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I'm thinking about doing two things. First is a Shadowrun campaign set in Los Angeles and featuring some interesting characters invented by someone else (check Jade-Law's and arnistotle's accounts for the All Points Bulletin art, I'm talking about some of those), second, as mentioned in my previous journal, is a Song Of Ice And Fire fanfic. I got to finish reading A Game Of Thrones first, however, to create something of a "status quo is god" plot - the outcome will be the same, it will just be achieved differently. Yes, Ned Stark will get killed. Yes, Khal Drogo will die. Yes, Littlefinger will screw everybody over in a fashion fitting the Magnificent Bastard he is. And Queen Cersei will prove to be very foolish after all.
However, designing the original main character turned out to be harder than I expected. The good thing is that his reason for being cynical beyond his young age can be attributed to the source material (with really minor adjustments on my part). The bad thing is the same source material requires me to knock a couple of years off his planned age, making him younger than I wanted. Also, there's one very important detail I have no idea how to use. After all, Jarvan would be the lord of Bear Island - some explanation why he isn't would be that the rest of Mormonts consider him to be a pretender and for a good reason (they're wrong, though).
Idea pile:
Cut up a bit to focus on the most important things
Michael J. West, Paranormal Investigator in: The Case of Uncle Herbert
Synopsis: a New York detective arrives to Boston to find out what really happened to his uncle, the mad scientist Herbert West.
Michael J. West, Paranormal Investigator in: Garlands of May
Synopsis: West is employed by a USAF test pilot to find out what is going on with his daughter, studying in a Maine college.
Michael J. West, Paranormal Investigator in: Dogs of August
Synopsis: Three Mafia flunkies mysteriously die, violently murdered by an unknown assailant. Their boss hires someone to find out who is responsible. But what West finds out is not exactly out of this world...
Michael J. West, Paranormal Investigator in: December Song
Synopsis: Plagued by nightmares and strange visions, West is forced to undergo a therapy in Ravencroft Asylum. While inside, he finds out even more strange things defying his view of the universe.
Bjorn Westlander, Retriever Agent in: Genesis (working title)
Synopsis: an introductory tale for the reboot of Bjorn's adventures - how he became a Retriever Agent and met his adventuring partners, Royal Assessor Angelo van Logenswaard and dwarven mercenary Collech Brengan.
Bad Blood
Synopsis: Our hero awakens hungover and wearing a blood-stained t-shirt. And that's not the only problem he must face...
A Strange Occurence of a Goth Girl at Nighttime
Synopsis: Michal meets a girl. She looks perfect. Michal's in trouble. She's not that perfect.
Texas Strimmer Massacre
A grizzled biker confronts a family of inbred psychopaths, trying to out-psychokill them. Saving clueless students involved. Something along the lines of "Hero of the Day".
Kurinto Itsuda in usual loadout.
Chibi Vampires - Viola, Sara, Mike and Alicia are done, still have Kriss, Jason, Tanaka and Johannes left.
Elliot Salem - just Elliot Salem. Maybe in a wee bit different loadout, but the man and the mask remain the same.
The Seal
Character lineup from my E.G. Crackpot High School (David, Wonderboy, Snakey, Dante, Mindy, Lydia, Audrey the Plant, Sememoto & Ukeyoshi)
Edward Cullen impaled and real vampires cheering around.
The Dress-up Mess-up
Nee-San
My zioms*:
I stalk them:
We stalk each other:
They stalk me:
Real World Zioms:
[* that means "homies" in Polish]
However, designing the original main character turned out to be harder than I expected. The good thing is that his reason for being cynical beyond his young age can be attributed to the source material (with really minor adjustments on my part). The bad thing is the same source material requires me to knock a couple of years off his planned age, making him younger than I wanted. Also, there's one very important detail I have no idea how to use. After all, Jarvan would be the lord of Bear Island - some explanation why he isn't would be that the rest of Mormonts consider him to be a pretender and for a good reason (they're wrong, though).
Idea pile:
Cut up a bit to focus on the most important things
Michael J. West, Paranormal Investigator in: The Case of Uncle Herbert
Synopsis: a New York detective arrives to Boston to find out what really happened to his uncle, the mad scientist Herbert West.
Michael J. West, Paranormal Investigator in: Garlands of May
Synopsis: West is employed by a USAF test pilot to find out what is going on with his daughter, studying in a Maine college.
Michael J. West, Paranormal Investigator in: Dogs of August
Synopsis: Three Mafia flunkies mysteriously die, violently murdered by an unknown assailant. Their boss hires someone to find out who is responsible. But what West finds out is not exactly out of this world...
Michael J. West, Paranormal Investigator in: December Song
Synopsis: Plagued by nightmares and strange visions, West is forced to undergo a therapy in Ravencroft Asylum. While inside, he finds out even more strange things defying his view of the universe.
Bjorn Westlander, Retriever Agent in: Genesis (working title)
Synopsis: an introductory tale for the reboot of Bjorn's adventures - how he became a Retriever Agent and met his adventuring partners, Royal Assessor Angelo van Logenswaard and dwarven mercenary Collech Brengan.
Bad Blood
Synopsis: Our hero awakens hungover and wearing a blood-stained t-shirt. And that's not the only problem he must face...
A Strange Occurence of a Goth Girl at Nighttime
Synopsis: Michal meets a girl. She looks perfect. Michal's in trouble. She's not that perfect.
Texas Strimmer Massacre
A grizzled biker confronts a family of inbred psychopaths, trying to out-psychokill them. Saving clueless students involved. Something along the lines of "Hero of the Day".
Kurinto Itsuda in usual loadout.
Chibi Vampires - Viola, Sara, Mike and Alicia are done, still have Kriss, Jason, Tanaka and Johannes left.
Elliot Salem - just Elliot Salem. Maybe in a wee bit different loadout, but the man and the mask remain the same.
The Seal
Character lineup from my E.G. Crackpot High School (David, Wonderboy, Snakey, Dante, Mindy, Lydia, Audrey the Plant, Sememoto & Ukeyoshi)
Edward Cullen impaled and real vampires cheering around.
The Dress-up Mess-up
Nee-San
My zioms*:
I stalk them:
We stalk each other:
They stalk me:
Real World Zioms:
[* that means "homies" in Polish]
What is ComfyUI and what does it do?
I mentioned ComfyUI in the description of several of my AI-generated deviations. For those who haven't looked it up yet - it's a StableDiffusion power tool: it's fairly complicated, but immensely powerful and can create several things the usual AI image generators can't. It also has plugins that allow for even crazier stuff. So, first things first, you can download ComfyUI from GitHub. It comes up with all necessary file dependencies and opens the GUI in your browser, much like the popular Automatic1111 frontend. Right off the bat, it does all the Automatic1111 stuff like using textual inversions/embeddings and LORAs, inpainting, stitching the keywords, seeds and settings into PNG metadata allowing you to load the generated image and retrieve the entire workflow, and then it does more Fun Stuff™. For example, you can rig it as a simple GAN-based upscaler with no AI generated prompt whatsoever. Plug any upscaler model from The Upscale Wiki, and you can blow 800x600 images from fifteen
Axing the Creative Block again
I was sure I named something on DA "Axing the Creative Block" due to my love of questionably funny wordplay, and after an hour and a half I noticed it's the gallery subcategory where I put execution-related art before. Until now, it was populated with drawings, but I've been practicing something better for some time. Namely, photomanipulations mixing photos I take in my mini-studio and backgrounds coming from somewhere else. And "somewhere else" turned out to be a Big Fucking Problem. If you ever wandered into a wrong part of the internet, you might have seen people using really low res versions of pictures stolen from stock photo sites, pasting them together with really badly cut photos of themselves for a quick wank and not really caring about the quality. Which is exactly not how I intend to do it. Big picture - or bust! First and foremost, non-negotiably, I'm not going to work in low res. Any precision in selecting, erasing, matching elements etc. goes out of the window in such a
Deviant Artist Questionnaire
Since it's DA's birthday, here's my answers to the questionnaire.
How long have you been on DeviantArt?
My page says it's been eleven years. Whoa.
What does your username mean?
It's a derivative of my usual Internet handle I used back then. Maybe I should change it to SeriouslyMike or something similar.
Describe yourself in three words.
Insufferable genius, sarcastic.
Are you left or right handed?
Righty-ho, sir!
What was your first deviation?
A drawing of one of the characters from my fantasy stories.
What is your favourite type of art to create?
These days - props of all sorts. I aim for having some kind of physical interactions with
Becoming a Weird Stock Photo Man
Over the last two years, I managed to build an interesting collection of clothes and props that I put to good use modeling for various odd projects. Recently, I also got a proper camera tripod. So now I'm thinking, why not take more stock photos for people to use?
"Odd projects" included, to date:
Naked Snake from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (or something like it)Cyberpunk mercenary (you've seen that one, but I have since acquired some more interesting gear)Zombie hunter (but that one's boring)Wasteland wanderer (and not the way you've already seen)Victorian evil sorcerer (or thereabouts)80s rock starMad doctorGothic vampire pimp (don't
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