AI Art Conflict
Date: Jan 19 2023
Over the last several months, there has been a substantial increase in the use of AI to generate self portraits. As a technologist, I understand the need to use technology to improve our lives. But I'm also firm believer in the inately creative nature of the human spirit. In support of the global artistic community, I had the following portrait done by my book Cover Arist John Ric Detoon. His abaility to capture the essense of his subject, while transforming them into a surreal masterpiece is without equal.
Cartography
Date: Jan 18 2023
Welcome to Ashana, a vast world of adventure, and danger and the setting for the DarkThorne Chronicles. It is both the cradle of the Magic of Ashara, and a place of exile for ominous relics banished out of time and space into the DarkThorne Forest.I recently commissioned this map, from a series of sketches that I've been using for the past 15 years to run adventurers through campaigns, across these many realms and back again