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It's been a mildly eventful few weeks, mostly because I ended up with a cold for a week and a half. Other than that, nothing too hairy happening.

I did get baby's first AO3 scam comment! It enthused over my story, especially the way I brought the world and the characters to life, making it real and immersive, pulling the reader in. And, of course, sparked creative ideas of their own and they wanted me to talk to them on Telegram or whatnot, presumably to try to scam me out of money for fanart that'll never arrive. Blocked, deleted, reported.

This, uh, is the work that they loved so much. You can see the GLARING PROBLEM with the bot's comment about my...story. XD

Sorry for no other real update but I have just been "bleh" at the thought of sitting down and typing when I have other things to do. Oops.

ANYWAY. I did seven pictures for the May the 4th Star Wars fanworks exchange! And I received 3 stories!

( WHAT I GOT: )

The seven pictures I did, in no particular order:

Stolen Moment (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order Series (Video Games), Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cal Kestis/Merrin the Nightsister
Characters: Cal Kestis, Merrin the Nightsister (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:

It will have to be enough

Irresistable Force Meets a Movable Object (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Leia Organa
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:

I know that feel, Obi-Wan.

Target Practice (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: CT-9904 | Crosshair & Omega (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
Characters: CT-9904 | Crosshair, Omega (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)
Additional Tags: Fanart, Treat
Summary:

A little practice never hurt anyone. Well maybe not *anyone*...

Guardian (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jocasta Nu
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:

She would guard it with her life...and did.

Formal Portrait (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:

What would young Leia choose for her first senatorial portrait?

A Fistful of Credits (0 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Character & Original Character
Characters: Original Sith, Original Jedi
Additional Tags: love them western vibes, Space Cowboys - Freeform, Fanart, Treat
Summary:

It's the first holodrama of its kind! It won't be the last!

Dark Seduction (39 words) by Irusu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Corran Horn/Exar Kun
Characters: Corran Horn, Exar Kun
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary:

Prompt: "That scene where he appears to Corran at night but sexy"

I've been frustrated at my art abilities recently because, like many things I do, I've skimmed past a lot of boring fundamentals and picked and chosen what to focus on, so while some things I do look good, I struggle with other things. Much like I did with lots of academic subjects, really. Probably ADHD--if I'm not interested in something I find it VERY HARD to make myself do it. Math and other science homework was much like that for me. I was quick to pick a lot of things up that carried me until I hit a wall (which was calculus and chemistry in highschool).

So continuing to do basic gesture drawing, practicing things I'm deficient on (HANDS), etc. has shot me in the ass too many times. I finally realized that right at this moment, since I deliberately have not been soliciting clients* for book covers because of the house-buying and move, I have time that I could devote to remedial art education.

So I bought a course on cubebrush.com--I didn't want to join one that was live online because showing up at a certain time and sitting there for a specified amount of time isn't great with all the things that have to be done with the house--and have been poking at it for the past three-four weeks. Have I been steadily working at it for 3-4 hours a day like the creator suggests? Oh hell no. Have I at least been managing to sit down and either watch a video, do exercises, or both 4-5 days a week? Yup.

(Have I started to get a clue what the Curves adjustment layer in Photoshop actually does? YES.)

Anyway, I usually ask for no constructive critique on art I post because it's DONE and FINISHED and I won't go back to it, but these are all learning things, so feel free to crit (unless you're a "I tell the HONEST TRUTH and if it's painful SO WHAT" type of person, in which case you are kindly invited to go elsewhere because combative attitudes are not actually constructive.)

( Gesture and figure drawings cut for large images and artistic nudity )

[*If you are an existing client, feel free to contact me and book something! If you are not one, contact me anyway but I may schedule you several months from now.]

I have not been posting much here lately because I Can't Even quite a lot of the time (and went to visit family this weekend, which went well). I've got a metric ton of Midjourney AI-generated images, most of which I am not going to show you so you can breathe a sigh of relief.

Yesterday or the day before

rachelmanija reviewed a book and used the phrase "a haunted AirBnB," which I snurched as a prompt, and after a few iterations ended up with this masterpiece:

Click on all of these images for larger versions.

( More experimentation with kittens, mercenaries, and more! )

I created a Discord server and invited the Midjourney bot to it if you wanted a much smaller place to experiment yourself. If you're on my f-list, the previous post has the invite. If you're not, leave a comment here or PM me for the invite.

....because my next Midjourney post is going to be on one specific topic, and I didn't want this image mixed up in it.

Anyway, I present to you: Space Marines by Aubrey Beardsley!

Last week I posted the response from the HOA when we asked if we needed to get approval just to remove dead bushes from our yard, the ominous "You do not need to submit to remove the dead."

I'm sure that some of you were "Uh, why would you bother to ask about that, it's self-evident that they'd want dead bushes gone, right?" and others, perhaps people drifting through since most of y'all who are regulars are pretty nice about this sort of thing, were like "This is why I'd never buy a house in an HOA!!"

To answer part 2 of that: this was the compromise between cost of house and distance from work, as in if we wanted a house not in an HOA, it was either spend significantly more, drop a metric ton of cash in renovations, or spend 45 minutes twice a day on angry Texas freeways to get to and from work.

For part 1 of the question, on Friday we got an answer from the compliance coordinator of the agency that the HOA uses to manage the business end of the organization. They're the people that do the driving round snapping photos of the dead bushes in your yard and sending you nastygrams, and things like that. Said coordinator told that no, we HAD to get approval just to remove, and copied a letter sent last year from the HOA to homeowners that included the sentence "All landscape and hardscape changes in front yard must be pre-approved by the Architectural Control Committee (ACC)."

Riight. So

myrialux emailed them back saying that we'd talked to the board member in charge of that, and she'd specifically told us we don't need approval to remove the dead stuff. This morning the compliance coordinator emailed us back to let us know that they'd spoken to that board member and that she'd said yes we can remove the dead stuff. And said we could contact her directly if we needed additional information, helpfully telling us her name and giving us her email.

Yes, that would be the person we specifically said that we had talked to previously. GAH.

Anyway, today's ominous sentence is "yes you can remove the dead but need to submit for the replacement." I present to you, Midjourney's interpretation of both the previous Ominous Pronouncement and today's Ominous Pronouncement!

( hah I bet you didn't think you'd be forced to look at Midjourney stuff for an HOA post! UNDEAD Midjourney stuff, even! )

[Somewhat edited, but almost verbatim. Using the Midjourney AI art generator.]

i have designed new book covers for when you re-release machineries

( you have to rename some of them. sorry, i don't make the rules. )

Thanks to

yhlee for always being such a good sport about me mangling the text or the covers of his books! :D

Looks like this blog is shaping up to be All Midjourney All The Time, so be warned.

Among other things, I've been experimenting with putting two disparate artist names into the prompt, to see what comes up.

( Read more... )

I believe Midjourney might be based on ~~DALL-E2, or a subset derived from it~~... [edit: someone in a conversation elsewhere says that they think it's not DALL-E2 as researchers for that aren't allowed to show much of what they do with it. They think it's from an independent lab.] ...but they're not particularly forthcoming about it. It works wonderfully on art prompts, not so much on ones that force it to pull from photographic-based stuff. I admit I almost exclusively add "artstation" to my prompts because it gives me concept art type images, so I haven't explored too much beyond that. The FAQ says to try different artist names or combining different artist names, so I think Midjourney may be a DALL-E2 variant specifically fine-tuned on artworks.

It is also BLINDINGLY FAST, in that it will give me 4 variants of my prompt in less than a minute, and I can get it to do more variants or to upscale one of the variants, and that also takes only a minute or two.

As far as the art it produces:( Read more... )

Experimenting with image prompts this time in the Midjourney AI...not prompts for images, but prompts of images. You give it the URL of an image to use as its base, then if you want you add a text prompt and whatever parameters.

This one is fabulous and I want to paint it.

Prompt: https://s.mj.run/2ubnqV8_7c4 veiled woman sitting on a crescent moon --iw .75 --ar 8:10

"--iw" is Image Weight, how much you want it to weight the image, "--ar" is Aspect Ratio.

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