Baby Cthulhu

I started with a Meta AI image prompt, and then hand-finished it for the final Cthulhu baby breathing smoke as seen in the underworld tar pits.

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The Mist, part 1 & 2 (imagine a movie sequel call THE MIST: REBORN)

Rediscovered an old post I did, and decided to pull my original camera images and try another attempt at creating the morning's drive through The Mist... join me, as we head to the grocery store to help barricade windows.

Affinity Photo Workflow: My own photos plus a couple monsters borrowed from NightCafe AI Image collection I found combined, mixed & masked, extra textures, and more mist added with a bit of HSL color tweaking.

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The Ashes of Cthulhu

Cthulhu rises from the blood-soaked river and approaches those who mistakenly summoned him.

Affinity Workflow: A couple Meta AI Image prompts until I found two creatures I could combine (body + wings).  Water was textured then HSL adjusted to look like blood, mist effects, streaks, ashes added within Affinity.

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Lovecraft Murals at the Lincoln Nebraska Post Office

Finally, after 8 days of dealing with multiple contractors, my murals are finished in Lincoln Nebraska at the local post office, right next to the Pinnacle Bank Arena at the intersection of Canopy & R Street.  I can't wait for my series of Lovecraft-themed postage stamps to start shipping next month.

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Lovecraft Water Babies postage stamp collection

I present the United States Postal Service's LOVECRAFT WATER BABIES stamp collection. This series was created entirely within NightCafe Mysterious XL v4. Cleaned up and combined into an actual stamp book using Affinity Photo.

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Series C from the Cthulhu - Lord of Life Series postage stamp release

Here is "Series C" from the United States Postal Service H.P. Lovecraft stamp series. This series was created entirely within NightCafe Crystal Clear XL. I cleaned up all the ugly AI artifacts, added extra imagery where needed, and then combined them into an actual stamp book using Affinity Photo.  

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Series B from the Cthulhu - Lord of Life Series postage stamp release

Here is "Series B" from the United States Postal Service H.P. Lovecraft stamp series. I created about 500 different stamps based on my original prompt using NightCafe SDXL, Meta AI Imagine, and Bing Image Creator (DALL-E 3). I cleaned up all the ugly AI artifacts, added extra imagery where needed, and then combined them into an actual stamp book using Affinity Photo.

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Cthulhu - Lord of Life Series A postage stamps

The United States Postal Service is honoring H.P. Lovecraft with a new series of stamps, four new Cthulhu images per book. I created about 500 different stamps based on my original prompt using NightCafe SDXL, Meta AI Imagine, and Bing Image Creator (DALL-E 3). I cleaned up all the ugly AI artifacts, added extra imagery where needed, and then combined them into an actual stamp book using Affinity Photo.

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Series 1 from the Lovecraft Babies postage stamp release

Here is "Series 1" from the United States Postal Service's LOVECRAFT BABIES stamp series. This series was created entirely within NightCafe Mysterious XL v4. I cleaned up all the ugly AI artifacts, added extra imagery where needed, updated the body parts of several monster babies and then combined them into an actual stamp book using Affinity Photo.  

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Clash of the Jurassic Cthulhus

"Two large Lovecraftian leviathans emerge from the depths of the ocean to battle in front of a soon-to-be-doomed coastal city. " --- I spent a little time trying out the NightCafe AI image generator over the last week. I went through 8-10 variations of my generating prompts, then pulled 4 of the best images down to my PC. Composite work included manual edits, new brush textures, and other tweaks to fit them into a single widescreen image within Affinity Photo.

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The Mist

This morning's drive through The Mist... heading to the grocery store to help barricade windows.