Yesterday I created this promo art as I was sipping my Gun Bullet Thunder Sword coffee. (It's just coffee with a tablespoon of butter emulsified into it, instead of/in addition to milk. The keto guys started drinking it and I guess the term "butter coffee" wasn't macho enough for them, so they renamed it "bullet coffee" which I'll grant you does have Rule of Cool written all over it. So I decided to go one better and take the macho to the max with Thunder Sword Hot Pussy Bullet coffee. Take that, "butter coffee"!)
Anyway came up with this promo piece for Erotic Slavegirls of Outer Space and really liked it. I started out by getting some images of a raging battle in outer space between 1950s style pulp spaceships.to go with the B-movie ambience of the novel, using a Civitai text prompt. No naked women involved so I figured it would be easy. But Civitai fought me anyway. The spaceships are more 1980s style spacecraft, heavily influenced by Star Wars. I could live with that, but for some reason Civitai just HAD to introduce planetscapes or moonscapes into the image, couldn't just go with "spaceships fighting in outer space with planets and stars in the background" which was pretty much my prompt. Still, the images were dramatic, space-fighty and outer-spacey in general, so I went with it.
After looking at all the images I'd gotten (about eight usable ones) I looked at various slavegirl images I had created on Civitai, generally via Image to Image using an SL avatar, looking for something that would work well with the outerspace images. I settled on the one seen above, because the position of her arms and legs splayed out in different directions paralleled the ravening bolts of doom fired by the spaceships, and the spaceships themselves.
I knocked out the slavegirl's background using Deposit Photos' free background knockout service which tends to do a better job than the AI art background knockout options (thanks, Deposit Photos!) and then pulled up both images in GIMP. I placed the image of the slavegirl on a layer atop the space battle image base, shrank the slavegirl to fit, and then used the layer opacity slider to get her transparent enough that she matched the background image visually. This left her so transparent that planets, spaceships and ravening bolts of doom were clearly visible through her. I thought it was a nice effect, so I left it as is.
Came out pretty well, I thought. Enjoy!
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