A few years ago, at the height of the nonsense, a friend was sad. Heck, the world was sad. Lawdog, like me, has a bit of the clown in him, so he was doing his part to entertain and amuse the world at large. I was doing art every day, and he’d been posting funny… Read More The Squeaks Caper
I was messing around with art, and thought it would be fun to unpack my thought process as I worked towards what I wanted. My first prompt to MidJourney was “graceful dryad in green chiffon, fashion photography, green vines –ar 2:3” I wanted to see what I got for dryad, first, and I really like… Read More Process of Elimination
So, I’ve been slugging my way through a short story that is emotionally fraught. No place to fit in the prompt. What you’ve got instead is an exploration of styles available through the art AI tool, MidJourney. I use this heavily in my graphic design of various projects, and when something new comes out, I… Read More Odd Prompts: MidJourney Styles
Work on the next PTSD anthology is continuing, and we are on track for a publication date of Valentine’s Day. I’d been hoping it would be possible, and now that we’re into February, I can say it for sure! This means, of course, that we finally have a cover! I chose to design it with… Read More Cover Reveal: But Not Broken
I’ve got a headache, so I’m sharing a few rockets with you. What’s your favorite? All images rendered using MidJourney. Prompt was rocketship landing on busy spaceport, alien planet, ringed planet visible in sky, twin moons –chaos 100 –ar 2:3 –v 4
I have a little art project in mind for the first 100 days of 2023. I’d run across the idea through an artist friend, so it’s hardly original. But it looks like a lot of fun, and after nearly all of 2022 was focused on black and white line art, and digital, to boot, I’m… Read More Planning ahead
I feel a little bad about doing this. So don’t take it as me calling out this specific company – I really want to hope and think they are well-intentioned but thoughtless of consequences. UPDATE! They responded to my tweet, took down their initial contest tweet on Twitter, but when I went back to check… Read More All that, and You aren’t even Exposed
There was a conversation, and a side discussion cropped up, as they do, about my perennial joke that I am a hobbit. I’m short, and I have big feet for my stature. I’m not kidding about the feet, the First Reader and I can share boots, as we wear the same size in shoes. But… Read More All the Pockets
A bit under the weather today, but MidJourney rolled out V4, so I’ve been playing with it. This is a whole other level of AI art and as much as I have been doing? This is only getting better. So much fun. Honestly I could play with it like a game for hours. The story… Read More Art Peregrinations
I haven’t written for a week. This is… not good. In an attempt to at least muddle through some of my routines and commitments and regain my momentum, I’ve gone ahead with a MidJourney image for the prompt last week. “The morning mist kissed the flower petals.” And also, a ‘remastered’ version of the initial… Read More Morning Mist: Oddly Prompted
Every year in October, I take part in the global phenomenon where artists draw every day. Unlike the majority, for copyright issues, I no longer call this by the name the movement started out with, and out of an excess of caution, I also don’t use the prompts lest there be an IP issue with… Read More Drawing Prompts
A month or more ago I had a wild hare. This is the result of chasing that bunny down the hole and falling through another world… This is an art book with black and white interior so it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. The paper version is formatted for ease of page removal,… Read More Fantasy Treehouse Art & Architecture