HAZE LONG @hazelong - Tumblr Blog

Hi, I am Haze Long.

Artist, Speed Painter & Youtuber. I create art in 3D and digital painting, which are then fed into AI for deconstruction for final output. All my links in one place

ARTIST

painted & produced over 100 murals

global exhibiting artist

SPEED PAINTER

perform and complete a painting on a rotating easel within a duration of a song on stage

over 60 performances

YOUTUBER

free Procreate tutorials and brushes

120k subscribers

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🏅 OBJKT 24 HR HOT COLLECTION 🏅 2nd time.

This batch was created in Midjourney v3 with stable diffusion already integrated into their tech.

The previous batch was done in dream studio, which I was sponsored credits and now I ran out of said credits.

When generating using midjourney, they tend to feed primary colours thats over saturated and all over the place. I had a hard time removing all traces of said colours and trying to keep the palette consistent across the collection.

nuVo renAIssance

Collab with Cypheristikal

The most complex piece I had ever done. Overworked, overdetailed. stiff af.

I miss the days of working on canvas where you can just step back to avoid overworking. In Procreate, I am constantly stuck at 5 pixel zoom to clean up details.

I downloaded a new app in iPad, to remove backgrounds. it worked very well.

It was during my collabs that I realized the need to upscale my work. These artists were minting at 6k or 11k pixels and I was minting at 2.3k on a good day.

I started upscaling using swinIR and Gigapixel AI.

Never Enough

#mahsaamini happened. I was very affected because I was in a group full of iranians. I couldn't keep creating pretty girl art. I wanted to retaliate. I made a series of these glitches.. that didn't sell very well but my anger subsided. I used the earnings to collect NFTs by Iranians.

In hindsight i could have continue selling pretty girl portraits to fund my collections. 🤦‍♀️

But sometimes the communication is necessary.

🏅 OBJKT 24 hr HOT COLLECTION🏅

Unexpectedly, this collection were trending on OBJKT. I engineered for that to happen but I felt guilty when it happened. I usually create with 3d + AI + digital painting. These pieces were AI + a lil bit of painting. The lack of the usual heavy effort gave me the jitters.

Generated in Stable Diffusion's Dream Studio. I was sponsored credits, I used it to churn these out and also made a tutorial for them

Disclaimer - video is dated, I was also restricted to dream studio. There are better options now.

#4 Motions in Alla Prima

I intended for this collection to be Airdrop only. A collection to reward collectors for collecting my NFTs so far. But I had generated extra images so I put them up for sale....

These are all artworks generated from Stable Diffusion and I painted over them for the Alla Prima oil painting look.

I had mostly finalized my workflow with 3d at this point, this was a journey to fine tune my workflow in Procreate. I created and edited many brushes in this period.

GHOSTS with @dehiscence-art

Series of drops collab with Dehi. Working on this also made me realized I need to work on my 3d tailoring. All the fabrics here are hand painted. And it was through this collection that I learned that having lots of miscellaneous detail through out the visual can lend a sense of luxurious complexity to the artwork.

Cloudbursting with @dehiscence-art

Collab with mama bear, my first angel in the space. stay weird and dark always!! #makeemdead

The Memory Collector

At this time, i had realized that being collected by big collector once or twice doesn't path an easy journey. I was neither new nor established in the space. I was undiscovered, and I will stay undiscovered until someone decided to shine a light on me.

I wondered then how many artists were like me, hustling.. with talent .. and on the verge of giving up each day.

Grace Almera collected this piece, which caused Natalie Shau to collect my other works.

If there is one thing I love about NFT is the ability of being supported and loved by women in it. The joy of my art being collected by female artists I idolize is unlike any other.

This piece was beamed in Brussels by Art Crush.

Metamorphosis of the Swan

It's difficult to talk about this piece again. Especially since the NFT was 1/1 and burned with malicious intent.

If you make sensitive art that's close to your heart and it still hurts you to talk about it.. pls take my advice and have the liberty to pick your collector. This ended up in the hands of someone who didn't give a shit about child abuse and burned this NFT.

If you want to know about the story, you can watch the video.

Mary had a Little Lamb

Balancing large amounts of AI pieces and collaging them can sometime result in a flat illustration. I like how complex the illustration is but I was also aware of the need to unify all the elements together, especially now that I am knee deep into collaging.

Secrets in Your Garden

#3 Decorations for the Unliving

This is a more illustrative approach. I love this aesthetic but it requires insane amount of digital overpainting to rework all the elements.

I love cheerful colors that contrast with dark narrative.

Black Tears

Made this for a contest. This was a jury's pick. The narrative is about how cheetah develop their black tears. Their cub was taken and the mother cheetah was so torn that she cry two permanent black tears.

This visual shows the side of the human that took the cubs as well.

Rhythm and Hue

Incredible vision but limited time. I wish I had more time to paint this to perfection.

Balancing competitions, submissions and events for Tezos is insane. but by now I am almost non-newbie.

Swag and Bob

Homage to my digital painting days in Procreate and all the Pinterest girls I painted.

I was lucky too. cuz Midjourney had an extremely limited set of coloured faces. I saw the same face in another minted raw output of a colored portrait.

The Grand Contemplation

Example of what not to do :

Never create an artwork trying a brand new style. especially when the deadline is in 3 days

Going into abstraction requires alot more experience in that field. especially when I only have experience in realism/impressionism.

trying to impress others with a barrage of skills and techniques.

Keep it simple. stupid.

Hello Goodbye

My favourite piece of the Dark Arts series and I focus on narrative over aesthetic. This piece is about leaving a mark on the world.. and realizing maybe we won't be able to leave any mark before saying goodbye. I was accepting that maybe I might die before I accomplish my goals as an artist. I might just be a blip in the lives of the fellow artists in the space.

I continued exploring voronoi patterns. The fight between 3d, AI and digital painting continues as I struggle to decide the winner that controls the visual language. But I'm getting there somehow.

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