Nolan Wilkison
Artist • Music Producer • DJ
My artistic journey began with organic drawings created by hand with pen and paper. These early drawings became the foundation of my visual language, built from flowing forms, intricate patterns, and organic structures.
I began exploring how these drawings could be transformed through AI and digital editing, giving them an entirely new dimension while preserving the organic qualities of the original work. Photoshop became an important part of this process, allowing me to reshape, refine, layer, and manipulate the resulting imagery.
Since developing my original organic drawings, I have also experimented with a more unconventional approach to image generation.
Rather than beginning with highly refined outputs, I intentionally use very low-quality settings in prompt-to-image generators to produce unpredictable, abstract results. These rough generations become starting points rather than finished images.
I then take those fragments through multiple stages of enhancement and refinement, progressively revealing details that weren’t initially visible. Each stage transforms the image further, uncovering textures, structures, and forms that emerge through the process.
The final artwork is therefore not simply an AI-generated image. It is the result of a layered process of drawing, generation, discovery, enhancement, and digital manipulation, where unexpected results become part of the creative process.
