I've recently been having some fun with AI-generated art from sources such as Stable Diffusion and Dall-E. These new AI's are all the rage lately, and have made some really impressive, cool stuff. But they have their limitations. One key limitation is you have to know exactly how to write a prompt for the AI to generate what you want to see, and it seems I'm not as good at that as I'd like to be. Some people go through hundreds of iterations of prompts to get the really cool stuff, but I'm not that patient.
Nevertheless, I tried my hand at it, and I'd like to share a few pictures I was able to generate of some of the characters and scenes from my Jerry Copperpot books. They kinda sorta resemble what I had in mind, so even though they're not perfect, they're pretty cool to look at.
Book 1:
Jerry Copperpot:
Don Weazer:
Persephone Stranger:
I neglected to specify curly hair in the first one, but it did such a good job of rendering the magnifying glass I decided to keep it.
The Itchblasters:
The library assistant:
Coach Snakeland:
(It worked out pretty well although I think he looks like he belongs in an ad for some luxury fragrance)
The illusion of endless library:
Mulderscull disguised as Mr. Flinch:
Dr. Braingler
Dr. Braingler as a were-minotaur
Principal Rambledalf:
It was ridiculously difficult to get the blue skin color. Different attempts would get different elements of the character and the location right, but I never could really get them all together in one photograph.
Seth Goldbluff in his magic shop:
Tommy Coltstein:
Terry Schogren:
Yodo:
The Dead Meaters (in a nail salon waiting to get their nails done)
The Super Dimensional Mattress (made by the Macross Mattress Company, spacefold generator powered by a dark crystal shard.)
(I had to paste in the crystal manually although it was also AI generated)
The Mementoids:
(I had to paste in the AI-generated Polaroid cameras manually in MS Paint)
The Whomping Angels:
(I had to add the AI-generated hammers manually in MS Paint)
One-Eyed Willis:
(I could not get the dang AI to give me a guy with an eyepatch. So I had to paste it in manually from a free clipart.)
Magicternia Castle with the Everything approaching:
The interior of the Everything (or at least an approximation of some of the feel of the environment)
Persephone-Bot and Don-Bot (Username and Password):
Journeyman 5:
The Everything Revealed:
(the AI had a lot of trouble with this one)
Mulderscull:
Book Two:
The Movie Set at Magicternia Castle:
The Dining Hall Scene for the Harvey Totter Movie:
The Bureaucratic Movie Studio Lady:
Drago Falkore:
Drago in costume as Harvey Totter:
Chipmunk:
Prince Capsicum:
(It was really hard to get a chili pepper shaped the way I wanted it)
The Island:
Pretzelstiltzkin:
(This is another one the AI had a lot of trouble with)
Willy-Won Kanobi:
Lieutenant:
(The AI just couldn't get this one right, this is the closest I could get and even then I had to add the extra arms in Paint)
Lodo:
Drago as a Cluck-Dragon:
The Jet-Eye Knights:
Maemerds:
Captain Jack Monterey Sparrkness
(Not everything I imagined it to be but this was the closest I could get when I was trying to make a mashup of Jack Sparrow, Jack Harkness and Monterey Jack)
Mulderscull on vacation:
I hope you all have enjoyed these illustrations as much as I have, they were a lot of fun to create. If you haven't read the books, don't forget to look for the
Jerry Copperpot series on Amazon!
