Concept art and info for my new comic “The Adventurous Scarlet Carolus and the Machine of Eternal Summer”
I’ve been working hard on my new comic The Adventurous Scarlet Carolus and the Machine of Eternal Summer. I have now written the dialog for almost 200 pages and will soon be ready to hire an artist to draw the comic. However, I will need the rest of October to understand better how many pages exactly the comic will have in the end. At the moment, I project around 500 pages, so a little over half of Gaia.
If you’re interested, you can find more info about the setting of Scarlet on the linked page. Of course everything there is still subject to change.
I used the fantastic new image generation tool Dall-E 3 to generate a lot of concept art for Scarlet. Some things I can’t show yet of course, but none of the following pieces of artwork can be considered spoilers so I want to show you some of the cool artwork I generated:
The main character Scarlet Carolus
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Logos featuring Scarlet Carolus
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The second main character Tibor Frey
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The Machine of Eternal Summer
An illustration of the machine will be shown in the second page of the comic, so it’s not a spoiler to show it here.
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A mysterious yellow megastructure
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The Master Crystal
The Master Crystal is located in the center of the Twin Cities (Capella and Callisto), the political and cultural center of Lavarel.
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Some landscape impressions
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Oh that looks so cool!
I get FrostPunk vibes here.
I can’t wait to read it!
OH YEAH! This looks amazing. Love the concept art, and the Main character really has some cool vibes that I enjoy. The artwork and story within the art is something that I really look forward seeing.
Can’t wait for this series to start flowing.
Love it!
Yes, this looks like it’ll be fun!
I’m interested in how you got that great art out of DALL-E. It’s never done anything so fantastic for me! I’m particularly impressed by the Machine. Would you be willing to share an example of the prompts you used to get these results? Thanks!
Wow. Can’t wait to see the first real pages of the comic 🙂
So powree is not (necessarily) going to be the one?
Thanks for the positive remarks!
MaxArt wrote:
Yes, it’s definitely going in that direction. But the setting is less, let’s say, “dystopian”. Life is (very) tough, but the conditions are still survivable. And it’s a more positive look on how most people manage to keep their humanity in the face of the slowly approaching apocalypse.
bh wrote:
The prompts I used for each topic were very different from each other and I made several adjustments to them to get results with slightly different characteristics. There were also a few topics that even DALL-E 3 failed to generate good results for. Most notably, I couldn’t get any good concept art for villages or cities out of it yet. All settlements were too medieval, too futuristic, too rundown, or all of that combined.
For DALL-E 3, you should start with a rather short description of what you want, and then see what it makes out of it. Then you add additional details in the next prompts to fine-tune the output. If something turns out too futuristic, try adding “fantasy” or “steampunk” modifiers. Modifiers like “warm lighting” can have a significant effect on the quality of the output. And of course my favorite modifier “concept art”.
Sekhmet wrote:
Probably not.
Is Tibor named after one of the Sandra and Woo characters, by any chance? I thought I recognised the name.
Few things though from marketable perspective:
1) maybe think of shorter title, current one is really mouthful to say
2) add also bit mystery on side, current title reveals ending pretty much instant
Cirom wrote:
Tibor is Lily’s father. But it’s a name that I’ve used even before that.
raven0ak wrote:
1) No. A ridiculously long title can also be a unique selling point.
2) The end goal is revealed on the first two pages of the comic, so whatever is in the title doesn’t matter anyway. There will be enough other mysteries to uncover.