Projects 81-100 | AI-Generated Synthography by David Name

Cover

Eighteen fictional comics that were never printed. Using AI to simulate hand-drawn illustration, analogue ink and bold comic lettering, the project strips away barcodes, prices and publisher marks to focus on the charged promise of the front cover: invented titles, ominous images and stories that never arrive.

Tension

This project studies the male body when it is no longer alone. Powerful men meet in smoky theatrical spaces, where proximity, touch, restraint and pressure turn masculinity into something unsettled: disciplined, erotic, and unresolved, caught between control, support and another physical language still forming.

BLUE

A study of blue as the colour of calm systems, managed trust and polite authority. Across eighteen images, login panels, passports, medical objects, water, devotion and the monochrome void turn a familiar colour into a language of access, distance, cold reassurance and institutional power.

Camoufleur

A series of flat pixel camouflage studies exploring colour, scale and optical fusion. The synthographs imagine patterns for environments that may not exist, turning woodland, ash, snow, algae, concrete, night, rust, screen-light and synthetic terrain into surfaces designed to disappear by becoming strangely visible.

Menagerie

This project begins with Sir Edwin Landseer and reimagines animal presence through contemporary synthography. Animals are staged with photographic realism and painterly atmosphere, exploring dignity, art history and the strange continuity between painted tradition and generated pixels.

Simulacra

Fruit and flowers become simulated oil paintings, copies of copies shaped by language rather than brush, board or hand. Simulacra explores how artificial images inherit the authority of still life and painting, using skin, petal, shadow and light to ask how little reality an image needs before belief quietly begins.

SKETCH

An invented male sitter is presented through graphite contours, cross-hatched shadows and hot pink washes. Posed as though observed during life-drawing sessions, he never entered a studio and no pencil touched paper. The series asks why synthetic marks can still carry the intimacy of drawing itself.

Patterns

A study of acanthus carried through centuries of ornament. Eighteen digital images enlarge, repeat, fracture and mutate the leaf, exploring how visual memory survives transformation. Artificial without disguise, the works detach acanthus from physical material and rework its language on screen.

Camera

Camera explores promptography through fictional male models, combining black-and-white portraiture with restrained colour. Built through language rather than light, the series uses varied setups and psychological cues to ask whether invented faces can feel present enough to invite emotional connection.

Produce

Eighteen familiar fruits and vegetables become synthetic illustration assets. Generated from tightly structured prompts, the project explores how words can maintain a consistent graphic style, shifting labour from manual drawing towards specification, selection, refinement, and art direction at scale.

DOODLE

An interactive browser-based drawing tool inviting visitors to make simple marks within a deliberately constrained visual system. Sitting adjacent to synthography, it reverses the usual relationship between human and machine: AI helped build the instrument, while the visitor receives the prompt and draws by hand.

Logomania

A simple monogram moves from discreet identifier to repeated surface, status symbol and obsession. Drawing on fashion's history of branding, the project places an original LM mark across tailoring, leather goods, jewellery and accessories, balancing monochrome restraint with neon pink and chartreuse.