Illustrations for FastFud
graphic design • illustration • midjourney
jan–feb 2023
I got the opportunity to illustrate the 10th FASTFUD podcast episode focused on the Interactive media studio at FUD UJEP. The illustrations capture the essence of the studio, which explores the boundaries of media, information, art and even reality itself. A topic like this was made for exploring the possibilities of AI generated images. I used Midjourney’s blend option to combine photos from the episode’s recording with my drawings and created a place where the otherwise incompatible worlds meet. I carefully picked the generated images and then proceded to edit them in Photoshop or other tools. In the end, I used a similar workflow to create a background and then combine it with the previously generated image, which resulted in a series of fake-drawn monsters and fake-(and for some reason black and white)-photo people throwing a party on the border between reality and virtuality, algorithm and imagination.
