Jack of Harts

The Magical Land of Oz was always full of color when I was young. Brightness and beauty that hid terrible and powerful things that would seek to take it all away. The good people were great and the bad people were terrible, and all around them was great beauty that hid it all from normal eyes.

When it came to the image I wanted to use for substack, I wanted to play on that. I went to dezgo.com and brought up the Flux art generator and prompted it for what I wanted. I wanted an image of an emerald city behind hills of emerald green grass in abstract art style. I wanted an angry metal man wielding an axe. I wanted a cowboy wearing a brown duster. There was a great deal more to it than just that. Many more prompts that I worked with over a week to get the source images that I wanted. I deleted most because they just didn’t work, but in the end I kept between a dozen and twenty of each that I liked. The final cover image takes what worked the best out of all of them and assembles them in one piece with some image editing by me.

Captain William Carter confronting the Terrible Tinman in the Magical Land of Oz with the Emerald City in the background.

And of course I had to hand that final image over to Grok’s Imagine to see what kind of movie it would make out of it just for fun. It’s amazing to see something I imagined brought into full motion. Follow me to the other side of the rainbow to see that if you dare…

The Art of Oz the Great and Grimm on jackofharts substack