Art Prints from the Grand Master's Trilogy

 

The prints are: 1) Violet flying on Ythris the black dragon.

2) Griffin flying over mountains.

3) Black dragon flying above castle.

4) Callama the live shell boat. 

5) Black griffin.

Four of these Art Prints appear as illustrations in the special edition of the Grand Master's Trilogy. The flying brown griffin is an illustration in Whimsical Creatures, my book of pictures and short poems of fantastic creatures. 

You can find Aurora’s Whimsical Art at her Fine Art Store: https://www.playfulgallery.com/digital-art

Top-quality prints with or without frames, and selected merchandise.

The Joys and Tribulations of AI-generated Art.

 

AI-art is fun! I have spent more than a year creating AI-images. Despite significant improvements in the algorithms in the past year, the initial images often contain errors. Undesirable features are common and annoying when creating images of people or mythic creatures.

This post illustrates some common problems and describes the fixes for those errors.

Here is an image of a dragon created in NightCafe Studio. Can you see the problems? 

I’ve outlined three errors in the dragon’s anatomy in the next image. 

These types of errors are relatively easy to fix by photo-editing in software such as Photoshop or GIMP (free). The extra leg and pieces of wing can be erased or replaced by background colors. I also brightened the eye. The corrected image is shown below:

This image and other dragons are available as prints or on merchandise like totes, mugs, and T-shirts at https://www.playfulgallery.com/digital-art

And at https://www.redbubble.com/people/auroraspringer/shop

 

You can find more fantastic animals in pictures and poems at my campaign -   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/auroraspringer/whimsical-creatures-an-art-book-of-fantastic-animals

Follow the campaign to join the fun and help to choose pictures for the Art Book, Whimsical Creatures.  

Crafty as ever - Snippet from COSMIC WARS for #WeWriWa #SciFi Fantasy

Welcome to another Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors. Meet writers in various genres and read 8-10 sentence snippets of their stories. Find a new author and sample their work. Enjoy!

This weekend, I’m continuing a scene from my latest release, Cosmic Wars, Book 5 of the Grand Masters’ Galaxy. The Griffins, Violet, Athanor, and their son, Varan, are at home when their dragon friends visit with their baby, Istros.

You can read last week’s snippet here – https://auroraspringer.blogspot.com/2018/08/convenient-distraction-snippet-from.html

The final line was: The adult dragons watched in silence as the children played.

[Apologies for minor misuse of grammar to fit in 8-10 sentences.]

In a voice like silver bells, Istrelle sang eloquently, “These Vrons have earned our friendship; Violet saved your life and brought us together. We cannot allow harm to befall them; friends are worth more than one or two loose scales.” She curled her slender neck around the Black Dragon’s shoulders.

Snorting in sudden amusement, Ythris croaked, “Crafty as ever, Zyzost Griffin; you play with our sons to claw us into unity.”

“No craft is needed,” Athanor remarked, “Violet can tell you how often I entertain Varan.”

“It’s true;” Violet patted his bent back and chuckled; “Athanor spends his leisure hours romping with our son.”

Stretching to his full height, and towering above the Grand Master, Ythris croaked, “When you next visit my eyrie, I’ll give you a choice of shed scales, mine and Istrelle’s.” 

His expression serious, Athanor said, “By Ishtare’s favor, we’ll visit soon. The Nulls might strike at any time.”

Cosmic Wars is available at Amazon  iBooks  Kobo  B&N  GooglePlay

Books in the Grand Masters’ Galaxy:

http://www.auroraspringer.org/p/grand-masters-galaxy.html

As always, I’ll be happy to reply to your comments. 

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