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The less illustrated bits

DavidD
(@davidd)
NarniaWeb Newbie

Last year I discovered that my son would like to read the Chronicles of Narnia with me, but he also wanted a picture on every page. To that end, I purchased digital editions of the books with the color illustrations by Pauline Baynes and searched the internet for professional and fan art in order to build word documents with the text and at least one picture per page. About 2/3s of the books' contents have existing illustrations, however a good third of the books are not illustrated.
Since there's not enough hours in the day, I turned to AI (Google Imagen, Deep Dream Generator, Dall-E 3) to generate the images.
I found it fascinating to see which parts of the books are less illustrated (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe usually has 2-3 images available for every page of the books, while there are significant sections of The Last Battle and The Silver Chair where its difficult to find illustrations for entire chapters.)
Hopefully someone out there will be inspired to create some real art based on this 🙂

This is Digory and Polly entering Uncle Andrew's forbidden study

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Topic starter Posted : April 2, 2025 2:24 pm
coracle
(@coracle)
NarniaWeb's Auntie Moderator

@davidd interesting.  What instructions did you give the AI for the tray of rings? (the only thing I can see that is not correct)

There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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Posted : April 2, 2025 4:34 pm
DavidD
(@davidd)
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@coracle I don't still have the prompt.  I believe I asked it for gold and emerald rings.  I've kept most of my prompts though.

Digory waiting for Jadis and Uncle Andrew to come back

 
Digory before Aslan (looking at the Lion's paws)
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Topic starter Posted : April 2, 2025 6:32 pm
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Moonlit_Centaur
(@moonlit_centaur)
NarniaWeb Regular

These are very well done considering they are AI generated and AI can be questionable when it comes to images.

'It is not easy to throw off in half an hour an enchantment which has made one a slave for ten years' - The Silver Chair

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Posted : April 2, 2025 7:22 pm
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