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  We need Samantha, clothed in post-apocalyptic armor, doing a Capoeira kick wikihow on the kick Posed the kick in XNALara, removed all the textures Fed that into the depth model of stable diffusion. LOTS of them are fucking weird looking but this one was me hitting gold. I can edit this and make it look like her. Fix the hands and shit. That's all I do now, draw hands and faces. Not done yet!

  Hopefully the cartoony face doesn't look too jarring. I think I need to change my prompts so they're more cel shaded... but i've already made a few images, heh. Well it looks nice I think.

The last character will be AI, completely. I'm not going to draw anything. Not even hand correction. She will be a freak of some sorts. One day, a big burly man enters the Casino. As he enters, everything within one foot distance transforms, ever slightly. Chairs morph and fuse into tables. He talks to the manager (your character) Big Man: I want to work here as a stripper. Manager: We only accept female strippers at this time. The big man's head turns into a cute girl's head. Cute Girl with burly body: I am now female.  Manager: You're a shifter?... I've never met one of you, or even talked to your kind before... Cute Girl: That's what you think, silly. Anta Baka? My name's Beatrice! Let's fuck! Manager: No thanks. I don't want my dick to morph. Shapers are weird. They continuously and involuntarily morph things around them. They can voluntarily morph themselves as well, but it takes a lot of concentration, so they can only do it so many times a day...

Had a pretty hectic week at work, was always super tired, but now finally getting back to stuff. I've just been learning more about AI. Here's a good looking image I generated... I mean all I did was type shit and this came owt. I used someone else's checkpoint, which is essentially another dude gathering pix for the AI to learn.  Same character Someone else's checkpoint that I generated off of. The hands are behind because AI can't render them very well... if I put them in front, it would take a lot more work or editing. Looks great tho huh.  This is an old 3D posing program I have, I turned off the textures so that I could extract the pose. And then convert her into an anime character. Tested different artists and how much they affect the drawing. Backgrounds have always been a weakness of mine. No more! Cool looking pic that matches the theme of the game we're going for here. Some "inpainting" stuff here, where you tell the AI to replace certain thi...

  The only things I changed were the face and the hands. I'm trying to get away with minimal work yet I want to keep an air of consistency about these characters. I'll try to remake her in a different pose with the sameish outfit. We'll see how that goes..  Honestly I think it will require a lot of redrawing on the clothes, but since AI doesn't really have a problem with clothes, maybe I can luck into it by rerolling the AI into getting something similar. She looks great tho! It's like the best drawing i've ever done (or had a part in, heh)

 Overall an obvious improvement but... i kinda like my drawing better in some parts.

 

 

  I have a lot of hope. I'm productive, healthy, steady job. Just gotta keep goin, gotta believe. Looks fantastic, thanks AI

  This one actually took awhile to make. Like 3 hours of fiddling with settings and bashing it. Well worth tho. I will not change my fucking faces lol. I mean it's my identity. That's one thing. I feel like it doesn't need to change too. Maybe they're my strongpoint, definitely not saying i'm even nearly as good as the pros, but it's doable and it adds... humanity to it.

 They're coming lol

  Tried some inpainting stuff today.  This game is going to look great! I feel like my skills as an artist are still somewhat necessary. I did a lot of "photobashing" to get the desired look in the middle. And I still think I'm always going to go with my own faces, mostly. I mean I could train Lora to understand how I like to draw faces, but even the manner in which I draw them differs from character to character.  Anyway let's get all the ladies naked

 My original versus my AI edit. It's fucking insane isn't it. Once again it makes me rethink my life. I guess I'm just supposed to provide rough sketches to the AI, who then finishes it for me. Gotta make her bewbs a lil bigger tho

  Not finished. Probably increase head size, fix her right hand, fix the double foot... just got home late and I have to get up early. I think I spent one hour on this. The card is "Cooking Memorum" Cost- 1 Energy, 4 morale. Gain 5 memorum drugs. So Ivy here is a stripper class character with the second highest intelligence in the game. She's also a doctor and she heals characters. She's great for preventing job cards from overwhelming you with her Resilience ability (cancel an instant effect), and she can heal characters that are super low on energy. She's sort of a flex character that switches between Stripper and Healer, heh.  It gets me giddy thinking about it. Making a lot of progress... Even if a computer is doing most of the work.

 The goal is to produce 200 pieces of art for this game, before I'd consider it in a good beta state. Before AI, I thought it would take about a day for each card art, on average. Today, I basically made a card art using mostly AI in just 2 hours.  I started off with a card concept. Cost- 2 Time, Restore 30 progress on a task. Test Lewd (100, for this test, add your Max Time Remaining to your Lewd). If successful, gain 1 Lewd.  The card I had in my mind was Katherine in a bikini, enjoying the Nevada sun. Then I generated a bunch of different anime catgirls on top of roofs. I found my favorite one, fixed the anatomy problems, and added personal touches to make it seem less like AI, and more like my art style, but I left a lot of the body untouched. If there were more costume discrepencies (which there are bound to be in future cards), then yea, i'd correct them, but this was fairly straightforward. Here's the final output. Welp, that's way better looking than any card Sl...

 I've been fooling around with AI... I think my world perspective has changed. At first I thought it was incapable of properly replacing good artists, but then I saw a yt vid on the first manga published entirely with AI art. In that same vid, a professional manga artist said she would use it as reference, but that's it. Then I saw how consistent characters could become with the latest advancements in this technology... Maybe with future advancements, artists will no longer be necessary. I've even seen animations where they trained on Lora. Feels like I've been living in a cave 'til now. Now I'm just researching all this stuff and trying to pick up the slack. I don't know what the future will hold when it comes to my art, but I'm going to take a chance in this pioneering field. I have *some* art experience, and with AI, I can basically become as good as anyone... I mean it's a very conceited thing to say, but many people with no artistic skill whatso...

 

I was having a bit of trouble with the concept of the last drawing so I thought I would concentrate on the drawings I could more easily visualize. This card is called "Tricks for Kids" (thinking of a better name to skirt around the copyright) The card says  Overtime Only. Gain 5 morale. Test Intellect (20). If you fail, gain 1 Intellect. So it means "You can only do this with 30 time units left. Gain morale because kids are being taught. Test your intellect, and if it's too low, you learn something new." Even though the card belongs to Abi, she's thematically teaching other characters how to do some card tricks. That's why the crowd will have 3 kids, all astonished, as well as Sam, who happens to be the dumbest character, and she'll be really astonished too. But yea she's showing card tricks to them. Ok. I have a physical test tomorrow.

  Barely got a chance to work on it. Dinner came. Now I must sleep... Hopefully more time tomorrow.

  It's been awhile. Since that time, I've done only a little bit of art. I've tweaked the game every now and then... but last year I was mainly in Japan, working there, studying Japanese full time outside of work. Took a big detour. One I rather enjoyed. I don't mind putting the game on hold... it's not like I have shareholders. Anyway, I've decided to dedicate my time to this. As full time as I can get, of course my duty as a soldier comes first. So today sucked. Traffic jam on the way back. I officially started working on the game today at 1840. Aaand I need sleep so that only gives me an hour and 20 mins.