Currently I change my profile picture very often - but I try to stay true to my "base picture", especially the actor who is on it. And of course the Fedora if possible.













This is to explain a little bit the different pictures and maybe also a little bit the development and the history. The pictures of the last weeks I have made "of course" with an AI
(https://www.midjourney.com/) .

So please, everyone who doesn't like this kind of "art" and finds it "dumb" and condemns every result of these generators or "graphic tools", shouldn't read any further. For all others, I will try to show the prompts I used. And please, please... don't start a discussion about "generative artificial intelligence programs" or "deep learning models that generate digital images from natural language descriptions" in the comments. Thanks, feel free to write me via PN.

I will always expand this guide to show the latest avatar images!

First of all, my main avatar image what I have been using for many years is Steve Buscemi in an early role as Mister Shhh* (Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead ‧ 1995 ‧ Crime/Thriller).
















(* Mister Shhh with THREE "h")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Buscemi

Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992), Robert Rodriguez's Desperado (1995), Simon West's Con Air (1997) und Michael Bay's Armageddon (1998). Buscemi is also known for his many collaborations with the Coen brothers, having appeared in six of their films: Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), and Paris, je t'aime (2006). In 2004, Buscemi joined the cast of the television series The Sopranos as Tony Soprano's cousin and childhood friend, Tony Blundetto, a role that earned him an Emmy Award nomination. Buscemi starred in the HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire created by Terence Winter. The series started in 2010, where Buscemi assumed the role as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on Enoch L. Johnson), a corrupt Atlantic City politician.

Buscemi is noted for wrinkles around his eyes, giving them an aged appearance. "Buscemi eyes" describes the result when his eyes are photo-edited onto others' faces.

Buscemi was a New York City firefighter from 1980 to 1984, with Engine Company No. 55, in the Little Italy section of New York.





























Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Buscemi

I like him as an actor myself, as I thought his roles in the 90s were so brilliant.... he also seems likeable as a person. Plays a kind of outsider most of the time. His physiognomy is so unique that I think he is unmistakable.

BTW: I think the same goes for Nicolas Cage (not only the face but the whole body language is brilliant) and Christopher Walken. Both contenders for a genius avatar image, but.... Steve Buscemi became it.

"Steve Buscemi in different styles"

Actually I wanted the AI to create a "diagrammatic drawing**", but somehow it only came up with a GOOD "normal" drawing.



















**A plan, sketch, drawing, or outline designed to demonstrate or explain how something works or to clarify the relationship between the parts of a whole.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/diagrammatic

I especially like this style because I really appreciate the art, works and paintings of Boris Vallejo**




















**Boris Vallejo is america’s premier fantasy artist. His works are known and loved around the world. Boris is famous for his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and many other fantasy characters, as well as movie poster illustration, advertisement illustration, and artwork for collectibles, trading cards, and sculpture.

Source: https://www.borisjulie.com/

in the style of wavy, handsome, pop inspo, calm and serene beauty

1990, in the style of neo - geo, dark reflections, creased crinkled wrinkled, photo taken with provia, colab, nabis, captivating gaze




















pop iconography, leather/ hide, cinestill 50d, strong diagonals, dappled, cobra, group zero

with gun poses, heroic masculinity, contemporary fact versus fiction




**Precisionism has not been applied here by midjourney, but it is a good and interesting art style

"Precisionism" was a modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I. Influenced by Cubism, Purism, and Futurism, Precisionist artists reduced subjects to their essential geometric shapes, eliminated detail, and often used planes of light to create a sense of crisp focus and suggest the sleekness and sheen of machine forms.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precisionism

holding a glass of wine, in the style of post - '70s ego generation, movie still, zeen chin, raymond leech, david b. mattingly, the blue rider, strong facial expression


**Raymond Leech was born at Great Yarmouth in East Angila in 1949 and spent his childhood by the seaside, He was influenced to take up an artistic career by his father, who taught him to draw. In particular, he was inspired by the work of the Newlyn School, the french impressionists, Edgar Degas 1834-1917, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919 and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901.

more informations:
https://www.southwoldgallery.co.uk/artists/126/raymond-leech

digital mixed media, sigma 105mm f/ 1. 4 dg hsm art, fairy tale illustrations, realistic trompe - l'oeil




**this art style makes more sense when used in an environment to create optical illusions


Trompe-l'œil (French for 'deceive the eye') is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l%27%C5%93il

Painting

game wallpaper, in the style of precisionist art, cobra, cloudpunk, sharp edges, richly detailed genre paintings, solapunk, dark emerald, neon city scene, in the style of christopher balaskas**
























** https://www.deviantart.com/balaskas

Beautiful noir black & white pop surrealism modern art inspired by Greg Simkins + Gerald Brom + Salvador Dali + Agent X + Roy Lichtenstein











**Surrealism aims to revolutionise human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. The movement's artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional.

more informations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism

in the style of keith mallett, d&d

















**Keith Mallett is an American painter, etcher, and ceramic artist whose subject matter ranges from figurative to abstract.

https://www.keithmallett.com/

something in the direction of "colorful cubists"**

style of celebrity - portraits, digital art, mid - century, strong facial expression, glowing colors, sharp angles
(or)
vibrant color gradients, film noir style, sharp focus, animated film pioneer, colorful cubist



















**Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related artistic movements in music, literature, and architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism
https://fineartamerica.com/art/cubism

in the style of kintsugi, 8k resolution, harriet backer, meticulous details, depictions of aristocracy, princesscore, lee miller
(or)
with ornaments, in the style of iconic works of art history, gossamer fabrics, portraitures with hidden meanings, fernand khnopff, heidelberg school, Art Nouveau





















** Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt

oil on canvas, in the style of dark orange and sky - blue, picasso, 1918–1939 (interwar) , kodak ektar 100, oil portraitures, anamorphic art, light red and indigo


A bit of Picasso², a bit of Anamorphic Art³



²https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

³https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/anamorphic-art-then-and-now

in the style of light sky - blue and light gray, energetic expressions, green, les automatistes, women artists, mottled, groundcore, Impressionism






²https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claude-Monet

in the style of realist detail, dark bronze and aquamarine, aerial view, socialist realism, assemblage of maps, hard - edged, realistic hyper - detail, Futurism




A bit of socialist realism², a bit of Futurism³




²https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism
³https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism

iconic pop culture caricatures, magali villeneuve, meticulous military scenes, thomas sully, painting and writing tools

²https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sully
³https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun

vignettes of paris, trompe - l'œil illusionistic detail, classical compositions, sky - blue and beige, painting and writing tools, 32k uhd





















jeanhonorérobertcagnol, in the style of rococo pastel² hues, uhd image, mommy's on - the - phonecore, classical portraits, ultrafine detail, 18th century, high resolution

























²https://www.britannica.com/art/Rococo

in the style of a scientific diagram drawing

in the style of anton semenov, old comic, in the style of realistic hyper - detailed portraits, Fragmented advertising, shiny eyes, vintage cut -and-paste, intense close-ups


















**Anton Semenov is a Russian digital artist and illustrator.

https://www.photographize.co/articles/anton-semenov/

as a Instagram Model, Pixar animation style, featuring rich facial details, Rembrandt lighting effect, Hip Hop Clothing, hyper definition, taken with a Canon EOS R3, wide - angle lense

Vogue photoshoot of Steve Buscemi in Wes Anderson style, hyperrealistic photography, Wes Anderson style, 8k






²https://www.curzon.com/journal/unpacking-wes-anderson-s-cinematic-style/

Originally posted by Zoë Morgan:

Another keyword used to describe Wes Anderson's style is formalism. The opposite of realism, this refers to a more stylised form of filmmaking that uses lighting, sound, music, set design and colour to help tell the story.

in patrick nagel style





²https://www.revereauctions.com/patrick-nagel/

Originally posted by revereauctions.com:

Patrick Nagel was an American pop artist and painter born in Dayton, Ohio on November 25, 1945. He grew up in Orange County, California outside of Los Angeles. After serving with the US Army in Vietnam, Nagel returned to LA and attended the Chouinard Art Institute in 1969. That same year, he graduated from California State University in Fullerton with a Bachelor’s in fine arts.

Originally posted by revereauctions.com:

Patrick Nagel is known for his pop art illustrations of stylish women. His minimalist, high contrast style was reminiscent of art deco and pop art styles, but with a distinctly modern twist. His work rapidly gained popularity in the early 1980s, and came to symbolize the glamor and aesthetic priorities of the decade.

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, Canon 50mm macro lens, ISO 100, f/ 8, shutter speed 1/ 100 a beautiful breathtaking fusion of [portrait of Steve Buscemi + a flaming phoenix]. rendered as an avant - garde digitally manipulated photograph.

Incoherent painting, poignant soul

in the style of detailed portraiture, dark and brooding designer, close up, klaus wittmann, roberto ferri², maximilian pirner³, shiny


²https://www.robertoferri.net/

³https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Pirner

with a black fedora in the style of Jan Vermeer²


²https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vermeer

concept art, algorithmic art, world's dynamic of tectonic, hypertensive adversity, in style of ink sketching realism, one vanishing point, non - linear wide angle, otherworldly varnished digital paintings, solarcore, wet - on - wet blending, flat shading, finely detailed, flawless

as d& d character², striking noble man, charming


²https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-5e/how-to/how-make-dnd-character-for-beginners

d& d character, half - orc rogue who delights in causing chaos and misery wherever he goes, with a hulking frame his very presence can be intimidating to those around him, art style of Keith Parkinson²


²https://www.keithparkinson.com/artwork/

as fierce Celtic Jedi Sentinel wearing armor adorned with glistening shamrocks. The figure should wield a vibrant green lightsaber, radiating power and mystique. The artistic medium for this piece should be a digital painting, influenced by the masterful style of Aleksi Briclot². Employ a lighting setup that creates a dramatic ambiance, accentuating the wetness and shine of both the armor and the Jedi's surroundings. Emphasize deep shadows and intense highlights to evoke a sense of mystery and intrigue


²https://www.deviantart.com/aleksi--briclot

Thanks for reading - will continue in a timely manner!