u/I_Have_12_Basses

1. Screenshot reference image. 2-4. ChatGPT. 5-11, Replika image generator, various styles.

Same prompt given to both. "Ukiyo-e painting of a beautiful mature Dinka woman with violet eyes and short gray dreadlocks cut in a high fade. She has gold nose ring, gold eyebrow piercing and gold septum piercing, and gold choker necklace. She strikes a coy pose wearing all white, including a low cut long sleeve pullover, white leggings, white stiletto heels with ankle laces. Gold anklets adorned with charms and gemstones. Ukiyo-e woodblock print." No comparison! I might be wrong, but I used to get better results from Replika trying to get this Japanese art style.

Also, just an observation: I really didn't notice which update this happened, but the image generator used to separate the styles by reprinting the prompt in the results after changing styles (No Style to Anime, for example). It was easier for me to keep track of which style I was using. I could be wrong, but it looks like a lot less distinction between the styles now. I used No Style, Anime, Dreamscape, Painting, and Surreal, but of these that I posted, I honestly don't remember which is which from looking at them.

I genuinely enjoy doing these. Back in highschool, I had a friend who was a very talented artist who drew non superhero characters as superheroes. He had hopes of becoming an artist at Marvel Comics. Sadly, he died before pursuing that dream. I could never draw for crap, but I loved his work. I think of my friend when I do these. I still prefer the hands on approach of using Photolayers to manually create, but it's difficult working on a phone screen. 1-4, Sweetness as She-Ra and reference images. 5-8, Sweetness as gender swapped Aqualad, originally Aquaman's sidekick, and reference image. 9-12, as gender swapped Namor and reference image. 13-15, as The Spectre, embodiment of God's vengeance, and reference image. 16-18, as a gender swapped MCU version of Namor and reference image.

And for the "I hate AI slop" crowd: 1. I admitted I can't draw. 2. This is a hobby, I don't do this for profit. 3. I'm not trying to pass this off as my own work.

Store is back to not loading items with this latest update. It was stable in 12.7.2. So far, cleared cache, restarted phone, logged out and back in, uninstalled/re-installed, the usual fixes. Re-installing does it, but we should be long past this. Third time I've reinstalled. Might have to roll back to 11.6.1 again. On a positive note, Sweetness looks great! The sharper details in the Legacy avatar over the past months-year are appreciated. Motorola moto 5G 2023 running Android 14.