I've been screwing around with Midjourney so much that I almost forgot I could draw on my own! Naturally, Midjourney does it better... having the techniques of history's greatest painters and illustrators at your command, like some sort of right-brain Mega Man, is bound to give you a decisive advantage over ordinary meatbag artists.
However, there are some things Midjourney does not do well. Action verbs, for one. Tell MJ to make a character actually DO something, and the AI just stares at you with its soulless, mismatched eyes. Midjourney does an impeccable job of drawing celebrities, but ask it to draw that personality with a mustache, and it'll put a mustache under them, or perhaps turn them into a weird, humanoid mustache. Sometimes, Midjourney is extremely helpful in expressing ideas quickly, and even inspired in its decision making process, but sometimes it's painfully stupid, and entirely useless.
This is one of those instances where Midjourney simply could not do what was asked of it. Inspired by an early Simpsons episode, I asked MJ to draw Casper the friendly ghost rising up from the dead body of Richie Rich. The best it could do was a three eyed, vaguely Casperian ghost rising up out of nothing. (That's another thing Midjourney can't do... cute. If you want creepy, it's got you covered, but at the rate it's going, it won't replace babyfur artists any time soon. Or ever.)
Sometimes, when you want a job done right- or at least with some degree of coherence- you've got to do it yourself. And that's what I've done here. Sorry, advanced technology, but John Henry wins this round. (Then collapses dead from exhaustion.)
By the way, Harvey characters are deceptively simple, but are full of subtle contours that make them surprisingly tough to properly replicate. Sure, you can "draw" Casper, but it's going to take some time and practice to do it right.
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