Shep Bryan

Some new bolo ties for .

Making cover art with AI-generated images.

I used DALL-E and Midjourney to roll some prompts for an upcoming music release.

I was looking to get something out in the style of a manga cover with “TRASH” as the title of the manga.

I tried a number of different manga titles to feed the prompt, including Naruto, One Piece, and Full Metal Alchemist, as well as a couple prompts about Corgis taking out their trash.

I used 5 images total for the cover, all from DALL-E. Swipe to see them all.

In the end I got a funny but impressive set of images out of the process, and then I composited them together in Photoshop with a little bit of photo-editing wizardry.

All told, this process took less than 40 minutes to execute and cost me essentially zero dollars.

I didn’t need to hire a manga illustrator.

I didn’t need to go hunting for fonts that I thought were cool.

I didn’t need to visit Envato Elements to see what kind of .png graphic files I could pull into a design.

I just… typed in words and got images.

The result is some decidedly quirky cover art that I feel is eye-catching in the exact way I want it to be for the target listener: ADHD people :)

I will note that most of the artwork generated by both AI tools was generally unusable.

In many cases it was too fuzzy or blurry once it was upscaled, or it was simply too chaotic.

The biggest issue I found with the AI is that it struggles to render text in the output.

Telling it that “TRASH” was the title of my manga required rolling a number of prompts repeatedly until the AI finally spit out a version of the design that didn’t say TRRAHSS, RASASHTTSAH, STRASTSHHA, etc.

Overall, DALL-E ended up being much more effective at outputting useful art for this project.

I will absolutely continue to use these tools going forward as they’ve done nothing but inspire me and empower me so far.

And ideally, the fact that this part is now so easy will make it easier to publish new music as well. :)

Happy place with my dudes. The recording studio >>> pretty much everything else. Shout out to my boys for making this happen.

Finna post some more bachelor weekend pics soon.

took this pic of me. Thanks Chris. In this scene I’m preparing to enjoy a large tasty breakfast with friends.