Monster hunters, spaceships and comedy of manners by indie author Mel Dunay
-Wolf’s Trail, Hunter Healer King, Book 1 is in the hands of my proofreaders as I speak.
-When I get it back, I will be editing it instead of writing for NaNoWriMo.
-I am also trying to write a prequel short story for an anthology.
-I have a draft ebook cover, and raw materials for the paperback cover.
-I have vague ideas for Hunter Healer King, Book 2.
I have many dream houses, this is one of them that I made using Midjourney. We start in the entry hall…
To our left, a doorway leads into the kitchen/breakfast area, to our right, the tv room…
Continue reading “Midjourney Monday: When Gothic Meets Midcentury Modern” →Prompt for most of these is either “[NAME] working for mary kay” or “[NAME] working for mary kay with a pink cadillac.” Will usually be pretty obvious which is which.
Continue reading “Midjourney Monday: Star Wars Villains Working for Mary Kay” →I prompted a bunch of Oz-themed images about a year ago, so I thought I’d compare and contrast those with the most recent ones I’ve gotten out of Midjourney.
Continue reading “Midjourney Monday: The Emerald City of Oz” →Today we have a bunch of contemporary actors in Regency dress, as generated by Midjourney and cleaned up by me. I will invite you to guess who I was casting in which Pride and Prejudice role. Yes, some of them are not very good likenesses, and no I am not going to reroll in Midjourney again. Yes, very few of them are in the age bracket now that the characters were in the story. No, I don’t really care. Yes, a couple of them have been in Pride and Prejudice before, and no, I am not casting them in the same roles.
Continue reading “Midjourney Monday: Fan Casting for Pride and Prejudice” →I wasn’t actually trying for Silmarillion characters when I started playing with the AI prompts (mostly involving niji 5 mode, Alphonse Mucha, and Harry Clarke and sometimes Frank Frazetta) which led to these Midjourney-generated pictures. But, somehow or other, that’s what I ended up with. Minor tweaks were made to hide or fix distorted hands, and add pointed ears to the Felagund character (the original prompt had been for a human D&D style cleric.)
Continue reading “Midjourney Monday: Elves of the Silmarillion” →Officially out of ideas for Weird Wednesday, so here is a fansubbed copy of 1957 Italian TV version of Pride & Prejudice, complete with volcanic Wickham/Darcy feud and missing footage problems that keep us from seeing the first proposal scene and whatever/however Lizzie learned about Wickham’s checkered past. If you have already seen the first two episodes, which are easier to find online, click in the upper right hand corner to see the rest of the playlist.
And here is a fan reading of the Donald Duck/Paperino parody of Pride and Prejudice, as it appeared in Topolino magazine:
Got bored recently and joined twitter. So far, it is amusing. We’ll see how long that lasts.
I generally like Moleskine notebooks. I don’t have any good reason for it. They feel right in the hand (do you know that bit in Princess Bride, the book, about a sword’s balance? Like that). The fancy limited editions make easier for me to keep tabs on where particular ideas might be: alot of the early concept work for Star Master is in the yellowish orange Gundam notebook, my initial reactions to seeing Orgoglio e Preguidizio for the first time are in the green and beige Oz notebook, but also some of them were later transcribed to the blue 007 notebook, which also houses an awful lot of fantasy mystery brainstorming, and so on. I’ve even found a velvet-covered one at a price I could live with. Even so, I find myself asking, why is there a furry moleskine? And why is it sold out?
I’ve only recently started paying attention to the field of AI-generated art, and this Discord-based art AI seems to be one of the most advanced. (If you just want to play with something free and web-based, I’ve had good experiences with Dream by Wombo).
In Midjourney, you type in prompts, the software renders out four thumbnails of randomly generated images based on the text prompts, and gives you the option to create larger, higher-res versions (upscaling, buttons marked with a U) or create new variations on one of the thumbnails (buttons marked with a V). After a free trial of around 25 render minutes, you have to subscribe to continue using it, and in the less expensive subscription you quickly find yourself paying for extra render minutes over and above what comes with your subscription, but the program is set up to where you never exceed what you buy. (You pay in advance for what you think you need, they don’t just let you blindly run up a bill.)
I had some luck with space battles, in case I need new covers for Shadow Captain and its upcoming sequel, but in this post I’m going to show off my Jane Austen fan art experiments. A word of warning: Midjourney has trouble with faces, so a human hand has to step in and do a bit of plastic surgery to make them look not disturbing.
Continue reading “Midjourney: My New Art Addiction” →
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