# @stevedmcdonald on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DKc5BO_RhUX
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63359733-stevedmcdonald-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/c932b2b8a3.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-06-03T20:05:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Steve McDonald 🎨📚 (@stevedmcdonald) — https://gondola.cc/stevedmcdonald

## Caption

'Called Into Being'

What we make isn’t always what we see, Sometimes it's what we feel, stitched together. A half-remembered face. A color that once meant something. A dream fragment dressed in linework. It's a new game of image-crafting. Whether you're using a pencil, code, camera, photoshop, paint, ink, or AI, you're still building visual lyrics, stories sung in silence, truths rendered in light and shade, with composition and design, trying to find hues never seen, and faces from your future. 

This course I built, A Deep Dive into AI Image-Crafting, isn’t just about mastering the tools. It’s about building a practice. A process. One that blends traditional instincts and approaches with new tech, invention with intention, and helps you craft work that feels like yours. Singular, strange, stunning.

The discount and early access close tomorrow, sign up for the waiting list in my bio to get the reminder. You'll get the full walkthrough, access to all lessons, and a bunch of my personal workflows and philosophies. Let’s shape new worlds together.

🔗 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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## Tags

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

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