Chairman of the Bored

Posted by Ben Fowler | May 31, 2024 | AI Art, AI Community, AI Illustration, AI-ARTS COMPETITION 2024 | 0 |

Chairman of the Bored

I wanted to produce a series of images subverting the idea of propaganda posters based on the (possibly) real thoughts of Chairman Mao, not the 267 aphorisms more widely know and distributed. The endless proselytising must have been awfully tedious…
I also wanted to produce some work that wasn't just a result of text to image generation; something a bit more hands on. So, to achieve the results I've ended up with digital collage; a mix of Midjourney, Photoshop and Illustrator, along with Topaz Gigapixel to scale the designs to a definition high enough to print at scale.

Merry Kiss Maos

DeadMao5

Thoughts of Batman Mao

Thoughts of Hawaiian Mao

About The Author

Ben Fowler

I've had a fairly interesting and rather unconventional career: I've worked as an illustrator, clothing designer, surf and snowboard shop owner, buyer for an e-commerce company, internet gift & gadget store owner and created a craft beer brand (Original Stormtrooper Beer). The design and illustration was mostly old school - pen, paper, gouache and acrylic but with some late 90s Illustrator and Photoshop work thrown in. When I became a buyer back in 2002, I put down the crayons and thought I'd probably never do anything particularly creative again; however with the advent of the craft ale business, it was my responsibility to decide on the brand identity which meant - initially and because I hadn't touched a pencil or Adobe program in two decades - compiling decks and creating design briefs for other artists to interpret and make material. As things progressed I became more and more involved with creating packaging and merchandise etc, mostly recycling and developing the artwork the designers had come up with. Then in 2023 when the noise around whole AI thing grew deafening, someone showed me something they had created with Midjourney and I had an epiphany. All the limitations I had had about being able to realise an idea, however complicated, disappeared and I happily fell headlong into the GenAI vortex. Suddenly everything was possible and I haven't looked back.

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Chairman of the Bored