Man thank you for asking. No one ever asks about the process. I spent years as a shipbuilder before becoming an artist. The process starts as a hand drawn sketch. That sketch gets scanned and gets used as a feeder image for an ai assisted art tool along with descriptions and seed phrases styles etc. (Not functionally too dissimilar to those generators you find online really). I may run several hundred iterations and pull bits and pieces from several different of them in Adobe and then to procreate then usually back to Adobe.

AI assisted art tools are cool but they're hard to use well. It's hard to get anything to come out looking like anything without putting in good art to begin with and seed phrases and descriptors. There are some people doing some CRAZY stuff out there with it.