How to make a comic strip with AI : Midjourney

[Music] welcome back to another prompt news video today in this video I'm going to be showing you how to make a consistent comic book character not only is this character consistent it's also posable so you can finally make that comic book you've always wanted to but if you know your stuff head down in the description and you'll find Chapters so you can skip ahead because you are smart enough chat let's get on with the tutorial first thing we need to do is head over to Mid journey and the website is here just log in using the link in my description and create account you can actually create 25 free Generations or free images without having to play anything let's go ahead and connect to the Discord so when you connect to Mid Journey Discord this is pretty much what you see it's a bit of a mess but if you go over to one of the Newbie rooms here it gets even more messy with loads of people generating their prompts what I like to do is create my own server so I just go over here on the left and click add server and I'm going to go to create my own and for me and my friends and I'm going to just call this comic book art feel free to add a photo but I'm not going to do that for this purpose I'm just going to click on create and you now have your own room I'm just going to go back to the mid-journey server which is this little boat icon here and it doesn't matter what room you're in you just need to find this Show members list near to the top you'll see this mid-journey bot if you left Mouse click on that mid Journey bot and click add to server you can just simply add it to your new server which mine was comic book art so this brings the prompt generator over to your private room I'm just going to click I am a human authorized and then over here go back to my new room that I just created you can see here a mid jelly bot just slid into your server you can't do this in the Newbie rooms but if you kind of want to hide your photo from everybody and your work you can do it over here bear in mind this is still in public domain so it's not private you can add slash private onto the end of your prompt but that's going to cost you 20 every time you do that only upload photos that you're comfortable having in a database that you have no control over obviously my face is already out there so I have no qualms at all with this whatsoever first thing we need to do is switch to Mid Journey 4 and switch the remix feature on which allows you to edit your prompts after the render it's a pretty new cool tool to get it into your settings simply type forward slash settings and return on the keyboard and you can see all the different versions of mid-journey and fourth being the latest so mid Journey 4 is currently an alpha version so you can't adjust the aspect ratio because the full version isn't actually released yet but I like to use it because it's really really powerful and gives me the best renders for my comic book you might want to consider using mid Journey version 4 free if you want to change the aspect ratio and I believe in test photo and test you can't actually upload your own photo so today I'm going to be using with journey 4 and it's highlighted green if you click on remix mode that will activate the remix feature the thing we need to do to upload our photo is go to this big white cross and click on that and then click on upload a file from the pop-up box and then find a photo of yourself and this is probably the worst photo of myself and I keep on using it for these tutorials but never mind if you hit return twice on your keyboard that will then create a link and it will be put somewhere on the Discord server so we need to get that link and to do that just click on the image and then right click on the image that it shows you in the middle of the screen and from the pop-up box click copy image link so you need to ensure it's copy image link that you're selecting because we need that link or address to where that image is so that image is now hosted on the server so we can now type it into my prompt so what I want to do now is create a baseline character so like a hero character using qualities from this photo so it'll probably pull out my dark hair and the blue top I'm wearing all we need to do is paste our link into our prompt so we'll create our prompt by typing in forward slash imagine and then Ctrl V on the keyboard and that will now paste your link now I want to make the base line for my comic book hero and I need to indicate that it's female so I'm going to type in female and then comma and then put comic book hero so this is going to render four iterations of images so here you can write anything you want I just want a female and a comic book hero so it's going to give me that as a stylization that's a really loose term but you can be more specific you can type in by a certain artist's name there are a ton of styles that you could use within your comic and here's some inspiration just to get you started if you can't think of any but I'm going to keep it nice and simple for this tutorial so I'm going to hit return on the keyboard and that's going to create me the four generations so this is what mid Journey has give me it's giving me four iterations based on that image I uploaded in fact the photo I uploaded wasn't best because it kind of blurred out my features slightly with the overexposure if you wanted quite specific features I would use a more detailed image but here I'm just going for a generalization I'm going to go with the iteration number one so if you look down here you've got U1 and U2 three and four and same with V1 and v two and three four the U stands for upscale so that's increasing the resolution of the image and the V means for a variation because we have the remix button activated this means that we can adjust the prompt slightly so we can change their hair color or make the character Smile we're going to be using that in a minute but for now I just want to upscale the iteration one if you didn't like any of these versions that my Jenny were giving you you can press this re-roll button and that will create the prompt again and just a different seed and variation so you can hit that as many times as you want you will also notice it's pulling the background color as well so it will be pulling all the different lighting elements and the colors and the backgrounds from your image that you upload but we can adjust this in a moment if you stick with me this is our hero and we can now make variations which is the same as this button here that will enter us into the remix mode we can now add smiling female comic book hero that should now make our character Smile this isn't a precise oh at the moment we are getting to that point but just bear with the technology because it's evolving every single day so we're kind of a little bit hacking around slightly but don't worry I'm sure it'll get to the point where we can actually manually pose our character with an Armature which will be very cool for now we're kind of just stuck with this but it's honestly it's changing day by day and if you're not subscribed to the channel this is a good time to subscribe so as you can see that's now made our main character Smile and that's pretty good you can tell it's the same person and so you can actually Express expression from your character so what I'm gonna do now is make another variation from that and have her crying with a burning City in the background that was pretty much the prompts I used in the comic strip that I showed you at the beginning so I'm going to click on make variation and I'm going to put comma burning City in background you could probably get way more creative than I am here but I just again want to keep it simple for the tutorial so I'm going to put crying I know it seems really traumatic but um I couldn't really think of a storyline and that's most of the work is thinking of a creative storyline and a character so pre-plan this all out before you get into mid journey and it's not a fine art you have to remember you are the creative director in this you aren't the artist the artist is the algorithm so you're pretty much at the mercy of the algorithm here and what it's going to give you you can use prompt engineering to give you better results but it's not going to give you the exact results you want and if you're thinking about prompt engineering role this is rendering go to www.promptamus.com and I have all different types of prompt engineering or prompt craft that you can use on that page anyway let's get back to it as you can see I've got my character now crying oh her face is on fire see what I mean it's not an exact science but you can see she's now upset with the burning City in the background it's actually pulling the white through from the original image still and it's not really looking that much like me from the original photo so this is what I do to get it looking more like the original image I'll get the seed from this image and a seed is a unique identifier so that will recreate something similar to that image not the same but very similar so each image created will have a seed and if you reuse that seed it will create a more consistent image along the way I'm going to click on ADD reaction and I'm going to write envelope and click on this envelope here and what that will do is send your seed number to your inbox so if you go to your inbox or direct messages up at the top here this little Discord symbol and if I go to my journey bot you can see it sent me the seed number for that image so I'm just going to copy that seat number and then go back to my comic book art server where I was before and I'm actually just going to paste this into a notepad over here because I'm going to use that in a second so I want to go back up here use the link that was this identifier for this image here and I'm going to type in my prompt imagine and then I'm going to put that original image photo link and I'm going to write crying female burning City in background and what I'm going to do is hyphen hyphen seed space and I'm going to now just copy that seed number you need to put a space between seed and the number and so this is taking my original photo giving it a prompt and then attributing a seed from that image so it should be in that style so this should give me an image closer to my original photo so as you can see there's different paths and ways you can construct an image to be consistent this is what I like to use to create consistency throughout my comic so this is what mid Journey has now given me with the seed so I think this is a really nice combination of the original photo and the sort of character and stylization and you can now use this with any prompt in your comment let's type in a new prompt imagine imagine and I'm just going to copy the image link so this is a link to the photo and I'm going to put female happy dancing in forest and then I'm going to add this seed here okay and then we'll just see what that gives me but it should give me my consistent character within any scene so you can see now mid Journey has created that same character which is based off my photo in a forest happy and using that same seed so now we can literally place that character in any action shot with the blue top and the same scraggly hair as mine and create a comic it's that simple so what I'm gonna do now I did a test on creating different poses using a photograph so I'll just go back to uploading an image and I did all these a really really awkward poses I'm going to choose this one on the phone I actually found it quite hard to get my journey to do the fingers right and for me on the phone using prompts so I decided I'd try and do this I'll click on the image and then right click copy image link we did this all at the beginning and then put in the prompt and then type in female we can use that same seed actually female looking at phone burning City in background and then I'm just gonna copy that same seed so it should give me the same stylization that I'm after but with a different pose and there you have it that same character that was in the above images using the seed with the pose of looking at the phone which is based off that image so you can see my character is pretty consistent throughout all the images and you can do different emotions you can do close up to the eyes you can import your own images or your own poses as you can see here I actually took a video of myself in all the different poses to uh I felt really awkward doing this to help with the prompts where it wasn't getting the pose exactly as I wanted it so now let's go over to canva so this is canva it's an absolutely free tool there's no need to sign up to the pro package to do this all you need to do is go to uploads here on the left hand side and go to upload files and select the files that you've saved from your mid-journey project so you can just simply drag and drop the images into the boxes you can resize the boxes it's so simple I don't think you need a tutorial on it whatsoever but I can do that if you need it but there you can see some images that I added to the comic this is a really rubbish comic by the way I'm sure you can do way better than this so yeah that's it there's no post production on there where you can see the hands that have gone wrong or there are certain details that you might not like you can use the out painting in the picture in Darley so that's kind of post-production but I'm going to show you that now while you're here so this is Dali and probably the quickest way to fix hands you get 50 free credits if you sign up and on the top right hand corner if you click on that round icon and click on open editor you can upload your images to try and fix them so click on upload image and I will find I'll go with this one here because the hands are a bit wonky so you can choose this eraser tool down here and just erase part of the images image you want to reimagine and I'm just going to type um female holding mobile phone to head and see what that generates sometimes the generations are a bit iffy and it also will generate outside this area in all this checkerboard area it will reimagine what it thinks should be there I don't really need that because I just want the square image but you can always crop that down in canva that's not a problem so as you can see the hands are slightly better they're not perfect and you could probably do a better job in Photoshop but to be honest that would do the job absolutely fine so I'm just going to click accept on that if you don't like the generation you can press cancel and just re-roll again and that will give you another set of variations but that will cost you credits so click accept and I think I'm down to zero credits now whoops these again it's not my account it's my brother's so don't worry about that but you can see you can get a bit of a better fix to the hands and it's not perfect if you know how to use Photoshop I suggest going in there and doing it in there but this video was not about post-production this was about creating a quick comic strip book for fun and just to test ideas around this there's no way how I would do it professionally but this just shows you how the development of the algorithm can speed up the art process massively and that might be a good thing and that might be a bad thing I'd love to know your opinions in the comments below I've also got a website with prompt crafting on as well so that gets into more detail about how to get the best out of your prompts I have not shown that really in this video because I wanted to keep it nice and light and simple but if you go over to promptmuse.com you will also see a directory of all different generators as well as all my tutorials in written format I'm currently updating that at the moment so there's loads more information to go on there and if there's anything you think I should add or I'm missing please email me and let me know because I would like to make this a place for a community and hopefully at some point put a forum on there but thank you so much for watching this video I hope it has helped you and maybe given you the confidence to use AI because it's so simple guys if you can use Google you can use this I would love to see your comic strips as well so if you want to send them to me just just go to Pumped Muse on Instagram and just send me a DM and I would love to see what you've created with using this technique there are so many different techniques out there but this is the one I've chosen to show you today day and I hope it works well thanks very much and that will do it bye

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Length: 18min 58sec (1138 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 16 2022