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AI Disclaimer
This piece was made by scrapbooking pieces from several outputs generated by multiple AIs dreamstudio.ai and then with some additional photoshopping on top of that.
It IS made using AI tools, but not exclusively so.
Please don't use my comment-section to inform me about- or discuss the validity of AI art.

The Making of
I was quite happy with the first image I made of Cindah, but you'll recall I wanted to use inpainting to see more of whats outside the edge of the picture? The lesson I learned is that the initial image must already have everything you want inside the frame.
By this point, I had figured out my workflow. The "scraps" were made in Dreamstudio, no more Midjourney for this one. The only piece to carry over from the last art was the face, before it too was generated over to blend it into the rest of the image.
Despite it being the feature that got me into Dreamstudio, I am not using inpainting much at all. It was too finicky to make work good before, and recently I haven't been able to make the feature run at all. Mayhaps I am doing something wrong, but ultimately I had already concluded that photoshop scrapbooking parts together was vastly superior in terms of quality, and necessary regardless.
I still stick with Dreamstudio over Midjourney though because of the business model and the options! Overall, I think Midjourney makes better and more "finished" images from an initial prompt than Dreamstudio does, so if both were free I would use MJ! But I resent subscriptions at the best of times, and MJ has a monthly subscription. Whereas DS gets you more generations per dollar and is irrespective of time. DS also has a lot more options to play with, you can make the credits last longer by generating lower resolution images! Pic-to-Pic lets you set the image-strength. And you have the privacy of not having to use Discord. All this means that I would only use Midjourney if I have an all new project that would take a lot of generating, then I would do all of my work in a batch, get it all done in a single month so I can cancel the subscription as soon as possible.

A bit of a tangent, but there really isn't much to say about technique on this image that hasn't already been said before. I create a simple initial image with a composition that I am happy with, I feed it into Dreamstudio Pic-to-Pic with a low strength, refine the prompt and generate a bunch of images. I scrapbook them together in paint.net, feed the resulting image into the machine and increase the image strength. Repeat until satisfied.

More about Cindah
After Risen from the Sands, I proposed to GM a sequel, running the Entombed with the Pharaohs and The Pactstone Pyramid modules, however I ported the campaign over to GURPS, mostly as a way to show the system to new players, but also as a trial to see if GURPS can comfortably emulate Pathfinder before I commit to using it for an AP.
Kineticists as a concept work very neatly in GURPS! Their abilities are a natural fit for Powers. I had Cindah develop a lesser power to control Sand, some minor wish magic, and martial arts, none of which came up directly in play, but it is very satisfying to design characters in GURPS all the same, that same mix would be hard to do in Pathfinder.
Cindah stuck around with the party despite me being the GM, however I conspired to sideline her with something or other so she ended up being unimportant for Entombed and she was off-screen for half of Pactstone. During downtime, despite how she seems to constantly be going somewhere, she was the housekeeper of the group. And in the first adventure she had a fairly major impact at the end as she insisted on bringing a bag of gold with her from the dungeon, which is what ended up giving the party a payday between the two modules as they were otherwise very careful not to touch anything.

Description
AI Disclaimer
This piece was made by scrapbooking pieces from several outputs generated by multiple AIs dreamstudio.ai and then with some additional photoshopping on top of that.
It IS made using AI tools, but not exclusively so.
Please don't use my comment-section to inform me about- or discuss the validity of AI art.

The Making of
I was quite happy with the first image I made of Cindah, but you'll recall I wanted to use inpainting to see more of whats outside the edge of the picture? The lesson I learned is that the initial image must already have everything you want inside the frame.
By this point, I had figured out my workflow. The "scraps" were made in Dreamstudio, no more Midjourney for this one. The only piece to carry over from the last art was the face, before it too was generated over to blend it into the rest of the image.
Despite it being the feature that got me into Dreamstudio, I am not using inpainting much at all. It was too finicky to make work good before, and recently I haven't been able to make the feature run at all. Mayhaps I am doing something wrong, but ultimately I had already concluded that photoshop scrapbooking parts together was vastly superior in terms of quality, and necessary regardless.
I still stick with Dreamstudio over Midjourney though because of the business model and the options! Overall, I think Midjourney makes better and more "finished" images from an initial prompt than Dreamstudio does, so if both were free I would use MJ! But I resent subscriptions at the best of times, and MJ has a monthly subscription. Whereas DS gets you more generations per dollar and is irrespective of time. DS also has a lot more options to play with, you can make the credits last longer by generating lower resolution images! Pic-to-Pic lets you set the image-strength. And you have the privacy of not having to use Discord. All this means that I would only use Midjourney if I have an all new project that would take a lot of generating, then I would do all of my work in a batch, get it all done in a single month so I can cancel the subscription as soon as possible.

A bit of a tangent, but there really isn't much to say about technique on this image that hasn't already been said before. I create a simple initial image with a composition that I am happy with, I feed it into Dreamstudio Pic-to-Pic with a low strength, refine the prompt and generate a bunch of images. I scrapbook them together in paint.net, feed the resulting image into the machine and increase the image strength. Repeat until satisfied.

More about Cindah
After Risen from the Sands, I proposed to GM a sequel, running the Entombed with the Pharaohs and The Pactstone Pyramid modules, however I ported the campaign over to GURPS, mostly as a way to show the system to new players, but also as a trial to see if GURPS can comfortably emulate Pathfinder before I commit to using it for an AP.
Kineticists as a concept work very neatly in GURPS! Their abilities are a natural fit for Powers. I had Cindah develop a lesser power to control Sand, some minor wish magic, and martial arts, none of which came up directly in play, but it is very satisfying to design characters in GURPS all the same, that same mix would be hard to do in Pathfinder.
Cindah stuck around with the party despite me being the GM, however I conspired to sideline her with something or other so she ended up being unimportant for Entombed and she was off-screen for half of Pactstone. During downtime, despite how she seems to constantly be going somewhere, she was the housekeeper of the group. And in the first adventure she had a fairly major impact at the end as she insisted on bringing a bag of gold with her from the dungeon, which is what ended up giving the party a payday between the two modules as they were otherwise very careful not to touch anything.