About Me (Self Portrait Exercise)

Surrealistic Selfie

Self portrait:

Surrealistic selfie 1

Generative AI exercise:

First image generated by Gen AI, Adobe Firefly

The prompt I used to generate the image is the following:
In the middle of a crowded square, a 20-year old Korean woman with dark brown eyes and hair. The cracks on her face, as if it were made of fragile porcelain, symbolize her fading presence in the colorless and dull city. Her deep confusion stemmed from the gap between who she is and who she is expected to be. At this point, her pale and slightly smiling face maximizes her suffering and chaos, and a bit of loneliness.
The scene is set in the middle of a crowded square crowded with people, each going their own way, indifferent to her. Everyone except her is walking forward with their backs turned to her.
A single, dim street lamp flickers overhead, casting a faint glow on her, as if the crowd were indifferent to her. The camera focuses on a close-up shot of her face to attract viewers’ attention to the cracks on her face and the contrast between her and the others.
Rendered in a “charcoal drawing” including the protagonist, which means black and white. The region is Asian, and the era is the modern era.

The reference image I used is the following:
Surrealistic selfie 1

Second image generated by Gen AI, Adobe Firefly

The prompt I used to generate the image is the following:
Self-portrait containing the ideal of “self-enlightenment and Buddhahood.”
A 20-year-old Korean woman with brown hair and eyes is wearing a whiteT-shirt with black cargo pants, smiling kindly. It’s me. By attaining enlightenment, I shall become Buddha, for I am Buddha.
Only I am shining with a halo on a black background, and I am sitting cross-legged in the middle of a giant Pink lotus. In the midst of everything else being black, only the lotus and I are colorful and shining. Full Shot.
Rendered in a digital painting style, mimicking the texture of oil painting with Minimalism style. Use Asian art style, combining with a modern digital aesthetic.

The reference image I used is the following: