This I consider to be the absolute perfect tomboy outfit and I really wanted to see Lyra in it for a long time. Tried drawing it a couple times before, but I think the AI finally helped me pull it off.

Man, it was difficult to get down. The generator just doesn't deal well with striped clothing. Plus, getting all elements into the picture takes more keywords and the AI starts getting confused. Yes, it is essential that her shirt has stripes and her sleeves are rolled up. That also means it was next to impossible to get a good pose. Was almost going to arrange it together manually, but then I hit the button one last time and actually got this really nice pose. Still, it had all kinds of tears in her clothing, melted necktie, physics defying shirt collars and no suspenders (left that keyword off, in the hopes it would get a better result). By far the most images for the first round of generations. Actually had stuff from the time I first started working with AI, few months ago. Ended up having to generate new pictures for different elements anyway. A lot of those generations did look quite good by themselves, but didn't fit my vision.

Then it was just detail work. Striped outfits are just as tedious to work with using AI, as traditional art. Something would always be off. The sleeves and collars would often come out without stripes. Sometimes the suspenders and the necktie would melt into the shirt stripes. And when you do finally get stripes in the right places, they're different stripes! Then you have to faff around with colour. Had to handdraw a lot of the tiny details during the process. First two composites went pretty smooth, the rest was just pixel-adjustments. The smudge tool proved to be quite useful.

Anyway, good result, but I hope I'll have simpler ideas from now on. All she needs now is a bass guitar.

Also, say hello to Anything V5!