And also...

[telophase]

...I edited out 25% or so of the Art Prompts Generator and made a more kid-friendly version that also does not contain any advertising, nor do I ask for Paypal/Amazon wishlist stuff on it, and it does not link back to Magatsu Generator Central. That should satisfy the parents and teachers who wish their kids and students to use it.

Link: Kid-Friendly Art Prompts Generator.

And I also put some Amazon ads on most of the generators, to see if I can actually get a bit of income. I actually get 35K visits a month on the art prompts generator: certainly worth trying. (Once or twice a year someone sends me a couple of bucks via Paypal or something off my Amazon wishlist, which is quite nice of them.)

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[havocthecat]

I just sent the regular art prompt generator to a friend of mine. Hopefully she'll curse my name.

That's what true friendship is for, right?

[telophase]

But of course!

[frith]

I've been through 8 art prompt sessions (for the My Little Pony fandom) so your generator piqued my interest. The MLP prompts suffer from being writing prompts, not learn to draw prompts. So, your generator gave me this:

Create a cartoon portrait of a realistic character. Prompt: cats and dogs.

Create a mother in a realist art style.

Create a work of your favorite subject. Difficulty level: Reverse or flip the perspective, orientation, or point of view on any piece you have previously created and recreate it.

This is a portrait of a samurai. Use colors that represent what you feel about the subject, instead of the actual colors of the subject.

Your piece involves one of these three elements: a pointy hat, a tasting spoon, or a baseball cap.

I think the best one is the 'explore colours' prompt. Next best is the 'change the viewpoint on what you usually doodle' prompt. The other suggestions either require great skill or look like an Iron Artist writing challenge.

[telophase]

Yeah, it's pretty broad. You either have to narrow a generator for a specific target audience, which alienates the rest of the possible audience, or stick with a broad one and deal with the problem of many prompts not being suitable. In practice, people keep generating prompts until they find one that works for them and go with it, or they limit it by picking the Simple option.

The only case I know of one person seeming to stick with the first prompt that came up was the person who gave me a huge spike in traffic last month: Robin Sealark did a YouTube video in which she created several pieces from prompts that showed up in the generator. (I bought one of them from her, since I liked it. XD)

[frith]

(I bought one of them from her, since I liked it. XD)

Cool beans! 8^) Good point about picking through the prompts.

[delight]

I started following you recently because I realized I wasn't and have always been pleased to see your comments around, but as others have commented about passing the generators on -- yhlee told me you were a Lindsay Buroker fan, and.

I'm one of Lindsay's team of internet besties/plucky beta readers (there are three of us) and I've been using your generators to suggest titles to her. We haven't actually USED one yet, but I'm sure the time will come.

[telophase]

*waves* Hello! And neato! I totally look forward to Between Eggs and Lifeboats sometime soon. XD

(in all seriousness: moar hot space marines/cyborgs/mercenaries/whatever! I do my best to keep those particular sales up. :D)

[delight]

If anyone could make that a credible story ... Lindsay took the 'maple syrup mystery' dare and ran with it, I'll have to make eggs and lifeboats the next challenge. XD

But oddly enough maybe today's surprise release will be one you like! Fallen Empire universe autistic skiptracer & Alliance Starseer romance adventure with an android and a dog. I pushed VERY HARD for the autism to be made explicit and I won, and I am proud of McCall as a character, everyone please love her!

(i can understand loving leonidas more, this is ok, there will be more cyborgs.)

[telophase]

Niiice! And great timing because we're going on a cruise next week, on which I plan to mostly sit on my ass and read. I have purchased and will be downloading shortly.