JAN to AmyF and Lucy - cowboy

 

It's taken quite a while to part with the round stamps - but - I'm doin' it.

I'm ambivalent about these two. As I've already said - having 28 people sign up is a little intimidating. While these two did have a couple warm ups - on scratch paper - they're still quite rough.

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Back in January, I had a little *rant* about the suggestion that wearing nicer clothes on airplanes would resolve the problems with manners. I said that I enjoyed people watching and didn't mind unusual outfits.  I mentioned an example of a portly, long-haired, bearded cowboy in cut-off bib overalls, cowboy hat and cowboy boots - and wrote in the original post that I was sorry I had not been able to snap a photo. 

As I read that post during my final read-through right before it popped up, I pondered doing a quick sketch of the guy, from memory. That didn't seem like a good use of my time so I thought to myself: Hey, maybe I could ask AI to make a picture. Voila. 

I'm the last person I would have expected to be using AI. 

Above is the second version. It's perfect - except that the cutoffs might've been a little shorter and the hair was grayer. Below was the first one I did. On the first go, I thought about asking for him to be at the airport figured that might  asking for too much - but it wasn't. I'm really impressed with AI. But I do not expect to be creating any more AI images. While it was able to create my visual - that style of illustration is -to MY eyes - barf-worthy. Yucky. Offensive. 

What, you may ask, makes it so repulsive to me? It's difficult to articulate. I'll return to this topic.

I took off the word *portly* and asked for gray hair and beard. I'd like the guy to be half way between these two - weight-wise. The one at the top has the right size beard. I'm curious to know how it works if a person wants to fine tune details....but not curious enough to do any more research or experimenting.