The one thing we have been doing during the quite period over Christmas and New Year is installing and learning to refine our prompts to generate illustrations and stock-photo-like images using the open source AI image generator, Stable Diffusion.

Bit scary to install, huge amounts of VRAM and space gobbled up, and then you realise it is very easy to get indifferent or frankly bizarre results (e.g. 3 arms, missing limbs, extra eyes, or homunculi in the most unexpected places).

Enough said – it is an ongoing process of refinement, but we are very pleased with our results so far.

You can view more photos on our Stable Diffusion Illustration page.