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Art pieces that use AI in the process have a ‘look.’ One not unlike the Mark of Cain.

It doesn’t matter how much you do yourself. You could draw the whole thing by hand – but once you start using Stable Diffusion or whatever, the program overwhelms the actual art. You invariably end up with generic popslop, and I frankly don’t know why you bothered to do any original work at all.

God, art historians are going to end up hating this decade.

Moe Lane

PS: My books’ cover art is AI-free. I won’t use an artist who uses it.

#commissionearned

My “A Proper Picture for my ‘Pickman’s Model'” Kickstarter is live!

Rejoice! And note that the A Proper Picture for my ‘Pickman’s Model’ Kickstarter is, as of the moment, strictly digital-only. Costs skyrocket when printing this stuff comes into play; besides, this is a short story we’re talking about. If we hit both planned stretch goals I may add print tiers, but no guarantees.

Hope to see you soon!

Still trying to find an artist for the short story book cover.

It’s proving oddly difficult to find one. Suggestions welcome; I was thinking of a webcomic artist, but I’ll consider other sorts if I like their artistic style. And can afford it, for that matter. I’m offering a decent rate for it but not rock-star prices.

Just got the pencil sketch in for the FERMI RESOLUTION RPG worldbook cover.

There’s one minor tweak that I need have done, but otherwise it’s gonna pop, I think. Ben Fleuter does good work. Can’t wait to tease it out to folks.

Ach, what a weirdly productive month it’s been. I’m getting to the point where I need to start thinking about all the other stuff I’ve been — well, not neglecting. Money was paid for these projects; people need to get their money’s worth. But I got a manuscript that needs a second pass-through, then an alpha reader handout. And soon it will be November, and time to write another book. Busy, busy, busy…

Moe Lane

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