Drawn, and generated.

My illustration and my AI images, on one page. Every AI image says which tool made it. Click any picture for the full-size file.

01IllustrationFigs. 1.1 – 1.18

By hand.

Two are ink on paper. The rest are drawn in Procreate.

A wide, sprawling live oak with rust-brown autumn leaves.

Fig. 1.1 · Digital · Procreate

Fall Oak

The same sprawling oak in summer greens against a yellow sky.

Fig. 1.2 · Digital · Procreate

Summer Tree

A tall bare tree in fine pen lines, a small dark sign hanging from one branch.

Fig. 1.3 · Ink on paper

The Written Tree

A cat in a knitted beanie, paws pressed together under its chin, in fine pen hatching.

Fig. 1.4 · Ink on paper

Cat in a Beanie

A raised hand in rust-colored strokes with a dark eye in its palm.

Fig. 1.5 · Digital · Procreate

Hand of Fatima

Rows of small bald heads scattered on black, each with a red mark.

Fig. 1.6 · Digital · Procreate

Head Hunted

Godzilla in heavy black hatching before a red circle, with red Japanese lettering.

Fig. 1.7 · Digital · Procreate

Godzilla Patchwork

A woman with long wavy hair, small mice gathered on her head like a crown.

Fig. 1.8 · Digital · Procreate

Queen of Mice

A cross-hatched dog skull beside the words "Believe in yourself. We believe in you." — Dog

A llama skull in brown hatching beside the words "Don't be too hard on yourself." — Llama

A human skull in heavy hatching beside the words "You are enough. Everything is going to work out. Trust in the process and see this through." — Man

A human skull in fine cross-hatching beside the words "You are not your past. Let it go." — Man II

A ram skull with curled horns beside the words "When was the last time you called your dad?" — Ram

Fig. 1.9 · Digital · Procreate · a set of five

Postmortem Advice

A painted portrait of a gray-bearded man in a dark jacket.

Fig. 1.10 · Digital · Procreate

Omar Portrait

A snarling blue wolf head with yellow fangs on a sky-blue ground.

Fig. 1.11 · Digital · Procreate

The Big Dog

Fig. 1.12 · Digital · Procreate

Crow Face

A red mecha helmet with a single spike and a glowing purple eye.

Fig. 1.13 · Digital · Procreate

Zaku

A teal cat head with wild yellow eyes and bared fangs, drooling.

Fig. 1.14 · Digital · Procreate

Deranged Kitty

A lavender skull with a gaping jaw on black.

Fig. 1.15 · Digital · Procreate

Skull Blue

The same lavender skull, smeared and glitched at the edges.

Fig. 1.16 · Digital · Procreate

Skull Blur

A sheet of small black-and-white flash drawings: creatures, cats, whales, skulls and odd characters.

Fig. 1.17 · Digital · Procreate

Flash Sheet 1

Handwritten on a black smudge: "I know sometimes life feels like a deep dark tunnel with no end in sight." — 1 / 4

Handwritten on a black smudge: "like you'll never see the light so why bother..." — 2 / 4

Handwritten on a gray smudge above an eye: "But nothing lasts forever. Every tunnel has an end." — 3 / 4

Fig. 1.18 · Digital · Procreate

Keep Going

02AI imagesFigs. 2.1 – 2.21

How these are made.

These images come from two kinds of tools. Some are made on my own machine: open models on my own GPU, run through ComfyUI workflows I built and keep tuning. Others are made with Midjourney. Each work's card says which.

Either way, the tools produce candidates. Choosing what stays is the part that is mine.

Sepia, photographic: an upright piano alone on bare ground before a towering wave.

Fig. 2.1 · AI image · Midjourney

A Song for Everyone

Sepia, photographic: an upright piano alone on bare ground before a towering wave.

Faded print colors: a man in a straw hat walks his small son up a cobbled street of painted houses, toward the mountains.

Fig. 2.2 · AI image · Midjourney

Father and Son

Faded print colors: a man in a straw hat walks his small son up a cobbled street of painted houses, toward the mountains.

Ink drawing: a crowd walking toward a cliff wall full of human-shaped holes.

Fig. 2.3 · AI image · Local · ComfyUI

Amigara

Ink drawing: a crowd walking toward a cliff wall full of human-shaped holes.

Ink and watercolor: the refinery burns and its crews toil, while one man in a bathrobe mows his little lawn behind a picket fence.

Fig. 2.4 · AI image · Local · ComfyUI

American Man

Ink and watercolor: the refinery burns and its crews toil, while one man in a bathrobe mows his little lawn behind a picket fence.

Ink and night color: a man on the floor of a cluttered room types on a laptop while a column of code burns up into the dark above him.

Fig. 2.5 · AI image · Midjourney

Toil

Ink and night color: a man on the floor of a cluttered room types on a laptop while a column of code burns up into the dark above him.

Ink drawing: a man paints at a blank canvas in an alley of stacked stone blocks, watched by a camera on a tripod.

Fig. 2.6 · AI image · Local · ComfyUI

The Artist

Ink drawing: a man paints at a blank canvas in an alley of stacked stone blocks, watched by a camera on a tripod.

Comic-book color, a pair: two men at their computers in robot helmets, one dark, one white.

Fig. 2.7 · AI series · Local · ComfyUI

Black Hat, White Hat

Comic-book color, a pair: two men at their computers in robot helmets, one dark, one white.

Fig. 2.8 · AI image · Midjourney

Upgrade Visualized

Vintage photo collage: a young man in profile whose head opens into a tiny office of workers, wires and old computers.

Ink and flat color: an old man doubled over on a stone block while the Earth behind him drains into a black hole.

Fig. 2.9 · AI image · Midjourney

Suffering

Ink and flat color: an old man doubled over on a stone block while the Earth behind him drains into a black hole.

Brush and ink: a swan rising off the water, wings open, with a few drops of red.

Fig. 2.10 · AI image · Midjourney

The Swan

Brush and ink: a swan rising off the water, wings open, with a few drops of red.

Painted in fine detail: a bald eagle whose body is built of toys, teddy bears, toy cars, blocks and rockets.

Fig. 2.11 · AI image · Midjourney

Freedom

Painted in fine detail: a bald eagle whose body is built of toys, teddy bears, toy cars, blocks and rockets.

Bright collage: a figure made of circuit boards, cables, fans and flowers, with only a calm face showing.

Fig. 2.12 · AI image · Midjourney

The Dream Machine

Bright collage: a figure made of circuit boards, cables, fans and flowers, with only a calm face showing.

Ink and watercolor drawing: a tower of server racks crowded with tiny workers.

Fig. 2.13 · AI image · Local · ComfyUI

Babel

Ink and watercolor drawing: a tower of server racks crowded with tiny workers.

Cinematic painting: people sit on the floor of a cathedral lined with server racks, studying a painting by candlelight, a robed robot among them.

Fig. 2.14 · AI image · Midjourney

New Florence

Cinematic painting: people sit on the floor of a cathedral lined with server racks, studying a painting by candlelight, a robed robot among them.

Black and white: a faceless hooded figure crowned with barbed wire sits on a throne of keyboards and servers among stacks of paper.

Fig. 2.15 · AI image · Midjourney

Lord

Black and white: a faceless hooded figure crowned with barbed wire sits on a throne of keyboards and servers among stacks of paper.

Chrome sculpture: a sleeping head covered in script tattoos and piercings, its braids wound around a tiny palace.

Fig. 2.16 · AI image · Midjourney

Rest

Chrome sculpture: a sleeping head covered in script tattoos and piercings, its braids wound around a tiny palace.

Isometric city: a dense block of signs and rooftops, a pagoda, a jammed crossing, and flying cars parked on the roofs.

Fig. 2.17 · AI image · Midjourney

The Town

Isometric city: a dense block of signs and rooftops, a pagoda, a jammed crossing, and flying cars parked on the roofs.

Night scene: a small boy in a spotlight looks up at a mountain of security cameras under the Milky Way.

Fig. 2.18 · AI image · Local · ComfyUI

Ozymandias

Night scene: a small boy in a spotlight looks up at a mountain of security cameras under the Milky Way.

Iridescent illustration: a skeletal figure draped in gold chains and candelabra pours a stream of glitter before a full moon.

Fig. 2.19 · AI image · Midjourney

Dreams

Iridescent illustration: a skeletal figure draped in gold chains and candelabra pours a stream of glitter before a full moon.

Oil-painting style: a wave the size of a world curls over a domed palace city and its tall ships, while two small figures walk the shore.

Fig. 2.20 · AI image · Midjourney

To the End of Time

Oil-painting style: a wave the size of a world curls over a domed palace city and its tall ships, while two small figures walk the shore.

Iridescent illustration: a mass of gold skulls and skeletons spills out of an ornate old computer, its data pouring out as rainbow streams of binary.

Fig. 2.21 · AI image · Midjourney

Latent Space

Iridescent illustration: a mass of gold skulls and skeletons spills out of an ornate old computer, its data pouring out as rainbow streams of binary.