I like the Frankencars. Wonder if anyone is modding for that look.
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Custom body kit fabricators shouldnāt be too hard to find, expensive though (and probably not street-legal). For the above image look I recommend browsing through images of '70s and '80s era rally cars (e.g. Group B), or Japan custom cars (or ye-oldie Need For Speed Underground games), or explorer / off-road tourer upgrade kits for SUVs / small trucks.
ā¦or r/battlewagon for DIY modsā¦
Another image experiment.
MidJourney v5.1 Prompt: Photograph of a Ferrari with a offroad racing body kit, team sponsorship wrap, Dakar rally event, European car show scene, 8K, intricate details, shot on a Sigma DSLR, natural daylight lighting, marketing photography, --ar 3:2
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Iām continuing creating characters for my fanfic.
Lots of evolves and collages today, especially for the first three. But it was worth it.
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Some cool book cover ideas here.
āDirt Flirtā
Thatās my story and Iām sticking with it.
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Itd interesting, but not having the letters on a second layer wod kill its usefulness.
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Iām annoyed at that design. It looks cool but then that crappy lettering ruins it!
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Colin is just a supporting character but a lot of love went into creating him because heās one of my favorite characters in this series.
I created this image out of many many evolves in Dream. I was playing around with combinations of Realistic, Ink, and Watercolor evolves. I believe the final set was made in Watercolor.
Then I took 3 different evolves and took little pieces of each because one had a better face, one had better hair, one had better ears and background, the other had a better sweater, the other had a better tie. lol. They were pretty well lined up so it was possible to mix and match with ease. Honestly, I think this will now be my favorite go-to method:
- Evolve until you get an image type you like.
- Create a few variations at a āstrongā setting so theyāre close enough.
- Blend them together in Krita.
- And of course, import eyes from a stock photo and paint them in because Dream sucks at eyes.
Now Iām thinking that I should create the 3 main characters also in this Watercolor style. I created several of the side characters in his style with a good amount of luck. The āofficialā images for the three MCs are made in the Ink style which is mighty cool but itās not as realistic, and I sort of like this almost realistic feel of Watercolor.
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I set out on a quest to create a new set of official portraits for Jack, Elsa, and Merlin in the soft almost-realistic style.
With Merlin, I played a good amount of time with shading and details of his face. I really am getting the hang of this and developing a good process in Krita. Maybe one day Iāll be faster at it.
Summary
Generating Jack and Elsa in this style wasnāt easy. I think there might be too many fan arts out there in too many styles. I had a really hard time getting the AI to generate what I wanted. But once I did, it was worth it. Especially Elsaās results came out stunning. I have several favorites which Iād like to fix up like this one.
This particular one she looked too young in, but it was so cute, I badly wanted to use it. I elongated her face to make her older. Do you think she looks 11?
Something still bothers me about Jackās eyes. I might have to try this again with a fresh stock photo. Eye anatomy makes a huge difference and itās super noticeable when itās off. I canāt just paste in a stock photo as is, it never blends in right. Rather, I use it as a guide and then paint under and over it. Painting the iris is fun. And with Jack and Elsa if you zoom in, youāll notice that thereās frost on their eyelashes. Hehe. Yes. I paint the eyelashes too.
The hard part is in finding a photo to trace because it has to be the right eye shape and the right angle. Eye color doesnāt matter since I paint it anyway.
Do you like the trees in the background of Jackās image? I blended two images together because one had a better face and the other had better hair and that messed up the background, forcing me to recreate it by painting the trees. Thankfully, itās not a photo so I can get away with it.
I would like to point out that I donāt have the right tools for this job. Lol. Iām doing this on my laptop with a trackpad. Painting these images requires some serious finger gymnastics.
Iām almost done with the kids. Iām still missing Hermione! I canāt believe I totally forgot about her.
Then Iāll focus on creating adults from this series.
Could be as young as 9, but a lot if northern whites have round faces.
Most everyone warps what they need to rhe right shape and angle.
Now that I think about it, that right there is my face structure too. lol.
I think I have to move her nose sort of in the middle. What I did there is I duplicated the lower half of her face and just placed it a little lower. That does it a lot smoother than if I tried to use the liquify option - that usually messes up the pixels. Would moving her nose a bit up even out the face? Maybe. Or will it make her look younger again? Ah, maybe Iāll leave it alone.
The eye photo was marked as a six year old girl. I lined up the girlās face with Elsaās to figure out the proportions, where to move the eyes and to confirm that the eye shape fits, and the original AI image had a face a bit longer already (even before I elongated it). If comparing against the 6-year old, Iād say AI created an 8 year old Elsa (to be fair, that was a very baby-faced six year old). I was hoping that elongating her face would add a couple more years. I even looked up images of 11 year old girls to compare the proportions and Elsaās fit fairly well with them. What she lacks is the more defined bone structure that comes with age, but, as I mentioned, thatās my bone structure too even now. I never developed higher cheekbones, less-full cheeks etc.
Hmmmmmmm. I just had an idea. I might do something. Iāll get back to you.
11 is a tricky age especially for girls. Some start going through the growth spurt already. I like to think that this image is of Elsa right before her growth spurt and thatās why she still has a baby face.
I havenāt had much luck with it. It tends to mess up the pixels. I use it only in emergencies.
For Elsa I had to use it to move her entire iris because the little six year old girl was a bit cross-eyed. lol
But itās more than just basic fitting in. Ever since I started doing this, Iāve found that there are quite a lot of eye shapes out there. Using a wrong type of shape for the face youāve got can really mess up the whole image and itās really difficult to fix. For example, I really need to give Jack better eyes. Something is just off about their angle and I donāt know how to fix it, so Iād rather redo it from scratch.
At least Iām faster at it now.
One trick I use for not as much warping pixels is doubling the size of the picture before warping it. Pixelation increases/is more noticeable when thereās less space and depth to work with. For examplw, I dont work with anything less than 2x wattpadās size cover, and Iāll work even larger, at times.
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Good tip. Thanks.
Japan is all in.
This is a reason why Iāve switched from Mid Journey to Stable Diffusion (local installation). With MJ, all of the usersā images are online, and available to the public (or at least other users). SD is more private / secure. However, MJ still has a superior quality of photo-realismā¦or Iām still not using the right prompts / checkpointsā¦
This also makes me a tad reluctant to post story chapters / drafts online unless theyāre behind a paywall of some sort (e.g. e-book purchase / download only). Back to writing / editing by hand for now. To paraphrase The Kingsmen film: You canāt hack (data scrape) a piece of paper.
Oh, yesterday I finally discovered a way to download all of my MJ image gallery onto my PC. Only needed about 12GB of hard drive space. I can get carried away with prompting sometimes.
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The dumb porn AI gives clean pics at times, ao I did a choppy drawing edit to expand the sizes of these two, because I want to work on theseā¦
Original:
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For the love of all that is holy, Why?
Can you imagine that this is for sale for $60. Are you kidding me?
I can do better in a few minutes. Likeā¦ why would they put this for sale and would someone buy it and why, oh why am I not selling my images on Adobe? If they want bad fingers, I got plenty of those.
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Thatās pretty bad.