Literally cannot draw but learning image manipulation? Feels cheap but people get pissy about attempted writers being too poor to pay someone more than they've made on a book for a picture so... Which is better?
AI generated Image from prompt that I then modified to closer resemble what I wanted?
https://i.imgur.com/yxvFG78m.jpeg [https://i.imgur.com/yxvFG78m.jpeg]
Original modified AI cover
Prompt generated
Wax aphid, green onion, flower petal, flying bug
*with six wings, Kissy was going to end up with six wings and wimbles have large flower petal looking wings
wax aphids look like "fairies" but are supposedly really nasty bugs
wanted something that would kind of look like the plants, the grubs are supposed to be herbivores and the adults are carnivores or omnivores, wumples are herbivores slow, with high def and str and low speed and can be sheared like sheep but are cow sized
Inspired by wax aphids, a nightmare I had of some random psycho harvesting onions out of an empty lot, what if butterflies moved like sea animals named after them? so sails that look like flower petals, and then from butterfly to moth
Or generic Paint Edit?
https://i.imgur.com/Y63xEyVm.jpeg [https://i.imgur.com/Y63xEyVm.jpeg]
This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.
Inspired by Kissy's mutations from generic not butterfly moth middle, to somethings not right top moth to, wtf is that bottom moth
remade with feedback from OneFellow
https://i.imgur.com/6AkvxiFm.jpeg [https://i.imgur.com/6AkvxiFm.jpeg]
Another attempt
https://i.imgur.com/jSHLI1im.jpeg [https://i.imgur.com/jSHLI1im.jpeg]
Different composition attempt
https://i.imgur.com/zCcufn7m.jpeg [https://i.imgur.com/zCcufn7m.jpeg]
Brown for earth, blue for wind, black for demonic, flowers for etting single butterfly moth, horns look more distinct
https://i.imgur.com/tytiqkUm.jpeg [https://i.imgur.com/tytiqkUm.jpeg]
Ditto but no multiple colors on the demonic moth butterfly
https://i.imgur.com/inHnBHhm.jpeg [https://i.imgur.com/inHnBHhm.jpeg]
literally splotches of color with strands coming off of them to simulate stems
swirls of black and blue for demonic and wind over brown background for earth
Six winged not moth with multiple antenna, not feathery, not that confident, look like horns, ooh spooky? and six wings
Literally not looking for feel good BS.
What grabs your attention more in a field of possible covers?
Literally months of writing, haven't made 30 bucks but I'm reading that you shouldn't use AI to generate images for your cover because who's going to pay the artists? People who aren't paying me. If you'd like to pay for the cover and not take credit for my work, cool, but why shit on me for being poor and creative and tell me to pay someone else when they make more money than I will off of my idea?
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