The Process (Patreon)

I thought I'd do a little explanation about my general process and today's image specifically.

- 1 - The first image is from raw AI, which can make some pretty extreme and exaggerated stuff. I liked this one (lol), so I ran it through something more realistic with a controlnet.

- 2 - This basically allows you to guide the AI generation while using a different model, but it can still be very finicky.

- 3 - I wanted a good context for it so I thought a king on his throne would work But at this point I realized the anatomy didn't really make sense (look how low the balls are), so I had to manually remove the bottom and reposition everything in photoshop.

- 4 - Then I drew in arms and legs and colored in missing areas in the torso. This is then run through ai with controlnets again until I get something workable, which is generally a composite of multiple images

- 5 - After that I thought it'd be as simple as adding the bottom back and doing more ai passes, but I guess the positioning of the two bodies didn't really make sense (lots of body merging, weird limbs, etc), so there was a lot of manual tweaking and bits and pieces from different images, but I eventually got something decent.

Anyway these macro images are more time consuming than I expected, but I hope y'all like them!