New Lost Together illustration in color

 Dai has been nice enough to color another illustration for Lost Together I drew. 

I think this one looks really nice, it's got a very clean use of colors and shading, I like how it looks now that it's colored quite a lot.

While this illustration does not correspond to any scene in particular, it does show Monlon's relationship with Jurojin, which is something many readers were interested in, and that was the reason why I drew it in the first place (apart from practicing facial expressions by the way). Besides, there isn't that much Monlon fanart out there that I know of, so it seemed a good idea to do this one.

I hope you like it.

Music and writing 5

Sometimes I need music that would fit a melancholic, sad, and sometimes epic feeling to enhance the writing of a particular scene or chapter, and the soundtrack for the SNES videogame Actraiser 2 fills all those points.

This soundtrack is a magnificent composition that I'd place as one of the best ever composed for a SNES game, and has remained a favorite of mine for many, many years (the game I also like a lot, by the way).

Here's the soundtrack, enjoy!

Using AI to create illustrations of original characters

Something interesting that is getting a lot of attention these days (at least at the time I'm writing this entry) is the use of AI to create art or to create almost anything on the internet really. Anyway, I decided to give it a try and dowloaded Stable Difusion the other day and the results are a bit better than I expected once I tried a few prompts.

So I decided to use it to create images of two of the original characters from Lost Together and I thought I'd share the results here.

The first one I tried was Jurojin, the guy from Nekonron who's supposed to be Kirin's bodyguard after Kirin ascends to the throne. He's apparently somewhat popular with readers as far as the reviews go. I'm glad people like this original character.

Jurojin

What's interesting here is that he's supposed to be wearing black clothes but the AI decided to give him a white gi instead for some reason. I'll keep tweaking the prompt to see if I can get him to look like I want later.