Wizards from the Future.
Introducing an AI-created character. Inkbeard #35
Technical Difficulties.
Would that the Print Shop had a working A3 scanner, else I would now be showing the scanned poster. Unfortunately, their scanner wasn’t working, and so I had a fantastic excuse not to bother for another few days. As for the lateness of this post, the previous week was the living quarters of Sports Camp, a VBS-esque program which my church hosts and which I volunteered for, and since I was volunteering for it, there was literally no time in the evenings to work on anything, really.
The Art.
However, I do have a plethora of sketches ready for the common consumer. If anyone cares to harken back to a couple of posts ago, I mentioned giving ChatGPT a prompt to create a comic script, and that this would be my next project after the poster. Well, since the poster has been delayed, I have decided to dedicate a little time to drawing out these characters from the descriptions provided by Artificial Intelligence (see what I did there?).
The first OC (original character, for all of our readers who aren’t in the know about various abbreviations, including myself) is a young wizard named Jax Nova, described by ChatGPT as quote:
“A sarcastic space-wizard with a plasma staff and a love of microwave burritos. Think Gandalf meets a Twitch streamer. Robe covered in meme patches, plasma staff with a screen on top that glitches. LED-rune tattoos.”
Needless to say, I was intrigued.
Jax Nova
The evolution of Jax has undergone some changes, not only in appearance, but also in the style in which he is drawn. At first he was a shabby, basement-dwelling nerd who figured out how to make his own magic staff. I especially enjoyed designing his staff, crystals and all. But I decided he was too busy (especially the staff), and that if I was to draw a whole comic starring this figure, I wanted to simplify him a bit.
The next version was a much more cartoonish idea, hearkening back to Adventure Time in it’s inspirations. I toyed with the idea of giving him long fluffy hair, but it just made me think of Hermione Granger, which is completely the wrong picture. In the end I blended the two, leaning to the more realistic style, which I prefer in general, but with a simpler costume.
The End of All.
Thanks very much for reading this post and for (I assume) spreading the word of Inkbeard. Join me again in two weeks to see (I assume again) the scanned version of the poster. And with that, I bid you ado.
2 responses to “#035”
I love this drawing! You did a good job capturing the AI description!
Well AI is hilarious and this guy is my favorite. I like the first iteration best! Definitely busy, would be time consuming. But so so great.