Understanding how the Sisterhood Club NFT art is created.
Multiple NFT projects have used generative art to create their digital collections. One of the most famous is BAYC (Bored Ape Yacht Club).
Multiple NFT projects have used generative art to create their digital collections. One of the most famous is BAYC (Bored Ape Yacht Club).
But before I understood how generative art worked, I thought every piece was drawn from scratch.
From the beginning,
Every single time!
Thinking about it logically, how long do you think it would take to draw 10,000 different images?!?
As I started understanding the digital art world, I realised all the Apes were generated randomly using an algorithmic code.
The art is still hand-drawn, but if you notice the Ape drawings above, the Ape remains in the same position. The inside of the ears never change, and neither does the nose.
Instead, each image has been generated by an algorithm churning out several different layers, placed on top of each other in a specific order.
Each layer has many different hand-drawn items or “traits”, as they are referred to in the NFT art space.
And by combining and layering these traits on top of each other, we can create various images, which is precisely the formula we’re using to generate our Sisterhood Club “Sisters”.
To create each unique Sister, we are using eight layers.
Background 💫
Body 👸
Lips 👄
Jewellery 💎
Clothes 👗
Hair 👱♀️
Eyes 👀
Makeup 💄
Each of these layers has been hand-drawn by our incredible artist Angela Pencheva.
Angela is a Bulgarian artist with a huge passion for drawing women. She was born into a family of artists and is the daughter of the Bulgarian surrealist artist — Radoslav Penchev. Angela studied sculpture and drawing in Burgas, Bulgaria and finds her inspiration in movies, emotions and people’s diverse personalities.
When we approached Angela to discuss creating a collection of 10,000 Sisters, we expressed the need to be diverse and inclusive to all.
We also created an “Origin Story” to help inspire the creation of the Sisters.
We wanted the Sisters to look natural, life-like, almost 3D.
(not an easy task, for sure)
But we knew Angela had the technical skills, creativity and abilities after seeing the drawings of her previous sold-out project, Sharded Minds by EnterDAO.
Let’s look at how these layers work by placing them one on top of the other with the Sisters.
In this first image, we have the background (Zodiac Sign), then layered on top are the body, lips, and then jewellery.
Next, we layer on the clothes, hair, eyes, and lastly, makeup (in this image, it’s subtle, but eye shadow is added).
It’s then possible to create additional images if the only trait change is the hair.
By doing this, it creates remarkably different looking Sisters.
Afro hair — pink hair — punk hair — baseball cap.
Angela has drawn up to 30 different traits for each layer of the Sisterhood Club project.
Here is a look at one of the layers Angela has created.
Let’s hypothetically say if all 8 layers had precisely 30 different traits each; it means we have the possibility of generating up to 656,100,000,000 Sisters.
😲
(Of course, it won’t be that many because some layers (i.e. the skin tones) only have 7 different choices.)
But we will be creating 10,000 😅
Because we will only be generating 10,000 different images, we can input into the algorithm how often or how little we want a particular “trait” to appear.
For example, we can choose for 90% of images to have no eye makeup and the other 10% to have a mix of the different eye makeups.
Using this creates a rarity factor for the Sisters.
(this is why you might see NFTs sold on the secondary market for more than others within the same collection)
So even though we are creating 10,000 Sisters, they will be made from just over 200 hand-drawn traits.
Therefore, every Sister art piece will be unique by using the power of an algorithmic code to generate them.
With love
The Sisterhood Club Team
For more information on how to be a part of the Sisterhood Club and own a “Sister NFT” visit our website — www.sisterhoodclub.io
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