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~What You Always Wanted~ Let’s face it - every person who has ever lived wanted to be beautiful and attractive. We can’t choose that, so we are born with whatever we are given. From teen to adulthood, we will spend good part of our time trying to make ourselves more presentable, sometimes in a rather comical way when I look at myself when I was a teenager, where the exact placement of every fiber of hair mattered so much. Yeah, I can laugh now. But this manifests itself in different ways between men and women. Hormones make that evident when we get to our teen years, and the body starts changing. Boys will want to become big and strong, while girls rather be beautiful and attractive. They may not even realize these choices, since it’s the hormones playing with our brains in that stage of our lives. At that point, we are no longer ourselves, but a result of a hormonal war raging in our heads that will last for years to come, bringing plenty of uncontrollable happiness, as well as

~Strong Female Character~ Being a pinup artist for 20 years, it’s hard not to bump into this nowadays. As a pinup artist, it is my role to portrait women as the attractive, beautiful creatures that they are - nothing more, nothing less. To that goal, I have studied what makes females attractive and more appealing to the eye, since this is a visual art. It’s all about what the eyes see, be it by means of attributes that are unique to females, or by other artistic expressions, like posing, body language and feature exaggeration. I have basically specialized on making women look attractive. Some may assume that things like feature exaggeration is a cheap cliche, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. As a matter of fact, some of the world’s most notorious artists have used it in their work, such as Elmer Biggs, Alberto Vargas, George Petty, Gil Elvgren, Enoch Bolles, and even the great Luis Royo! When used with balance, people may not even realize features and proportions are

~SD3 and Llama3 Just Released~ After a long wait, the much-anticipated Stable Diffusion 3.0 was finally released, but it wasn’t exactly what people expected. This time, Stability AI is keeping this new version behind a paywall. They released it from behind an API, which requires an account to reveal a key, and credits you have to buy to use it. However, they say a free version should be available in about 2 weeks, so we will have to wait and see. But what is SD3 all about? Like SDXL, it’s a whole new architecture that brings new features, improved results, and it comes in 2 versions: Standard and Turbo. For those following SDXL, the “Turbo” version is much faster, like almost real-time results, at the cost of lower quality images. I assume SD3 Turbo will be in these lines, though I haven’t tested anything yet. I will wait for the locally installed version to try it out - but keep in mind the initial models have not been finetuned, so the real goodies should come from the community,