Made with a fine-tuned model of Stable Diffusion (for aesthetics and for the species knowledge) and some hours of inpainting and outpainting, with some manual compositing in between. Ask me if you want the checkpoint, or any prompts/settings used along the way.

[Creation timelapse.](/images/2993959)

Credit goes to [Yakovlev-vad](/search?q=artist%3Ayakovlev-vad), who has drawn some great deer in his time and who was one of several individuals whose art served to enable the fine tuning.