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Here’s a selection of a few of the pages (not in order) in Cooper’s Crutches:Īt the same time that I started playing with these illustrations, I wondered whether I had any more ideas for books that I could illustrate at the same time with the same methods. They’re not perfect, but for the use case of my books (for a very small, niche audience), I doubt they care that they’re not perfect. I gave up and went back to DIY-ing the modifications in PowerPoint. Having SVG files theoretically would enable me to further modify and customize these, but as a non-illustrator even though I could load them in Figma and modify them, I still struggled to export them as high-enough resolution to work for printing in a book.

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However, the idea as a whole had worked great! I signed up for a free trial of the “Pro” version of Blush which enabled me to download both high-resolution PNG (image) files as well as SVG files.

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I printed a proof copy, but the versions I had downloaded for free were too low resolution and were fuzzy.

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I then did some DIY-ing again in PowerPoint to modify them to help illustrate the full story in my children’s book. I gave it a try, building some illustrations and downloading them. It’s like paper dolls, but digital – you can adjust the coloring of the hair, hair style, accessories, etc to modify the illustrated character.

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I even found a site called Blush that had a series of illustrations by various artists, and a web interface (GUI) that allowed you to modify images slightly then download them. Actually, I couldn’t even download that one due to a bug in their site, so I started searching (now that I knew to look for it) and found several other sets of illustrations. It then occurred to me to search around and I stumbled across a library of free, open source illustrations. The challenge is also having different poses for the same character, to illustrate a story.) It’s hard to create a character who persists throughout image generation for enough scenes that can fit a two-dozen page storyline, although it would probably work for one or two images! (Especially if you managed to AI-illustrate a character that you could then place in various AI-illustrated scenes. (Seriously).This is in part because I started making an animation to illustrate this concept for a presentation and realized I could convert it to a book! ( You can watch the animated video for free.)Ī few weeks ago, though, I started thinking about experimenting with AI-driven illustrations for various projects, including wondering whether I could illustrate a children’s book or other projects with it. My third children’s book, “ Understanding Automated Insulin Delivery: A basic book for kids, family, and friends of people living with diabetes” I illustrated myself, DIY (do-it-yourself), using PowerPoint.My second book, Parker’s Peanut Butter, was illustrated by an artist I met through a workshop, Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen.My first book, Carolyn’s Robot Relative, was illustrated with art by my aunt, Sandra Massengill.I’ve used a different illustrator or artist for each of my books so far. I let it sit for several years, though, because I didn’t have illustrations for it.

This new book is called Cooper’s Crutches. One of these books I wrote years ago, about a month or so after I broke my ankle, inspired by the initial reactions from one of my nephews about me being on crutches. I wrote two new books! You can find “ Cooper’s Crutches” and “ Chloe’s Cookies” on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats.