ASTROZON: Sci-Fi, Steampunk, Femme Fatale AI Pin-Ups
About this ebook
These aren’t photos. They really, really aren’t.
So, to be perfectly clear, none of these images are photographs. There are no individual human models involved in the making of these images. None of these images reproduce copyrighted photographs or illustrations; no image search reveals a match for any of these images, because while I have used AI to assist in their creation, there are no raw AI images in this book.
I begin with a customized Stable Diffusion model, (SDXL2 based) a checkpoint merge of several models and my own artwork. I generate a thousand images at a whack on my own computer using open source Stable Diffusion software.
Then the hard part, which is curation, finding the good ones, the one out of a hundred worth retouching and repairing.
This is half of what you are paying for.
The other half is the laborious Photoshop repainting and recoloring, (repainting oh so many hands!) compositing, correcting anatomy through judicious liquefaction and obsessive noodling, and a lot of adjustments, small and large. Puppet warp. Background replacement. In-painting with Adobe’s image generation to remove stupid AI crap, repair eyes, fingernails, background elements.
I work on their expressions until the images come alive, spending a lot of time on the eyes. The raw AI images never work for me until I tweak them.
No copyrighted franchise characters, or living artist prompts were used in the making of these images.
Repeat: These are not photographs. These are also not raw AI images; all have substantially reworked in various ways.
At some point, this means the images may have become copyrightable derivative works; if not, this content may prove to be public domain… only a court can decide… decisions have gone either way…
On a case by case basis.
I see them as legitimate protected derivative works... but I don’t really care, one way or the other. I’m doing this work, sharing it, making something unique.I'd like to recoup my time investment on these images at a professional rate, as I am a professional graphic artist. Even if all I'm doing is polishing public domain content.... there's a ton of work here. (And it's hard to see how stuff rendered from my sketches can be public domain.)
At any rate, I hope you enjoy the images.
About the author
Eva Quim writes and makes things in her underground lair somewhere on the Eastern Seaboard. She’s a lifelong reader, writer, graphic artist, science fiction geek, and computer nerd (or is that Computer Geek and Science Fiction Nerd?).
She’s also 61, married, and not at all cute. And please, no marriage proposals. Or other proposals. If you know what I mean. And I’m afraid you do.
Eva has watcher-only, premium, and subscription options available at Deviant Art and an Etsy store with a variety of products. You can also subscribe to her on Facebook for exclusive content and product discounts.
I do not have an OnlyFans page. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
You can find links to everything I do at my website, at my name (type my name) all seven letters, without any spaces, hyphens, or underscores, dot com.
Just seven letters, to be whisked away to a bigger and more beautiful world of natural wonders.
Go check it out. I know you want to.
