What do you think? 😄
Yup it feels like different artist BUT one which you know and constantly hinted him what to do all the time :D to the point when he gave up and painted that beautiful girly boy doing most sexy mindbending pose. I must esp appreciate you was smart and found a way how to convince him to do that 180d twist! How inventive to use cloth for that!
I am really gulping in awe and expectation what you can conjure in year from now!!!
While most people will still do some cat/pikatchu mashups.
Shifty
Thank you so much! It was one of very early pictures, still can't believe how much time it took, over 12 hours, but of course nothing compared to how long it would take to paint it in real life, not even counting many years in art academy and a time machine to travel back to the 19th century Europe because I doubt it's possible to learn a classical style like this in any modern art school...

The twist was the most difficult part, many layers of cloth and a lot of guessing how to make it more twisted... But I think the legs were just as difficult, specially making both legs look more or less the same... But in the end was worth all the time, because really enjoyed the ideal 180° twist, almost like the woman keeps telling him to keep his chest and butt straight and stop tilting them, and the boy looks so focused and determined to be perfect...
This AI software makes very classical looking faces. That flower festival bendy is... insanely cute, even by regular site standards of insanely cute!
Very glad you enjoyed it! The AI software isn't limited to classical faces, but it feels safer to use as the 19th century paintings are in public domain...
(respond to your comment on the AI): I use the Automatic111 as well, and encounter right the problems you say ("normalizing" or, in my case "cropping legs"). I was about to try the InvokeAI as well but it doesn't run on my (older Linux-) system, it gets into some kind of install-loop (it tries to install itself over and over instead of starting the prog). Soon it's Xmas, hopefully good ol' Santa has some performance-boost in his bag...
Automatic1111 has the inpainting tab, it can be used to partially inpaint images like I said, and you can use Gimp to define the shape and colors you need. Just avoid making large areas of completely flat colors, it's best to add a bit of noise to them, else the AI will keep them flat.
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