Illustrations for the story
Added 2024-11-02 09:31:36 +0000 UTCNext chapter should be out shortly. I am about 3/4 of the way done with it and it introduces two new characters. There is no charge for this post as it is not a chapter. Of late I have been playing around with an AI illustrator and have been working on making some illustrations to go along with the story. The program is imperfect but for someone who has no drawing ability whatsoever, it's pretty cool. Here's a few of the characters from the story, including the entire band Intemperance. I know there are dozens of characters I have left out so please don't hound me about who I have not featured. Also, you cannot make anything even vaguely sexual with this program, but if anyone knows of a good AI illustrator where you can... well, I would check it out for purely curious reasons. Anyway, let me know what you think and I'll have Chapter 24 out soon.
Comments
I like all of them a lot
Peter Kelly
2024-11-11 21:07:11 +0000 UTChaha me too
Mike C
2024-11-07 09:42:49 +0000 UTCWhen i think of Celia i think of Sofía Vergara :)
Leo Sorits
2024-11-06 13:56:25 +0000 UTCI am missing Chapters VIII 5 to VIII 15 inclusive; where can I go to download them? HELP !!!
Peter Groninger
2024-11-06 11:47:12 +0000 UTCThese AI pics don't really jive with images I had in my mind. I pictured of a few characters, Celia (Salma Hayek, Laura (Candy Dulfer).
Steve Chance
2024-11-05 20:04:04 +0000 UTCPlease offer an option to read the chapters without illustrations. I'm not trying to limit your creativity but i strongly dislike reading books with illustrations. If your writing didn't resonate with my imagination, i wouldn't continue to read. Illustrations will, at best be annoying.
Hayden
2024-11-05 12:46:10 +0000 UTCWait, what happened to chapter 23?
jabbott
2024-11-05 00:27:56 +0000 UTCElsa's accent was upper class British — proper Queen's English taught to her in the finest finishing schools of London. Elsa herself, however, was not British. She was Nigerian and the blackest woman Jake had ever seen in person. Her skin was as dark as could be found on planet Earth, so dark that light didn't seem to reflect off it at all.
John Steffen
2024-11-04 16:07:05 +0000 UTCthe image of Elsa does not match
John Steffen
2024-11-04 16:06:25 +0000 UTCIn my minds eye, I always saw Jake with darker/black hair and despite doing a lot of running, perhaps a fuller not as skinny, bit larger body frame. As with an earlier comment, I saw Elsa as a tall, less plump, active grandmother type.
Barry
2024-11-04 02:38:11 +0000 UTC100% agree.
Travis Young
2024-11-03 19:14:51 +0000 UTCI really, really dislike AI art. Not only encouraging the autofill machines, but just in general they don't look like humans, but like weird dreams of humans.
Travis Young
2024-11-03 19:14:26 +0000 UTCThey would never sound anywhere near as good as what I imagine.
Al Steiner
2024-11-03 07:10:20 +0000 UTCPerhaps I'll stroll over and take a look at it, simply out of intellectual curiosity.
Al Steiner
2024-11-03 07:09:50 +0000 UTCOk, so Laura is way hotter than I imagined. And Cadyee has cute +++.
Damon Bynum
2024-11-03 06:51:44 +0000 UTCCelia looks more Mexican than Venezuelan. Venezuelans tend to look more European than Indigenous .Especially members of the middle class. Charley looks too normal. As patrician as Elsa behaves, i couldn't see her letting hersellf gain that weight. The rest is way cool though.
EdM1950
2024-11-03 01:46:46 +0000 UTCAlso, I really like what you came up with for the characters... Not at all what I pictured for Nerdly, and the freak looked very normal...Jake, Matt and Coop are cool, though I did picture Matt as being heavier, with a larger frame, Glenn Danzig or Peter Steele size.
Rob H.
2024-11-03 01:38:44 +0000 UTCI really like art space.ai which will do NSFW art... They had a deal a while back where you could pay a one time sub for a lifetime membership. I bought in, and have been playing with it on and off for a few months. One of the cool things... If you have faces you like, you can use them as seed templates for other art.
Rob H.
2024-11-03 01:34:54 +0000 UTCRobert Wilson, an author here on Patreon, has work that might interest you, don't think it's AI though...
Thomas Stocks
2024-11-02 19:09:11 +0000 UTCReally artificial looking people. Nerdly is particularly disturbing for some reason. All the guitars are backwards. The story doesn't need illustrating IMHO
Richard Berger
2024-11-02 16:48:15 +0000 UTCI didn't recall that Celia and Cadee played left handed. Cool.
Bob Stevens
2024-11-02 15:54:01 +0000 UTCmust admit, it really adds color to the imagination. Well done. I have tried many many times to imagine what they would sound like .
AJN
2024-11-02 15:37:38 +0000 UTCPretty cool even with its flaws. I was wondering recently if there is a music AI that could create songs from your lyrics. That would be interesting.
Greg Dobbs
2024-11-02 15:19:31 +0000 UTCAnother author i read apparently uses mage.space and has been able to do NSFW art, upto and including sex scenes.
Chris
2024-11-02 13:12:55 +0000 UTCI wanted Charlie to look creepy and unkempt. I think it did a good job of presenting that.
Al Steiner
2024-11-02 12:47:48 +0000 UTCCharlie looks as haggard as Matt does. Is that intentional, or just the way the AI decided to do it? Also, I always figured Matt played a "Fat Strat" with a bridge humbucker -- Yngwie Malmsteen is the only person I can think of who plays metal on pure single coils, and it gives him a pretty unusual sound.
William Cleveland
2024-11-02 12:45:51 +0000 UTCI did not realize how challenging it could be. But I have to say the way you protray Laura literally, and the images you show mostly overlap with the ones in my head. Thanks for finding my intelligent strong redhead kink 😁
Whicked
2024-11-02 12:06:59 +0000 UTCVery interesting. I think Jake needs to look older. After all, he is forty, and after a hard rocking life looks too young and healthy. (Still, he isn't as wasted as Matt is.) Laura looks too young, too, and Celia is described as heavier, though not in a bad way. She's just not skinny. Great results so far!
Lawson
2024-11-02 11:54:35 +0000 UTCGood to see your view of your characters. I always pictured Elsa as thinner and darker. Interesting. Thanks.
Bob Stevens
2024-11-02 10:49:48 +0000 UTCVery cool illustrations. Enjoy your writing.
JLAcebo
2024-11-02 10:42:07 +0000 UTCMid journey, canva also have done good tech.
Steve Braden
2024-11-02 10:37:25 +0000 UTCWedding rings was a concept it seriously did not understand. There is no way I have found to have it put a simple, traditional wedding ring on Jake's, Laura's, or Celia's ring fingers.
Al Steiner
2024-11-02 10:29:24 +0000 UTCI'm using DALL-E through ChatGPT for now. Always looking for something better though.
Al Steiner
2024-11-02 10:28:10 +0000 UTCGetting the face you are imagining is the hardest part. Each of those is the end result of dozens of modifications. And you cannot (at least I have not figured out how to except in cartoonish form) carry over one illustration (of Laura, for instance) with that face to other images. You have to start from scratch with each new illustration. The face of the pregnant Laura is the one that matches the best in my mind.
Al Steiner
2024-11-02 10:26:07 +0000 UTCOk thanks for stopping the confusion.
Jamie
2024-11-02 10:22:39 +0000 UTCThat is amazing. Reading your work for years and having images in my mind of the characters; it is inspiring to see you, the writer’s (or AI’s) vision of them. Guessing AI doesn’t have a seatbelt and shoulder strap option. It will be interesting to see where this technology will be in a few more years. Think the movie, “Looker” from 1981.
Surf
2024-11-02 10:11:56 +0000 UTCHe's not. I didn't notice that after all the effort to get a believable image of him. I fixed it.
Al Steiner
2024-11-02 09:58:51 +0000 UTCAIs and hands. Still a major problem. (See image 10.)
Matthias Urlichs
2024-11-02 09:49:30 +0000 UTCI might be confused. I love the images, by the way; they better match my head than what others have done. Confusion—I need to go back and reread. Wasn't learning to fly after Caydee's birth? Laura looks much more mature in the pregnancy photo. I am sure I am wrong, but hey—I've been there before. I wish I had a daughter; she'd be getting a Treble Maker shirt.
Whicked
2024-11-02 09:45:04 +0000 UTCStrange, I never realized Matt was a lefty.
Jamie
2024-11-02 09:44:52 +0000 UTCWell done. Some of your images are what I had in my head of how they looked. What’s the AI technology you are using?
Steve Braden
2024-11-02 09:35:51 +0000 UTC
