Totally worth it!

In the late 1800s, vibrators were industrial-sized machines that women had to be strapped into. But it DID make them less hysterical!

Image source: Kink shoot 17083, "Squirt Alert From The Ass That Keeps On Taking" starring Amy Brooke.

 

Her Tender Lips...

What strange creatures these Earth humans were. Pulling on one set of lips caused the other set of lips to open wide and emit strange noises!

Image source: Kink.com shoot 30464 featuring Juliette March (screaming) and Felony (yanking Juliette's chain).
 

"Her tender lips" brings a song to mind: 

Her Tender Lips

Leonardo AI Motion 2.0: A Move Too Far!

It started out as a not-so-innocent Second Life image of a Slave Leia avatar getting fucked by a naked male avatar. Cartoonish but pretty good, especially the annoyed expression in the avatar's eyes as it is bent over the table, bound and gagged and fucked in public. Mm, that's good bondage imagery. But could I get prudish Leonardo AI to create a good still image of such a blatantly sexual image?

Yes we can! I was most concerned about the gag, Leonardo AI has a real problem with gag. You can't even call them gags in the prompts, Leonardo thinks gags are evil bad things and will not knowingly draw them. So I ignored the gag in my prompt and hoped Leonardo wouldn't fuck it up like it has in so many instances. And it not only didn't fuck up the gag, it improved it. It fucked up Leia's shoulder, and made the male avatar's upper thigh skinnier than his calf and made his arm less believable and let's not even talk about what happened to the male figur's hip, but overall, not too bad for Leonardo. But the question is, what would happen if I tried to create a motion video?

I made the Leonardo AI image into a video using Motion 2.0. My prompt was: "A woman rests on a dais, gazing moodily into the distance while a man looms behind her. " Because I sure as hell couldn't say "A woman rests on a dais, her arms bound behind her, as a man vigorously fucks her doggie style from behind." No sex, no bondage, none of that in the prompts. Leonardo's Prompt Enhance feature took my somewhat generic text and made it into: "Woman slowly turns her head, gaze lingering. Man approaches, shadow falling on her, camera subtly zooms in." And I said, "What the hell, I'll go with it." This was a mistake. It somehow came up with two men, one of them little more than a mannequin the other wearing the wisp of fabric from Leia's butt as a loincloth, a much larger loincloth. Also, I knew that botched shoulder would be trouble. Sure enough, I got a case of Disembodied Arm when the AI decided to move her arm for some reason. The bright spot was Leia's face: the gag remained in place as she moved, properly drawn, and her eyes and posture were very expressive. So I tried again.

I used the same image, but this time I turned down the Prompt Enhance option. My prompt was, "A woman rests on a dais gazing moodily into the distance as a man looms behind her." Turns out it was very little improvement. Leonardo AI Motion 2.0 interpreted this as, "Man fucking woman doggie style literally deflates like a punctured blow-up doll. His arm becomes a leg and then falls off as he magically transforms into a bearded man clad in barbaric battle dress who walks away. As the man transforms from a deflated blow up doll to a Roman warrior, the woman's head rotates 180 degrees and the backe of her body magically becomes the front of her body as she crosses her legs and turns to watch the man leave." This was not an improvement over the preceding video at all. The gag remains strong, surviving even the 180 degree head rotation. And her butt interacts with an odd realism to the deflating blow-up man. Overall, though, it's trash. But what if?..

The prompt on this one was, "Woman lies still, man slowly walks away from dais, camera slowly pans to follow him." This was Prompt Enhance's version of my prompt, "Women rests on dais and man behind her rises and walks away." I figured, "Meh, close enough" and went with Prompt Enhance's version. A mistake. What Leonardo Motion gave me was, "Man rises after fucking woman, sliding his cock out of her pussy as he does so. But a nice pair of blue jeans magically appears on his body so you don't see his cock sliding out as he rises. Also as he rises, his right arm gets confused with her leg, which HAD been resting comfortably on the dais, but now lies sprawled hehind her as if he had shoved it aside as he rises. He trots out of the room at  good clip, a true "Wham bam thank you ma'am" kind of guy. Since the camera tracks him we don't get a reaction shot of Leia, which would have been nice. But we do get a shot of another dancer dancing forlornly by another dais, with no one to watch her or fuck her. Ain't that always the way?

And after all that, I gave up. I'd had enough of this visual abuse!

Challenge Accepted!

 

"None Shall Pass Save Those Who Fucke This Wench's Face!" the sign had said. It was amazing how obliging all the men had been.

Image Source: kink.com video 31868, "Dungeon Sex" starring Bonnie Day and Maestro.

A Real Trooper

It wasn't a harmonica but she would do her best!

 

Image source: Kink Shoot 34574, "A Squirting Puppy Is Eager To Please" starring Ella Nova.

A Nipple Too Far...

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Sexual Bondage Comedy Duo!

The Bad Lesbian Comedy Bondage duo of Penny Pax (left) and Chanel Preston was a little ahead of its time. The humor was perhaps a bit too advanced for most audiences, but their appearances were still very well attended for some reason or other.

Image source: Kink.com shoot 35488, "TSA Takedown Part 2: Patriots."

Of Lips And Gags

"She's ready for her close-up Mr. Demille." Chloe Camille convincingly demonstrates the way bright red lipstick can work with a red ballgag. Notice the way her lips wrap naturally around the ballgag, making it all look like a single natural unit. Dynomite!
Image Source: Kink.com shoot 10443, Halloween starring Chloe Camille.
While perusing a number of eminent websites in pursuit of my intellectual studies, I noticed something rather striking: very few of the artsy bondage kinda sites have any idea what gags are all about, as they almost never use them.

Come to think of it, a lot of hardcore bondage sites tend to neglect gags, using them rarely, or not effectively. The pic above shows what gags are all about ... controlling the sub's mouth. In the case of a ring gag, it's propping the mouth open, allowing things to be shoved rapidly in and out of it. In the case of your more commonplace ball gag, it's filling the mouth, letting the sub know that even as her top is working her pussy, her mouth is still under his control, not hers.

It's also about the softly muffled cries of passion that get out from under a gag, and the way a string of drool trails down the chin, a visible reminder of the sub's helplessness. Sure, it contorts the sub's face a bit, but that's just another aspect of her helplessness. Her very expression is controlled by her top. The sub's mouth is for kissing and licking and oral sex, and when not in use for those purposes, is quite properly bound and put away for such uses later.

If you think about it in those terms instead of going "Eeeew, gag!" you might just up your game a notch or two, art bondage people. I'm not saying that this is my taste and everybody's taste ought to be like mine, I'm writing this because I think a lot of bondage/sub-top/master-slave/up-down/whoopsi-doodle type folks might just find themselves enjoying gags a lot more of they put a little thought into what they are really all about.

And come to think of it, there ARE art bondage people, a lot of them. What the hell? What happened to bondage's ultra-skeeviness? I feel another post coming on!

The gag that says, "My lips are yours to use as you please, and when you please." And just look at how those red lips accentuate that spider gag while it's spread her mouth wide for whatever. By which I mean a cock, of course. And we can't ignore the way the model's huge, beautiful wide-open brown eyes work with her beautiful wide-open mouth. So we won't! 
Image Source: A reverse image search using a number of search sites turned up one hit, a site called Scroller which is a repository of sexy images, which cited as its source a subreddit that I used to curate, which means it's a pic I found on the Interwebs somewhere. There was no useful information about the picture on Scroller, and no other hits for the pic came up on Tineye, Yandex, Baidu, Alamy, and Shutterstock as well as Google reverse image, which is the search engine that found the image on Scroller. So I have no idea where this image originated. Drop me a line if you do!

An illustrative lost opportunity. This is bondage model Tatti Russo in a shoot for (gazes at watermark) Fucking Dungeon.  Will you look at those gorgeous lips of hers, so beautifully highlighted by that red, red lipstick? Of course you will, how could you not? Can you imagine how gorgeous those lips would look wrapped around a ballgag or a ring gag? I bet you can, I sure can. However apparently the same photographer who managed to take this shot could not. Because...

You don't have to imagine because here's Tatti in the same photoshoot wearing the same lipstick but with a ball gag strapped into her mouth.  And she does look gorgeous. Just not nearly as gorgeous as in the image above. I think it's two things: the lighting is much harsher in this image, making her skin look paler and her lipstick look paler, too. More importantly, her lips are pulled back over her teeth, making her lips look less full. Of course having a ballgag in her mouth will make a woman's lips stretch, too. I don't think that's what is happening here, though. I think it's just that no one thought about the possibilities here. Letting her lips relax into a more natural shape would let them be the full lips that they are. I could be wrong, my thinking is purely hypothetical here, but I think my thoughts explain the images well.

And here's gorgeous bondage model Nicotine making my point. Her lips are stretched back, but not so far back that they don't look full and gorgeous against that gag. And that red lipstick works beautifully with the ballgag. Damn.Imagine if her lips had been posed like Chloe Camille's lips.

Image source: kink.com shoot 6716 starring Nicotine and Clair Adams.

Here's Nicotine from the same video, sans ballgag. Absolutely gorgeous lips, just like Tatti, in fact, both are flat-out gorgeous in these shoots. Imagine what could have been if the photographer had tried to get the full effect of those lips wrapped around a ballgag, like Chloe's were. Woulda been spectacular.

Unexpected Alien Sex Queen!

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Leonardo AI Motion 2.0 Don't Need No Steenkin' Gravity!

This is how it started. A practically naked Second Life avatar ;photographed in a shallow stream with a luxurious jungle background. It's one of the best Second Life pics I've taken, although the avatar is, well, kinda bug-eyed. But such nice water, such nice jungle foliage, and such nice tanned breasts and a pussy barely covered by a waistcloth. 

So of course I HAD to run it through Leonardo AI and see what I got. What I got was eight iterations that are pretty darned close to this one. A great image, transformed the bug eyes into human eyes that are only slightly wonky, and really creates a lifelike jungle background. The stream is more realisitic than the Second Life stream but lacks the transparency of the SL version and still looks kinda AI-generated. And the more naturalistic hair just isn't as pretty as the SL avatar's hair. Worst of all, it Leonardo put that stupid bikini or one like it on every iteration and shrank those big, beautiful breasts down to a "nice rack" and gave us a granny bikini in place of that tiny wisp of silk. Still, it kept the nice skin tones and made the body more human. But what would happen if I gave it motion?

This happened. Here was my prompt: "Woman rises gracefully from stream, swirling water around her as she dances joyfully, camera slowly panning to reveal lush jungle." This video is clearly nothing like what I asked for. It's as if I asked for, "Woman lying in water is slowly pulled into the air by an invisible force, then is suddenly launched upward at high speed, driving the camera underwater somehow, then the camera resurfaces and see her flung into the trunk of a tall palm tree, then ragdolling as she falls toward the ground." VERY imaginative but it sure as hell wasn't what I asked for. Clearly, Leonardo AI does not understand gravity. Or much of anything in this instance.

Couldn't let it rest there, or course. Tried again with the same image using this prompt hoping to gentle things down: "Woman smiles, waves, then gently dips her hand in the stream. Camera slowly zooms in, focusing on her joyful expression." As you can see it worked a LOT better though I'm unsure why. Probably just random AI malarkey. I do wish the AI hadn't uglified the face, the face on this one is worse than the SL avatar toward the end, though much more human-looking. Lesson learned, whatever it was! 

Put out an ABB, STAT!

I recognize this sexy, sexy kidnapped Hooter's girl! It's Brooke Thomsen! Put out an ABB for this KBM pronto! No telling what she's up to! (ABB=All Bondage Bulletin, KBM is Known Bondage Model, of course.)

Image source: Brooke Thomsen, in a shoot from DGBondage.com. Looks like she's photoshopped into a truck interior. Now THIS is a kidnapper with taste!

An Odd Job Indeed!

Being a tandem sex yoga coach was a very different job, but so rewarding when you helped people find sexual Nirvana!

Image source: Kink.com shoot 18922, "Slave Training of Lyla Storm Day 4: Sexual Obedience" starring (left to right) Derrick Pierce, Lyla Storm and Isis Love. Not picture: The Pope. 

The Road To Excess Sometimes Leads to Something Other Than Wisdom

"Oh-ay. Ih ih ih-ik-ooh-uh!"

Translation from gag talk: "Ok. This is RIDICULOUS!"

Image source: Kink.com video 14260, "Intense Submission, Audrey Rose" starring Audry Rose and Mark Davis.

Leonardo AI Makes 2D Second Life Avatar Come To Life!

 
The Second Life avatar where it all began.

After I ran the Leondardo AI'd avatar through Kling AI's Motion 2 program I got this. Nice! Living woman from a drawing! The way motion video converts these images to 3D motion is amazing. The prompt I used was: "Woman slowly stretches, luxuriously awakening on a bed. Camera gently pans, then zooms slightly as she sits up, reaching for a nearby object." It wasn't a total win: the grayscreen background did not magically turn into a bed. Instead we got grass that I didn't ask for. Also, the diaphanous barely-there bra on her back magically turned into a real bra in front. Though I did like the way Motion 2.0 integrated the front of her collar with her bra. And her left forearm got a littl thick at times. But the best thing was the way the video lingered for a moment on the original image as is, with her literally lifting herself from 2D status to 3D status. Nice! The way her butt morphs is particularly nice. That's the way it works when you start out with a nice butt.

Sithed Senseless!

When she was captured by a Sith Mistress, she knew the full meaning of being Force-fucked.

Image source: Kink.com shoot 38924 "Whore In Training: Missy Minks Anally Submits to Cherry Torn!" featuring Missy Minks (left) and Cherry Torn (right). Force lightning effects by The Unknown Blogger.

Overwhelmed!

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Mainstream Movie and TV Show Strippers: Overdressed and Underlit

This is Jessica Alba playing a stripper in the R-rated movie "Sin City," a film in which Carla Gugino and several othe actresses get stark naked. This is as naked as Jessica gets while she's "stripping." The producers wanted her desperately for the role, apparently. No offense to Jessica, a great beauty and a good actress, but she was eminently replaceable in that role, and her unwillingness to do nudity should have disqualified her from the role. It would have been so much more powerful to see the young girl Bruce Willis rescued now forced to dance naked before men to survive in Sin City. There are a lot of excellent, attractive actresses who WILL do nudity or at least dancing in just a string thong, but I guess one or more of the producers was a Jessica Alba fanboy (or fangirl) and totally failed to understand the extra kick that nudity would have given the movie dramatically. A shame.

 When mainstream media want to approach sexual or porny topics they have all sorts of tricks and dodges. One of my favorites is the clothed stripper. No, I don’t mean an off-duty stripper not stripping, I mean a stripper at work on stage who never takes her clothes off, often dancing among other strippers who never take their clothes off, generally before an audience of men who are just fine with that. The greatest example of that is, of course, the one above.

To give you some idea how timid this scene is for an R-rated movie, here is a vidcap from a brief scene of strippers dancing from a defunct SyFy Channel TV series "Special Unit 2" which is about Chicago cops who fight supernatural crime. This would be the equivalent of a G-rated movie in the US, as it can be presumed that the audience would include children. So, here's the vidcap:

 

Need I say more? This is a stripper doing a split, seen from, ahem, behind. 

I guess the tightly stretched thong covering the pussy that presses against it made it G-rated. 

But this G-rated striptease registered as much sexier than Alba's pathetic scene.

 Because that butt was THERE, even if only briefly and in a dimly lit scene. 

(I lightened the image but I didn't do a damned thing to make it look more naked.)

And to be completely fair, this image is definitely an outlier that I'm pretty sure
slid past the censors. Most TV strippers are on par with Jessica Alba in "Sin City." 

Now for comparison, here's an online porn nekkid dancer (they tend to start out nekkid so "stripper" is not an accurate term):

Here's a vidcap of some online nekkid dancing, a very "in your face" dance I think most will agree. 
Any questions? The dancer for this video is ambercutie, and you can find more of her work on ambercutie.com. She's very naked and very talented.

Because folks have access to the Interwebs, most people know that when they watch the clothed strippers in movies and TV shows, or even the topless strippers in movies and TV shows, they aren't seeing the real thing or anything like it. Because they've seen the images of the real thing in the pornos, and they know it's a very different thing. They know the mainstream version is weak sauce, nothing like the real thing.

Jennifer Aniston looking surly as she does a striptease in "We're the Millers." "Tease" is the right word because this is about as naked as she gets. Aniston is the Real Deal as far as acting is concerned, and she's the Real Deal as far as beauty is concerned, and she's the Real Deal as far as comedy is concerned. But she's not the Real Deal when it comes to stripping.

Rose McGowan plays stripper Cherry Delight in "Grindhouse." She is one of the hottest, most beautiful actresses ever. But come on, granny panties and a sports bra as a stripper outfit? That's just sad! I'm sure it wasn't McGowan's idea, she's got all the courage in the world. She gets total cred from me for being willing to call Harvey Weinstein out for the shit he pulled on her when no one else was talking about Weinstein the rapist. 

I found this on a wiki page which identified it as a scene from the "Murder Ex Machina" episode of the "Elemantary" TV series. The strippers were described as bizarrely overdressed, but I found it bizarrely underlit. Overdressed and in near pitch darkness, that's how I like my strippers! (What were they thinking?)

So of course I ran the image through GIMP and lightened it up. And yeah, look at the one stripper in pink and black granny panties and a full corset or something like it, and the other wearing a very full bra that keep her breasts well hidden and looks like a standard bikini bottom, which is mostly unseen in this image. The only person that's topless here is Johnny Miller as Sherlock. But wait! There's more! This image I am pretty sure is from a DIFFERENT episode of Sherlock, "The Deductionist" where Sherlock is robbed by two strippers he invites into his home for entertainment purposes. I'm pretty sure the picture got posted to the wrong page because it was too dark to tell what the hell was going on. A travesty in every sense, as Sherlock would say.

When you do a Google search for "Mainstream movie stripper" (with SafeSearch turned off, of course) you'll get a lot of images of Elizabeth Berkley in "Showgirls" and Demi Moore in "Striptease." Berkley gave us the full monty in "Showgirls" but Moore went topless but never revealed any naughty bits below the waist. Though if you watched the whole film you'd have a pretty good idea what Demi Moore's naked body looks like. Thing is, though, these films are very much outliers, most mainstream movie and TV nude scenes are like the ones seen above this GIF. I think they reason they show up is because well, they're the nakedest mainstream movie strippers. It's like Google understand what people think of when they think of strippers.

I've got a collection of vids of naked women dancing from around the internet. It's amazing how many talented, naked dancers there are out there. I commend them all. Here's one of them to close out the article. Notice how raunchy it is:

I tried to identify this dancer and image using a vidcap from the video, which is very much a hit-or-miss proposition. I did get one hit: Google identified the image I sent them as being from a video called, "Watch Sexy Hula Hoop" on SpankBang. And the background on this video is identical to the background on the thumbnail the Google search pulled up. So I tried to get into SpankBang to see if I could get more info. But Spankbang wanted me to provide a picture of myself for "age verification" purposes. Sorry, Spankbang, I'm far too good looking to let you have a pic of me, you'd be hounding me endlessly to be in your porn shoots if I did that. Really. But if anyone can ID her, please drop a line in the comments.

Mad Science Marches On!

In their search for greater profits, the health insurance companies started covering visits to doctors with degrees from Mad Science University. The results were... predictable.

Image source: Kink.com shoot 17977, "Peeping Tom Gets Revenge On Busty Blonde" starring Penny Pax and Mark Davis.

Totally Unfair!

It was so unfair. She was ordered to warm up Master's cock for her Mistress, while her Mistress whipped her ass hard for having the NERVE to touch her Master's cock in her Mistress's presence. These people knew how to treat a slavegirl right!

Source: kink.com shoot 10383 featuring (left to right) Derrick Payne, Chloe Camille and Isis Love.

Leonardo AI Surprise Video, Deposit Photo AI

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Cumming Is Thirsty Work!

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Homophones Are The WORST!

 
Master had thrown her out of the house naked and told her to "go pedal you ass somewhere else, slut" after she confessed her needs a leetle too insistently. Ah well, it was fun and the bike seat helped her with her needs a lot.

Image source: I ran it through several reverse image search and it's apparently from a video of a model named Gwen or Gwen C. A commenter identified the location as Barcelona. And that's about it.

So This Is My Life Now

"So this is my life now, naked, bound and sucking on strangers' cocks. Well at least it's better than that gig I had as President Trump's press spokesperson."

Image source: Rain DeGrey (and parts of Owen Gray) in kink.com shoot 34695.

Leonardo AI Walks The Dinosaur Just For Fun

This is how it started, an image created in Second Life. Found a jungle set with a tyrannosaur and posed an avatar in front of it and took some pix. Came out great, pure B-movie excitement! Would work as sweat mag art too. But I thought I'd make a video from it.

The AI did a pretty good job overall with everything except of course the armbinder. That was shiny metal in the original, but somehow Leonardo wanted to turn the metal into soft, breathable fabric in every iteration. But at least the bondage gear was still there. I actually wrote 'with her wrists cuffed behind her back" because cuffs sounds like it could be crime or adventure related, not necessarily a bad evil awful sex thing. And it worked, except when I converted it to motion...

My prompt for all four videos was something close to this: "A woman with her arms cuffed behind her back sees a tyrannosaur. She spins and runs toward the camera with her hands still cuffed behind her back, screaming in terror, with the tyrannosaur chasing her." 

This is the best of the four videos I made. In each and every case, as soon as the woman spins around her armbinder magically disappears or morphs into cloth armbands that don't hinder her arm movements at all. She's pumping those arms as she runs. Screaming too. 

Also, our heroine is stark naked in the initial Second Life pic. And Leonardo AI kept her stark naked in the still image it created of her. But on each and every video they put a bikini on her. When it's that consistent, it's gotta be censorship. Great. Censorship is why I stopped my Kling subscription.

But you know what? Bad as it is, my video is more exciting and lifelike than almost every stop motion dinosaur scene from the 1920s to the 1960s. People who think CGI isn't great stuff for SF movies are just crazy. How can you not see how much better modern movies look than the absolute CRAP we got for SF movie special effects and props in the old days? I remember watching "Quatermass and the Pit" which had a pretty good script and solid acting, for the most part, and just laughing when the body of one of the Martians was an obvious two-meter long plastic replica of a cricket. So pathetic.

And of course those old movies had budgets ranging from tens of thousands of dollars to millions, with most somewhere in the hundreds of thousands. You know what I could do with a budgets of a hundred thousand dollars and my present gear? I could spend a hundred bucks on video production and $99,900 on hookers and blow, that's what!

I know how Hollywood accounting works.  

First there was sub frenzy...

First, there was sub frenzy. Now there's cock madness! It can affect any sub, anyhere, anytime. A proximity to a cock causes the sub's brain to short circuit as she is flooded with (echo effect) FEMALE HORMONES. Most common symptom is inability to control facial expressions at the sight of a cock.  Call your doctor if a cock madness spell lasts more than four hours, and brag about it.

 

Image source: kink.com shoot 22061, starring Katherine Case and Derrick Payne.

The Product Every Slave Girl Loves!

Image source: a talented artist I know who would prefer to remain anonymous.

It's Panti Helper, with the taste slavegirls love! Panti Helper turns panties into a nutritious, satisfying, tasty meal. It's filled with carbohydrates, oils, proteins and far fewer insect parts than you might reasonably expect! Panti Helper,, your slavegirl will be begging to be pantie-gagged just to recall the taste of Panti Helper! 

Pet Shop Slave Girls Dancing Video by Leonardo AI: Now With Inception

Feel free to get a copy of "The Pet Shop Girls Trilogy" by clicking on this text!

I realized that although the Pet Shop display window wouldn't work for a book cover, they still might work for promo art. So I took a display window and created art to scale. My idea was to make a video of it. But before I could use the image to make a video, I had to run it through Leonardo AI to use it. Nothing could go wrong here!

I made 24 different iterations of my artwork and every fucking one of them was fucked up to one extent or another. And I mean, fucked up badly. Mostly they fucked up Susan, but they managed to fuck up Katie and Nataly's faces, too, in many cases. They also put extra bikinis on all of them except Susan, who got confused-looking clothes in every iteration. The only thing it consistently got right in all iterations was the "Please Buy Me" text which was embedded in the image before I ran it through Leonardo. Lesson learned. This is the image I used to create my video because at least it had a nude if Caucasian Katie in it. What would Leonardo AI do here?

Talk about breaking the Fourth Wall... this video breaks the First Window! My prompt was "Three women dance slinkily in a display window for watchers." Simple as can be. But Leonardo AI had to tansform the slinky dancing into a pillow fight. What an interesting approach! It also had Nataly break through the window while the sidewalk did some Inception stuff and the watchers appear to join in the whatever-it-is when Nataly appears among them. And it put a bra on Katie, of course. It was a lot more than I asked for, and in fact it wasn't at all what I asked for, but it's what I got. Fortunately I made two other videos that worked a LEETLE better. More about them, later.

You Can Still Get The Pet Shop Girls Trilogy For $2.99 Today!

The Leonardo art the video below is based on. She's totally amazed that my book is still on sale!

"Oh my goodness, I can still buy it for $2.99? I better get moving!" (Link to buy!)

My prompt for this image created for the video was "A woman hops across a stage with her hands held at shoulder level as if surrendering." What I got was not what I asked for, but it's still pretty damned good! 

Now, About That Cover For the Pet Shop Girls Trilogy -- Leonardo AI Hits And Misses

 
Here's the cover of "The Pet Shop Girls Trilogy," for reference. Click on it to get the book!

I knew what I wanted when I stared out making the cover for TPSGT (The Pet Shop Girls Trilogy). I had three slavegirls featured in my stories and I wanted images of the three of them looking sexy and naked on the cover. So I went to the folders where I built the covers of the three novels that make up TPSGT and looked for images I could use. The images all started out as Second Live avatars, here they are, for the record:

The Second Live avatar that Katie was based on.

The Second Life avatar Nataly was based on.

The Second Live avatar Susan was based on. Note the ropes. They're supposed to be a rope bondage version of a bitch suit, but they didn't really work.

Here are the three Leonardo AI images I was able to create using the avatars:

Here's Katie all AI'd up, and damn what an improvement. I ran quite a few iterations to get this image, and I'm so glad I stuck with it. I love the result here, especially that beaming smile. The face in general is a huge improvement. And the breasts are very nice indeed, mostly because of that smooth honey brown skin she has. I was glad to have a person of color because the other two characters were very Caucasian-looking and I had no problem at all with Katie being brown. Hell yes!

Nataly didn't change much except she got a lot more human looking and a lot less cartoonish-looking. Her ugly, lumpy shoulders got smoothed out. Her skin and hair improved. The only problem area was the ballgag. It didn't come out right on ANY of my iterations. (This image is Photoshopped. I drew a circle around the confused ballgag parts and borrowed the ballgag from a porn photo and then did some tedious editing to get it just right.)

Nataly's Leonardo AI version was incredible. Most especially that facial expression. Leonardo took the apprehensive expression on the SL avatar and converted to a lost, haunted expression. Her eyes are incredibly expressive. Even MORE amazing, the collar came out OK and the ballgag improved! Almost always, Leonardo AI will fuck up ballgags big time, and they almost always turn a collar into a necklace that looks nothing like the collar. Also, the tail is much improved, with the color and texture matching Susan's hair. And even the shape of the tail was much improved. Only problem was the ropes, which Leonardo AI interpreted as lacy, frilly woman things. I can't even blame Leonardo for that. The ropes on the SL avatar are not especially well done, a weakness of SL physics. I thought about hand drawing ropes but I wound up saying the words that so many artists have: "Fuck it. It'll do." I mean, yeah, she does appear to have lace growing out of one armpit, but whachagonnado? (That's why you need real artists if you can afford them, boys and girls. When they say "fuck it!" it's over something a non-artist would not notice.)

Next I needed something to tie the three images together visually. My first track was, since they were Pet Shop slavegirls, they could be posing in a Pet Shop window, trying to get people to buy them. I went to Deposit Photos to see if they had any Pet Store art I could use, but amazingly, the Pet Store art was about dogs and cats and stuff. Also a lot of it was vector art. I gave up after a while. I couldn't find anything I could use so after a while I stopped looking and went to my backup plan. 

Fortunately I had a backup plan, which was to use prompts to create a Pet Store exterior with display window filled with nothing (so I could paste in the girls). Unfortunately, I had a bright idea for that, which was to have a neon sign over or in the windows with the words "Please Buy Me!" glowing.

This was when I discovered how many ways there were to misspell "Please Buy Me." I had naively thought that by including the text I wanted in my prompt, the AI would use those exact letters to represent the word, "Please Buy Me." But noooooooo, instead I got every last possible misspelling of "Please Buy Me." "Pelase Buy Me" was the favorite, but also "Plase By Me," "Peals Buy Me" and ";!Ple::s Be Me." Maybe about 1 in 10 iterations had the right spelling.

There were other problems as well. I asked for an empty display space behind the window. (I did not ask for "no dogs and cats" as a negative prompt because I knew from past experience that this would only encourage Leonardo AI to give me lots of images of dogs and cats.) So I still got lots of images of dogs and cats in the "empty" display space, also people, food bowls, all kinds of pet products on shelves, and occasionally, an empty space. I went through many iterations and eventually got several images of pet shop windows with empty, or at least, mostly empty, spaces behind them that were usable.

Then I went to work pasting in the Pet Girls and that's when I ran into a more difficult problem, perspective. The AI had provided me with images of people looking in the window (because I asked for it in the prompt). They worked for my intent but there was a perspective problem. I want the images of the Pet Girls to be large, dominating the page, because I know my horny, horny readership. But the people in the foreground set the perspective, and if I made my images large they would look like giantesses. If I made them small enough to look normal next to the onlookers they would be tiny indeed, problematical since book covers are vertical spaces. 

Yeah, a really sad image that just doesn't work.

I tried arranging the Pet Girls in many configurations in several Pet Shop windows, and none of them worked. In addition to the perspective issue, there was a layering issue. I could paste the images into the window space, but there was no easy way to make them look like they were behind glass and have them dominate the page. And if it wasn't easy I wasn't about to try it! I had deadlines, dammit! So I gave up the Pet Shop window idea and did some seriously lateral thinking.

I decided to just display the three images in a generic kind of space, no window or shoppers. I soon realized that I would need some kind of background art to make the space behind the Pet Girls something other than dead space. So I thought about the kind of images you might find in a place where Pet Girls are sold. If I had been more imaginative, and had more time, I could have come up with some fairly imaginative ideas, like maybe pet girls jumping through hoops or kneeling before owners with their butts stuck out.

But I didn't have the time, I just focussed generically sexy images that might look right as the background of a human Pet Shop. And eventually I had an idea: the image most people think of as belonging in a place where very sexy things are done is a nude silhouette of a woman in a sexy pose. Lots of TV shows and movies have used this kind of art as a sign of a sexy business. 

This time I made no attempt to get the images I wanted via Leonardo AI. It fights sexy imagery hard. After writing this image I went to Leonardo AI and created images using this prompt: "A series of silhouettes of women in bikinis looking beautiful."  Here's what I got:

Yeah, "silhouette" is another word Leonardo AI clearly does not understand. Also it whiffed on the word "series." I was right, getting what I wanted from Leonardo AI would have been a bear.

So I went to Deposit Photos looking for my silhouettes and there I struck gold. They had exactly what I needed, plenty of it. I did a bit of shopping and picked a series of images that had a lot of submissive-looking poses. They were all black and white silhouettes, and I didnt want that, it would be too strong, not at all what I needed. But I knew how to fix that, I just put a golden-brown (emphasis on the "golden") layer over the silhouettes and worked the opacity of both layers until I had what I wanted. You can see it in the background of the cover art. Worked very nicely I think.

The only other element of the cover is that Katie is riding Susan. This was just a matter of cutting and pasting multiple layers of Katie on trop of Susan. It was tedious, time-consuming work but not difficult other than that, mainly because Susan and Katie's poses worked very well for a horsie ride.

That's the full story of that "easy" cover. It took a long time for me to get it finished and looking something like "right." Someday I will make enough money to hire and artist and pay them a decent price for their work. Until then, I'll continue to put huge effort into creating mediocre cover art!