Daily Generations: Orange Monday Cat
Created with: ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, & Adobe Photoshop
Welcome back to Daily Generations after a short break after the holiday season.
Starting off strong this year with a tribute to everyone’s favorite overweight, orange, Monday hating cat.
This strip was written and illustrated by ChatGPT and DALL-E. For the writing ChatGPT nailed it in one go. It has the classic Jim Davis style humor of looks like a joke, smells like a joke, but is it actually a joke?
The art on the other hand was more problematic. I wasn’t trying to emulate Jim Davis art style. My aim was a style that could have appeared in a late 70s newspaper syndicated comic strip. Which I think was achieved admirably.
Knowing that it would likely to be too much for the poor robot, I first tasked it with creating all three panels and lettering in one go. With humorous results. See Below.
You may get unusal results if you give full creative control to AI. Any similarities to Eddy Burback are purely coincidental.
Created with: DALL-E 3.
After some laughs, I moved on to my real plan and had it produce one panel at a time with blank speech bubbles. I knew it would create an entirely new art style each time I gave it the prompt for the next panel.
So, after generating a single panel that matched my vision. I DALL-E 3’s selection tool I designate specific areas of the image for edits and iterations to create the next two panels. This method worked well for this project in particular, given that in my muse Jim Davis’ style the panels are often identical with only small changes.
I could then stitch all three panels together in Photoshop, add the lettering, and use generative fill to clean up any weird AI artifacts and remove the excessive number of ferns DALL-E3 included. I find Photoshop to be the current leader at simple edits and object removal.
If you enjoy sacrilegious desecrations of Jim Davis’ work check out my other project Third Panel Garfield. Relaunching this year!
Happy Monday! Have a great week and an even better 2025!
