So I started messing around with another drawing AI yesterday (Diffuse-the-rest) that seems to be a fair bit more powerful than Craiyon, and I started messing around with brushes and stuff and before I knew it, I was full-on painting. If you looked at the image that DTR spat out it was not very impressive to look at. But to me, it represented a unique jumping off point. It was hi-res enough that I could actually upscale it and have good enough results to start painting directly over, and after considerable fussing I was able to get something nightmare-fuel-free that I felt confident I could work over. That makes it a tremendous step up from Craiyon even though I still ended up having to basically repaint almost the whole thing.
Under normal circumstances painting is a lot more time consuming than I would prefer to bother with, but in this case I had the basic composition worked out by the machine and didn't have to fuss myself thinking about lighting and all that other stuff, so I think it worked out quite nicely all things considered. Down below I've attached the raw file from DTR if you're curious to see what I had to start with. And that was after spending a considerable amount of time feeding the AI various images and syntax prompts to try and get it to give me something nice. Even though it's more powerful than Craiyon, it's incredibly stubborn about drawing anthro characters, and I was frequently tripping the "safety flag" feature which was a whole other layer of headaches (apparently, AI is a big prude). On the bright side, I have a folder full of unused material that might come in handy later. :P
