Using AI to create illustrations of original characters

Something interesting that is getting a lot of attention these days (at least at the time I'm writing this entry) is the use of AI to create art or to create almost anything on the internet really. Anyway, I decided to give it a try and dowloaded Stable Difusion the other day and the results are a bit better than I expected once I tried a few prompts.

So I decided to use it to create images of two of the original characters from Lost Together and I thought I'd share the results here.

The first one I tried was Jurojin, the guy from Nekonron who's supposed to be Kirin's bodyguard after Kirin ascends to the throne. He's apparently somewhat popular with readers as far as the reviews go. I'm glad people like this original character.

Jurojin

What's interesting here is that he's supposed to be wearing black clothes but the AI decided to give him a white gi instead for some reason. I'll keep tweaking the prompt to see if I can get him to look like I want later.

The second character is Chervil, who is Herb's fiancee and apparently quite popular with the readers, which was a surprise to me when I heard that.

Chervil

This one came out much better in my opinion, the only detail I couldn't make like I wanted was that she's supposed to have shoulder lenght hair and not a type of bobcut, but the colors are perfect the way they are. I'll try with a different prompt later to see if I can fix that.

I must admit this is actually impressive, as I didn't think this would look that good at first glance; Stable Difussion is a very powerful tool indeed.

**UPDATE 25/08/23**

I kept working on the prompts and I was finally able to get Chervil to look right the way I wanted, so I'm going to share the image here, too.

Chervil (updated)

I'm pretty surprised with the results this image creating software can produce. I mean it's fun, but I'll keep drawing by myself too when I have the time.