Experimental Illustrations for Book Two of The Trojan Horse - Trump, Russia, Brexit and Democracy Under Siege
For full transparency sharing some generative AI images of the story so far, and some new incidents to come
Below you’ll find some experiments in illustrating this epic story. For full transparency, I used Deepseek to summarise some of the poems and source material and suggest classic visual references. It then came up with a brief, as detailed in the text below complete with its own inscribed verses, ready for a graphic illustrator. I hope one day to go down that route - when I have some kind of budget! - but I’ve used ChatGPT in the meantime to sketch out an early version*. Here are the results…
*NB no AI imagery will be used if/when I publish this story, and all the AI briefings below are from my own personal work
Title: "The Engineers of Souls"
Subtitle: Olgino's War Room and the Birth of Hybrid Warfare
Medium: Black marble with circuit-board veins, glowing Kremlin-red and Facebook-blue inlay.
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