[AI Illustration] Picture Diary: Creating illustrations for character reference

Good evening, this is Kyon!

I've prepared some BGM for today. Please give it a listen ♫

As for what I was doing this weekend, I was playing around with this, thinking I might try using it.

It's NovelAI, also known as NAI ✨

The first thing I thought when I tried it out was, the generation speed is just so fast!
It finishes generating in 2-3 seconds (; ﾟдﾟ)
It's way too fast, isn't it!

However, reproducing the art style is difficult…（´-`）
You can specify the Seed value, but when I try to change the pose or character, the art style changes...
There are few models available (or rather, it's basically one choice), and there's no LoRA either.

I was reading articles wondering if there was a good way to do it, and I saw that you can keep the art style by using a feature called
Character Reference. So, I tried it immediately with the illustrations I had on hand, and I was able to draw various poses and facial expressions with quite high precision (*´꒳`* )

At the same time, I was playing around drawing my own character on a site called "Anifun" where you can make manga and such, and I managed to draw a few nice illustrations. I think I'll use these illustrations as a base to draw with NAI ✨

Here are the illustrations I drew with Anifun!

NAI is super fast at generating, but Anifun takes time to generate, so
I was clicking away on my sub-monitor while playing Pokémon on my main monitor 😇
It was the perfect holiday, as I was able to collect illustration materials while playing games ✨

It would be interesting to mass-produce illustrations with NAI and try making manga with Anifun! I'd like to try that someday (*´꒳`* )

That's all for this time!
Thank you for watching until the end!