# @stevedmcdonald on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DKa6ubrMcuu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63359672-stevedmcdonald-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/beed122951.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-06-03T01:42:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Steve McDonald 🎨📚 (@stevedmcdonald) — https://gondola.cc/stevedmcdonald

## Caption

“Whispers from the Painted North”

Illustrations can be stories, they can be songs, they can be secrets. Each one is a kind of visual lyric—hummed from memory, pulled from a dream, or pieced together from moments you almost remember, places you've been and places you've never seen. They can be half-remembered places. Ones you’ve passed through, ones you’ve only seen in the corner of your eye, or maybe never at all. 

This is how I work now: with AI, intuition, texture, memory, invention...all mixed with old drawings, illustrations, schematics, photography, and even collage. You can too. Create a brand-new process. 

My second course 'A Deep Dive into AI Image-Crafting', reopens this week—but only for a short time. If you’ve been waiting, now’s the moment. Sign up in my bio for early access, a discount, and a reminder email when it drops.

🔗 Link in bio

*My illustrations are created with my own custom diffusion models, MJ moodboards, SD/MJ ai rendering, and my own painting, rendering, touch-ups, and assemblage in Photoshop. Custom textures. Custom effects. Custom filters from Topaz Studio... blah blah blah. My own unique mix of analog, digital, and diffusion(ai) techniques.

#imagecrafting #worldbuilding #SteveMcDonaldArt #aiart #illustration #mixedmedia #architectureofimagination #aicourse #custommodels #newtoolsoldsoul #ProcessIsPlay #sketchtosurreal #visualalchemy

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stevemcdonaldart, processisplay, illustration, newtoolsoldsoul, visualalchemy, sketchtosurreal, aicourse, mixedmedia, worldbuilding, custommodels, architectureofimagination, aiart, imagecrafting

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