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HISTORIA DIABOLICA MODERNA - Plate LXXIX: The Six Demons of Modern Misery
I built a modern bestiary using ONE archive, ONE artist.
CONCEPT: Reimagining Paul Carus's 1899 demons as modern digital miseries.
I - BASILISK: Doomscrolling, II - SPHINX: CAPTCHA Guardian, III - BAKU: Endless Feed,
IV - HYDRA: Browser Tabs, V - BABA YAGA: Algorithm Hut on Chicken Legs, VI - KRAKEN: Email Inbox
PROCESS:
02 / THE ARCHIVE - 10 REFERENCES, 1 ARTIST
All plates from same book: The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil by Paul Carus (1899) - Public Domain.
Used 10 plates as style reference in Recraft V4.
03 / STYLE CHAIN - 1 Archive -> 3 Styles
STYLE I: CREAM - Original black ink on aged paper (Plate LXXIX)
STYLE II: CRIMSON - Red Lacquer chained from same 10 refs
STYLE III: TEAL - Sea Ink chained from same 10 refs
Proof: Same 6 demons, same composition, 3 colorways = true style chain.
Tools: Recraft V4 (10 ref as style), Public Domain Archive
#recraftstyleschallenge #Recraft #PublicDomain #AIArt #DesignHistory
Thank you so much Sagar! Really appreciate you catching the concept behind it. Exactly what I was trying to do — Paul Carus in 1899 categorized human fears as demons, I just applied the same lens to our modern digital miseries.BASILISK as Doomscrolling because once you look you...
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