I made more illustrations from old drawings with ChatGPT last night. I must be getting better at describing what I want or something, though as usual there are elements I would want to tweak. I begin with the sexy Borrisk, followed up with a birthday card (it should read Brer-thday) that John made me in 1990. She's Walking Through the Clouds (of which there are two versions) is the least like what I had in mind, but once created I am reluctant to discard anything. The Ogre's not bad, if not as gangly as I imagined, and a little too skull-like (especially the nose); but I was able to correct certain original elements (a torch instead of a flashlight, medieval garb instead of modern clothes). Patrick the parrot-like elemental (from my story When He Awoke) was produced from the sketchiest sketch. Perhaps my description of 'half-Leprechaun' was a little too suggestive. The Raven of Truth is another one of my oldest drawings. I was particularly pleased with Region of the Summer Stars, which captured exactly the twilight atmosphere I was going for.
This is probably the last version of Elf and Bear I'm going to try. It is ... satisfactory, though the Elf is not as pissed off as I imagined, and Bear is smaller than I would want. Maybe he was just younger.
It is an unusual experience developing these things. While I consider how to describe the details, I remember where I was when I drew the picture, what I had hoped for it, and how I felt at the time. I had a lot of emotion invested while I was drawing stuff, and this stirs up a lot of thoughts from the past. And weird feelings about the future.
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