Black Hole Sunflower - Steem-Art: Photo Editing Contest #1 submission

This is my submission for the inaugural edition of the photo editing contest for the Steem-Art Discord server.


Black Hole Sunflower detail

Read my detailed Deep Style / Deep Dream Generator tutorial for more on the techniques I am using here. I started with the contest base image (see below) and ran it through the neural network trained with my Wirebot original art as the style image. I made versions with the style scale set larger (the majority of the final image) and also with the style scale set smaller (most of the sunflower in the final image). I combined the two images in PhotoShop and then painted digital colors on top. I am pretty sure I have taken this challenge in a very different direction than most will go - hope you enjoy it!

The contest challenge was to start with this base image and go to town on it:

Here is my original Wirebot art that I used as the style image to train the neural network:

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