Jack of Harts

Art is an interesting thing. I’ve used art for my characters since the very beginning when I was writing my characters. Back then in was reference pictures taken off the internet. Then I paid artists to make pictures for me. Then I found the joys of 3D computer graphics and began making the pictures myself. Now there are the AI art programs that have hit the Internet by storm. All I have to do is type in some words and let the computer spit out an idea for me. There’s a lot of testing which text prompts work to get which results of course. But in the end you can get some good results, especially with some of the better AI art models coming out in the last year. And now that I’m about to publish another story, I want to show some of those characters off.

I watched Citadel over the weekend. It is a short series on Amazon Prime and the premise is that a nice family man finds out he used to be a spy. It is played straight, serious, and violent, without being bloody or overly violent. By action movie standards. The characters are compelling, the story interesting, and I can’t stop thinking about it after finishing the series. It is an excellent series and I suggest giving it a look if you can.

The fashion designer is probably the most common and most respected Arnam profession on human-settled worlds. And since Arnam eyes can see wavelengths no natural eye can detect, they love to show off colors all over the light spectrum. And they love to accessorize. They wear fancy shades, hats, dresses, trenchoats, scarves, frills of all kinds, and anything else they can find. Anything fun, glamorous, or amazing is always something they want to wear. It is all decoration to them, and they decorate their bodies with wild abandon.