Tuesday, March 3, 2026

A Certain Hallucinatory Tone










I was feeling so bad yesterday I missed my regular Diary Entries; today I’m going to miss Tolkien Tuesday as well, I’m afraid. Still not quite 100%, as they say; probably only about 40. One thing that does not take up too much energy is AI Enhancements, and here is the next batch.

Alien Scene dates back to middle school. It is one of those kitchen-sink style drawings, where I would begin any old how and just keep adding more details.

Dain Vs. Azog is another attempt at a Middle-earth tableau.

Elf and Bear Again is a correction of an earlier enhancement. Better, but when I said the Elf was dressed all in blue, I should have mentioned brown boots. Tried an animation of it, and he inexplicably grew a white beard. Taking the hat as a clue?

Wizard Fights Demon was a very early attempt at illustrating the primal scene of Gandalf and the Balrog. I should have specified 1) that it was in a cave on a bridge, 2) the Balrog carried a broken sword, and 3) that he had wings, as per the picture I had drawn showed and as I was certain of at the time.

Not much to say about Green Dragon. Another one of the innumerable dragons I used to draw. It was in a rather unusual perspective.

Grendel I definitely drew in high school, probably about the time I drew Troll Hut. Not period accurate.

Inkraven 2 has those corrections I was talking about, though I must admit a three-footed raven was a rather novel idea and seemed to work. No jokes about removing his ‘third leg.’

Spither is the result of not wanting to have the bother of drawing all eight legs of a monster spider. I’ll include some interesting animations of it later.

The Shadow Waits was drawn not as a particular illustration but more of an ominous ‘tone poem’ about doom waiting in the falling dark.

Chat GPT keeps setting the time for my sessions later and later into the night. I’m thinking of just skipping a day and then seeing if it will reset to an earlier time. Ideally about 8 PM. Or just breaking down and paying the $20 a month for expanded service.



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