Hybrid Species is my latest fine art project, continuing my exploration of digital flora through speculative botanical art. It's part of an ongoing fine art series that began in 2020 with Artificial Bloom, where 3D programs and natural patterns played a central role in the creative process. It is my first artwork series utilizing AI in the creation process to push the boundaries of digital botanical artistry, featuring 80 intricately crafted floral designs. Drawing inspiration from a wide variety of real-world species, flowers, fruits, and other botanical elements are blended into hyperrealistic hybrids that feel both familiar and otherworldly.
Flowers have always been at the core of this series, serving as the primary canvas. Each design reflects my curiosity about nature and the symbolic meanings of flowers across different cultures and throughout history. It's a multilayered connection that intertwines aesthetics, symbolism, emotion, and historical context.
Floral art has continuously evolved, adapting to the shifting styles and tastes of each era. With the rise of AI tools, my workflow and creative process have also transformed—becoming an ongoing evolution rather than a one-time exchange. Like nature, the process sometimes veers off in unexpected directions, feeling random at times, while at others, it follows a clear path, uncovering new possibilities. This intersection between human imagination and machine-driven innovation fascinates me most in each flower design. In this series, nature is portrayed not as it is, but as it could be—reimagined, reshaped, and rendered through algorithms.
Hybrid Species presents a vision of flora from a parallel world, where nature is captured through a digital lens, without a mirror.
The Design Process—
Media Kit & Press
Short Description:
Hybrid Species is the latest fine art project by Hannes Hummel, continuing his ongoing exploration of digital flora through hyperrealistic flower creations. The series is the artist's first to incorporate AI, pushing the boundaries of digital botanical artistry and featuring 80 intricately crafted floral designs.
Drawing inspiration from a variety of real-world species, the series blends flowers, fruits, and botanical elements into surreal yet familiar hybrids. Flowers remain at the core of the project, serving as the primary canvas and embodying the artist’s curiosity about the symbolic meanings of flowers across cultures and throughout history. Hybrid Species presents a vision of flora from a parallel world, where nature is captured through a digital lens, without a mirror.
Hybrid Species
Year: 2024
Size: 4K (4096x4096PX)
Medium: Digital
Tools used: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe AfterEffects, Maxon Cinema4D, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly
The press kit is hosted on Google Drive. If you need an alternative link, please feel free to contact me!
Press & Media Features
Internet magazine features
Print features
Hybrid Species Feature in ArtiAI Magazine
Arti AI Inaugural Magazine, Issue #0 features ten artworks from my Hybrid Species series, along with an exclusive interview diving into the ideas and process behind the work.
https://www.instagram.com/artiai.official/
Flowers (Hoxton Mini Press) is a 192-page hardback celebrating vibrant, inventive floral imagery across fine art photography and AI-driven work. The book features seven artworks from my Hybrid Species series.
https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/collections/books/products/flower
Hybrid Species in the Flowers Book
Vinyl Moon commissioned an exclusive cover sleeve artwork from my Hybrid Species series for one of their ultra-premium monthly vinyl editions. The release brings these botanical hybrids into a physical format, featured across the vinyl packaging and accompanied by a curated booklet, expanding the project into a tactile, full sensory experience.
Hybrid Species artworks on Vinyl
Vetro Editions’ Neo Botanica: An Atlas of Artificially Generated Flora presents AI-crafted botanical worlds by contemporary artists. The book’s cover features a Hybrid Species flower, and 9 more works from the series are included.
https://vetroeditions.com/products/neo-botanica
