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Come Halloween night, this glutton of souls goes hunting. The insatiable hunger must be fed.

I realised it'd been a while since I'd attempted many image-guided generations, so I thought I'd try something out with this concept. Here's the beautiful image I made for the base.

I'd initially wanted this to be a realism image, but ICBINP didn't want to play well with much. It wouldn't incorporate the edge lighting, I didn't really like the robes it'd make, and it was somewhat of a challenge to get a non-sexy outfit (seriously, it just loves showing off thighs and cleavage, despite heavily prompting against it. Though this was a problem with EasyFluff too.). Instead, I relied on EasyFluff. I knew of one artist works really well with dramatic lighting, so incorporated them into the style (personally I usually have issues with how other parts turn out, but the lighting was spot on). I still needed a decent amount of prompting to avoid the highly detailed, shiny, leathery look they bias towards, so as part of that rounded things out by invoking a style I thought would help smooth things out, which it did!

With the base subject done, it was time for editing. The AI can not do scythes at all! I had to bust out some manual image editing and inpainting to return the scythe into being an actual scythe. That involved cloning what was there to extend the handle all the way (I'm really bad at making it straight), recolouring the wood to fit a bit better to guide inpainting, and blocking in colours for the metallic section, masking what was already generated to try and make things fit. While doing that and cutting her out, I was being smart with my time and generating images for the background. I settled on this one because it looked nice, would work for the framing I had in mind, and the angle wouldn't be too at odds with the subject.

Finally, it was just a matter of making all the finishing touches - making things look better, removing errors, etc. I'd saved a decent chunk of the subject's inpainting until now because I knew it was going to be necessary to do some inpainting to make them fit in the background anyway. The style was actually picking up really well on an ugly, evil, horrible witch sort of vibe - I would've actually quite appreciated that help, if I wasn't going for a sinister hottie sort of thing. I intentionally let a little bit of that stay on the face, though ;D

The original intention was for this to be a Halloween costume picture, though as it progressed it started turning into something closer to a real reaper. But rather than commit to the new direction, I ummed and ahed, so it's ended up somewhere inbetween. So yeah, if you're wondering why the scythe isn't that sizable, it's because it was intended to be a fake costume scythe, not a real one xP

Description
Come Halloween night, this glutton of souls goes hunting. The insatiable hunger must be fed.

I realised it'd been a while since I'd attempted many image-guided generations, so I thought I'd try something out with this concept. Here's the beautiful image I made for the base.

I'd initially wanted this to be a realism image, but ICBINP didn't want to play well with much. It wouldn't incorporate the edge lighting, I didn't really like the robes it'd make, and it was somewhat of a challenge to get a non-sexy outfit (seriously, it just loves showing off thighs and cleavage, despite heavily prompting against it. Though this was a problem with EasyFluff too.). Instead, I relied on EasyFluff. I knew of one artist works really well with dramatic lighting, so incorporated them into the style (personally I usually have issues with how other parts turn out, but the lighting was spot on). I still needed a decent amount of prompting to avoid the highly detailed, shiny, leathery look they bias towards, so as part of that rounded things out by invoking a style I thought would help smooth things out, which it did!

With the base subject done, it was time for editing. The AI can not do scythes at all! I had to bust out some manual image editing and inpainting to return the scythe into being an actual scythe. That involved cloning what was there to extend the handle all the way (I'm really bad at making it straight), recolouring the wood to fit a bit better to guide inpainting, and blocking in colours for the metallic section, masking what was already generated to try and make things fit. While doing that and cutting her out, I was being smart with my time and generating images for the background. I settled on this one because it looked nice, would work for the framing I had in mind, and the angle wouldn't be too at odds with the subject.

Finally, it was just a matter of making all the finishing touches - making things look better, removing errors, etc. I'd saved a decent chunk of the subject's inpainting until now because I knew it was going to be necessary to do some inpainting to make them fit in the background anyway. The style was actually picking up really well on an ugly, evil, horrible witch sort of vibe - I would've actually quite appreciated that help, if I wasn't going for a sinister hottie sort of thing. I intentionally let a little bit of that stay on the face, though ;D

The original intention was for this to be a Halloween costume picture, though as it progressed it started turning into something closer to a real reaper. But rather than commit to the new direction, I ummed and ahed, so it's ended up somewhere inbetween. So yeah, if you're wondering why the scythe isn't that sizable, it's because it was intended to be a fake costume scythe, not a real one xP