AI assisted art

[Jitter]

Wow, that Reynir is great! Really good, even with a hint of royal features. The Duke probably has his Viking ancestry showing in his red hair anyways

I came up with a couple of decent Lallis.





but evolving from these just produces weirdness. And one young Geralt the witcher

[Jitter]

Here’s the other Lalli

[lwise]

That's cool!  Evolving does get stranger and stranger sometimes.

MidJourney doesn't seem to understand *straight hair*.  I don't want all those curls!

[lwise]

MidJourney keeps *all* your old efforts, so you can go back through and count how many times you tried to render a particular image.  Although that means you have to look at all the disasters too.  And you have to scroll through everything to find that one image that you want to retry.

[moredhel]

Here’s the other Lalli

very Lalli but the hand makes me feel uncomfortable

[lwise]

AIs have extreme trouble with hands and paws.  Also ears.  I tried some renders with ferrets, and they looked very nice except for having two sets of ears, or eight toes on a paw.

[lwise]

Tuuri:



I cannot begin to reconstruct how I got this.  It is the least bad of a hundred or so attempts.

[Jitter]

This Tuuri is from some AU with the beautiful makeup Other than that, the colors are good, and the overall face shape.

[lwise]

I said "a hundred or so attempts".  I went back and counted, and it was over three hundred.  Getting that lock of hair to stay in the image was a nightmare.  So once I got this, I decided to just go with it, even with the makeup.  Maybe she was at a costume party some time before going on the expedition.

[dmeck7755]

She is stunning

[lwise]

Thank you.  What do you think of this one, wide eyed, kind of frazzled?

[Jitter]

I like this one better! The makeup is less prominent because of the unconventional expression.

And I guessed of course that the makeup is due to the AI source material making it “think” “wimmin always want to and must be as pretty as possible”. Kind of makes me sad to think that it’s nearly impossible to get rid of makeup even when trying!

[lwise]

I like this one better! The makeup is less prominent because of the unconventional expression.

And I guessed of course that the makeup is due to the AI source material making it “think” “wimmin always want to and must be as pretty as possible”. Kind of makes me sad to think that it’s nearly impossible to get rid of makeup even when trying!

That might be it, or it might be a bad choice of guiding artist on my part.  The various online guides recommended suggesting an artist or two to guide the AI, but they didn't give any explanation of what the artists are known for, and I am no art student.  I just used the recommended names from the most straightforward guide.  Perhaps, a couple of hundred renders ago, I should have tried a different artist.

Added: The makeup may also derive from the original image.  Perhaps the AI interpreted the thick outlines of her eyes as mascara.

[lwise]

I need to quit obsessing over this.  Anyway, how is this?

[Jitter]

This is great! She looks very Finnish! The colors and face shape are spot on.

I spent my measly five NightCafe credits (I’m not on Discord, yet, I tried once but got very confused, I should ask my teenage son to show me the ropes) on Tuuri today and tried ro go for “androgynous person” instead of “androgynous woman” (I don’t think she’s that androgynous but trying to get rid of too much prettiness). The upper left one is actually sorta ok except for the Spice Must Flow look, but the ones on the right… where is my plump gritty mechanic engineer?? Does “plump” mean that the “person” must be a woman?