This batch of AI
Enhancements are a peculiar bunch and significant to me. Perhaps the most
peculiar is The Old Dog, which by now is a pretty old sketch, but it was
drawn to commemorate an even older picture I drew back in McQueeney, in grade
school. That picture, along with most personal paper media of the period, does
not survive. As I remember it, I wanted to have a character that had all the character
paraphernalia, someone who was always traveling on adventures and carried his
own home with him. Of course he had to have a TV.
Most of the other pictures
are enhancement of drawings from when I was first really starting to draw in
middle school, using tricks I learned in art class and trying to draw like the
Brothers Hildebrandt. My reading of course inspired a lot of my efforts, like
King Arthur stories and The Dark is Rising, The Lord of the Rings
and Farmer Giles of Ham. Pauline Baynes in particular inspired my
dragons. There were a couple of sneaky idealized self-portraits, Vigil
and Wormslayer, more aspirational than accurate, but if you could see
the originals, you would recognize the obvious sideburns. Only The White
Whale is from a later date. All reaching a new apotheosis thanks to AI.
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