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Sketches Platypus

  I just finished a back-to-back of Tolkien's Battle of Maldon and Beowulf. After realizing I could plot the entirety of Sellic Spell as a D&D one shot and buy all the props in five minutes on Amazon, Etsy, or Ebay, I thought of Frank Frazetta. Frazzeta has a few pictures, especially Night Stalker, that are particularly Beowulf-ish. Frazzeta's Italian relish for voluptuous bodies of both genders is mostly at odds with Beowulf's Northern sensibility, but the two illustrations I've attempted to reproduce here (and bowdlerized a bit) do the trick.
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Sketches Platypus

 
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The Quest For the Holy Grail: Creative Platypus

 We've been reading The Quest for the Holy Grail and I can't help thinking this would make a great Game. Pictures below. 
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AI Platypus

 There's more than a lot of debate swirling around AI art. To show you what AI can do, I put one of my own abysmal drawings into the Free StarryAI program and ran it through 1 permutation at 150 rounds with an advanced anime filter. Look at the difference. 
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AI Book Covers: Creative Platypus

  AI upgrades of original doodles made to look like trendy Fantasy book covers. 
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Jirel Wrap Up: Creative Platypus

  Here are the final Jirel of Joiry drawings from my ouvre. I'm moving on to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress Volume I. Drawings are moving on to that Dark Lady series I can never get traction on writing. We'll see if Bradley and company can help jump start my creativity. 
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