Playing with some more AI art.I used a service to "Train up" models of Claire Nunez.

 And I got the following:

Pretty neat!

Blocking out a cover with AI art.

 So AI art isn't great--but it's decent if you have no art budget and can't draw. For myself, I've been playing around with it, and found a few concepts for my next "A Sorceress on EArth" project. 

Very generic, with problems involving the hands. Also, Novel AI has a thing for breasts. That's "Small breasts" on the setting. Normal breasts got me supermodel porn star models, and large breasts... well, I suppose it's one way to smother your enemies.

Which is a note--Novel AI got trained on anime, and of course, anime tends to default to unrealistic body types. Mid Journey is better, but Midjourney has it's own foibles. 

So this bit of art is going to get adjusted--greatly. But even so, it's something to look at if you can't draw your way out of a paper bag, can't pay the needed bucks, and need a cover.

The Evils of AI art.

 Which is to say, I decided to play around with it a little bit today....

And there went my productivity. As was no doubt intended. 

That being said, fears that all real artists are about to be rendered jobless are highly overrated, I think.  You don't just pay an artist to put pent to paper, you pay them to understand what your'e saying and get the intent being your flat words, something that the AI (actually a misnomer, since they're not intelligent, artificially or othewise)  programs fail to do.

Zombies vs. Teenaged Wizards!

 Well, it's coming up to Halloween, and I'm gonna take advantage of my mid-journey subscription to put together a new thirty pagish gamne--Zombies Vs. Teenaged Wizards!  The local mad cultists did something very bad, and now zombies are starting to rise, and since mostly adults get it, it's up to the kids to fight them off! 

But don't worry, the cult sort of messed up and released friendly spirits that will help their friends and allies learn ways to fight off the zombie plague. That's the good news. The bad news is... THERE'S A ZOMBIE PLAGUE!

Looks like Halloween is either gonna be cancelled or get very real...