Externalizing imagination: an AI art workflow built on dragging, collaging and overpainting
snikolov · x · 2026-10-22
The author describes a creative workflow where imagination is externalized into the process itself: instead of drawing from a blank canvas, they take low-degree-of-freedom actions — dragging images side by side, aligning boundaries, saving the good ones — and feed them into the next iteration. Zooming, collaging and overpainting, they say, yields far better composition than direct brushwork.
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