then resized and repositioned it.

Added the blue side-view stable diffusion butterfly with the green stem. Duplicated and repositioned them to fill the screen. Completed the project.