The Visual Language of High Tides: Why Every Look, Touch and Kiss Matters
High Tides creator Fernanda explains how looks, touches and kisses help tell Clara and Valerie’s story through AI-created visuals.
The visual world of High Tides is built around much more than simply showing Clara and Valerie together. For creator Fernanda, every expression, touch and moment of intimacy has to carry something from the relationship that already exists between the two women.
That means an image cannot succeed purely because it looks beautiful. The aim is to create something that feels connected to Clara and Valerie’s history, whether the moment is romantic, playful, uncomfortable or completely ordinary.
“I want people to feel what exists between them, not just see what they’re doing.”
That distinction is particularly important when High Tides explores physical intimacy. Fernanda does not want Clara and Valerie to be reduced to attraction simply because viewers see them kissing or touching, even though desire remains a genuine part of their relationship.
Instead, those moments can carry trust, fear, tenderness and memories of everything the characters have already experienced together. Someone discovering High Tides through a single image may not know that full history, but Fernanda still wants them to sense that there is something underneath what they are seeing.
“For me, the visual side of High Tides was never really about illustrating the story.”
The surrounding details can be just as important as the characters themselves. Light, body position, where somebody places a hand and whether Clara and Valerie are looking directly at each other can all affect how a scene feels.
Fernanda describes the goal as creating the sense that viewers have briefly entered the world rather than simply looked at an image from outside it.
“I want it to feel like you’ve stepped inside it for a few seconds.”
That could mean capturing the stillness of an early morning, the warmth after dinner or the moment when Valerie’s expression tells viewers something is wrong before a word has been spoken. Even the ocean has become part of that recognisable visual language, with returning followers already familiar with the atmosphere surrounding the story.
As High Tides continues moving between written chapters and AI-created visuals, those small details provide another way of revealing Clara and Valerie without explaining everything about them. The images can show what is happening, but the emotional weight comes from everything the women have already lived through together.
For Fernanda, the goal is ultimately simple: viewers should leave a High Tides visual feeling something about Clara and Valerie rather than merely thinking that they have seen a beautiful picture.
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