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Plus training, lessons and inspiration. And talent. It’s like with dreams. They can be terribly intricate and detailed, but ask me to draw something creative a

Plus training, lessons and inspiration. And talent. It’s like with dreams. They can be terribly intricate and detailed, but ask me to draw something creative and I’m out.

wincy 4y ago
I've probably spent at least an hour a day working in Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111 since January or so. At this point I'd call it my hobby, as instead of playing video games I'm plowing time into this. And I'm definitely seeing marked improvements in my style and what I'm looking for. I'll often start with a shotgun approach and make 64-128 pictures with a basic prompt of what I'm looking for. Sometimes there's a shape and basic composition that makes me gasp it's so much better than the others. So I'll feed that into img2img or inpainting, iterate on it, tweak settings that I just sort of have an intuitive feel for what turning the knobs does, and while away for an hour or two to make it exactly what I want. There's definitely a "dreamy fantasy art style" I'm a big fan of that would have cost me an absolute fortune to commission even one image a year ago. I can't match what is coming from the top artists on Artstation (I tried a few weeks back which was humbling, some astounding work). But it's good enough that my D&D buddies are entertained and amazed that I went through and made each one of their characters. Our DM, being someone who has released creative works, was reticent and less gung-ho on AI for awhile until he decided to start playing with the AI tools (Midjourney in his case) for a new custom campaign he's running. He's suddenly able to develop novel NPC tokens for every important character we meet, the monsters are high resolution and the convenience of using Midjourney in Discord (which he already uses to coordinate our online D&D games) has been a huge boon and enhancement to how much fun and immersive our games are. A year ago this would have cost literally tens of thousands of dollars. He's a published fantasy author so prompting aka describing a scene comes naturally to him. It's been a lot of fun seeing what he's coming up with. I'm really loving the spark of creativity I've been finding in myself where the turnaround on the old tools was too long for me to not get frustrated and give up, and to see it amongst my friends, even the ones who were initially skeptical.

Plus training, lessons and inspiration. And talent. It’s like with dreams. They can be terribly intricate and detailed, but ask me to draw something creative and I’m out.

wincy 4y ago

I've probably spent at least an hour a day working in Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111 since January or so. At this point I'd call it my hobby, as instead of playing video games I'm plowing time into this. And I'm definitely seeing marked improvements in my style and what I'm looking for. I'll often start with a shotgun approach and make 64-128 pictures with a basic prompt of what I'm looking for. Sometimes there's a shape and basic composition that makes me gasp it's so much better than the others. So I'll feed that into img2img or inpainting, iterate on it, tweak settings that I just sort of have an intuitive feel for what turning the knobs does, and while away for an hour or two to make it exactly what I want. There's definitely a "dreamy fantasy art style" I'm a big fan of that would have cost me an absolute fortune to commission even one image a year ago. I can't match what is coming from the top artists on Artstation (I tried a few weeks back which was humbling, some astounding work). But it's good enough that my D&D buddies are entertained and amazed that I went through and made each one of their characters. Our DM, being someone who has released creative works, was reticent and less gung-ho on AI for awhile until he decided to start playing with the AI tools (Midjourney in his case) for a new custom campaign he's running. He's suddenly able to develop novel NPC tokens for every important character we meet, the monsters are high resolution and the convenience of using Midjourney in Discord (which he already uses to coordinate our online D&D games) has been a huge boon and enhancement to how much fun and immersive our games are. A year ago this would have cost literally tens of thousands of dollars. He's a published fantasy author so prompting aka describing a scene comes naturally to him. It's been a lot of fun seeing what he's coming up with. I'm really loving the spark of creativity I've been finding in myself where the turnaround on the old tools was too long for me to not get frustrated and give up, and to see it amongst my friends, even the ones who were initially skeptical.