“The artistic equivalent of drawing mustaches on Page 3 girls.”
- me, 2022
About
My favourite kind of girls are sheep girls.
Female/Angloid/19
I'm not coming for anyone's job.
Your politics bore me.
Fun Fact — I gen'd this from a real life photo of myself!!!
Questions I'm Sure People Will Ask
What Exactly Do You Do?
I ask the AI nicely for a picture, usually providing a reference sketch (which I draw myself,) or a photograph (which I take myself.)
When the AI gives me a picture, I fix up some of the more egregious errors, and run it through the AI again to see what it gives me.
Usually it does pretty shitty, so I have to draw over the result, add a little extra something-something to the picture and boom, finito.Most of the time, I have to fully redraw the hands and eyes, and paint over the clothing to sort out the worst of the inconsistencies.
How Can I Do This Too?
You need a GPU with at least around 8GB of VRAM to run Stable Diffusion locally. (For example, I have an RTX 2070)Follow this guide to figure out how to set up the software: https://rentry.org/voldyDownload NovelAI's model (and for the love of God, use a VPN when you do this)Plug NovelAI's model into the Automatic1111 webui, and select a hypernetwork to use (these will be explained in the Voldy Guide.) Different hypernetworks produce different results, so play around with them.Get Clip Studio Paint or an equivalent art software, and paint over your AI outputs until they become pretty pictures.
Further resources: /sdg/, Automatic1111's github repo, r/stablediffusion and r/sdforall
What Are Your Settings?
Generally, my settings are as follows:
Model(s): NovelAI 99.999% of the time, NovelAI + WaifuDiffusion that other 0.001%
Hypernetwork(s): Aini or Anime 99% of the time
Artists to feed the AI: Jeremy Lipking, Alphonse Mucha, Roy Lichtenstein, Hokusai Katsushika.
*(Emphasizing different artists' styles over others is what you want to do here, put more emphasis on Liechtenstein if you want pop art, more on Mucha if you want the intricate backgrounds, etc.)
Sampler(s): Euler, Euler a, DDIM
Around 20-28 steps
Cfg Scale: 11-12 (when using txt2img) // anywhere from 5 to 20 (when using img2img)
CLIP skip: 2
Xformers: yes (and you should too)When it comes to upscaling, I pretty much throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.
Will You Do My Request?
Probably not.
But I'll Pay You For It?
Please pay an artist. Like someone that isn't drawing over an AI output.
Do You Think This Is Art?
Short Answer: Not really
Long Answer: On its own, AI art (at least AI art of people) is pretty soulless—think the photos of dead-eyed page 3 girls—I don't see either of them as 'art' or as having 'artistic value.'But if a kid takes a marker and scribbles a hat or a moustache on the picture of the dead-eyed page 3 girl, then I think that change has some artistic merit, like there is some 'human touch' to make it less dead, or something.I'm pretty much that kid, and the Page 3 girl is the pictures my PC shits out on my local Stable Diffusion instance.
If You Don't Think It's Art, Why Do You Watermark It?
I do other artistic endeavours (different account, different medium).It's habit.
Are You Ever Planning To Record/Livestream Your Process?
At some point. Waiting for all the controversy about AI to die down a little first.
Contact
Dms are closed on all websites I frequent, so if you have something to say to me, you're going to have to put your name behind it, publically.
I speak English natively and German pretty much fluently.
I am at B1 level in Italian, and A2/N4 level in Japanese, so you have a few options when you write to me.