A total dive into AI and how it can shape creative imagery and allow artists to reshape an art.
It’s no secret, I’ve been an active Dungeons and Dragons player since the early 80’s. The proverbial Old Guy.
Most of youth spent with a pencil in hand and images flourishing on blank sheets of paper. Most days when it rained (I love rainy days for this reason) or when i was grounded for extended periods of time (which, honestly, happened quiet often).
In my age, drawing still a hobby my life turned to the tech field. Landed a job after graduation with a company that could use the skills learned in my previous employ, Inventory management and customer service with the bonus of having HTML and CSS knowledge.
Enter the age of AI. Suddenly I find my bosses and coworkers using AI for all kinds of tasks…not one to ignore new tech but completely leery of AI and its outputs. I decided to create a personal account and put it to the test. Away from any work related computers and accounts.
Hence the idea. Train ChatGPT with Characters, Lore, Settings and story arc of my current campaign I’m running.
What an experience. Learning much about prompts and starting over at least twice while training AI to still access previous chats without mucking up the data and causing chaos with prompts and tasks.
Turned into a passion, I needed to understand how AI works, I needed to accomplish my goal, Create a DnD world in a novel form.
Then came the images….Literally fell into that rabbit hole, learning how to prompt for what you want, finding the AI images to use for reference. Keeping the AI in line when coming down to details….I was obsessed. This thing could be trained to create images in a style and theme! Then suddenly it started clicking.
New hobby found. Old dream reignited.
Write a novel or sort story book and publish it.
Create visually appealing images.
Use the skills taught to my in community college to accomplish goals (Photoshop/Illustrator).
So, it seems Rosario Designs is going to turn the page. Still offer web help but focus on AI generation to create visually appealing outputs for people that like my style and are willing to pay for the output. Commission work.
What’s to lose? Could be fun! SO here we go, first submission:
Autumn Alliance, heroes of the Dragonspire and Northern Faerun.
All characters documented from character sheets to ChatGPT.
Singular framing images of each character made with Sora from prompts based on the characters saved in ChatGPT.
cut and pasted together by me using Photoshop.
