Teardrop In Time | A Mixed Media Art Project

A faint dab of mist brushed Vallyna's blue-gray steel cheek. Her sockets switched back and forth until the balls identified the foreign object. The arm attached to her mid-section instead of her shoulder reached out and attempted to respond to the stimuli.

She wasn't scheduled to be activated until the next day.

"How could she know the action required if she were not yet activated?" The technician stammered, then nudged his partner before noting the incident in his ledger.

"I don't know, and I didn't see that. Probably a knee-jerk reaction remaining from the memory implant transfer," she responded.

They both agreed, locked up for the night and clocked out.

Vallyna sat upright slowly, scanned the clinic's security features, then slid from the table.

She paused at the workbench. Two oval shaped eye guards lay next to several arms. She quickly scanned the guards and attached them to her sockets.

Opening the laboratory door, she disarmed the alarm system, then walked purposefully toward the exit.

For my current mixed media art project, I wanted to portray a humanoid that unexpectedly responds to water that touches her armor. She's not yet activated, so this shouldn't happen. She then escapes the clinic where she is assembled.

I first called upon a stable diffusion program, StarryAI, to render an image from a text description of only a few words, "single teardrop".

What I received was a beautiful female image that looks as if she is encased in a uniform. But what I loved about the image was that in the left eye, it looked as if a clock's hands are moving. I feel that in my description of teardrop the "time" was used as a reflection in the eye socket.

Below are my steps:

StarryAI Text Input:
"Single teardrop."

Style: Fantasy
Iterations: 50
Seed: 8064404013

StarryAI Results:

I returned to StarryAI for additional stable diffusion images. This time I needed a partial background that would blend in with the humanoid's color. What I did was to request in the text description water in the form of the sea with ripples.

My next stable diffusion image I wanted to represent an item from the humanoid's memory.

The images I retrieved were awesome to work with. I enjoy working with StarryAI as a stable diffusion program. The site is also easy to navigate.

Below are the two images that were produced.

I added only one other image. Water droplets represented tears that I applied to the face.
^{Water drops}