A few people have asked me about character art after my last posts, so I am sharing this for anyone interested.
The images are ai.
I generally use ai to make abstract stuff I use as overlays or backdrops. The backdrops and some of the other effects in these three work-in-progress examples are all things I generated with ai:
I don't like using ai to make people most of the time, for a variety of reasons, but I have found it so difficult to find anyone close enough to either Morrigan or Saga (the model in the two sample covers for nemesis is the best I have so far, and that took a lot of work and editing her in a cartoonish style) that I decided to try using ai.
When I create character art this way, I will start off by generating different images that are close to what I am looking for with the most important features (that can't easily be edited) already there.
Here are three examples that I considered close enough when I was deciding on a base image to edit for Saga. I needed a character with long hair, pale enough that it would be realistic to lighten it to white, and I wanted the outfit to be something like what she would wear. Most of the outfits in these are just a mess, but are close enough that with editing they will look OK.
I have actually worked with all three of these, but for this post I'll show the process with the one on the right:
It's probably close enough to share as a face claim, but there are things I don't like about it, things that are wrong, and things that needed cleaning up.
When I shared the faceclaim image, I shared this very rough clean up:
In this version I had done some basic work on things like removing some of the freckles, which were excessive and didn't look natural. I sorted out her lips so she has fuller lips, and so that the freaky ai teeth were no longer an issue, I facetuned it slightly, changed the eye color, changed the lip color, sorted our her hair color, and did a paintover to give her white lashes.
Obviously there was still a long way to go, and I am now at this point:
In this image I have done more of a paintover with the hair ( wanted her hair a little longer and with more movement so it's like a wind machine rather than just kind of messy)
I have done a little more work on her face in terms of the jawline, the shape of her lips, the eyes.
I removed that weird choker thing, but I do have more to do to clean that and the remaining necklace up.
A 50/50 split gives a better idea of exactly how much I have done so far - you can see that the faceshape is actually different etc more clearly in this:
I want to do more work neatening out her lip, because I know that isn't perfect, and with the paintover work I did on her hair.
The next thing I am going to do when I have time is sort out the necklace and that super unnatural looking mess around her neck and collarbone.
I also need to try to lighten her eyebrows, but when I have done paintovers for that it's just not looking right.
If I've managed to do this properly, you can see another example here of the sort of finetuning I have left to do - this is a before/after showing how I have been sorting the lips out. The red backdrop is the before, the blue backdrop is after:
So, there it is - a very basic before and after of something that is still in progress. There is still a lot to do on it, but I don't think it's awful.
I think this is a pretty decent representation of Saga, and I am happy with it.
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