A.I. Art assisted by human (me)
Believe it or not, it started with this doodle:
then I used 2d software to color a bit in specific areas:
Then I used Deep Dream algorithms to iterate couple times feeding it with results over and over.
Sometimes I had to remove glitches and unnecessary artefacts.
Eventually I get this:
And this result I pressed with another online tool which find faces and make them 3d:
Phew!
It is a lot of time and work involved anyway.
This pictures ain't draw themselves by any stretch :)