Most years, I make a label, stealing public domain art from José Guadalupe Posada. Known for his art based on Día de los Muertos style and imagery like this:
This year I discovered these AI art generators – where you give it some prompt and the AI returns some images it creates based on that input. I decided to experiment with them for the label. My first run of exploration into them produced some pretty disturbing images.
The prompt for those was something like “Chile pepper skeleton”.
Tweaking the prompt a bit helped to generate some lighter, more fun images. I started with something like “In the style of Jose Guadalupe Posada, an outlaw running with a Chile pepper”. That produces 4 images and you can have it make variations of an image you like, and so on. The result was some pretty funny and boggling images of skeletons looking like they were having a good time. I added the text and a QR code to simplify the label – you can find the ingredients on the 2022 Hot Sauces post.
This years labels:
