The creepy and the funny side of Halloween

Halloween came to Germany rather late - in the 80s of the last century. Now there are a lot of Halloween parties and you can see children wearing Halloween costumes at school and Kindergarten. There is even some trick-or-treating going on, although it has stopped during the last years with Corona limiting outside activities.

However Halloween is a rich field for someone like me who creates images with AI Image Generators. I noticed that in general there are these cute and funny images and there are the creepy ones. I must say that I am personally not that much into creepy images. But I could not resist and did that one:

It has one of my drawings as a base image. It shows an aggressive looking Goblin / troll /bad creature with glowing orange eyes. 

I wasn't even thinking of Halloween when I had this creature created. I was just playing around with using my own art as starter images. 

Now, with me being an owner of a Zazzle store who has to prepare already for Halloween I thought I could use the image for a t-shirt design.

But, as I said before, I am more on the funny and cute side of Halloween. 

 

So here's a cute happy looking bat. Isn't he (or her,
you never know!) cute? Bats are associated with Halloween, so why not use this image as a design on my Zazzle store. Of course the background will have to be removed and the image itself enlarged. 

AI Art and my Zazzle Shop

 Since last November I have been creating art with the help of AI Art Generators. Since April this year I have been active again creating new products in my Zazzle shop, using AI images as designs. And for the first time since 2009, when I openend my shop on Zazzle I am really enjoying the process of working for my shop - be it the creation of new designs, the selection of products which fit the design (and the other way round) and even the process of marketing them on Twitter.

Cute Happy Bat Magnet
by ullahennig

This cute little bat was created with the use of Nightcafe Studio. I had the background of the image removed in Lunapic, and then uploaded it to Zazzle. Of course there are other products where this design would fit nicely - a mug, a button, whatever. 

Cute Bats

Although it is still summer (and very hot and humid here in Germany) I am already thinking of Halloween. If somebody mentions Halloween I think of witches, ghosts and - of course - bats. But I think of them as animals which are very important for our nature, not as creatures which bring evil and drink blood.

So I went to Nightcafe Studio and inserted the following prompt:
cute bat flying, vector style, 3 D, white background

And isn't he cute? 

Three flying bats Mug

 In one of my former posts I showed you the vector image of the flying bat. I used it for a mug on Zazzle;

Three flying bats Halloween
by ullahennig

Bat

Bat-creature, created with Inkscape

I must admit that I have my difficulties with the gradient tool in Inkscape. But I somehow forgot that there is a tool in Inkscape called "Gradient Mesh" which - in my humble opinion - makes it far easier to create gradient effects. Fortunately there are a number of videos on YouTube which explain how Gradient Mesh works, and after having watched some of them I am kind of hooked on that tool.

The bat above is still work in progress - there are a few things which have to be worked on still.