Eddie Davidson: Blog

Years ago, I fooled around with the tools that were available to make illustrations for stories. They were klugey and involved creating elaborate scenes with paper doll style figures.

Now, the AI has advanced so much that you can use natural language to make AI pictures that perfectly enhance your stories.

However, most sites don't allow NSFW, and those that do have limitations. There isn't one super site that makes everything I want.

It's been a real learning process and I am enjoying illustrating my stories as much as writing them. I look forward to adding pictures that will enhance scenes for the viewer without violating any of the TOS rules (as an example, I do not think I can show beastiality or anything TOO graphic, so I don't even try). Instead, I try to give the inference of what's happening in the scenes to evoke thoughts and imagination.

https://storiesonline.net/n/33623/nis-breeder-program/32

Case in point, the latest chapter of the NIS Breeder story. I wanted a picture of a happy, healthy, well-adjusted nordic family that just likes being nude. I wanted their house to look modern, but have Swedish hints of their rural heritage and interest in wood crafting etc.

I wanted the daughters to look like their mother, and the parents to look much younger than their real age. I think I fucking nailed it!!

However, I didn't just go to one super-site that does it all, type in a scene and boop-burp it came out looking like that.

I have four sites I use now. One that just exclusively does upscale and inpainting to repair the fix oddities in the pictures. Originally, the man had no dick, hands were fucked up, the youngest sister was missing her shock collar, etc.

My process is this:

1. Dream it up - pick one scene in my story that I can blow up into a picture.
2. Write a prompt that works
3. Select a Lora, Model, and make about 30-40 pictures with it, adjusting as I go until I find the right one.
4. Upscale it
5. Inpaint out the imperfections
6. Manually edit to adjust things, blur things, sharpen things, add/edit with paint.net
7. Add a caption that summarizes it.

That's the basics, I'll talk about it.

I started with one site that lets me use "Lora" to define the picture. A Lora can make it look like a person, or add things to the picture like a crowd.

An example is in chapter 31, I wanted a line of high school students waiting behind the booth. I have a lora that added that. It tells the AI "Here are some extra resources to use in this picture"

Then I have to use a model. Not every site has the same models. The model is sort of the basic operating system the AI uses to make the picture. Some models will make it photo realistic, some will make it look like anime, or some art style.

Many of my earlier AI pictures were limited to artist style, but increasingly I am making them more and more photo realistic, or at least high quality art.

I don't just take the first picture. I make many, sometimes 30-40 pictures before I am satisfied.

You have to fidget with two dials:

CFG is a value from 1-15. You can go over 15 but it's not recommended and I never have. 1 means AI should be as creative as it wants. 15 means "follow my prompt" as closely as possible.

It may seem like you are just typing in what you want to see, but Prompting is it's own art form/kung fu sort of like coding. You can get the same results with different prompts, but learning how to get those results takes practice. The prompt language is natural "Imagine a red headed mature woman who is naked standing in front of an ice cream stand." for instance.

However, you can also use something like (1girl), (red hair), (big boobs), (nude), ((naked)), daytime, standing in front of an ice cream stand, suburbs.

And that's where the creativity comes in. I'll try variations, and combinations.

I'll usually keep the other dial low at first. That's called "Cycles". At a minimum you want 20. It's what tells the AI how hard to work on giving what you want. You eat up points or tokens when you are working on these, and those cost money (or you can earn them free but it's worth it to just subscribe. It's really not that expensive for a basic tier).

The AI will try to evolve the picture 20 times to give you what you want.

When I am ready for the final product, I'll crank it to 40-50 to get what I want. Originaly, I left this value alone.

There are other nobs and dials you can use, such as the VAE. This is the "Encoder". I really couldn't tell you too much about it. I keep that basically the default. However, different ones act as a regulator for the model.

Then there is "face fix" or "adetailer" or whatever the site calls something that goes in and tries to check things like hands. For whatever reason, AI is really stupid when it comes to hands. It's a known issue. Using those burns more points, but it's sometimes worth it to turn it on.

Anyway, I have about 30-40 pictures that I might have used for every picture I post, some of which are bad ass, but they just don't work. A great example is in NIS Breeder, there is a point where I am showing the NIS Program in Japan. I went with everyone's butts facing the camera, and the teacher standing on a pedestal teaching.

Some of the pictures were great, but ultimately I chose that one. It sucks, because there are so many I want to share with you. However, I also don't want to bomb my story with nothing but illustrations so I try to keep it to usually one picture per chapter, and no more than 3 per chapter.

Once I have that selected, I usually upscale it and start inpainting. That's where you tell the AI to make it look better. In the early days, I didn't know how to do it, so the background will be much fuzzier.

The AI will go through and make everything look more detailed.

Unfortunately, sometimes TOO detailed, and over produced. I have to play with settings there as well. It may make the woman's butt look too dimpled and wrinkled, for instance as it makes real skin instead of the more idealized smooth skin. It'll put freckles, moles, etc.

So, then once I have the upscaled picture, still not done. I start "in painting". Let's say it added pubic hair where I didn't want the character to have any. I may circle that area and tell it to get rid of it. I have to adjust the strength of the AI and inpainting to how subtle the change needs to be and check it. I may have to do that a few times. It will sometimes draw a dick where a pussy should be, or make two heads instead of one.

After a few inpaintings, then I go in and shrink the picture down to a smaller resolution so it doesn't dominate the screen.

I start adding my own touches. Usually, it's so subtle you won't notice, and that's the point. However, if you look closely you may see an NIS logo added to a sticker, or the actual name of the high school. I put Japanese words on the chalk board, and made it look like chalk writing.

The chances someone speaks Japanese looking at my picture is probably not high, but it's an easter egg just for them, I guess.

In one picture, I tried to add a Rottweiler chasing the big titty woman down the road as she jogged in the nude.

However, the AI only gave me cute, fuzzy, lovable dogs. I changed the story a little to account for her THINKING the dog was going to bite her ass, when in reality it wasn't.

I also try to give every picture a caption that summarizes the action.

I don't bother with logos or watermarks and stuff to claim the picture as my own. If it gets shared on a porn site or something, that's awesome. I don't care if I get credit. However, I DO NOT SHARE THESE ELSEWHERE.

The only place you'll see this work (if I post it) is on SOL. I haven't found a site better than this one. I've posted some of my stuff on Literotica, and other sites. Fan Fiction is often looked down upon here, but other sites are DEDICATED to fan fiction, so I put it there.

However, I have found no site that is as responsive, or makes it as easy for an author as SOL. I feel appreciated here by the admins, and I like it. I am almost 100% exclusively on this site.

I wanted to share all that with you, because I thought you may be interested in how the sausage is made. It's not just "Go to site and magic".

As I learn more and more, you'll see better and better quality in my stories. I'd imagine there are some people who don't even bother with my writing and just look at the dirty pictures.

To them I say "I don't give a fuck, do whatever you enjoy."


However, I like to think that if the sizzle of the pictures pulls you in and you'd like to understand the context of the scenario behind them, then you'll stay for the story.

I won't provide the links to these sites in my blog. I don't think Lajeez wants us linking other sites. However, if you are truly interested in farting around with AI I can help you get started just like I did by suggesting a site that I found made the process super easy.

It's also very affordable, around 10 bucks a month (USD) for a subscription, so it's worth the price of a cheese burger just to see if you like it and not have to be stingy with points.

I am closing in 1,000 followers. A great milestone to hit on here. This is the only site I post on.

I have a few regular friends that email me here regularly, act as sounding boards, help me with finding mistakes in my work, etc and share ideas.

However, most of the time it's fairly solitary work in a vacuum.

I've some questions to ask.

I have recently become much better with AI art, and have been including it a lot in my stories to enhance and add to the story.

I recently posted a "Three Hole Golf Tournament" story as part of my anthology with some pictures that took the better part of an evening to produce.

https://storiesonline.net/s/31531/proper-women-an-anthology-of/12

I am not a fan of short stories, because once I fall in love with a character I want to keep living through them. However, I felt this was a good one. Short stories also have a pacing that only allows for the "Good stuff" and are written differently than long stories.

What I learned with my anthology though, is that most people won't read the last stories. I am not sure why. I guess they read the first story and maybe don't like that one, and so they give up after a few stories.

However, each one is different. The first few stories weren't the absolute best ones. What happened was readership dramatically dropped, which is unfortunate because I feel that the Golf story probably should have been it's own separate story and maybe would have been read more.

It's not that I care about "stats" of votes and readers. What I care about is sharing stories that potentially inspire people to write stories I enjoy.

If hardly anybody except a few determined perverts make it to chapter 12, then I failed.

So, I closed the anthology and from now on if I post a short story it will be standalone.

Thoughts?

My second question is about pacing for NIS: Breeder Program and visiting Aunt Scarlet.

NIS has 75 chapters, and I am on chapter 28. I've been posting about one chapter per day as I finish editing.

However, I usually throw in a Visiting Aunt Scarlet, which is currently up to chapter 24. I've only posted chapter 10.

The questions that I have is which one do you like best, and why?

Would you rather I focus on editing only one?

Readership is about even on them, but I think more people prefer the NIS story. The problem is that it will be ages before I can share Visiting Scarlet if I wait that long. (well about 60 days to be fair).

This story sat unloved for years and I vowed to finish it. I finally found a way forward with the story and have been inspired to do just that.

I'd like to know what people prefer? is the pacing good on posting? are you enjoying one over the other?

Give me some constructive feedback.

I was inspired by a real life photo of a woman on a golf cart. She was holding up a cardboard sign that said "Mobile Glory Hole" with a hole in the center.

I imagined it was some place like the Villages in Florida where there is a large swinger community and most everyone rides around on golf carts.

There are entire communities built around nudism, and swinging there that inspired my HOA stories like Big Day at Sunny Manor.

I normally add Mike McGifford's short stories after I edited them and create a single picture for them to the Anthology of Kick Ass Stories we call "Proper Women".

It's mostly vignettes and short stories that have a nice start, middle and end. They are too good to end up on the trash heap when Mike decides they aren't good enough to publish.

Trust me when I say that he's thrown away better stories than I'll ever write.

https://storiesonline.net/s/31531/proper-women-an-anthology-of/12

However, tonight I wrote one of my own. I normally write much longer stories. I like to build my characters and have fun with it.

I've never written "Golf Erotica" before, but hopefully the golf parts of the story resonate as true to those of you who partake in it.

I could see returning to this scenario and fleshing it out. I'd love to see someone run with the idea.I certainly grant you my blessing to use the set up as the basis for a future story - it doesn't end the way you probably think it will.

The story begins in Sunny Florida, with two rich bitches that married for money. Their rich husband's sponsor an unofficial golf tournament they call the "Three Hole Tournament" for obvious reasons.

Karen and Holly are up for a dare, they are bored, rich and horny.

The loser has to hold that sign and offer free blowjobs.

However, the story takes some neat little turns and it was fun keeping it exciting. Short stories have a different pace and energy, no slow build, no pauses in the action to regroup.

I bring this story up in particular, because I've turned a corner in my AI art. I spent a long time making these. You may say "You just pressed some buttons" but there was more to it. I used inpainting, photo editing, upscaling, and had to use four different AI services to craft the pictures that I thought complimented the story.

Hopefully, you will enjoy them.

The reason

I need someone to simply read the story "Visiting Aunt Scarlet" as a proof reader.

https://storiesonline.net/s/23522/visiting-aunt-scarlet

If you are reading it anyway, that would be fantastic.

My friend who helps me does not like the context of the story. A woman and her son move in with her sister. Her sister lives a 24/7 functional bdsm relationship with her husband and also works out of her home as an escort. In the course of this story, it's really about the son's confidence/education on worldly matters as he grows to understand a different lifestyle.

I've written the story. all I need is for you to read it and tell me if you see any gaps, awkwarding or missing words. I use the internal email system. As an example:

If you see:
They were there at restaurant

You might quote the line and write
They were at the restaurant.

I use MS Word, Grammarly, and my own eyes to proof read and I can find issues in other people's stories like a hawk. in my own story, since I know what's supposed to be there, I sometimes blank it out.

I would be happy to do the same for you in exchange. It would also allow me to post much more frequently. I spend 3-4 hours on each chapter pre-post just editing.

I am a little exhausted of the NIS Program after writing 75 chapters. I am publishing as fast as I can get them edited.

The NIS Breeder Program was designed to produce a child in a future society where donors to the Program will adopt the children. It was to teach students about natural child birth, breast feeding, and also a dynamic power exchange relationship.

The main character is a mother, who agrees to obey her daughter for the entire time. She becomes the breeder and her daughter becomes the Trainer.

However, today it occurred to me that I could (or someone could) write a story about a Fight Club style high school.

Students will voluntarily agree to stage regular fights, some of which might be Sumo style, Wrestling, Kick Boxing, weapons, and reasonable requests could involve being able to take a punch, or having one's tits used as a speed bag. (fun bags).

I'd love to have the mothers be volunteers in the Program again because that was fun the first time.

Those of you who are reading the NIS Program, I'd love your feedback on whether that might be interesting. It'd be far more brutal and pain centric.

I tried to spend a lot of time at the start of NIS Breeder creating a plausible framework for this variation of the Program. A declining population + a society where public nudity is legal everywhere and sexuality/sexual expression is more main stream and not quite as taboo as it is now.

My original use for the main character's husband was to have him ask the questions that I thought many readers might ask. "What the hell does (shaking your tits or whatever) have to do with learning things in school? What about Math, Science and English? When do you learn that?

It might be fun to do a story like that or to inspire someone else to write one. I could imagine the first rule of NIS Fight Club is you actually have to TALK about Fight Club.

Body positivity, sexual expression, and self-defense rolled up into one Program. One of the Program's stated goals is to normalize fetishes, and one of them (for many) is watching women pull each other's tits, slap each other's faces and yank on each other labia while wrestling in the nude.

I once read a Japanese cartoon about a "Fight High School". There was very little context. A pretty girl shows up and some students beat the snot out of her with a baseball bat and then the next frame she is limping, naked, tits bruised.

If I did something like this, I think I'd take that approach to rough stuff, where no one ends up in the hospital with broken bones/missing teeth. Perhaps there is some medical technology that ensures that cuts heal quickly that allows the students to get beat up/dragged down without any permanent harm. I am not into permanent harm.