While I was waiting for a cover for Over Her Knee, I decided to fiddle around with AI and try to create an image exactly like I wanted. I usually use Gemini, and I had some success. Here’s the best image I could create:

Pretty accurate. The problem is that when I don’t like a certain thing about the background, I have to start from scratch and hope I get a background I like. Which is how I came up with this one:

Not too bad.

Unfortunately, Gemini doesn’t understand the concept of making people look thinner, fatter, curvier, etc. I was able to tell it to give the redhead larger breasts, but it was very chaste — it increased them a tiny bit. Which is fine; it gave me the effect I was looking for.

You can see that I moved her to the right and expanded the background a bit, which is great, except when I asked for a 16×9 image, or an image in landscape mode, it just generated another square. Not helpful.

I was able to use a different AI image generator to get this image, which is close to what I want but not quite there.

Also if you look at the lower-right you can see that she basically has three legs. Not ideal. And the generator I used for that one isn’t specific enough for me to tell it “two legs” — that command isn’t understandable enough. And when I use that one to regenerate sometimes it gives me the weirdest looking hairbrush.

With that one I basically have to keep telling it to try again until I get something I like. This is really close, until you look at her fingers (on both hands):

This is why I hire cover artists: AI is great, but it’s very limited in what it can generate. And sometimes it generates things like this:

Unless she’s a relative of Zaphod Beeblebrox, I don’t think she works for a book cover.