Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Merlin's Parents
This perilous picture has fascinated me since Fourth Grade. From Stories of King Arthur by Blanche Winder. Merlin's father, 'an old grey fairy man,' carries off Merlin's mother. Found strange echoes for me in the 1972 Gargoyles. The original line drawing:
Some Obscure Nooks: AI Enhancements
A lot of these pictures (I mean the orinal drawings, of course) date from when I was first reading The Silmarillion, which had just been published. A creepily grinning Treebeard? Might need some work. The Cosmic Concept suffers from the usual gibberish rendering of unclear text in 'fancy' lettering. The AI struggling with the idea of Ogres and Morgs proves either the originality of the concepts or my inability to explain them clearly. After thinking about them for 45 years or so, we know what they look like. Getting it across to artificial intelligence ... perhaps if I had better sketches to start with.
Monday, March 9, 2026
A Fine Bit of Magic
Using the figures from two seperate enhancements, I requested the AI to place them together in a third scene of my suggestion. And here at last we have the long imagined gathering of John Kraft. Bear, and Thornbriar. If this ain't magic, it's darn near close.
Castles and Trees: AI Enhancements
Two of those castles are different interpretations of the same sketch. I don't know why AI keeps interpreting my trees with so many twinkly lights; fireflies? I've never mentioned any fireflies.
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