MY AI PROCESS
SYNTHMORPHIK is a series of digital illustrations created using a method I call the P2P (Prompt to Paint) Process, a slow, intentional, and hands-on collaboration between artist and machine. Rather than relying on single prompt outputs, I treat AI as a creative partner, guiding and reshaping its responses through hundreds of iterative prompts and precise post-processing edits.
This method involves working with systems like DALL·E and MidJourney, but goes far beyond automated image generation. I refine outputs continuously, correcting distortions, enhancing resolution, and sculpting toward specific visual and conceptual goals that generic outputs rarely fulfill. Each work is a curated assemblage of AI-generated fragments, reconfigured through human vision and adaptive craftsmanship.
The process often mirrors traditional painting. For portraits, I may begin with a digital sketch or reference photo to map facial structure, then construct the body, environment, and atmosphere layer by layer using both generative tools and manual refinement in Photoshop. A single image can take weeks to fully realize.
At its core, SYNTHMORPHIK explores the fusion of human creativity and machine intelligence. This metamorphic union is reshaping not only how we create, but how we perceive, feel, and express identity in an era of rapid technological evolution.
The resulting aesthetic, Synthmorphik Realism, blends photorealism with surreal symbolism, classical form with posthuman design, and improvisation with precision. It reflects a vision of fluid, hybrid realities shaped by both organic intuition and computational logic.
Above all, creative authorship remains intact. The SYNTHMORPHIK process asserts that human intent, judgment, and responsibility are not replaced, but rather extended, through thoughtful collaboration with intelligent systems.
"What I love about Dinorah's work is that she collects imagery—a whole batch of material to sort through—and then uses digital processes in Photoshop to construct an image."
— Chuck Close, Leading American Artist

Detail from The Raft of Synthusa – Blessing of the Last Animist by Dinorah Delfin
Original image (left) generated with MidJourney; edited image (right) enhanced using multi-layered AI prompting and post-processing in Photoshop.

Detail from The Raft of Synthusa - Legacy of Thy Golden Spirit by Dinorah Delfin
Original image (left) generated with MidJourney; edited Image (right) enhanced using multi-layered AI prompting in Photoshop.
"I think photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, but the hardest medium in which to have a personal vision … what Dinorah's doing is very interesting as photographs...They're excellent photographs ... They're very much a painter's attitude, a painter's vision. It almost looks to me like constructing actors on a stage."
— Chuck Close, Leading American Artist

Detail from Synthmorphik Renaissance, 2024
Multi-Layered AI-Generated Rendering by Dinorah Delfin