1st. Writing— I write a story in Evernote. Then, I write the art brief for the visual. While the art brief is in connection to the story, the writings do differ. I paste the art brief into Midjourney — “ /imagine “— and then a journey begins.
2nd. Generating— The journey is generating visuals. This includes the initial full 4 panel visual generations, then up-rezing what I like, and then creating variations for what could be cool but isn't yet. Simultaneously while generating visuals, I proceed to alter/edit, cut, expand, and retract the art brief. I do this while keeping the original story as the focus (I don't want the initial visual generations to distract me from the story or the original ideas I had in mind before I began generating visuals). Throughout the entire process I am generating hundreds of visuals- at like 10–20 images per minute.
3rd. Editing— When the generated visuals begin to become applicable to the story, I make choices and then I start to edit and refine the chosen visuals by highlighting the areas I don’t agree with and then generating variations on those particular areas.
4th. Expanding — Once the image is feeling close to completion and without error, I then expand the size of the image by using the zoom-out features. And then I repeat the whole above steps all over again because errors present themselves in the zoom-outs.
5th. Final Thoughts—Know that while the process is actually simple, and it is very sneaky. There are a lot of image errors in the A.I. visual generations???—???mangled fingers and legs, eyes looking in odd directions, body parts connecting in all the wrong places, and on and on???— to me this is fun. So keep in mind that once you get into it, it becomes this whole game, and then a new world begins to unravel. It all goes many ways. It is an immersive experience.