Witchy Babysitter Piper

In chapter six of The Babysitter, Piper is revealed to be a WITCH (well, we already knew that, but the twins and their brother didn't; dramatic irony). She is described thusly:

In the master bedroom, Piper had pulled the shades and curtains tightly to block out the last of the evening sun. In the makeshift darkness, candles were placed around the room, flickering silently. Piper was levitating, legs crossed, two feet above the Wastefelds’ queen-sized bed. Her eyes were closed, and every now and then a shiny silver triangle placed on the perfect center of her forehead* would glint with reflected candle light. 

and

They arrived just in time to catch Piper levitating before she dropped down onto the bed. Her eyes flew open. They were glowing an intense yellow, no pupils.
“Surprise,” she growled in a deep voice.  
Jessica shrieked and stumbled backwards into her twin, who yelped. Steven was stuttering in panic. “S-she was floating!”
Elizabeth’s mind was racing. What had she just seen? Had Piper really been levitating? She refused to think about what this could mean. It was too bizarre.

So I made an image of that, with Artbreeder & GIMP (because it's fun)

looking happy in this image, because on Artbreeder if you have a photorealistic image and try to make it more angry, it turns into a weird cartoon.

rarr demon eyebrows (did that in GIMP)

 

before/after transformation... I always make her teeth a little pointy because she has "witch teeth" (something I made up, as opposed to "vampire teeth" which would just be pointed canines/ fangs).

*I've said this before, but when I was fifteen I read The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, in which the Stanley kids' stepsister Amanda is really into the "occult" and wears a silver triangle on her forehead, calling it her "center of power." So, that was a part of The Babysitter that was really old but stayed in as a nod to my teenage self.

More Demon Piper

 I keep making these

Piper with fangs (because it's fun, not because she's a vampire...) and liquidy no-pupil eyes

Demon Piper 4 (latest and favorite)

Demon Piper "Yaw" (in Artbreeder the YAW is movement from side to side, so this is a 3/4 view of Demon Piper's face).

Yeah, that's fun. I got my new copies of books 1 and 6 but I have found things I wanted to correct SINCE then. Ugh. I have 23 "wrong" copies of paperbacks. I'm still waiting for book 7 (the paperback copy I ordered, to come). I want to read it proper, as a book. I haven't read it since I finished it & published it. 

ETA: I got it a few days ago and read it and it was nifty except I found a couple of words I want to change and there's a conversation between Amy and Elizabeth that doesn't make sense because it's just the dialogue without "Amy said" or "Elizabeth said" and it goes back and forth so you should be able to tell who's talking but it goes Amy, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, instead of Amy, Elizabeth, Amy, Elizabeth. (Although real SVT books occasionally had issues like that, because they were such a rush job, being published every month)

ETA: I just fixed the problems with the "book content" and uploaded them to KDP. Also, here's if you want to look at my Artbreeder people

More faces

 

Apparently I published this to the wrong blog >:-P

I  keep rendering photorealistic portraits of my characters, using GAN (on Artbreeder) and GIMP (free software similar to photoshop). Here are some more faces:

 another demon Piper, from Book 1 The Babysitter

 

from Book 2 The Witch, "Fallon Morrison" (Piper disguised as a 12-year old), and in her "witch makeup"

 

witchy Fallon, in costume 

 

 

from Book 2 The Witch,  Fallon's grandmother Brighid, normal and in witch guise

 

 

another version of Brighid

 

 

from Book 2 The Witch, Fallon's "cousin" Craig, which is Tobias in disguise... who is a demon 

 

 

 from Book 3 The Fortune Teller, Piper as Lady Ostara and Tobias as her assistant Harlan O'Connell (who stole his look from Spike from Buffy, clearly). Lady Ostara has a light radiating from her third eye because she's a fortune teller and a psychic, tee hee. I gave her makeup in GIMP. Still working on that. The Blur tool is your friend. Also layer masks. Also different brushes, ones that mimic a pencil or crayon.