I have decided to take a break from making civilization wall art, wait a while, and see if anything sells. While browsing Etsy myself, I found some inspirational posters such as '10 Rules Of Life'.
But the main problem with my Etsy shop is that I have already started working on too many topics. Both SEO and UX-wise, it is better if a shop is designed around a set of topics and products. So I elected to take a lot more fantasy approach and designed something unique and completely mine.
Let's begin with the background:
an assassin dark quote poster::10 an assassin hiding atop rooftop of Japanese traditional house, digital art, dark fantasy, quote poster::5 grim reaper assassin, watercolors::2 mockup::-5 --ar 4:5 --s 600 --chaos 10
This is generally what you get out of Midjourney. I can't remove text without changing the overall composition. So naturally, the first step is to cure it either with inpainting or in Photoshop. I chose the latter as I don't want to buy new OpenAI tokens; I also had to work with themes for which content-aware fill would be sufficient.
Next, I need to add some funny text. And I had a little bit of help from ChatGPT. One of the assassin's characteristics is patience. I knew there needs to be a text that begins with something historical such as "Rome wasn't built in a day. In Fact, it was founded 753 BC... I let ChatGPT to do the rest. Here are a few I didn't use:
Rome wasn't built in a day. In fact, it was founded in 753 BC, but if only the Romans had access to Amazon Prime, they could have received all their building materials in just two days.
Rome wasn't built in a day. In fact, it was founded in 753 BC, but if the Romans had used Legos to build the city, it would have been a lot faster!
Rome wasn't built in a day. In fact, it was founded in 753 BC, but it's nothing compared to the time it takes my mom to do the laundry!
Rome wasn't built in a day. In fact, it was founded in 753 BC, when Caesar's Salad was called just a salad and everybody had a secret crush on Julius Caesar.
Eventually, I settled for one that is mostly true albeit crazy.
For a while, I plan to be making these instead of my usual "civilizations".
I made a number of other designs with quotes using a similar process.
Next time, I will share Pirate and Wizard rules.