Tag: Images
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It is amazing how a background can dress up a simple design inspired by a mandala
There is so much to like in this set of stickers, not the least of which is the backgrounds. Normally I want a plain white background, it gives me more options for printing, but these backgrounds are full of interest and really add to the designs. The designs were inspired by mandalas I had colored…
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Stained Glass look inspired by a mandala I colored, makes a nice sticker
AI takes a simple design, and basic color scheme, and creates something eye-catching to print and stick in my journal to add a burst of color and interest. It can be fun to ask for a few different variations… in this case stained glass, and then an oil painting of the stained glass.
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Eye-catching result – Inspired by a black and white mandala
I’m not fond of AI putting designs against a black background — as much as I love seeing the colors pop against black here on the web, I prefer them against white when I print them… this one removed the background nicely and still looks really good.
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A beautiful drawing of a flower — inspired by a mandala I colored
One of the things I love about AI Art is that I can color a simple line art drawing, then ask AI to turn it in to something magical, and far more complicated and detailed than my simple doodle. From this simple piece of line art, to the eye catching design above… and another fun…
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Black and White Floral Doodle with a little help from AI
One of my ongoing frustrations with the AI interfaces I use is that I can’t tell them to stay within the boundaries of the frame, and not let the image overflow out of it. I would love to see all the way to the edges of the petals on this black and white flower that…
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AI Art – mostly alien and otherworldly flower with a hint of crystalline structure
Another time when I started with a mandala I had colored then gave AI a prompt that asked for an otherworldly flower, with a crystal like glow or luminescence. The only thing that could make it better is if the petals didn’t flow out of the frame.
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Oil Painting of a Stained Glass design based on a mandala I colored…
I went through a series of ideas from this mandala. Stained Glass — stained glass emphasizing the blue tones… and an oil painting of the stained glass… each of which was delightful in its own way.
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An intricate mandala created the foundation for this AI Art
Same set of images, without the black background.
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Beside a babbling brook on an alien world with the help of AI
AI Art offers so many ways to both add color, and a bit of daydreaming to my journal, in this case I started with the basic feeling of sitting beside a babbling brook, and added an alien world to it.
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Working with Microsoft Copilot to transform a line art mandala into AI Art
Starting with a rainbow of colors gives a lot more opportunities for interest and vibrant colors in the final AI image — as long as I remember to update my prompt which often asks for specific colors (for instance blue tones) to be emphasized.
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A colorful butterfly sticker to brighten up my journal…
I am not much of an artist when left to my own devices, but recently I have been using Adobe Fresco more and more, and those butterfly, made mostly using the smudge tool, produced a nice little sticker to brighten up a page. Added bonus, it prints up on a transparency as a sunbather for…
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Lantana Flower sketch by AI
I got it in my head at one point that I wanted to keep track of the flowers/plants and birds I see. Maybe someday I’ll learn the names of more of them, and be better at recognizing them. I have hopes this little project would help. Typically I see something, photograph it, get an identification…
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Northern Lights and a sense of arctic wonder…
This AI prompt involved Greenland and/or Iceland, and the sense of wonder that comes with visiting such a distant land. My journal is full of entries about bucket list dreams and destinations, and stickers like this add color and bring those dreams to life.
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A black and white mandala given silver and gold highlights becomes something special
This was another time where I took the prompt through a series of tweaks, trying to figure out both what I wanted, and how to get something that fit my mood. I realized I was looking for a seasonal doodle that kept my love of mandalas, but captured the colors I associate with getting ready…
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Out of the pages of a book comes a fantastical fairytale world…
Sometimes I give AI a prompt that simply describes the feeling I get reading a book, in this case I wanted to capture the feeling of a world coming from the very pages of a book I am reading…
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From mandala to otherworldly flower with a captivating background
I often fear my prompts are vague, and poorly worded, yet the results are often more fantastic than I could have hoped for, so maybe I am doing better than I fear when I try them.
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Asking AI for something inspired by a poinsettia offered magical results
I wanted something festive, fun, and full of brilliant red and gold tones. What I got is positively delightful.
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Black and White AI Art floral themed journal sitcker
I really like the negative space in this one, and the white flowers are surprisingly bold. Another example of a relatively simple black and white design that is eye-catching, and a fun way to dress up and add interest to any page in a journal. #lineart #blackandwhite #grimoiregraphic #journalsticker
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It’s officially winter, but we’ve got some fall colors…
I wanted some stickers that captured the dynamic colors of this time of year, as the beauty and wonder of fall colors still being out after the first day of winter.
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Windmills – inspired by Kinderdijk Holland
There is a lot to be said for scenery as well as color to brighten up my journal entries… and I have long been fascinated by the windmills in Holland. With the help of Gemini AI I came up with a few stickers using Kinderdijk as the inspiration.
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Dressing up a reading entry in my journal…
A lot of my stickers are about adding color and fun while sticking with the theme of my entry. This one started with the concept of reading science fiction and fantasy books, and feeling transported to a vibrant alien world… I love the flower that seems to dominate the image. It is unreal in so…
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A world map representing a dream cruise…
This isn’t what I had in mind when I asked AI to create an image (paraphrasing here) representing a cruise to amazing locations I can only dream of going to… it seemed like one of several prompts worth trying for an image to go in my journal with an entry about bucket list dreams and…
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A seat with a view — Air travel
This is a fun sticker I came up with, using Google Gemini to go with entries at the beginning or end of a trip… a nice sketch to capture the sense of going on an airplane.
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An otherworldly flower…
It never ceases to amaze me how many similar yet different designs can come from one prompt, particularly when I include a mandala I designed and colored to give some direction and inspiration to the final result. In this case some look more like a single otherworldly flower, others look like part of a design.,…
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Vacation sticker — Cruise
At the top of my post is my favorite of the images I got when I tried to prompt a sticker to put in my journal at the beginning of a cruise. I wanted to capture both the cruise aspect and the relaxed, not in my normal “work uniform” vibe which is why I put…
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A graphic to go with a travel entry…
I wanted something interesting to put in my journal with a travel entry, and I really love this one, it feels familiar and otherworldly to me all at once, like it’s almost a place I could go, yet seems just out of reach, but bucket list worthy. The kind of place a travelers dreams are…
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An underground cavern with glowing walls… AI style
Sometimes, after reading a book where I particularly enjoyed getting swept up in the author’s world, I will go to an AI and type in a few words describing a place, as best I can recall… or as it came to feel to me after returning to it over the course of multiple scenes. Something…
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Microsoft Designer shows four designs when you give a text to image prompt.
I am not sure what I find more interesting in Microsoft Designer, that four images are generated in response to my prompt, or that I can then select from a variety of styles in addition to choosing between square or landscape. Most of the time I like aspects of each of the four images, and…
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Victorian Era Toronto… can you say Murdoch Mysteries aka The Artful Detective?
Binge watching TV shows feels so commonplace, and easy these days it can be hard to remember when we had to wait all week for a new episode to air, and if you weren’t in front of a tv when it did you had to pray for it to be re-run. Years ago I watched…
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Some days the book I’m reading gets me wondering…
This was one of those times when I found myself entranced by the world in the book I was reading… a place made up of underground caverns lit up by bioluminescent walls. I didn’t give the AI prompt much to work with, yet found myself quite happy with the result, this time from Google Gemini.
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My favorite way to brighten up my journal…
AI can do really interesting things with doodles, or in this case a mandala I drew and colored in. At first, I was satisfied with my very basic mandalas in my journal, by gradually I found myself wanting something “more” but still “mine”. That was when I started adding them to my AI prompts, and…
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A splash of ethereal color.
There are times when I want a splash of color in my journal, something that gives me a sense of visiting a distant nebula, or simply lets me imagine for a moment that I’m vacationing on some intergalactic cruise ship, seeing fantastic and barely imaginable sights. I love the colors in this one, as well…
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My prompt about a world beneath a rainbow went awry with beautiful results…
I recall asking Gemini AI from Google for an alien world beneath a rainbow, I’m not sure what else I had in the prompt, but honestly, this result was unique and magical in a way that had me caring less about my initial prompt, and more about the final result. Often, for me and my…
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Photorealistic sailboat
Photorealistic isn’t what I had in mind when I gave Gemini AI a prompt about a sailboat on a summer day, but I ended up liking and keeping this image, in part because it captures the feeling of peacefulness out on the water.
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Microsoft Designer has learned I like magical, ethereal and otherworldly…
Even when I don’t put the words magical, ethereal or otherworldly in my prompts, find Microsoft Designer tends to lean towards those elements automatically in the results it generates for me, because I have used those descriptors in so many requests. In this case I was actually asking for a sticker to go with a…
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Olympics and AI Art collide in my journal…
There have been a lot of Olympic headlines of late, and even as I’ve been away from most of the world, with limited internet and media access I have still been catching the highlights. There are so many things I love about the Olympics… just one small aspect being that feeling that for a moment…
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A painting with flowers and lots of light bright vibes…
Sometimes what I want most is simply a piece of art that reflects my mood, or my mindset… or perhaps I should say where I would be if my body could go anywhere that fit with the way I was feeling and seeing the world. Regardless of the season, sometimes I want to see a…
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A beautiful landscape with an emphasis on whites and blues…
I love the colors in this AI design. There is a sense of drama as it captures the beauty of nature without being purely realistic either in style or what it represents, which, to me, gives it an inspiring quality… I look at this image and dream of places I’ve never been even as I…
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Black and White line art
I have a cute little app on my iPad that lets me create mandala designs, and shade them in. It’s a very zen activity… sometimes I clear my mind, and simply focus on the pattern in front of me, other times I focus on a problem at hand, and the act of creating and shading…
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Stained Glass Style Imaginary Wildflowers
One of the prompts I enjoy giving AI is for otherworldly flowers, sometimes I’ll suggest a specific flower it be inspired by, or specific colors I want included… the results tend to be fun. Sometimes I’ll ask for a field of flowers, other times a stained glass window or a suncatcher. Now this isn’t to…
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A fantastical sunset…
Some days a painting of a fantastical sunset both brightens my mood and sums up how I feel about the world at the same time. I use several of the AI interfaces, and some of them I haven’t figured out how to do anything but square images with, which is a shame, because there are…
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Why Grimoire Graphics?
When I first got the idea to make images for my journal I didn’t think I’d share them with others, or come up with a name for what I was doing, but after reading Hilarie Burton’s book Grimoire Girl I had a whole new perspective on my journal, journaling in general, and the graphics I…